For one small-business WordPress site with up to 35,000 monthly visits, Kinsta’s Single 35k plan is the practical starting point: $35 monthly or $350 paid upfront for a year, before tax. That annual payment works out to $29.17 per month, but the next annual term is charged at the current annual price. Prices checked November 10, 2026.
Before choosing, record your site’s monthly visits, server bandwidth, storage, CDN bandwidth, WordPress installations and backup needs. Compare those figures with previous billing periods, then check the full first-year cost, renewal amount, likely overages, add-ons, taxes and cancellation terms.
Key takeaways
- Choose Single 35k for one site with up to 35,000 monthly visits and 10 GB of storage.
- Choose WP 2 when two sites share up to 70,000 monthly visits and 20 GB of storage.
- Kinsta counts visits differently from Google Analytics, and CDN bandwidth is separate from server bandwidth.
- Annual billing gives two months free compared with monthly billing, but the annual amount is paid upfront.
- Overages can apply to visits, server bandwidth, storage, and CDN bandwidth.
- Budget separately for business email because Managed WordPress plans do not include email hosting.
What Kinsta costs for a business WordPress site
If you are moving a business site from shared hosting, Kinsta costs more at the starting point because its Managed WordPress plans include managed infrastructure, daily backups, staging, SSL certificates, expert support and unlimited standard migrations. The entry Single 35k plan fits one WordPress installation with up to 35,000 monthly visits, 10 GB of storage and 125 GB of CDN bandwidth.
The prices below were checked November 10, 2026, in dollars and before tax.
The annual price is not a monthly payment plan. It is one upfront charge for the annual subscription, and Kinsta describes it as two months free compared with twelve monthly payments. Single 35k, for example, costs $420 across twelve monthly payments, compared with $350 annually.
The first month free is separate from the annual discount and from the 30-day money-back guarantee. It applies only to selected plans and eligible new customers, and overage charges and one-time fees can still be payable during a free period.
The direct recommendation is Single 35k for a single business site that stays below its limits once you compare actual usage. If the site has heavy media, several installations or large traffic swings, do not choose from visits alone. Check storage, server bandwidth, CDN bandwidth and likely add-ons before paying. You can compare the broader tradeoffs in the Kinsta review.
Which Kinsta plan fits your sites and traffic
Start with the number of WordPress installations, then check the usage measure that best describes your site. Single plans are for one installation. WP plans group several sites under shared allowances. Agency plans are designed for client work and provide 20, 40 or 60 WordPress installations.
A small business with one site and up to 35,000 monthly visits can start with Single 35k. A business with two sites and up to 70,000 shared monthly visits can consider WP 2. The included storage rises from 10 GB to 20 GB, while CDN bandwidth rises from 125 GB to 250 GB.
The visit-based plans also show a server-bandwidth equivalent. Single 35k includes either 35,000 visits or 20 GB of server bandwidth, depending on the pricing model and account setup. Kinsta’s higher Single plans include 65,000, 125,000, 315,000, 500,000 and 750,000 monthly visits, with corresponding bandwidth and CDN limits. Kinsta also lists Launch, Launch Plus, Build, Expand, Scale and Lead plans based on server bandwidth.
Do not move to a larger plan only because a short campaign creates one unusual month. If the site regularly approaches its limit, a larger plan may be easier to manage than repeated overages. Renewal stays at the current monthly or annual price for the plan you pick, so confirm the renewal total in checkout.
Agency 20, Agency 40 and Agency 60 fit freelancers or agencies that manage many client sites. Enterprise pricing starts at $500 per month and uses custom resource limits. Confirm the current plan details in Kinsta’s pricing interface before deployment, especially if the sites have different traffic patterns. Prices checked November 10, 2026.
Visits, bandwidth, storage and CDN limits explained
Your Google Analytics number is not the same as Kinsta’s visit count. Kinsta counts a unique IP address during a 24-hour period and measures requests reaching its server. That can include static assets, while Google Analytics depends on browser-side JavaScript, so the two totals can differ.
Visits are shared across the sites in a plan. Adding another site does not create a new visit allowance. Kinsta’s additional-site add-on provides another site slot, staging environment and DNS zone, but the plan’s storage, visits, server bandwidth and CDN bandwidth remain shared.
