Hostinger's pricing page is built around a long prepayment. Premium is listed at $11.99 a month and offered at $2.99 a month on a 48-month term, which is $143.52 today against a regular $575.52, and it renews at $10.99 a month. It covers three websites, 20 GB of SSD storage, free weekly backups, a domain free for the first year, a CDN, ecommerce capability and priority support, plus 5 AI credits for site and app creation as a one-time gift. Unlimited is $3.99 a month on the same 48-month term ($191.52, regular $911.52), renews at $16.99, and lifts storage to 50 GB NVMe with daily backups, unlimited websites and unlimited mailboxes. Cloud Startup is $7.99 a month for 48 months ($383.52, regular $1,343.52), renews at $25.99, and adds 100 GB NVMe, daily and on-demand backups and priority support for agencies and high-traffic projects. Every plan lists WordPress and Node.js as build options, and the Hostinger Agent is included on all of them.
TL;DR
Hostinger sells managed hosting: WordPress or Node.js on a plan you prepay for 48 months at $2.99 a month, renewing at $10.99, with stores possible through WooCommerce. Squarespace sells the whole website: templates, editor, hosting, commerce and analytics in one subscription at EUR 17 a month or EUR 144 a year for Basic, with selling unlocked from Core. The choice is whether you want WordPress plus plugins and a very low headline price, or a closed editor with commerce that works on day one.
Squarespace prices by region and publishes its European catalogue explicitly, noting that a customer in another country is offered a different currency and amount. In that catalogue Basic is EUR 17 a month or EUR 144 a year, and covers a custom domain free for the first year on annual billing, unlimited bandwidth, SSL, mobile-optimised templates, SEO tools and basic analytics. Core is EUR 24 monthly or EUR 216 yearly and adds advanced site analytics, premium integrations, customer accounts, gift cards, point of sale and selling unlimited products with a 3% transaction fee. Plus is EUR 42 monthly or EUR 384 yearly and removes the Squarespace transaction fee, adding abandoned-cart recovery, advanced shipping and discount tools, subscriptions and merchandising. Advanced is EUR 79 monthly or EUR 828 yearly, adding commerce APIs, custom code and priority support. The page currently advertises 50% off the first term on annual plans.
The honest framing is open platform against finished product. On Hostinger you are buying WordPress with a tuned stack, and your store arrives through WooCommerce plus whatever plugins you choose, which gives you flexibility and hands you maintenance at the same time. On Squarespace there is one editor, one commerce engine and no plugin market, so the ceiling is what the platform ships, and the floor is that nothing needs configuring. The renewal price decides most budgets: Hostinger's headline $2.99 is a 48-month prepayment that renews at three and a half times the rate, while Squarespace's annual price is the price.
| Feature | Hostinger | Squarespace |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $2.99 a month on a 48-month term ($143.52 prepaid), renews at $10.99 | Basic, EUR 17 a month or EUR 144 a year |
| Next tier | Unlimited, $3.99 a month for 48 months ($191.52), renews at $16.99 | Core, EUR 24 a month or EUR 216 a year, adds selling |
| Higher tier | Cloud Startup, $7.99 a month for 48 months ($383.52), renews at $25.99 | Plus, EUR 42 a month or EUR 384 a year, zero platform fee |
| Billing commitment | 48 months prepaid to reach the listed rate | Monthly or annual, with 50% off the first annual term advertised |
| Platform | WordPress or Node.js on a managed stack | Squarespace editor and commerce engine, closed platform |
| Ecommerce | WooCommerce and plugins on any plan | Unlimited products from Core with a 3% fee; zero fee from Plus |
| Storage | 20 GB SSD, 50 GB NVMe, 100 GB NVMe by tier | Not metered on the published plans; bandwidth unlimited |
| Backups | Weekly on Premium, daily on Unlimited, daily and on-demand on Cloud Startup | Version history and platform backups handled by Squarespace |
| Mailboxes included: 2 per site on Premium, unlimited on Unlimited | Campaign and email tools sold as separate products | |
| Transaction fees | None from Hostinger; payment processor fees still apply | 3% on commerce through Core; none from Plus upward |
Pick Hostinger if
Choose Hostinger if you are comfortable in WordPress, want plugin freedom for the store, and can commit to a 48-month prepayment to reach $2.99 a month. The renewal rate of $10.99 is the number to plan around, and Cloud Startup at $7.99 during the term is the tier for agencies running client sites. The included mailboxes, backups and free domain make the effective bundle wider than the price suggests.
Pick Squarespace if
Choose Squarespace if the website is a marketing asset rather than a software project. Basic at EUR 144 a year covers a polished site with SEO tools and analytics, and moving to Core at EUR 216 a year is what unlocks selling with unlimited products. Go to Plus at EUR 384 a year when the 3% commerce fee costs more than the step-up price, which happens at roughly EUR 7,600 of annual sales.
We did not collect an independent review corpus for this pair, so nothing above is user sentiment. All figures come from the two vendors' own pricing pages, fetched on the date shown at the top of this page, in the currencies those pages served.
Hostinger, if you can pay upfront: $143.52 for 48 months of Premium against Squarespace Basic at EUR 144 for one year, and Hostinger's term covers roughly four years. Squarespace's advantage is that the commitment is one year and the price at renewal is the same price.
No. Basic is a website plan. Selling begins with Core at EUR 216 a year, which allows unlimited products and takes a 3% transaction fee; Plus at EUR 384 a year removes that fee and adds abandoned-cart recovery, subscriptions and advanced shipping and discount tools.
Ecommerce is listed on every Hostinger plan, and in practice that means WordPress with WooCommerce plus the plugins you choose. You get the flexibility of the WordPress ecosystem and the responsibility for updates, compatibility and backups beyond the ones Hostinger runs.
Premium renews at $10.99 a month, Unlimited at $16.99 and Cloud Startup at $25.99, per the pricing page. That renewal rate, not the $2.99 promo, is the long-run cost of the plan.
Because Squarespace publishes prices per billing country, and the catalogue fetched for this comparison was the European one, which states directly that a customer in another country is offered a different currency and amount. Hostinger's figures were served in US dollars on the same run.
Squarespace, because edits happen in one editor with no update cycle, and the template quality carries the design. Hostinger is better when the site will accumulate functionality through WordPress plugins and someone on the team is willing to own that.
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