Cheaper Kinsta alternatives
Pricing data as of 2026-08-28 · refreshed weekly
Baseline: a WordPress app with startup-level traffic (~50,000 visits/month) costs $35/month on Kinsta (Single 20GB). Every provider below can run the same workload — ranked by real list price. Cheaper is not always better: a managed-wp platform and a raw VPS differ in how much ops work lands on you.
| Provider | Type | Plan | $/month | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hostinger (shared) | shared | Unlimited | $3.99 | Kinsta vs Hostinger (shared) → |
| OVHcloud VPS | vps | VPS-1 | $4.54 | Kinsta vs OVHcloud VPS → |
| Vultr | vps | Cloud Compute 1GB | $5 | Kinsta vs Vultr → |
| Railway | paas | Hobby | $5 | Kinsta vs Railway → |
| Linode (Akamai) | vps | Nanode 1GB | $5 | Kinsta vs Linode (Akamai) → |
| Koyeb | paas | eco-small | $5.36 | Kinsta vs Koyeb → |
| DigitalOcean Droplets | vps | Basic 1GB | $6 | Kinsta vs DigitalOcean Droplets → |
| Netcup | vps | VPS 500 G12 | $6.4 | Kinsta vs Netcup → |
| Hostinger VPS | vps | KVM 1 | $6.49 | Kinsta vs Hostinger VPS → |
| AWS Lightsail | vps | $7 bundle | $7 | Kinsta vs AWS Lightsail → |
| Hetzner Cloud | vps | CX23 | $7.09 | Kinsta vs Hetzner Cloud → |
| Scaleway | vps | DEV1-S | $7.1 | Kinsta vs Scaleway → |
| Fly.io | paas | shared-cpu-1x 1GB | $7.4 | Kinsta vs Fly.io → |
| Cloudways (DO) | managed-cloud | Micro | $11 | Kinsta vs Cloudways (DO) → |
| Orkestr | paas | Pro | $16.2 | Kinsta vs Orkestr → |
| Render | paas | 2 GB / 1 CPU | $35.35 | Kinsta vs Render → |
| Heroku | paas | Standard-2X | $50 | Kinsta vs Heroku → |