Table of Contents
1. The four plans and both prices
Hostinger prints the discounted price, the regular price it is discounted from, and the renewal price after the term, on the same card. Reproduced as published in September 2026:
| Plan | vCPU / RAM / NVMe / bandwidth | Advertised | Renews at | First 24 months | Then, per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KVM 1 | 1 / 4 GB / 50 GB / 4 TB | $6.49 | $11.99 | $155.76 | $11.99 |
| KVM 2 | 2 / 8 GB / 100 GB / 8 TB | $8.99 | $14.99 | $215.76 | $14.99 |
| KVM 4 | 4 / 16 GB / 200 GB / 16 TB | $12.99 | $28.99 | $311.76 | $28.99 |
| KVM 8 | 8 / 32 GB / 400 GB / 32 TB | $25.99 | $49.99 | $623.76 | $49.99 |
Specifications, advertised prices and renewal prices are Hostinger's, read 2026-09-27. The first-24-months column is arithmetic on the advertised monthly rate; Hostinger does not print a term total. The card also shows a struck-through list price ($19.49 for KVM 1, $24.49, $42.99 and $73.99 for the others), which is the rate the discount is measured against.
Read it as a term contract with an advertised headline. KVM 1's renewal is $11.99 against the $6.49 headline, which is $5.50 a month more, and that renewal is the number to compare against other providers' monthly prices from month 25 onward. Against the rest of this site, the renewal price is what sits next to Vultr's $10 for 2 GB and InterServer's $6 for 4 GB, both with no term; the promotional price is only comparable to the annual hosts on the cheapest page.
2. What "paid upfront" means
Hostinger states the mechanism rather than hiding it: "All plans are paid upfront. The monthly rate reflects the total plan price divided by the number of months in your plan." Two consequences follow, and they are the practical ones for a buyer.
- The advertised rate is not a monthly bill. It is the 24-month total divided by 24, charged at once. To compare it with Vultr or InterServer, multiply it back out.
- The exit the page states is the refund window. The plan area carries a "30-day money-back guarantee". Those pages do not describe a refund of unused prepaid months after that window.
3. Hardware and network, as published
| What | What Hostinger states |
|---|---|
| Processor | "AMD EPYC processors", named at family level for the whole VPS line; no model, no clock, no per-plan split |
| Storage | "NVMe SSD storage", with the size per plan; no IOPS or throughput figure |
| Network | "1 Gbps network speed", stated once for the line rather than per plan; bandwidth allowance per plan (4 TB to 32 TB) is the metered half |
| Virtualisation | KVM, per the product line's own description ("Powerful KVM-based Virtual Private Server") |
| Root access | Full root access, stated in the line description alongside Docker |
The AMD EPYC claim is the most specific hardware statement in this table and it is still a family: EPYC spans several generations with materially different single-thread performance. The CPU page explains why providers stop at the family level, and how to read the actual model off a server you have (lscpu).
4. Where the servers are
Two Hostinger pages answer this at different levels. Its server-location article lists "USA (Phoenix, Boston, and Asheville)" among cloud locations, and under VPS hosting plans "North America: USA (Phoenix and Boston)". The same article says servers in the Netherlands and USA (Asheville) are not available for VPS, only for web and cloud plans. Its USA VPS page answers location changes in two places. One says "You can change your VPS location anytime to any other Hostinger data center" and calls that move quick, easy and fully automated. A different answer says you can move an existing VPS to the U.S. data center "through the Hostinger dashboard without downtime".
Those two cities are the whole US footprint, and the location list plus the move are what Hostinger publishes; whether two metros suit your users is a judgement it leaves to you. For that judgement this site's East Coast, West Coast and low-latency pages put those cities next to the alternatives and list the endpoints for measuring from where your users are.
5. What is on every plan
Hostinger's feature block for the line: "Every plan has everything you need and more. AMD EPYC processors, NVMe SSD storage, Data centers worldwide, Free weekly backups, Firewall management, 1 Gbps network speed, Public API, AI Web terminal, Free domain for 1 year." On backups, the page's own longer wording is "Free weekly VPS backups and snapshots", with manual snapshots "you can use to revert your server if something goes wrong".
Three of those deserve a second look. The public API is what separates this line from the other panel-managed budget hosts on this site, several of which advertise none. The weekly backup cadence is the interval to notice: a site that changes daily loses up to a week of it, which is why the backup guide's nightly job is worth running even where the panel provides backups. The free domain for a year renews at its own price like everything else.
6. What Hostinger does not publish
- A processor model or generation per plan; "AMD EPYC processors" is the whole statement.
- Disk IOPS or throughput. NVMe is a type, not a rate.
- A per-plan network figure. The 1 Gbps is stated for the line; the per-plan numbers are transfer allowances.
- An uptime SLA on the VPS page read for this page.
- Hourly billing. The published terms are prepaid 24-month terms with a 30-day refund window.
7. Measuring the parts that are not published
The processor, the disk and the achievable throughput are all measurable on the server itself, and the method is the same one used across this site: lscpu for the CPU model, sysbench cpu --threads=1 --time=60 run for single-thread speed, a 4K fio run for the disk, and iperf3 against a machine near your users for the network. The benchmarks hub has the commands and the reasoning; the storage page and network page show what the other providers publish for comparison.
The refund window is what makes this practical: thirty days is enough to measure all of it on the plan you are actually considering, before the term commits you.