Server bandwidth measures data sent from the hosting server. CDN bandwidth measures data delivered through the content delivery network, which serves cached files closer to visitors. A site can remain below its server-bandwidth allowance while exceeding its CDN allowance, so record both figures before choosing.
Storage includes the live site’s files and databases. Kinsta says backups and staging environments do not count toward the storage limit, but WordPress core files do. A site with many images, videos, backups stored outside the platform or many small files needs a closer review.
Ask Kinsta which file-count or inode constraints apply to the selected plan if the site stores many small files. Also check PHP resource limits. Single 35k and WP 2, for example, include a 512 MB PHP pool, two PHP threads and a 256 MB memory limit per thread. Those limits affect busy plugins, large imports and long-running requests.
Kinsta overage fees and the add-ons that change the bill
If your site crosses a usage limit, Kinsta can charge an overage rather than taking the site offline. Visit overage costs $0.50 per 1,000 visits. Server-bandwidth overage costs $0.50 per GB. Storage overage costs $2 per GB per month, calculated daily, and CDN overage costs $0.05 per GB. Prices checked November 10, 2026.
A site that exceeds its visit allowance by 65,000 visits would add $32.50. An extra 100 GB of server bandwidth would add $50, while 100 GB of CDN bandwidth would add $5. Storage is calculated daily, so 5 GB of extra storage in a 31-day month is about $0.32 per day under Kinsta’s stated formula.
Kinsta enables alerts at 80% and 100% usage. Visit-based plans also produce an alert after usage exceeds the allowance by 10%. Use those alerts to inspect the cause.
Common add-ons include an extra WordPress site at $30 per site per month, 20 GB of additional disk space at $20 per month, Redis caching at $100 per site per month, and an Nginx reverse proxy at $50 per site per month. Premium staging costs $20 per site per month.
Backup frequency can change the bill. Extra backups every six hours cost $20 per site per month, while hourly backups cost $100 per site per month. External backups cost $2 per site per month plus $1 per GB of bandwidth. Kinsta Automatic Updates starts at $3 per environment per month, and PHP performance adds $10 per extra 500 MB per month.
An extra site slot does not provide extra traffic or storage, and Redis may help a database-heavy site but does not increase the visit allowance, so keep add-ons in the expected monthly total.
Monthly versus annual billing, free month and refund terms
Monthly billing keeps the first payment smaller and makes it easier to change plans or stop at the end of a billing period. Annual billing costs less over twelve months, but the full amount is charged upfront. Prices checked November 10, 2026.
Kinsta’s terms say plans automatically renew for the same period as the immediately preceding subscription period or 12 months, whichever is shorter. The payment method on file is charged automatically unless the Company Owner schedules cancellation before renewal. Treat the current standard monthly or annual price as the expected renewal amount, then confirm the renewal total in checkout before payment.
The first-month-free promotion is free time for eligible new customers on selected plans. It is not the same as annual billing and not the same as a refund period. Kinsta’s 30-day money-back guarantee applies to qualifying first-time Managed WordPress customers after activation. It excludes overages, one-time fees and dedicated-server fees, and changing plans does not restart the 30-day period.
Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. Schedule it in MyKinsta, keep the site available while you confirm the replacement setup, and remember that unpaid eligible overages remain payable. Do not cancel before the new site, DNS, email and data have been checked.
Agency plans, application hosting and database hosting
If you manage client sites, Agency 20, Agency 40 and Agency 60 provide 20, 40 or 60 WordPress installations. Agency plans also include expedited-migration credits according to the plan. Agency 20 costs $340 monthly or $3,400 annually, paid upfront, with renewal at $340 monthly or $3,400 for the next annual term, subject to current pricing. Prices checked November 10, 2026.
Kinsta Application Hosting uses resource-based pricing instead of the visit-based Managed WordPress structure. Its Hobby Tier starts at $7 per month and includes 0.3 CPU cores and 0.3 GB of RAM. It uses a temporary kinsta.app domain rather than a custom domain.
Database Hosting has its own resource tiers and prices. Confirm the current database resource tier and price in Kinsta’s pricing interface before deploying a database, and again if the application changes, because database resources are a separate decision from WordPress visits, storage and CDN bandwidth.
Migration, backups, support and the practical tradeoffs
Kinsta offers unlimited free migrations for standard WordPress installations when the plan has an available site slot. The migration requires access credentials or a usable backup, and Kinsta’s migration team works Monday through Friday. Expedited migrations cost $49 per site unless the agency plan includes applicable credits. Prices checked November 10, 2026.
