A search for Cloudflare versus Hostinger usually comes from someone who has been told their site needs both a host and a CDN, and does not know which box is which. Hostinger is the host: it stores your files, runs PHP or your Node app, gives you mailboxes and a control panel. Cloudflare sits in front: it resolves your domain, terminates SSL, caches and compresses delivery, filters traffic and absorbs attacks. Buying one does not remove the need for the other.
TL;DR
These products are not substitutes, and the honest comparison says so first. Cloudflare sells DNS, CDN, SSL, DDoS protection and edge compute that sit in front of a site: Free at $0, Pro at $20 per month billed annually ($25 monthly), Business at $200 annually ($250 monthly) and a custom Contract tier. Hostinger sells the hosting itself: Premium at $2.99, Business at $3.99 and Cloud Startup at $7.99 per month on 48-month terms, each paid up front and renewing at $10.99, $16.99 and $25.99. Most sites that compare them end up buying both: Hostinger to store the files, Cloudflare to deliver them fast and safely.
Cloudflare's plans page prices the network, not the storage. Free costs $0 per month and covers personal and hobby projects. Pro is $20 per month billed annually or $25 monthly for professional websites. Business is $200 per month billed annually or $250 monthly for small businesses operating online. The Contract tier is custom and billed annually for mission-critical applications. Across the tiers the page lists fast DNS, unmetered DDoS protection, CDN delivery, a Universal SSL certificate and a free managed ruleset, with a managed web application firewall and image optimisation appearing on the paid tiers. The same page also prices Cloudflare's compute and storage products separately, with charges per million requests, per GiB-second, per script and per row, so running application logic at the edge is an additional meter rather than part of the plan.
Hostinger's shared plans are advertised with a 48-month term, and every price on the page is paid up front. Premium is discounted from $11.99 to $2.99 per month, which comes to $143.52 for the full term against a regular $575.52, and renews at $10.99 per month; it covers three websites, 20GB of SSD storage, free weekly backups, a domain for the first year, a CDN and ecommerce features. Business is discounted from $18.99 to $3.99 per month, $191.52 for 48 months against $911.52, renewing at $16.99, and moves to unlimited websites, 50GB of NVMe storage, daily backups with easy restore and unlimited mailboxes. Cloud Startup is discounted from $27.99 to $7.99 per month, $383.52 for the term against $1,343.52, renewing at $25.99, and adds 100GB of NVMe, daily and on-demand backups and priority support. Hostinger also sells VPS hosting on AMD EPYC hardware with full root, managed Node.js hosting and GPU hosting billed by the hour.
| Feature | Cloudflare | Hostinger |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | DNS, CDN, SSL, DDoS protection and edge compute in front of a site | Shared hosting, VPS and managed hosting that stores the site |
| Free tier | Free plan at $0 with DNS, CDN, SSL and unmetered DDoS protection | No free plan; the cheapest entry is a discounted annual term |
| Entry paid plan | Pro at $20 per month billed annually, $25 monthly | Premium at $2.99 per month on a 48-month term, renews at $10.99 |
| Mid tier | Business at $200 per month billed annually, $250 monthly | Business at $3.99 per month on 48 months, renews at $16.99 |
| Top tier | Contract tier, custom price, billed annually | Cloud Startup at $7.99 per month on 48 months, renews at $25.99 |
| Billing basis | Monthly or annual subscription for the network layer | Full term paid up front, then a higher renewal rate |
| Storage | Does not store website files; object and file storage are separate products | 20GB SSD to 100GB NVMe per plan, with backups included |
| Security bundle | Unmetered DDoS protection, managed ruleset, Universal SSL | Backups, SSL and a CDN add-on inside the hosting plan |
Pick Cloudflare if
Cloudflare is the right purchase for speed and safety on top of hosting you already pay for: free DNS, CDN, SSL and DDoS protection on the free tier, and a managed firewall plus image optimisation at $20 per month billed annually on Pro. If your goal is only to make an existing site faster and harder to knock over, this is the layer to add.
Pick Hostinger if
Hostinger is the host: mailboxes, a control panel, backups, a domain and enough storage for three to unlimited websites from $2.99 to $7.99 per month on a 48-month term. Read the renewal rate before you buy, because $10.99 to $25.99 per month is what the same plan costs after the term, and then decide whether Cloudflare's free tier should sit in front of it.
No ratings or user reviews are quoted on this page: we did not collect a public review corpus for either vendor. All prices were read from cloudflare.com/plans and hostinger.com/pricing on 2026-10-12.
No. Cloudflare's plans page prices DNS, CDN, SSL, DDoS protection and firewall rules; it does not store website files, run PHP or give you mailboxes. You still need Hostinger, or another host, behind it.
Partly. Hostinger plans include a CDN and SSL, so a small site can run without Cloudflare. What it does not include is unmetered DDoS protection, a managed firewall ruleset or a global edge network, which is where Cloudflare's free tier earns its place.
Because the advertised rate is tied to a 48-month term paid up front: $143.52 for Premium, $191.52 for Business and $383.52 for Cloud Startup. The renewal rates of $10.99, $16.99 and $25.99 per month apply once that term ends.
The plans page lists the CDN and DDoS protection as included on each tier, and separately prices compute and storage products per request, per GiB-second and per row. Delivery through the network is part of the plan; running application code or storing objects at the edge is not.
Hosting. A site cannot exist without somewhere to store it, so start with Hostinger or any other host, then point the domain at Cloudflare's DNS and enable the free plan. The two costs stack: from $2.99 per month for hosting and $0 for Cloudflare.
Hostinger includes mailboxes per website, free for the first year on its plans, with unlimited mailboxes from Business upward. Cloudflare does not provide mailbox hosting on the plans listed here.
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