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Bluehost pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

Bluehost (bluehost.com) is a web host. Flat monthly plans priced by websites, storage and visits, sold on 36-month terms with an introductory rate and a higher renewal rate.. No free plan.

What Bluehost costs

  • 1 site: $9.99/mo (Starter renews at $9.99/mo on a 36-month term; the $3.99/mo intro rate is a promo and is ignored. No month-to-month or 12-month price is shown, so the 36-month renewal rate is used; it is already a monthly figure, so it is not divided by 36. 10 GB and ideal for 40K visits/mo meet the minimums. Custom plugin and theme installs are implied by SSH and WP-CLI but not stated.)
  • 10 sites: $13.99/mo (Business renews at $13.99/mo on a 36-month term: 50 websites, 50 GB and ideal for 200K visits/mo cover 10 sites, 20 GB and 50K visits. Starter fails (10 GB, 40K visits).)
  • Busy store: $13.99/mo (Business at $13.99/mo: ideal for 200K visits/mo and 50 GB meet 100K visits and 20 GB. The Business card does not name WooCommerce, so installing it as a WordPress plugin is assumed allowed. If not, eCommerce Essentials at $21.99/mo (WooCommerce pre-installed) applies.)

Plan compared: Starter. Prices are USD per month at the regular rate a plan renews at, on month-to-month billing where offered (otherwise the shortest term sold, divided by its months), for WordPress sites on your own domain. Introductory promos, setup fees, domains and taxes are not included.

What Bluehost does

Core: WordPress management (partly), Domain registration, No-code website builder.

Important: Many sites per plan, Email on your domain (partly), AI site generation, Staging sites (partly), Automated site backups (partly), CDN & page caching (partly), Firewall & malware protection (partly), SSH, Git & WP-CLI (partly), 24/7 expert support (partly).

Also has: Store-ready performance (partly), Non-WordPress sites & apps (partly), VPS & cloud upgrades (partly), Agency & reseller tools (partly), Application performance tracing (partly).

Bluehost price hikes

No price hikes on record for Bluehost.

Alternatives to Bluehost

Bluehost is the cheapest web host we track at one WordPress site. The others:

Bluehost alternatives: 3 web hosts compared, at every size.

Other kinds of products that cover part of Bluehost

  • WordPress.com (Website builders): covers 88% of Bluehost; missing or partial: Many sites per plan, Non-WordPress sites & apps, Application performance tracing
  • GoDaddy (Domains, DNS & SSL): covers 83% of Bluehost; missing or partial: No-code website builder (partly), AI site generation (partly), CDN & page caching, Application performance tracing
  • Plesk (Server control panels): covers 67% of Bluehost; missing or partial: Domain registration (partly), No-code website builder, AI site generation, Staging sites, Store-ready performance
  • Namecheap (Domains, DNS & SSL): covers 61% of Bluehost; missing or partial: No-code website builder (partly), AI site generation, Staging sites, CDN & page caching, Firewall & malware protection
  • cPanel (Server control panels): covers 58% of Bluehost; missing or partial: Domain registration (partly), No-code website builder, Many sites per plan, AI site generation (partly), Staging sites
  • Netlify (Hosting): covers 55% of Bluehost; missing or partial: WordPress management, Domain registration (partly), No-code website builder, Email on your domain, AI site generation (partly)

Sources

Pricing page: bluehost.com/hosting/shared. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices come from the official shared and WooCommerce pages, which show only 36-month terms, so renewal rates are used and monthly and 12-month prices are unpublished. No price change is recorded: PricingSaaS has no Bluehost page (HTTP 404), and the only third-party changelog entry (ComparEdge, July 6, 2026: Basic $1.99 to $3.99, billed yearly) cites no official announcement.