Ginta vs Hostinger

Ginta vs Hostinger Website Builder: which is better for a small business?

Hostinger's website builder is one of the cheapest ways to get a site on your own domain, as long as you pay four years up front: Premium is $2.49 a month for 48 months, then $10.99 a month. Ginta is free to start and billed monthly: you describe the business, Ginta builds the site with booking, a menu or a shop built in, and it's live in about a minute at a Ginta address. Your own domain starts at €5 a month.

Both have an AI that builds from a description. The difference is what you pay for, and when.

Checked on Hostinger's own website on 5 November 2026. We make Ginta.

Pontcanna Piano website made with Ginta: “Piano lessons in Pontcanna, Cardiff” on a dark brown first screen with Pick a time and book, next to a photo of hands on a piano — Pontcanna Piano, a demo piano teacher's website with online booking, made with Ginta on the Free plan in 69 seconds (a fictional business). Live at pontcanna-piano.ginta.page.

The Pontcanna Piano website on a phone — Pontcanna Piano, a demo piano teacher's website with online booking, made with Ginta on the Free plan in 69 seconds (a fictional business). Live at pontcanna-piano.ginta.page.

Ginta vs Hostinger at a glance

What	Ginta	Hostinger
Price to start	Free plan. Paid from €5 a month (Hosting: you build with your own Claude or ChatGPT) or €19 (Light: Ginta's AI, 150 credits a month). Monthly billing; yearly = 10 months' price for 12.	Premium: $2.49 a month when you pay 48 months up front ($119.52), then $10.99 a month. Unlimited: $3.49, then $16.99.
Free plan	Yes: up to 20 websites live at name.ginta.page, with a small “Made with Ginta” badge. 25 AI credits when you confirm your email, then 5 a day. Booking, a shop and events included (up to 25 products, 30 bookings a month and 5 upcoming events per website), with online payments through your own Stripe, plus customer reviews you approve.	No free plan: a 30-day money-back guarantee, and the FAQ mentions a 14-day free trial.
AI building	Yes: describe the business in a sentence, answer a few questions, and it's live in about a minute. Change anything by asking, or click a text on the page.	Yes: Hostinger's AI Builder, with a manual (drag-and-drop) mode and an agentic mode that builds from a description. AI credits come with each plan.
Hosting included	Yes, on every plan, on Cloudflare's network.	Yes, on every plan.
Forms that email you	Yes, on every plan: each message goes to your email (once it's confirmed) and to your Ginta inbox.	Yes: contact form submissions are emailed to the address on your Hostinger account and kept in the builder.
Custom domain	On paid plans (from €5 a month): 1 domain on Hosting and Light, more on bigger plans. Connect one you own (Ginta shows the DNS steps for your registrar) or buy one in Ginta for €29 a year, registered in your name and set up for you.	Yes: every plan lists a custom domain free for the first year.
Owner admin	yoursite.com/admin, when the site has a form or a ready-made part: messages, menu, bookings and the like, without the editor. You plus 1 helper on Free, 3 helpers on Light.	Account sharing gives a collaborator access to a whole hosting plan; access to one website alone is for Agency plans.
Build from Claude/ChatGPT	Yes: Ginta's MCP server (ginta.app/mcp, also in Claude's connector directory) lets Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex or Cursor build, publish and change the site, using no Ginta credits.	Partly: the Hostinger API MCP server manages hosting, domains, DNS and ecommerce from an AI assistant; it doesn't build a site in the Website Builder.

Ginta's prices include tax and are the same number in euros (eurozone) or US dollars (everywhere else). Hostinger's prices can differ by country: check its pricing page before you buy.

When to pick Hostinger

You'll prepay and stay for years. $119.52 for 48 months of Premium, with a domain free for the first year, is hard to beat if you're sure. Compare the renewal price ($10.99 a month) with your other options before you do.
You also want hosting, email or WordPress from one company. Hostinger sells all of it under one account.
You like dragging things into place. Its AI Builder has a manual drag-and-drop mode next to the AI one; Ginta has no drag-and-drop editor.
A bigger online store. Ecommerce is listed on Unlimited and Cloud Startup.

When to pick Ginta

You don't want to pay four years up front. Ginta's free plan publishes 20 websites at name.ginta.page; paid plans are monthly, with your own domain from €5 a month (Hosting) or €19 (Light, with Ginta's AI), and yearly is €190 for Light.
Booking, a menu, quote requests or a shop on the free plan. Ginta's ready-made parts are on every plan (Free: up to 25 products, 30 bookings a month and 5 upcoming events per website), with deposits and payments through your own Stripe account.
Helpers for one website. Give a helper a login at yoursite.com/admin to read messages and change the menu or bookings, without access to anything else.
You build with Claude or ChatGPT. Your assistant can design, publish and change the whole website through Ginta's MCP server, using no Ginta credits.

What the first term hides

Hostinger's headline price is the price of the first term, paid at once. Over 4 years Premium costs $119.52; from year five it's $10.99 a month. Ginta's prices are the same every month and include tax; you can stop any month. Neither is wrong: work out what you'll pay over the time you expect to keep the site.

Moving from Hostinger to Ginta

There's no automatic import. Paste your texts into Ginta's chat with a sentence about the business (or a screenshot of your current page), ask for the parts you need, add photos, then connect your domain in the website's Settings → Address & domain: Ginta shows the DNS steps for your registrar, Hostinger included. Keep the old site live until the new one is ready.

Sources (checked 29 October 2026)

Hostinger Website Builder plans · AI Builder agentic mode · Appointments · Contact forms · Account sharing · Website collaborators (Agency) · Hostinger API MCP server · Ginta: pricing and limits

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Questions

Is Hostinger's website builder free?

No. It has a money-back guarantee (30 days) and its FAQ mentions a 14-day trial; to keep a site online you choose a paid plan. Ginta's free plan keeps websites online at a Ginta address with a small badge.

What does Hostinger cost after the first term?

On 29 October 2026 Hostinger listed Premium at $2.49 a month for a 48-month term ($119.52 up front), renewing at $10.99 a month; Unlimited at $3.49, renewing at $16.99. Prices change with offers and your country.

Does Hostinger's builder have booking?

Hostinger's help says accepting appointments "requires a Hostinger Ecommerce plan"; its pricing lists ecommerce on Unlimited and Cloud Startup. Ginta's booking, with deposits through your own Stripe, is on every plan (Free: up to 30 bookings a month per website).

Can I move my domain from Hostinger to Ginta?

You can keep the domain registered at Hostinger and point it at Ginta with DNS records; Ginta shows the steps.