Kinsta Review 2025: Does The Service Match The Price?

Kinsta does a lot of things amazingly well, but charges amazingly high prices to match. I would recommend it only to the people who actually need what a specialist WordPress hosting provider can offer.

Kinsta offers several types of web hosting, but it’s very, very focused on managed WordPress hosting. Kinsta does all the technical setup for you when you first sign up, offers extensive customer support, and includes practically every possible feature that you could want in a WordPress setup.

It’s fairly easy for beginners to get started, and Kinsta offers a range of developer tools, along with a solid suite of security features and a reputation for reliability. In this review, we’ll go over Kinsta’s details and whether it’s worth its high price tag.

Kinsta review at a glance

Price	$30-$450/mo
Money-back guarantee	Yes, 30 days
Uptime guarantee	99.99%
Monthly visits	35K - 750K
Number of websites	Up to unlimited with WP multisite
Storage	10 - 100+ GB
Free SSL certificate	On all plans
Free domain for a year	No
Backup frequency	Daily
Migration assistance	On all plans
24/7 support	On all plans
Learn more	Get Kinsta

Score summary

Here's how our star rating is calculated:

Decision factor	Weight	Kinsta Verdict
Our experience	10%	5/5
Prices and capacity	18%	4/5
Performance	20%	5/5
Features	25%	3/5
Security	20%	5/5
Support and reputation	7%	4.3/5

We last tested Kinsta on October 26, 2025.

Our experience

My overall experience with Kinsta was — admittedly — like walking into a new workplace and finding out everything I needed had been set up for me in a way that made sense. I could just sit down and start customizing.

The setup was easy. You just have to sign up for the plan of your choice and put in your payment info. I was automatically given the first month of web hosting free.

From there, the rest is done for you. I picked a default template along the way, and was soon presented with Kinsta’s dashboard.

From there, I went to the WordPress sites section to manage the details of the WordPress installation.

And I checked out the home page of the site I built.

All in all, with the setup and basic site creation already taken care of for me, using Kinsta was a breeze.

However, I found the price to be too off-putting, and I likely wouldn’t use the service unless it introduced a bigger discount.

Kinsta prices and plans

It’s expensive. We’re talking $30/mo on the low end, and $375/mo on the high end — for the annual plan. Mind you, that’s not counting the Enterprise plans, which are even pricier.

The plans themselves are fairly simple. You can get plans that give you only a single WordPress site install. However, higher tiers of the Single plan include WordPress Multisite, which lets you run multiple sites on a single installation. Then you have the WP plans, which allow multiple WordPress installations, including WordPress Multisite.

In terms of features, there are hardly any differences between the plans. On the higher tiers, you get more WordPress site installations, storage, bandwidth, and days of backup retention, among other things. The more expensive plans also come with dedicated account managers to help you out.

	Single 35K	Single 750K	WP 2 bandwidth	WP 40 bandwidth
Monthly cost	$35/mo	$375/mo	$70/mo	$450/mo
Annual cost	$30/mo	$313/mo	$59/mo	$375/mo
Number of WordPress installs	1	1	2	40
Supported monthly visits	35,000	750,000	70,000	750,000
Server bandwidth	20 GB	500 GB	40 GB	60 GB
Storage	10 GB	15 GB	20 GB	60 GB
CDN bandwidth	125 GB	1,500 GB	250 GB	1,500 GB
Backup retention	14 days	20 – 30 days	14 days	20 days
Multisite support
Staging
Free SSL certificates
Account managers
Learn more	View plan	View plan	View plan	View plan

You can choose between two limiting factors for your traffic: bandwidth or site visits. If you have a lightweight site that gets tons of visitors, go with billing based on bandwidth. If you host big files for a select few visitors to watch or download, go for site visits.

Whether you choose bandwidth or site visits, it doesn’t affect the other features available to you, except for the Single 750K plan. With bandwidth billing, you get 30 days of website backup retention, but only 20 days with site visit billing.

Compared to the average cost of other web hosts, Kinsta is asking a lot for a feature set you can find with most of its competitors. I wouldn’t go for anything more expensive than the Single 35K, unless you need a multiple-site plan. The Single 35K has almost all the same features as the rest, and performed well in our testing.

Kinsta features

Kinsta’s managed WordPress site hosting and WordPress-related features are the main focus of the whole service. But here’s a more detailed overview of what you can get:

• A few different kinds of web hosting, including hosting for static sites
• WordPress site integration that essentially raises the bar for the industry
• Assisted website migration
• A number of handy features for developers

Types of web hosting available

The different types of hosting include: the usual managed WordPress hosting (which we tested), static site hosting, application hosting, and database hosting.

Everything on the list that’s not WordPress is less of a focus for Kinsta and is priced accordingly. For example, you can host up to 100 static sites for free, with a 100 GB bandwidth limit per month.

