Hostinger Horizons Review 2026: After 68 Prompts and No App, Here’s What We Learned

Hostinger Horizons is an AI-powered app and custom website builder that small business owners can use to build their own tools or sites. In theory, it bridges the gap between idea and execution for those without a technical background who don’t have the budget to pay a professional developer.

In practice, after several days of trying to build a medium-complexity app on Horizons’ tier-three Hobbyist plan, we can only recommend it for simpler apps or websites. In our Hostinger Horizons review, we’ll break down its pros and cons and explore its pricing and features. We'll also walk you through our attempt at building an app with it.

If you’d like to go beyond the TL;DR, continue on for our firsthand experience building an app with Hostinger Horizons.

Hostinger Horizons at a glance

Best for	Simple web apps and AI-generated websites
Price	$6.99-$79.99/mo
Free plan or free trial	Yes — 5 prompts (must be used within 7 days)
Money-back guarantee	Yes — 30 days
Supported platforms	Web and PWA
User limit	1 - 5*
Apps limit	1 - 50
Data storage limit	20 GB - 300 GB**
API access	Yes
Visual editor	Starting from the tier-two Starter plan
Integrations	Yes***
Custom code support	Starting from Hobbyist plan
Hosting included	Yes — only for the initial contract. Must buy a separate Hostinger hosting plan afterward.
Free domain for one year	Starting from Starter plan
Custom domains	Yes
Database included	External only
Premium support	Starting from the Starter plan
Learn more	Get Horizons

We last tested Hostinger Horizons on January 20, 2026.

Our experience

We registered for the third-tier Hobbyist plan, which includes 200 AI credits, each equivalent to a prompt. However, for non-coding clarification questions, we noticed that our credit balance wasn’t reduced. We were charged only when Horizons generated or edited code.

Our goal was to build a scheduling and booking app for dog-sitting businesses. We wanted the app to have three user roles, each with its own permissions: pet owners, staff, and managers (admin). This is similar to the approach we took when reviewing Base44, a popular Horizons alternative. Here’s how the process went:

First steps

We began by creating an informal Product Requirement Document (PRD). It was 870 words and outlined various details about our app, including its features and some aesthetic requests, like what typography to use:

We then fed this PRD to Horizons, effectively turning it into our first prompt. Horizons responded by asking two clarification questions. In essence, both questions were tied to the same underlying issue — how to integrate the app with a back-end database.

We agreed with Horizons’ suggestion to use Supabase for our back end. It then gave us instructions on how to connect our app to it. After establishing the connection, Horizons generated the first prototype of our PawPass app in about 10 minutes:

It then instructed us to return to Supabase to set up tables and storage buckets. That was straightforward, but unbeknownst to us at the time, it was the beginning of us spending entirely too much time on Supabase running SQL queries. It wasn’t the only Supabase-related task we had to take care of, but it was by far the most repetitive one.

The problem with an external database

When you connect your Horizons-built app to an external database like Supabase, it establishes a connection for functionality, but for development purposes, the two sides don’t communicate with each other. This means that you have to act as a middleman between them as you build out your app.

In practice, this meant that whenever we tested the front end of our app, any feature that had to interact with Supabase was initially broken. We then reported the error to Horizons, which either tried to fix it or, more often than not, generated a SQL query. This SQL query was stored in the Code section of the Horizons interface, where we copied it and then pasted it into the SQL Editor inside Supabase to run it.

To give you an idea of how cumbersome the process was, by the time we quit working on the app, we had submitted 29 SQL queries to Supabase:

If that wasn’t frustrating enough, not all the SQL queries even worked, so sometimes we had to debug in Supabase using its AI assistant.

No relief in sight

In an attempt to approach the process more efficiently, we asked Horizons to create an AI agent to systematically test our app’s functions and, whenever it encountered a back-end integration failure, resolve it automatically. Said another way, we wanted Horizons to create a native E2E testing agent, but that led nowhere.

The tool acknowledged its own inefficiency, but told us the best it could do was scan the entire codebase and generate a comprehensive SQL query to cover all scenarios:

So we ran the consolidated SQL query. Within minutes, we were back to errors and had to run individual SQL queries to fix them. At that point, we had used up 68 of our 200 monthly credits and decided to call it a day.

For perspective, when we tested Base44, we didn’t finish building a fully functional app either. However, the big difference was that we were able to reasonably estimate how much work lay in front of us. With Horizons, this was impossible, and that’s on top of using about 20 more credits compared to the Base44 project.

Horizons prices and plans

Hostinger offers Horizons in four plan options. They range in price from $6.99 to $99.99 per month. All plans include a 30-day money-back guarantee and a free trial. The trial gives you five credits, which must be used within 7 days.

Hostinger also throws in free hosting for your initial contract period, but this converts to a paid product upon renewal. In short, when budgeting for Horizons, you need to factor in both the plan cost and Hostinger's hosting pricing to understand your total long-term investment.

	Explorer	Starter	Hobbyist	Hustler
Horizons monthly cost*	$6.99/mo	$13.99/mo	$39.99/mo	$79.99/mo
Message credits**	30	70	200	400
Free email inbox for 1 year	1	2	5	5
# of apps	1	25	50	50
Back-end functions	No native backend	No native backend	No native backend	No native backend
In-app code edits
Connect a domain
Free domain for 1 year
Github integration***
Ecommerce tools + integrations
Early access to beta features
Premium support
Learn more	View plans	View plans	View plans	View plans

From a functional perspective, the Explorer plan is an extended version of the free trial. With 30 monthly credits, it will let you build something simple, like a stopwatch app or a basic website, but nothing with ecommerce features. Those get unlocked on the Starter plan — though we still wouldn’t recommend attempting anything with back-end functionality until you reach the Hobbyist plan.