WordPress.com migrations have a different limit. Kinsta can import content, but it cannot transfer the WordPress.com theme, plugins, files or customizations because the required site files and database are not available in the same way. Plan time to rebuild those elements before changing DNS.
Kinsta includes daily backups. Retention is generally 14 days on lower plans and longer on some higher or agency plans. More frequent backups cost extra. The site and database are stored in the selected data center, while backups may be stored in another data center in the same geographic region or zone.
Kinsta lists a default 99.9% uptime guarantee, with higher guarantees available on qualifying plans or order forms. At 99.9%, downtime must exceed 43 minutes before a credit is available, and the customer must request it in MyKinsta chat within 30 days. Treat the SLA as a contractual credit framework, not as observed uptime or proof that a site cannot go down, be hacked or be affected by an excluded event.
Before switching, follow the steps to move a WordPress site to a new host and test the staging copy, forms, logins, media, payment flows, DNS and email before scheduling the old service for cancellation.
What to confirm before choosing Kinsta
Kinsta is a reasonable fit when you want managed WordPress hosting, daily backups, staging, support and a migration team, and the site can justify the higher starting price than shared hosting. Single 35k is the direct starting choice for one site under 35,000 monthly visits, but the plan only fits if storage, bandwidth, PHP resources and CDN usage also fit.
Before payment, compare the last several billing periods with Kinsta’s visit, server-bandwidth, storage and CDN figures, and budget for a separate business-email provider because Managed WordPress plans do not include email hosting.
Read Kinsta’s current Terms of Service and prohibited-content documentation before hosting regulated, adult, infringing, abusive or high-risk content. Review the renewal amount, add-ons, tax, refund exclusions and cancellation date, and keep the existing host active until the new setup is working. Prices checked November 10, 2026.
Frequently asked questions
These are the next checks that usually settle whether Kinsta fits the site and budget.
Is Kinsta worth the higher price than shared hosting?
Kinsta can fit a business that values managed WordPress support, staging, daily backups and a migration team. Shared hosting can cost less, so compare the full renewal amount and the value of the included management before choosing.
Does Kinsta charge for traffic?
Yes. Kinsta charges $0.50 per 1,000 visits above a visit allowance or $0.50 per GB above a server-bandwidth allowance, depending on the plan structure. CDN overage is charged separately at $0.05 per additional GB. Prices checked November 10, 2026.
What is the cheapest Kinsta Managed WordPress plan?
Single 35k is the entry plan at $35 monthly or $350 annually, paid upfront, based on the November 10, 2026 pricing. It includes one site, 35,000 monthly visits, 10 GB of storage and 125 GB of CDN bandwidth.
Does Kinsta count visits like Google Analytics?
No. Kinsta counts unique IP addresses during 24-hour periods and requests reaching its server, including some static assets. Google Analytics relies on browser-side JavaScript, so the totals can differ.
Does Kinsta include business email?
No. Kinsta Managed WordPress plans do not include email hosting. Budget for a separate business-email provider and test mail records before changing DNS.
Are Kinsta backups included?
Daily backups are included in Managed WordPress plans, with retention generally set at 14 days on lower plans and longer on some higher or agency plans. More frequent backups, such as six-hour or hourly backups, cost extra.
Can I get a refund from Kinsta?
Qualifying first-time Managed WordPress customers can use the 30-day money-back guarantee after activation. Overages, one-time fees and dedicated-server fees are excluded, and the guarantee is separate from the first-month-free promotion.
Does Kinsta provide free migrations?
Kinsta provides unlimited free migrations for standard WordPress installations when an available site slot exists. WordPress.com migrations are limited because themes, plugins, files and customizations cannot be transferred in the same way.
What happens when I cancel Kinsta?
A cancellation scheduled by the Company Owner takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and the plan does not renew after that date. Unpaid fees, including eligible overages, remain payable, so keep the service active until the replacement setup is checked.
Can Kinsta host a database or application?
Yes. Kinsta Application Hosting uses resource-based tiers, and Database Hosting has separate resource tiers and prices. Confirm the current tier and price in Kinsta’s pricing interface before deployment.
If Single 35k fits your measured usage, compare its renewal and expected overages before paying. If you decide to move, use the WordPress migration steps and keep the old setup available until the new site, email and DNS have been tested.
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