Kinsta gives new accounts a one-time signup credit rather than an ongoing free tier. The free plan includes 1 WordPress install, 20GB server bandwidth, and 10GB storage. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about $35/mo.
About
Kinsta is a managed WordPress hosting platform built on cloud infrastructure. It provides hosting for single sites, multiple WordPress installs, agency accounts, and enterprise deployments, with plans that include bandwidth-based billing, CDN bandwidth, storage limits, backups, migrations, staging environments, and a REST API.
The free offer is a first-month-free introductory period on select plans, including the Single 20GB plan and the WP 2 plan. Those plans include concrete limits such as 1 or 2 WordPress installs, 20GB or 40GB server bandwidth, 10GB or 20GB storage, 125GB or 250GB CDN bandwidth, and 14 days of backup retention.
- Managed WordPress hosting
- 1 to 2 WordPress installs
- 20GB to 40GB server bandwidth
- 10GB to 20GB storage
- 125GB to 250GB CDN bandwidth
- 14-day backup retention
- Unlimited free migrations
- One-click staging environments
Free Tier Value
This free tier is a capped first-month offer, not a perpetual free plan, and the page does not say a credit card is waived. The closest paid equivalent is the Single 20GB plan at $35/month, and the free month includes the same core limits and premium features for that tier, so its practical value is about $35/month.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- 1 WordPress install
- 20GB server bandwidth
- 10GB storage
- 125GB CDN bandwidth
- Unlimited free migrations
- 14 days backup retention
- Free SSL certificates with wildcard support
- Fully managed WAF with DDoS protection
- Free malware removal
- SAML SSO and Just-in-Time Provisioning
- Unlimited users and flexible access management
- Built-in APM Tool
- Continuous MySQL database optimization
- Free one-click staging environments
- Kinsta API access
- Up to 99.99% uptime SLA
See Kinsta pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Single 20GB
- WordPress installs
- 1
- Server bandwidth
- 20GB
- Storage
- 10GB
- CDN bandwidth
- 125GB
- Backup retention
- 14 days
- 1 WordPress install
- 20GB server bandwidth
- 10GB storage
- 125GB CDN bandwidth
- Unlimited free migrations
- 14 days backup retention
- Free one-click staging environments
- Kinsta API included
WP 2 bandwidth
- WordPress installs
- 2
- Server bandwidth
- 40GB
- Storage
- 20GB
- CDN bandwidth
- 250GB
- Backup retention
- 14 days
- 2 WordPress installs
- 40GB server bandwidth
- 20GB storage
- 250GB CDN bandwidth
- Unlimited free migrations
- 14 days backup retention
- Free one-click staging environments
- Kinsta API included
Single 40GB
- WordPress installs
- 1
- Server bandwidth
- 40GB
- Storage
- 10GB
- CDN bandwidth
- 250GB
- Backup retention
- 14 days
- 1 WordPress install
- 40GB server bandwidth
- 10GB storage
- 250GB CDN bandwidth
- Unlimited free migrations
- 14 days backup retention
- Free one-click staging environments
- Kinsta API included
WP 5 bandwidth
- WordPress installs
- 5
- Server bandwidth
- 65GB
- Storage
- 30GB
- CDN bandwidth
- 500GB
- Backup retention
- 14 days
- 5 WordPress installs
- 65GB server bandwidth
- 30GB storage
- 500GB CDN bandwidth
- Unlimited free migrations
- 14 days backup retention
- Free one-click staging environments
- Kinsta API included
Single 65GB
- WordPress installs
- 1
- Server bandwidth
- 65GB
- Storage
- 10GB
- CDN bandwidth
- 500GB
- Backup retention
- 14 days
- 1 WordPress install
- 65GB server bandwidth
- 10GB storage
- 500GB CDN bandwidth
- Unlimited free migrations
- 14 days backup retention
- Free one-click staging environments
- Kinsta API included
WP 10 bandwidth
- WordPress installs
- 10
- Server bandwidth
- 125GB
- Storage
- 40GB
- CDN bandwidth
- 750GB
- Backup retention
- 14 days
- 10 WordPress installs
- 125GB server bandwidth
- 40GB storage
- 750GB CDN bandwidth
- Unlimited free migrations
- 14 days backup retention
- Free one-click staging environments
- Kinsta API included
Pricing extracted from Kinsta's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Kinsta free forever?
No. Kinsta gives new accounts a one-time signup credit, spent at normal usage rates, then the account moves to pay-as-you-go.
What happens when you exceed Kinsta's free tier?
Once the signup credit runs out the account moves to pay-as-you-go pricing. Kinsta's cheapest published paid plan is Single 20GB at $35 / month.
What is Kinsta's free tier worth?
Kinsta's free tier is worth about $35 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 49/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