Depending on your app’s complexity and your individual patience, the Hobbyist’s 200 credits might be enough to get you to the finish line. If not, you can always either buy more credits or upgrade to the massive 400 credits per month Hustler plan.

One big advantage of both the Hobbyist and Hustler plans is that they unlock the ability to make in-app code edits. This means you can copy your code and consult with external AI coding tools if you hit a roadblock with Horizons.

Which Horizons plan is right for your business?

• Choose the Explorer plan if you need to build a quick landing page, a basic website like a one-page portfolio or resume, or a very simple one-function app.
• For mildly complex apps with no back-end functionality or websites that need to accept payments, the Starter plan is your baseline.
• If your app vision is more complex, or if you want to build a comprehensive ecommerce site with many products and pages, the Hobbyist plan is a better choice. This is also where you can attempt to build an app with back-end functions, as the plan’s 200 credits will give you enough to troubleshoot.
• The Hustler plan offers double the credits of the Hobbyist plan, but no additional benefits other than early access to beta features. Therefore, this plan makes sense only if you need to build more than one complex app or numerous websites.

Horizons features

As we noted, the entry-level Explorer plan is fairly limited, but once you move up to the Starter plan and beyond, Horizons offers a helpful suite of features, ranging from ecommerce tools to different ways to modify your project. Below are some of the highlights.

Templates

If you’re trying to balance app/website complexity with budget constraints, Horizons’ template library is exactly what you need. Choosing a prebuilt template that’s loosely based on your vision eliminates the plan credits you’d otherwise use to build your app’s/website’s initial foundation.

Use screenshots for quick-build inspiration

Another way to save on credits (and time) is to use the design of existing websites for inspiration. Just take a screenshot of any website you think would work well for your business idea and upload it to Horizons with instructions on how to adapt it for your needs. This feature is unlocked on the Starter plan and higher.

Manually edit content

Yet another way to conserve credit consumption is to take advantage of Horizon’s manual edit mode. Available from the Starter plan, it turns your vibe-coded project into a WYSIWYG editor with just a single click. Make the changes you want, tap Save, and carry on.

Standard and custom integrations

Horizons doesn’t offer one-click integrations, but certain popular services like Supabase, Stripe, and Google AdSense have tutorials on Hostinger’s knowledge base that you can follow to set up connections with your app.[1][2][3] For others, such as Mailchimp or Zapier, you can prompt Horizons to guide you through connecting them to your app.[4]

Click and prompt to change

If you only need to edit a very specific component on a page, you can target it directly with Horizons’ click-to-isolate feature. It’s available in the conversation window. Just tap it and then click whatever you want to edit. Once it’s highlighted with a light border, type your editing instructions to Horizons, and it will make the changes for you.

Export code

Starting from the Hobbyist plan, Horizons unlocks the ability to access and export your code. This opens up numerous options for additional editing and even for moving your entire project over to another platform.

Horizons security

Horizons is directly connected to Hostinger’s hosting, meaning any projects created with Horizons live on Hostinger’s servers and thus benefit from its security features. These include:

• Standard DDoS protection: Safeguards your project against DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks, where malicious actors flood your server with traffic to make it unavailable to legitimate visitors.
• Malware scanner: Continuously monitors your project for malicious software, viruses, and suspicious code that could compromise your application or visitors.
• Web application firewall: Acts as a protective barrier between your project and incoming traffic, filtering out malicious requests and defending against common exploits such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS).
• ISO/IEC 27001:2017 certification: Hostinger maintains international certification for information security management, demonstrating adherence to strict security standards and best practices.
• GDPR compliance: Hostinger complies with GDPR regulations on data protection and privacy, which is particularly important if your project collects or processes user data from EU residents.

Note that Horizons does not offer enterprise-level security certifications, such as SOC-2 compliance.

Horizons customer support and reputation

Support type	Horizons
Live human chat	Yes — 24/7 on all plans
AI chatbot	Yes — 24/7 on all plans
Email	No
Phone	No
Online guides or forums	Yes

Hostinger has three customer support options: a Knowledge Base, an AI chatbot, and live chat with a human. In our experience, the Knowledge Base tutorials tend to be accurate, but the AI chatbot makes mistakes.

For example, we asked if any of the Horizons plans offer premium support, and the bot answered that all plans receive the same support. However, on the Horizons plans page, you can clearly see that the entry-level plan has basic support, while the Starter plan and higher have priority 24/7 support:

In terms of how the web feels about Hostinger Horizons, online reviews lean towards negative. Many of them cite the same frustrations that we experienced when testing it, especially the Supabase issues and general lack of a native back end.

Even Hostinger customers who are generally pleased with the company’s services have cited Horizons as an exception.[5] For example, one Trustpilot review from January 2026 was titled "The best to ever exist, Just struggling with Horizons only."[6]

Bottom line: Is Hostinger Horizons good?

Hostinger Horizons is good for building front-end apps and custom websites. It has some nice features, like being able to isolate on-page elements for hyper-specific edits. However, the lack of a native database solution overshadows Horizons’ strengths. Having to pay extra for hosting after your initial contract ends is also off-putting. If your goal is to build a moderately complex app with back-end functions, then you’re better off looking at other no-code builders.

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