Kinsta vs NameHero
Kinsta and NameHero compared on measured uptime, response time, pricing and features from our own tests. Kinsta scores higher overall.
By Jennifer T. · Updated
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Verdict
KinstaWins overall
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Kinsta wins 5 of the six sub-scores and comes out ahead overall (7.9 vs 7.3).
How do the scores compare?
Kinsta leads on 5 sub-scores, NameHero on 1. Higher is better.
Which one is faster and more reliable?
Which one costs less?
On renewal, NameHero is cheaper ($11.64/mo vs $30.00/mo). Intro prices need the listed term.
What does each include?
| Kinsta | NameHero | |
|---|---|---|
| Free domain | No | Turbo Cloud and Business Cloud on a 24 or 36-month term; not on Starter or Plus |
| Free SSL | Wildcard certificates through Cloudflare on every plan | Free and auto-renewing SSL on every plan |
| Backups | Daily automatic backups kept 14 days on the entry plans (20 or 30 days higher up), plus manual, downloadable and hourly add-on backups | Nightly and weekly backups listed in the comparison table; HeroVault offsite backups with 30 days of retention cost $6.99 a month in the cart |
| Free migration | Unlimited migrations by Kinsta's team | Complimentary migrations by the Level III team |
| Free CDN | Cloudflare CDN with edge caching, 260+ points of presence per the pricing page; 125 GB of CDN bandwidth a month on the entry plans | QUIC.cloud CDN listed in the comparison table |
| Caching | Server-level caching and edge caching through Cloudflare | LiteSpeed web server with LiteSpeed Cache; the Turbo tier on the two upper plans |
| Staging | Free one-click staging environments on every plan | No |
| No | Unlimited accounts; mailbox quota 1 GB on Starter, 2 GB on Plus, unlimited above; 50 or 350 emails an hour | |
| Resource limits | Each site runs in its own container; plans are sized by server bandwidth or visits, storage and CDN bandwidth, with PHP worker counts in the compare table | Not stated |
| Data center choice | 30 locations chosen per site at creation | US (Lenexa, Kansas), London and Canada on the plan cards; the comparison table lists US for every plan |
| Uptime guarantee | 99.9% per month in the SLA updated 25 September 2025, with credits as a percentage of the monthly value once downtime passes 43 minutes; up to 99.99% on custom plans | No |
| Security | Fully managed WAF with DDoS protection, bot protection, free malware removal, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 | Security Shield on every plan; HeroGuard with premium SSL, malware scanning and monitoring costs $9.99 a month in the cart |
| Developer tools | SSH, WP-CLI, Git, DevKinsta local environment, Kinsta API, built-in APM | Not stated |
| Phone support | No | 1-855-984-6263, 9 AM to 5 PM Central per the about page; chat and tickets around the clock |
| Windows hosting | No | Not stated |
| Guaranteed resources | Not stated | Cores and RAM printed per plan, 1 and 1 GB up to 4 and 4 GB, on a partitioned cloud environment |
| SSH | Not stated | Jailed SSH access listed in the comparison table |