G7Cloud vs Kinsta
Kinsta is excellent premium WordPress hosting — priced per site, in dollars, with monthly visit allowances. G7Cloud hosts three sites for a fixed £19/mo with no visit caps, and includes the email, DNS and AI Website Builder that Kinsta doesn't offer.
The short version
Three differences that decide it
Visit caps vs no caps
Kinsta plans include a monthly visit allowance; exceed it and you pay overage. On G7Cloud there is no visit metering on any plan — your best traffic month costs exactly what your quietest one does. Success should not raise your hosting bill.
Per site vs per plan
Kinsta starts at $35/mo (about £27) for a single WordPress site as of July 2026, and each extra site costs more. G7Cloud Business is £19/mo for three sites of any supported type; Pro is £39/mo for ten. Multi-site owners feel this on the first invoice.
Hosting only vs whole platform
Kinsta does not host email or DNS — those are separate providers and separate bills. Every paid G7Cloud plan includes mailboxes with webmail and spam filtering, full DNS hosting, daily restore-tested backups, and the AI Website Builder for new projects.
What a year of hosting looks like
No fabricated "total cost" charts — just how each model behaves as your sites and traffic grow.
The Kinsta model
From $35/mo (~£27) per WordPress site, as of July 2026
- Each site is priced individually, in USD
- Every plan carries a monthly visit allowance; overage is charged
- Email and DNS hosting are not offered — separate providers
- Application and database hosting are separate, usage-priced products
- Google Cloud infrastructure with a premium global CDN
The G7Cloud model
£9–£99/mo fixed GBP, multiple sites per plan
- Plans cover 1, 3, 10 or 25 sites at one flat GBP price
- No visit caps, no overage fees, no usage billing — ever
- Email, DNS, SSL (incl. wildcard) and ScaleShield included
- Backups included and restore-tested nightly, with off-site targets
- Dedicated container and database per site on UK infrastructure
Kinsta's managed WordPress plans start at $35/mo (about £27) for a single site with a monthly visit allowance, as of July 2026. G7Cloud prices are fixed GBP with no visit caps.
Feature comparison
G7Cloud plans — the whole price
Fixed GBP, monthly or annual (save 20%), 30-day money-back on paid plans. All plans include free SSL, ScaleShield and the AI Website Builder.
Starter
One real site on your own domain — with email, DNS and backups.
- 1 hosted site — WordPress, PHP, Ghost, git apps & more
- AI Website Builder — 3 projects, publish 1 on your domain
- 60K AI tokens per day
- Custom domain + free SSL
- Email hosting (mailboxes, webmail, spam filtering)
Business
Up to 3 sites plus full-stack AI apps — shop, bookings, CMS.
- 3 hosted sites — any type, incl. WooCommerce & Magento
- Full-stack AI apps — online shop, bookings, CMS & more
- Real database + admin panel on AI-built sites
- Stripe checkout on your AI-built shop (your own keys)
- AI Website Builder — 5 projects, publish 3
Running client sites at scale? See Pro and Agency on the pricing page
Where Kinsta is still the better fit
An honest comparison cuts both ways. Stay on Kinsta if these matter to you:
Google Cloud infrastructure and a premium CDN
Kinsta runs on Google Cloud's premium tier with a Cloudflare enterprise integration and a choice of data centres worldwide. G7Cloud runs on our own UK infrastructure with ScaleShield at the edge — a strong setup for UK and European audiences, but we do not have a global CDN or worldwide points of presence. If most of your traffic is in Australia or the US west coast, Kinsta's network is the better fit.
WordPress-specialist tooling at enterprise depth
Kinsta's APM tool, MyKinsta dashboard and enterprise WordPress experience are genuinely excellent, and they have a decade of operating history at scale. G7Cloud gives you per-minute uptime monitoring, resource metrics with 90-day retention and TLS expiry alerts — solid, but a younger toolset.
Brand assurance of a decade-old premium host
Kinsta has been doing this since 2013. G7Cloud launched in 2026 and is built in the open. We back that with a 30-day money-back guarantee and a free assisted migration in both directions — but if you need a long public track record today, Kinsta has one.
Weighing it up in more depth? Read the full Kinsta alternative guide.
Who should switch
Owners of more than one site
Per-site premium pricing is hard to justify across a portfolio. Three sites on G7Cloud Business cost £19/mo total — with email and DNS for each of them included.
Growing sites near their visit cap
If you check your visit usage before running a campaign, the meter is shaping your marketing. Unmetered fixed pricing removes that calculation entirely.
UK businesses that want UK billing
Fixed GBP prices with no exchange-rate drift, UK infrastructure for UK audiences, and support from the engineers who run the platform.
Switching from Kinsta — FAQ
Start free — no card
Build a real, database-backed site with the AI Website Builder on the Free plan, or host your existing site on managed UK infrastructure from £9/mo. Fixed prices, and you own the code.