WordPress integration

WordPress installation with Kinsta is done automatically with minimal input from you. Also, Kinsta’s servers, security, admin tools, and everything else are specially tailored to make your WordPress experience the best it can be.

Web migration

Even the cheapest plans come with free assisted WordPress site migration. Just give the Kinsta support team the details they need to copy your site during setup, and you’re done. Plans that let you install multiple WordPress sites include unlimited free assisted migrations.

Bonus features

Every plan comes with advanced developer tools such as SSH and SFTP access, as well as Git. While not beginner-friendly, these are features that — if you hire a team of developers for your web hosting — will come in handy.

Also, Kinsta comes with a built-in suite of analytics and performance tracking features, so you always have an idea of how your site is doing.

Kinsta performance

We test web hosts with a variety of online tools to see if the performance actually lives up to the hype. We tested Kinsta with Dotcom-Tools, UptimeRobot, and Loader.io, and it did very well.

Speed test

I used the Dotcom-Tools speed test to see how fast the site loaded from Montreal, Dallas, and Strasbourg, and to get an overall performance score. I tested how long it takes to reach the First Contentful Paint (FCP), when the first objects load, and the Last Contentful Paint (LCP), when everything is loaded.

Usually, you want your whole site to load in under 2 seconds to keep people from clicking away.

Product	Performance score	FCP	LCP
Kinsta average	98	0.8 s	0.9 s

The test went fantastically, and my own experience matches the numbers. Just browsing around on the site feels snappy and just about instantaneous.

Uptime and response

Our preferred tool for testing a service's overall uptime and how long it takes the server to initially respond to requests is UptimeRobot. This test ran for around 17 days, and Kinsta more than lived up to its guarantees in that time with 100% uptime.

Product	Uptime	Average response time	Minimum response time	Maximum response time
Kinsta average	100%	173 ms	82 ms	296 ms

There were no interruptions in service. Moreover, the average response time is honestly great. And while there were fluctuations in the minimum and maximum response times, the maximum response time was so low that I’m not really worried about it.

Stress tests

Stress test results: Kinsta passed the stress test.

For our stress test, I used Loader.io to send 250 virtual users to the site in the space of a minute to simulate a moderate traffic spike. There were no failures, and the site maintained an average response time of 76 ms under load, which is a fantastic result. This is good because website performance is what Kinsta uses to justify its prices.

Kinsta security features

Kinsta bills itself as a host for business and enterprise users who need their own customers’ data to be kept secure for both reputational, legal, and moral reasons. Given that, it’s a good thing that Kinsta does a pretty good job of security. It includes the following features:

• 2FA: Mandates two-factor authentication through Google Authenticator or a similar app, to keep your account safe.
• Malware scanning and a dedicated malware team: To protect your site from being hijacked or hacked
• Hardware firewalls: To protect against DDoS attacks and other threats better than software firewalls
• Regular uptime checks
• Automatic security updates

Kinsta customer support and reputation

Support type	Kinsta Support
Email or live chat	Both
Phone
Online guides or forums	Both

Kinsta offers 24/7 support via live chat. I personally didn’t use it, because I didn’t run into any problems whatsoever. Beyond the chat, there’s email and phone support, as well as a knowledge base with some long, in-depth, and well-written guides that can help you learn more about how to host a website. There’s also a forum and after looking it over, I can say that the Kinsta staff is helpful and responds fairly quickly.

Kinsta user reviews

• Trustpilot rating: 4.8

Overall sentiment on review sites such as Trustpilot and G2 is quite positive, with Kinsta maintaining a strong rating. Somewhat more surprising are the generally positive views found on Reddit. While, as you might expect, plenty of people are less than enthused about the price, many rate the actual quality of the service quite highly.

Top Kinsta alternatives

If you want managed WordPress site hosting that’s not as expensive as Kinsta, we’ve got three solid options for you to check out.

Bluehost

Bluehost is a hosting company with a long history, highly affordable pricing at $3.99-$14.99/mo, and all the features that most WordPress users will need to get up and running.

Learn more in our Bluehost review.

Hostinger

Hostinger has the best initial pricing of the lot at $2.99-$7.99/mo, and includes lots of handy WordPress-related tools to help you manage your site with minimal fuss.

Learn more in our Hostinger review.

IONOS

If you’d like to start with some cheap yet reliable managed WordPress hosting, with a price range of $1.00-$15.00/mo that can be scaled to an enterprise-level solution later on, IONOS is a great choice.

Learn more in our IONOS review.

Bottom line: Is Kinsta good?

Yes, Kinsta is a good web host, especially if you need a managed WordPress site. With it, you can customize your hosting to your needs, and then basically forget about it. However, while Kinsta does WordPress hosting very well, it is very expensive.

For your first business site, I recommend one of the alternatives listed above. You’ll get similar features, and they’re all so much cheaper.

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