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As of October 2026, Hostinger‘s Premium plan costs $2.99 a month on a 48-month prepay ($143.52 upfront) and renews at $10.99, while GoDaddy‘s Economy plan costs $5.99 a month for the first 3-year term (about $215.64 upfront) against a listed regular price of $11.99. Hostinger’s entry plan hosts 3 sites with 2 GB of RAM; GoDaddy Economy hosts 1 site with 512 MB.
Every figure below comes from the two hosts’ own plan pages and help centers. For 20 more hosts, see our Web Hosting Price Index.
Key facts
| Hostinger Premium | GoDaddy Economy | |
|---|---|---|
| Intro price | $2.99/mo | $5.99/mo |
| Term needed | 48 months ($143.52 upfront) | First 3-year term (about $215.64 upfront) |
| After the intro term | Renews at $10.99/mo | $11.99/mo regular price shown; no separate renewal line |
| Websites | 3 | 1 |
| Storage | 20 GB SSD | 25 GB NVMe |
| CPU and RAM | 1 core, 2 GB | 1 core, 512 MB |
| Inodes (files) | 400,000 | 250,000 |
| Backups | Free weekly | Automatic 1-day daily backup |
| Control panel | hPanel | cPanel |
| Free domain | 1 year | Included with annual plans |
| Money-back | 30 days | 30 days on annual plans, 48 hours on monthly plans |
| Support | 24/7 live chat | Phone, SMS and chat |
Watch GoDaddy’s term-dependent pricing
GoDaddy‘s Economy card shows $5.99 a month “For first 3-yr term”, with $11.99 crossed out as the regular price. The page has no separate “renews at” sentence, so the $11.99 is the best guide to what you pay after 3 years, and the renewal line in your cart is the number to trust. The $5.99 rate is tied to that 3-year term; pick a shorter term and the monthly price changes, so compare cart totals rather than headline rates.
Hostinger works the same way with a longer lock-in: $2.99 a month needs 48 months paid upfront ($143.52, against a regular $575.52), and the plan renews at $10.99. Both hosts bill the whole term on day one.
The real cost over 4 years
- Hostinger Premium: $143.52 for all 48 months.
- GoDaddy Economy: about $215.64 for the first 36 months, plus about $143.88 for year 4 if it renews at the $11.99 regular price, so about $359.52.
- From year 5: Hostinger at $10.99 a month against GoDaddy at $11.99, if that regular price holds.
Over 4 years Hostinger costs about $216 less and hosts 3 sites instead of 1. GoDaddy’s renewal jump is gentler (2x against Hostinger’s 3.7x in our price index), but it starts from the highest intro price of the 10 shared hosts we track, so it never catches up.
Resources and limits
Both hosts publish the resources behind their shared plans, which makes this an unusually clean comparison:
| Plan | CPU cores | RAM | Disk | Inodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hostinger Premium | 1 | 2 GB | 20 GB | 400,000 |
| Hostinger Unlimited | 2 | 3 GB | 50 GB | 600,000 |
| GoDaddy Economy | 1 | 512 MB | 25 GB | 250,000 |
| GoDaddy Deluxe | 1 | 1 GB | 50 GB | 250,000 |
Hostinger’s entry plan has 4 times the RAM of GoDaddy’s, which matters for WordPress with a page builder or WooCommerce. GoDaddy gives slightly more disk on Economy but asks you to leave 20% of it free for system overhead, and caps Economy at 20 concurrent connections (entry processes). Hostinger caps Premium at 40 PHP workers; our guide to PHP workers explains what those limits mean for a busy site.
Backups
- GoDaddy: every Web Hosting (cPanel) plan gets an automatic 1-day daily backup, so you can roll back to yesterday. Keeping 7, 14 or 30 days of backups is a paid upgrade, and you can download a backup to your computer.
- Hostinger: Premium includes free weekly backups. Daily backups (kept for 7 days) are a paid add-on on Premium and are included on Unlimited.
GoDaddy’s default protects you from yesterday’s mistake but not last week’s; Hostinger’s default goes back further but less often. On either host, keep your own copy too.
WordPress and the control panel
GoDaddy Web Hosting runs on Linux with cPanel, and GoDaddy’s help center says you install apps like WordPress yourself through cPanel. GoDaddy sells a separate Managed Hosting for WordPress product that installs WordPress for you.
Hostinger uses its own hPanel, with a one-click WordPress installer, SSH, WP-CLI, PHP version control, Git and a MySQL manager, on LiteSpeed servers. Website migrations are free and unlimited. If you already know cPanel, GoDaddy will feel familiar; if you want WordPress tools such as WP-CLI and a one-click installer listed on the entry plan, Hostinger lists more of them.
Support and refunds
GoDaddy handles refund requests by phone, SMS or chat, and it will not process refund requests sent by email. You delete the product first, then ask for the refund, and products bundled in one subscription cannot be refunded separately. Hostinger lists 24/7 live chat and gives refunds within 30 days on new purchases and renewals of hosting plans; if a free domain came with the plan, its standard price may be deducted.
Bottom line
- Lowest cost for 1 to 3 small sites: Hostinger Premium. About $216 cheaper than GoDaddy Economy over 4 years, with 4 times the RAM.
- You want phone support or already know cPanel: GoDaddy, accepting a higher price for 1 site.
- You want daily backups without paying extra: GoDaddy’s 1-day backup is included; on Hostinger, step up to Unlimited.
- You need more than shared hosting: read our Hostinger review first, then Hostinger vs Cloudways for the upgrade path.
Comparing with Bluehost too? See Hostinger vs Bluehost.
Frequently asked questions
Is Hostinger cheaper than GoDaddy?
Yes, at the entry level. Hostinger Premium is $2.99 a month for 48 months ($143.52) and renews at $10.99. GoDaddy Economy is $5.99 a month for the first 3-year term (about $215.64) with a regular price of $11.99.
Does GoDaddy web hosting include cPanel?
Yes. GoDaddy’s Web Hosting plans run Linux with cPanel, and you install WordPress through cPanel yourself. Hostinger uses its own control panel, hPanel.
Which host has better backups?
It depends on what you need. GoDaddy includes a daily backup but keeps only 1 day unless you pay for 7, 14 or 30 days. Hostinger Premium includes weekly backups, with daily backups as an add-on or on the Unlimited plan.
Does GoDaddy raise the price at renewal?
The $5.99 Economy rate applies to the first 3-year term only, and GoDaddy shows $11.99 as the regular price. Check the renewal amount in your cart before you pay, because the plan page does not print a separate renewal sentence.
Sources
- Hostinger web hosting plans
- Hostinger web hosting (markdown version with plan matrix)
- Hostinger plan parameters and limits
- Hostinger: daily backups
- Hostinger refund policy
- GoDaddy web hosting plans (Economy price read on October 8, 2026, for our index)
- GoDaddy Help: Web Hosting (cPanel) resource limits
- GoDaddy Help: restore a site using daily backups
- GoDaddy Help: upgrade daily backups on Web Hosting (cPanel)
- GoDaddy Help: what type of hosting account do I have?
- GoDaddy Help: request a refund
Prices checked against the vendors’ own pages on October 9, 2026.