[How-to] Hostinger AI Website Builder Pricing: The Intro Price, and What You Pay at Renewal

Hostinger’s AI Website Builder lets you type a sentence describing your business and get a finished, responsive site back in seconds — AI writes the copy, generates the images, and even drafts SEO metadata. Before you hand over a card number, the pricing is worth a close look, because the number Hostinger shows you first is not the number you’ll pay long-term. There’s no permanent free plan here — only a 14-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee once you do pay. This piece walks through what the trial actually lets you do, what the three paid plans really cost over time, and where beginners typically get stuck.

What the 14-day trial actually gets you

Hostinger doesn’t have a free tier you can use indefinitely. What it offers instead is a 14-day free trial of the full AI Website Builder toolset. During those 14 days you can use:

• The one-sentence AI site generator, which builds a complete layout and page content from a short description of what you need.
• AI copywriting for headlines and product descriptions.
• AI image generation for things like product photos on a store page.
• An AI SEO assistant that does keyword research and writes meta tags (the behind-the-scenes text search engines read to understand a page).

That’s the real toolkit, not a stripped-down demo. The catch: once the 14 days end, you need to buy a plan to keep the site published. There’s no option to just keep browsing a free, permanently-hosted version. Separately, Hostinger backs every paid plan with a 30-day money-back guarantee, so if you do pay and it’s not right for you, you can cancel for a full refund within that window — that’s a different clock than the 14-day trial, and it only starts once you’ve paid.

Figure: hostinger.com official pricing page, captured 2026-10-07.

Three paid plans — and the renewal price nobody leads with

Hostinger sells three tiers built around the AI builder: Premium, Unlimited, and Cloud Startup. Each comes with an “AI website-building credit” allowance — think of each credit as one AI-generated site you’re allowed to create under that plan — plus hosting, a free domain, and email included in the same subscription.

Premium — US$2.99/month as the headline price, but that figure is locked to a 48-month term paid upfront, totaling US$143.52 (billed as 75% off the normal rate). It includes 3 websites, 5 AI website-building credits, and a free domain for the first year. When that 48-month term ends, it renews at US$10.99/month — more than triple the promo rate.

Unlimited — US$3.99/month under the same 48-month upfront structure, totaling US$191.52 (79% off). For about a dollar more a month than Premium, you get unlimited websites instead of 3, 15 AI website-building credits instead of 5, plus 500 “AI agent credits” (a usage allowance for Hostinger’s conversational Horizons AI mode, which builds full web apps from a chat rather than just a site), built-in ecommerce, and email marketing tools. This is the plan Hostinger pushes hardest, and the jump in value for roughly US$1/month more makes that easy to understand. It renews at US$16.99/month after the 48-month term.

Cloud Startup — US$7.99/month, same 48-month upfront billing, totaling US$383.52 (71% off). Same AI feature set as Unlimited plus 1,000 AI agent credits (double Unlimited’s allowance) and higher-performance cloud hosting resources. It renews at US$25.99/month.

The pattern across all three: the eye-catching monthly price only applies if you pay for 48 months at once, and the renewal price after that term is a separate, much higher number. Hostinger’s pricing page does disclose the renewal rate, but it’s not the number in large text — you have to find it.

Common blockers beginners hit (and fixes)

“I thought this was free.” It isn’t, and it never was — the 14-day trial is the only no-cost access. If you want to explore without commitment, use the trial fully before deciding, since you can’t un-publish-and-restart to get a second free trial window.

Sticker shock at renewal. If you’re budgeting past the first term, don’t base your math on the US$2.99, US$3.99, or US$7.99 headline — use the renewal figures (US$10.99, US$16.99, US$25.99 respectively) for what you’ll actually pay once the 48-month promo period ends.

Picking the wrong plan for ecommerce. Premium doesn’t include the integrated ecommerce tools (inventory and order management) or email marketing. If you’re planning to sell anything, go straight to Unlimited — stepping up from Premium later means a plan change, not just a toggle.

Running out of AI website-building credits. Each credit corresponds to one AI-generated site. Premium’s 5 credits and Unlimited/Cloud Startup’s 15 are a one-time allotment tied to the plan, not something that resets automatically on a schedule. If you’re testing multiple site concepts, generate deliberately rather than regenerating repeatedly out of curiosity.

Wanting a web app, not just a website. The standard AI Website Builder produces sites; if you want something closer to an actual application built by describing it conversationally, that’s Hostinger’s separate Horizons AI mode, which draws from the AI agent credits (500 on Unlimited, 1,000 on Cloud Startup) rather than the website-building credits.

Figure: compiled by AMPM from its verified data (last verified 2026-10-06).

🔍 AMPM exclusive check

The vendor pricing page does show both the promotional rate and the renewal rate, but the two numbers sit at very different visual weights — the renewal price is the fine-print figure, not the headline. We cross-checked both sets of numbers directly against Hostinger’s live pricing page and website-builder page on 2026-10-06: Premium at US$2.99/month promo (US$143.52 total over 48 months) renewing to US$10.99/month, Unlimited at US$3.99/month promo (US$191.52 total) renewing to US$16.99/month, and Cloud Startup at US$7.99/month promo (US$383.52 total) renewing to US$25.99/month all matched exactly. The one thing worth spelling out plainly, since the vendor page doesn’t frame it this way: that “US$2.99/month” is not a month-to-month option at all — it’s a single upfront payment covering 48 months, and shorter billing terms carry a higher per-month rate than the promo figure advertises. Every number in this piece matches the official page as of this check.

Illustration: A deceptively modest initial fee reveals an immense, prolonged financial commitment lurking behind long-term contract renewal terms.

Verdict: who should use it, who should skip it

If you want a simple personal site, portfolio, or blog and you’re comfortable committing to a multi-year term to lock in the lowest rate, Premium at US$2.99/month (paid as US$143.52 upfront) is the cheapest entry point — just budget for US$10.99/month once that term is up. If you’re planning to sell products or run more than a handful of sites, Unlimited is the better fit for roughly a dollar more a month, given it adds unlimited sites, ecommerce, and triple the AI credits. Cloud Startup only makes sense if you specifically need the higher-performance hosting tier or the larger AI agent credit allowance for Horizons — otherwise Unlimited covers the same AI feature set for less.

Skip this if you want an actually free, indefinite plan — Hostinger doesn’t have one, and the 14-day trial is firm. Also skip the 48-month commitment if you’re not confident you’ll stick with the same site and host for four years; the attractive price is specifically the reward for locking in that long.

Written: 2026-10-07 Price last verified: 2026-10-06 Tool last health-checked: 2026-10-07

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📎 Sources

All prices and quotas in this article come from AMPM’s verified dataset for Hostinger AI Website Builder (last verified 2026-10-06); primary sources:

• https://www.hostinger.com/pricing
• https://www.hostinger.com/website-builder

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