SiteGround Pricing Guide: 2025 Plans and Deals

SiteGround’s pricing starts out reasonably, by hosting company standards: $2.99/mo (billed annually, first yr only) for the most affordable shared hosting plan, and $7.99/mo (billed annually, first yr only) for the most expensive shared hosting plan. That’s pretty good.

But when your plan gets renewed for the first time, that $2.99/mo gets bumped to a whopping $17.99/mo.

The funny thing is, while it doesn’t have a perfect track record, SiteGround actually has a decent reputation and more than a few happy customers. The service's overall ease of use and reliability are worth it for some.

Here’s what SiteGround shared hosting plans offer and how the value stacks up against the actual long-term price of the web hosting service. And if you do choose SiteGround, we can even help you save some money.

How much does SiteGround cost?

Remember, the price range you want to consider is not the price for the first month or the first year. You want to look at the prices you’ll be paying after. Shared hosting that renews at $17.99/mo is almost unheard of.

Sure, SiteGround is not the only host that starts off really cheap but comes with higher renewal prices. But Bluehost’s Starter plan starts at $3.99/mo (36-month term), and renews at $9.99/mo. Hostinger’s cheapest plan starts at $2.99/mo (48-month term), and renews at $10.99/mo. These are substantial increases, but not as big as you’ll see with SiteGround.

In short, SiteGround is expensive. But SiteGround is one of those companies that’s banking on the quality of its service, whether you want managed WordPress hosting, cloud hosting, or another kind of hosting.

It’s also worth mentioning, though, that on top of all this, there are add-on services that can be purchased separately.

SiteGround price

	StartUp	GrowBig	GoGeek
Monthly cost	$2.99/mo (billed annually, first yr only)	$4.99/mo (billed annually, first yr only)	$7.99/mo (billed annually, first yr only)
Annual renewal price	$17.99/mo	$29.99/mo	$44.99/mo
Number of websites	1	Unlimited	Unlimited
Web space	10 GB	20 GB	40 GB
Monthly visits	~10,000	~100,000	~400,000
Bandwidth	Unmetered	Unmetered	Unmetered
Free domain
Free SSL
Free email
Free CDN
WordPress staging			Yes + Git
WordPress Migrator
WP-CLI and SSH
WordPress auto updates
Site Builder
SEO features
Daily backups
On-demand backups
Better-optimized PHP performance
White labeling
Free private DNS
Priority support
Learn more	View plan	View plan	View plan

The cheapest (and I use that word loosely) plan will be more than enough for most small businesses getting a website set up. Especially if it’s their first. A lot of the features in the GrowBig and GoGeek plans are intended for developers, or companies that have a developer just lying around — waiting for their code to compile.

(I’m kidding. PHP doesn’t need to compile. That’s why it’s better than Rust. That’s also a joke.)

Anyway, the point is that if you’re just starting out and don’t mind springing for those renewal prices, the StartUp plan is just fine.

What do you get with SiteGround?

The technical features listed in the plans are honestly mostly the same as you’d find on other hosts. What SiteGround is focusing on to justify its pricing model are more intangible perks, like:

• General ease of use: It’s mostly easy to find your way to the settings you need.
• Managed Hosting: SiteGround makes a point of handling as much of the technical stuff as possible for you, while still giving you options to customize your hosting.
• Reliability: SiteGround has a decent reputation on Reddit among its business customers.
• Solid customer service: My own experience with SiteGround’s customer support agents went pretty smoothly.
• A long history of satisfied customers: SiteGround (founded in 2004) is one of the oldest surviving hosting companies, and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down.

Which plan is right for your business?

As previously mentioned, the StartUp plan will be fine for most small businesses. Especially if you just want to build the site point-and-click with WordPress or the built-in site builder. But the moment you have a developer on staff, you’ll need at least the GrowBig plan.

And even then, they may insist on the Git version control access that the GoGeek plan provides.

Top alternatives

If SiteGround hasn’t quite caught your fancy, you can look to Bluehost, Hostinger, and IONOS for alternatives that have similar (and in IONOS’ case, even longer) track records for reliability. They all have a similar feature set and, honestly, better prices in general.

But, you’ll also get more out of them if you know a little more about how web hosting works, so your mileage may vary.

FAQs

Bottom line: Is SiteGround worth it?

I’d say, with one big qualifier, yes. SiteGround is worth the money if you have that kind of cash on hand. And if you care more about just having your website up and running with minimal fuss and minimal involvement from you.

It’s not that there aren’t other fantastic hosts with better pricing, a similar reputation for reliability, and easy-to-use tools. (Check out the reviews I linked above for some great examples.) But few hosts have the history and long-term reputation that SiteGround does, and that counts for a lot in the hosting world.