Home Compare vs Kinsta

HostingSimple vs Kinsta.

Premium managed WordPress on Google Cloud, with a beautiful dashboard. Real performance — but you pay for it, and you pay again for every overage.

The honest version

When Kinsta is genuinely
the right pick.

We want you on the right host — even if that's not us. This is when we'd tell you to stay.

In Kinsta's
favour

Kinsta is genuinely well-built. If you have one mid-size site, money isn't the constraint, and you love the GCP narrative, it's a defensible pick. If you run 10+ sites or hit visit caps, the math gets brutal fast — but the product itself is solid.

3-year cost calculator

What you'd actually pay,
for your workload.

Drag the sliders to your real numbers. We compute the cheapest plan that fits, including Kinsta's renewal hikes and any overage billing. Honest math — show your accountant.

Your workload

Or pick a scenario below. All math is 36 months total cost of ownership in USD.

WordPress sites 3
12550100
Visits / month (combined) 60k /mo
5k100k500k1M
On Kinsta
Business 1Up to 3 sites · 100k cap
$ 4,140 / 3 years
36mo renewal at $115/mo $4,140
3-year sticker · Kinsta
On HostingSimple
WP ProUp to 3 sites · dedicated CPU per site
$ 1,044 / 3 years
36mo at $29/mo (no renewal hike) $1,044
Visit overages $0 — soft cap, no overage billing
Migration cost $0 — free human migration
You'd save $3,096 over 3 years (75% less)
Prices in USD. Kinsta figures from their public pricing pages, May 2026. Honest math · not a sales calc
Three real workloads

Same workload, both hosts.
What it costs, what runs.

Three common workloads, run through the same calculator. Numbers are 3-year sticker cost — no estimates, no hand-waving.

Solo founder
1 site · 20k visits/mo
Kinsta
$1,260 / 3y
Starter
HostingSimple
$540 / 3y
WP Starter
Kinsta Starter at $35 vs our WP Starter at $15 — same site count, half the price. Both genuinely fast. If the GCP brand is the differentiator for you, Kinsta wins. Otherwise it's a clear save.
WooCommerce store
1 store · 80k visits/mo
Kinsta
$2,250 / 3y
Starter
HostingSimple
$1,044 / 3y
WP Pro
WooCommerce at 80k visits goes to Kinsta Business 1 at $115. Our WP Pro at $29 covers 250k visits with dedicated CPU. The gap widens once the store grows.
Growing agency
15 client sites · 300k combined
Kinsta
$12,420 / 3y
Business 3
HostingSimple
$4,644 / 3y
Agency Starter
Agency at 15 sites + 300k visits = Kinsta Business 3 at $345 ($13.80/site). Our Agency Starter at $129 ($8.60/site). Kinsta's white-label is a paid add-on; ours is included.
When to stay put

Don't switch from Kinsta
if any of these are true.

We'd rather lose a sale than recommend a bad move. If one of these describes you, save your migration energy for a better moment.

Reason 01 · Stay

You have one mid-size site and Kinsta's UX is part of your workflow.

MyKinsta is genuinely good. If you're already efficient in it, the time-to-learn-something-new tax is real.

Reason 02 · Stay

You need their specific Cloudflare Enterprise integration.

If your business runs on Argo / Workers / specific edge config they've tuned, factor that into the move.

Reason 03 · Stay

You're between $35-115/mo on one site.

The savings versus us are real ($240-$1,000/yr) but not transformative. If the migration energy is better spent elsewhere this quarter, do that first.

Six things that actually differ

The specific differences,
not the marketing.

Six rows. Concrete values. If something looks stale, tell us — we update within 24h.

Feature
Kinsta
HostingSimple
Entry-plan price
$35/mo for 1 site
$15/mo for 1 site (WP Starter)
Extra site beyond plan
$30/mo each, no extra disk
Included in the plan tier
Visit overages
$0.50 per extra 1,000
No overage billing
White-label agency portal
Not native — resold dashboard only
True white-label, your branding
Stack flexibility
WordPress only
WP + Laravel + Node + n8n + LLM
Object cache (Redis)
$100/mo per site add-on
WP Pro+ standard ($29/mo)
Last verified: 2026-07-20 · Source: kinsta.com public pricing
Migrating from Kinsta

Pre-migration questions,
answered by an engineer.

Real questions we get during pre-sales calls — answered the way we'd answer them on chat.

Will my site really be faster on you than Kinsta?

Sometimes yes, sometimes no — depends on workload. We don't claim categorical wins on GCP-vs-bare-metal benchmarks. What we can promise: dedicated CPU on every plan, NVMe, and we never throttle you for hitting a visit cap.

How are you so much cheaper?

Bare-metal in colocation (not GCP), AI ops layer that replaces 80% of human time, no enterprise sales commissions. The savings are real, not a loss-leader.

Can I keep my MyKinsta workflows?

Git-push deploys, staging-to-live promotion, WP-CLI access — all supported. Specific features (APM) live inside our equivalent dashboard; we'll demo before you commit.

What about Kinsta's free hack-fix?

Free malware cleanup on every plan, not just Pro. Same outcome, no tier gate.

Move off Kinsta. We do the heavy lifting.

Send us your Kinsta credentials. A human engineer migrates your site within 24 hours, with zero downtime. Free, every time.