What Is Kinsta? Managed WordPress Hosting Priced on Usage
By Joris van Huët · Kinsta's own site
The short answer: for one WordPress site with up to 35,000 visits or 20GB of server bandwidth a month, Kinsta costs $35 a month with the first month free, and every 1,000 visits or GB past the allowance adds $0.50 (pricing page and overage terms, checked on 26 October 2026). Kinsta is managed WordPress hosting that runs each site in its own isolated container, with staging, backups, migrations and a performance monitor included, and it suits a single busy site or an agency portfolio that values support and tooling over the lowest entry price.
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Size it against last month, not next year:
- What a busy month costs. For example, 50,000 visits on the 35,000-visit plan is 15,000 over, and 15 x $0.50 = $7.50 on top of $35, using the overage terms.
- The numbers you already have. Analytics holds your visits and your current host your bandwidth; the single-site plan can be priced on either, so check both.
- The alerts that warn you mid-month. Plan limit alerts email at 80% and 100% of usage, and on visit plans again at 10% over, per the overage terms. They are on by default; leave them on.
What Kinsta runs
WordPress hosting, and since 2 February 2026 only that inside MyKinsta: application, database and static-site hosting moved to the sister platform Sevalla, per the Kinsta API docs. The homepage lists isolated containers per site, 30 data centers, a CDN, Cloudflare DDoS protection and unlimited users with permission levels.
Every plan includes daily backups, an APM tool, a redirects manager, bot protection and migrations done for you, per the pricing page, and each WordPress install gets a free standard staging environment. An API covers sites, environments and plugins, with keys that inherit their creator's role.
Who it fits
A marketing lead whose site earns through checkout, bookings or lead forms, where an hour of downtime has a price and support has to know WordPress. A poor fit for a quiet brochure site, and for anyone who wants mail bundled: Kinsta's email page says its hosting plans include none.
Plans and add-ons, 26 October 2026
From the Kinsta pricing page, in USD excluding tax; multi-site plans here are priced on server bandwidth.
| Plan | Monthly billing | Annual billing | WordPress installs | Allowance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single 35k or Single 20GB | $35 | $350 a year | 1 | 35,000 visits or 20GB |
| WP 2 | $70 | $59 a month | 2 | 40GB |
| WP 5 | $115 | $96 a month | 5 | 65GB |
| WP 10 | $225 | $188 a month | 10 | 125GB |
Add-ons on the same pricing page include Automatic Updates from $3 per site a month, an extra site at $30 and Redis at $100 per site a month. CDN bandwidth past the allowance costs $0.05 per GB.
WP Engine, Rocket.net and SiteGround
- WP Engine starts Essential at $28 a month billed annually, $336 upfront, for 25,000 to 400,000 visits, a first-year price for new customers only, per its plans page. Ask for the renewal before signing.
- Rocket.net charges $30 a month for one site with unmetered visitors and 50GB of bandwidth, $1 for the first month, and promises no renewal increases on its pricing page. Visits never trigger an overage there, which decides it for spiky traffic.
- SiteGround sells GrowBig at $4.99 a month for a prepaid first year, renewing at $29.99, with unlimited sites and email, per its WordPress hosting page. Cheaper for several quiet sites; Kinsta is built for the busy one.
Getting started
The free route: use an entry plan's free first month, have Kinsta migrate the site, and read Plan usage in MyKinsta before the month ends, so the first invoice is sized on your own traffic. For first-time customers, the money-back terms start their 30 days after that free month. How to use Kinsta sets up plugin updates that test your key pages and roll back on a visible change. On usage pricing, the busy month is where the host earns: overages land on the next invoice, and the docs say an upgrade is not applied retroactively, so moving up a plan after the spike does not cancel what the spike already cost.
FAQ
Can I still host applications or databases at Kinsta?
Not inside MyKinsta. They moved to Sevalla on 2 February 2026 and are managed from the Sevalla dashboard with MyKinsta credentials, per the Kinsta API docs.
What is an extreme overage?
One as large as the plan's price or $500, whichever is less; Kinsta may then require immediate payment or an upgrade, per the overage terms.
Is the first month free on every plan?
On Single 35k visits, Single 20GB bandwidth, WP 2 and Launch, per the money-back terms.