How Kinsta bills: visits or bandwidth
Kinsta's pricing page lets you choose plans billed on monthly visits or on server bandwidth, at the same price points. A course site whose students generate many page views per visit may fit a visits plan better; a site with large downloads fits a bandwidth plan worse. Kinsta counts visits as unique IP addresses seen within a 24-hour period, summed across all sites on the plan.
Annual billing is shown as "2 months off": the annual price is ten times the monthly one. Some entry plans also show a first-month-free promotion. Prices exclude tax and are in US dollars.
Single-site plans billed on visits (29 October 2026)
The bandwidth-billed equivalents (Single 20GB, 40GB, 65GB, 125GB, 250GB and 500GB) carry the same prices, storage and CDN allowances. Kinsta also lists a Launch plan at $35 a month for one install with 15 GB server bandwidth, an estimate of 75,000 visits, 15 GB storage and 125 GB CDN; Kinsta's PHP documentation lists Launch with 4 PHP threads. Backup retention is 14 days on the smaller single-site plans.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Visits/month | Storage | CDN bandwidth | PHP threads (memory each) | Recommended for ecommerce/membership |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single 35k | $35 | $350 | 35,000 | 10 GB | 125 GB | 2 (256 MB) | No |
| Single 65k | $50 | $500 | 65,000 | 10 GB | 250 GB | 4 (256 MB) | Yes |
| Single 125k | $90 | $900 | 125,000 | 10 GB | 500 GB | 6 (256 MB) | Yes |
| Single 315k | $170 | $1,700 | 315,000 | 10 GB | 750 GB | 6 (256 MB) | Yes |
| Single 500k | $290 | $2,900 | 500,000 | 15 GB | 1,000 GB | 8 (256 MB) | Yes |
| Single 750k | $375 | $3,750 | 750,000 | 15 GB | 1,500 GB | 8 (256 MB) | Yes |
Multi-site plans
Multi-site plans pool visits across installs, which suits a course site plus a marketing site. Note the PHP thread figures in Kinsta's documentation: WP 2 has 2 threads, the same as Single 35k, so two sites on WP 2 can have less dynamic capacity each than one site on Single 65k. Kinsta's pricing table also marks WP 2 as not recommended for ecommerce or membership sites; WP 5 is the first multi-site plan with that recommendation.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | WordPress installs | Visits/month | Storage | PHP threads |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WP 2 | $70 | $700 | 2 | 70,000 | 20 GB | 2 |
| WP 5 | $115 | $1,150 | 5 | 125,000 | 30 GB | 4 |
| WP 10 | $225 | $2,250 | 10 | 315,000 | 40 GB | 4 |
| WP 20 | $340 | $3,400 | 20 | 500,000 | 50 GB | 6 |
| WP 40 | $450 | $4,500 | 40 | 750,000 | 60 GB | 6 |
Add-ons and overages
External backups to AWS or Google Cloud were priced differently on the pricing page and the add-ons page when checked, so confirm that price in MyKinsta before relying on it. If usage alerts are enabled, Kinsta emails you at 80 and 100 percent of plan usage, and says an extreme overage (equal to the plan cost or $500, whichever is less) may require immediate payment or an upgrade.
| Item | Published price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Redis caching | $100 per site per month | Object cache; useful for logged-in traffic |
| PHP performance | $10 per 500 MB per month | Custom PHP thread and memory allocation |
| 6-hour backups | $20 per site per month | |
| Hourly backups | $100 per site per month | |
| Premium staging environments | $20 per site per month | Pricing page: up to five staging environments; add-ons page lists $20 per environment |
| Extra disk space | $20 per 20 GB per month | |
| Additional WordPress site | $30 per site per month | |
| Reverse proxy | $50 per site per month | Load WordPress from a subdirectory |
| Visit overage | $0.50 per 1,000 visits | Billed on the next invoice; upgrading does not erase it |
| Server bandwidth overage | $0.50 per GB | Charged at month end, or after one week if over by more than 250 GB |
| CDN bandwidth overage | $0.05 per GB | |
| Disk overage | $2 per GB per month | Prorated daily |
Worked estimate: a membership course site
Assumptions: one WordPress install running a membership plugin, about 50,000 visits in a normal month and 60,000 in a launch month, with most lesson traffic from logged-in students that is not served from cache. Figures are list prices from 29 October 2026, before tax.
Option A, Single 35k monthly: $35 plus overage. A 50,000-visit month is 15,000 over, or $7.50; a 60,000-visit month is $12.50. Total roughly $42.50 to $47.50 a month. But it has 2 PHP threads and Kinsta marks it not recommended for membership sites, so this is the cheapest option, not the right one.
Option B, Single 65k annual: $500 for the year, 4 PHP threads, no visit overage at these volumes. Add Redis at $100 a month for logged-in performance and the first year is $500 plus $1,200, or $1,700. Add 6-hour backups ($240 a year) if you take payments and want tighter restore points: $1,940.
Option C, Single 65k monthly with no add-ons: $600 a year. The annual saving on Option B's plan is $100.
| Option | Plan cost, year 1 | Add-ons, year 1 | Overage estimate | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A: Single 35k monthly | $420 | $0 | about $90 to $150 | about $510 to $570 |
| B: Single 65k annual + Redis | $500 | $1,200 | $0 | $1,700 |
| B plus 6-hour backups | $500 | $1,440 | $0 | $1,940 |
| C: Single 65k monthly | $600 | $0 | $0 | $600 |
Money-back terms and what to check before buying
Kinsta's money-back guarantee refunds Managed WordPress Hosting plan fees if a first-time customer cancels within 30 days of activation. Switching plans during that period does not restart the window. Dedicated server fees, one-time fees and overages are excluded, and fees incurred in the first 30 days for other items are deducted from the refund.
- Estimate visits from server logs or analytics as unique IPs per day, not page views.
- Decide whether your site is membership or ecommerce; if so, start at Single 65k or above per Kinsta's own recommendation.
- Price Redis and backup frequency before comparing with hosts that include them.
- Check whether the first-month-free promotion applies to the billing cycle you choose.
- Run your launch-month traffic through the overage rates before choosing monthly over annual.
Questions before you decide
What is the cheapest Kinsta plan for a membership site?
Kinsta's pricing table marks Single 65k ($50 a month or $500 a year) as the first single-site plan recommended for ecommerce and membership sites.
How much do Kinsta visit overages cost?
$0.50 per 1,000 visits over the plan limit, billed on the next invoice.
Is Redis included on Kinsta?
Not on the plans checked. Redis caching is an add-on at $100 per site per month.
Sources & verification
Product details and prices can change. Check the linked provider before buying.
- Kinsta: Pricing Accessed 29 Oct 2026
- Kinsta: Add-ons Accessed 29 Oct 2026
- Kinsta Docs: PHP settings and thread allocation Accessed 29 Oct 2026
- Kinsta Docs: Overages Accessed 29 Oct 2026
- Kinsta Docs: Money-back guarantee Accessed 29 Oct 2026
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