Compare us with your host,
line by line.
Pick the host you are on now and see, row by row, what you pay there and what you get here. Every Web Hosting plan includes a free SSL certificate, nightly backups kept thirty nights, mailboxes on your own domain and a free migration, and clause 7.5 holds your renewal price at what you signed up for.
- Priced in USD
- Free migration on every plan
- One price, every year
- Every figure dated
Three years, at their published prices
Month 1 to renewal
Read from each provider's own pricing page, on the date shown beside it. Prices change, so check theirs before you rely on this.
Five things you get here, whoever you are leaving.
These five hold against every host on this page. Pick one below for the row by row comparison.
Thirty days to change your mind
Cancel within thirty days of your first invoice and we refund that payment in full. It is clause 1 of our Terms, published on this site, so you can read it before you spend anything.
Your renewal price is locked the day you sign up
Clause 7.5 of our Terms holds your renewal price at whatever you signed up for, for as long as your subscription runs. New customers may pay a different rate; yours stays where it started.
One price, with the tax shown
You are billed in your own currency, with any sales tax itemised on the invoice, so the number on the plan card is the number you can plan around.
A real engineer answers, every time
Kapsule Group Limited is registered in New Zealand on a public register anyone can search, and every ticket is answered by one of our own engineers.
The limits are published as real numbers
Start gives you 10 GB, Pro 50 GB and Scale 200 GB, read from the same catalogue that bills you. Cloud Power is sold as unlimited and the Fair Use Policy prints the point where that stops: 20 TB of traffic, 500 GB of storage and 500 mailboxes. We email you the day you reach one of them.
Pick a host.
Each page sets our price and what you get beside theirs, row by row. Every competitor figure carries the date we read it off their own page.
SiteGround
An international WordPress host. The price goes up a long way at renewal.
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InternationalGoDaddy
The world's largest domain registrar. Known for add-ons at checkout and a dearer renewal.
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InternationalHostinger
The cheapest first year on this page, and one of the biggest jumps at renewal.
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InternationalDreamHost
A long standing American host selling shared and managed WordPress hosting.
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Managed WordPressWP Engine
Premium managed WordPress, aimed at agencies, based in the United States.
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Managed WordPressKinsta
Premium managed WordPress, aimed at agencies.
Read 2026-09-02
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Frequently asked questions
- Why is my host not on this page?
- The hosts here are the ones people actually tell us they are leaving. Email hello@kapsulehost.com with whoever you are on now and we will do the comparison for you.
- How do I know these comparisons are honest?
- Every page carries the date we read their pricing page and links to it, so you can check the figure yourself. If one is out of date, email us and we will correct it.
- How can I check the numbers for myself?
- Try it. Web Hosting Start runs free for its first thirty days, so you can spend a week in KPanel and compare it against what you are on now. Clause 1 then refunds your first payment in full within thirty days of the invoice.
- Do you compete with the managed WordPress hosts?
- Yes. Web Pro with Kapsule Care covers managed updates, a practice copy of your site, malware scanning, off site backups and human support. Both prices are on the pricing page rather than in this answer, because a price written into a sentence goes stale.
- What about hosting a Next.js or React front end?
- Orbit is our deploy platform: push to your main branch and we build and publish it. The difference is what a busy month can do to you. Usage pricing charges for how much your site gets used, so a busy month costs more than a quiet one. Orbit includes build minutes and bandwidth in every plan, and past them we bill the difference at rates published in your own currency, up to a spending ceiling you set yourself. So the busiest month you can have costs the plan price plus a number you chose, and at that ceiling we stop the next build, never the site that is already serving.
- Can you compare any other host?
- Email hello@kapsulehost.com with the host and what you pay. We will work out what the same thing costs here, and the migration tools are free either way.
- What does free migration actually cover?
- Everything: your files, your database, your mailboxes and your DNS, free on every plan, at any size, with Kora running the tools alongside you. For a bigger or more delicate move, one of our engineers does the whole thing for a published price.
Try it for thirty days, free.
Web Hosting Start runs free for its first thirty days. Clause 1 then refunds your first payment in full within thirty days, and clause 7.5 holds your price for as long as your subscription runs.
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