SiteGround pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

What SiteGround costs

1 site: $17.99/mo (StartUp at $17.99/mo regular renewal. Month-to-month billing is not shown, so the 12-month renewal rate is used; the $2.99/mo first-term price is not the regular rate. Meets the bar with 1 website, 10 GB storage, free SSL and around 10,000 visits (FAQ). Plugin and theme installs are not stated on the page (WP-CLI and SSH are listed on every plan).)
10 sites: $29.99/mo (GrowBig at $29.99/mo regular renewal. Unlimited websites, 50 GB storage and approx. 100,000 visits clear the 10-site bar (50,000 visits, 20 GB). StartUp allows only 1 website.)
Busy store: $29.99/mo (GrowBig at $29.99/mo regular renewal. Approx. 100,000 visits (read as meeting the 100,000 bar) and 50 GB clear the store bar. The WooCommerce hosting page lists the same three plans at the same prices with no visit figures, so no cheaper WooCommerce plan exists. If approximately 100,000 is read as short of the bar, store becomes GoGeek at $44.99/mo.)

Plan compared: StartUp at its $17.99/mo regular renewal rate on a 12-month term. 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 SiteGround does

Core: WordPress management (partly), 24/7 expert support (partly), Data center choice.

Important: Many sites per plan, Email on your domain (partly), Domain registration (partly), Staging sites (partly), Automated site backups (partly), CDN & page caching (partly), Firewall & malware protection (partly), SSH, Git & WP-CLI (partly).

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

SiteGround price hikes

SiteGround raised intro and renewal prices, June 2020 · Jun 18, 2020
An affiliate blog says intro and renewal prices rose on 18 June 2020; StartUp renewal was $14.99/mo (intro $6.99). It gives no pre-increase prices, and its GrowBig and GoGeek figures do not reconcile with its own yearly totals, so only…

Cheaper alternatives to SiteGround

At one WordPress site, SiteGround costs $17.99/mo. 2 web hosts cost less:

Bluehost: $9.99/mo (Starter), covers 87% of SiteGround; missing or partial: Data center choice, Free site migrations
Hostinger: $10.99/mo (Premium plan, renewal rate on its 48-month term ($10.99/mo)), covers 92% of SiteGround; missing or partial: Data center choice (partly), Free site migrations

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

Other kinds of products that cover part of SiteGround

GoDaddy (Domains, DNS & SSL): covers 77% of SiteGround; missing or partial: Data center choice, CDN & page caching, Free site migrations, Application performance tracing
Plesk (Server control panels): covers 77% of SiteGround; missing or partial: Data center choice, Staging sites, Store-ready performance, VPS & cloud upgrades
WordPress.com (Website builders): covers 77% of SiteGround; missing or partial: Data center choice, Many sites per plan, Non-WordPress sites & apps, Application performance tracing
cPanel (Server control panels): covers 65% of SiteGround; missing or partial: Data center choice, Many sites per plan, Staging sites, CDN & page caching, Store-ready performance
Namecheap (Domains, DNS & SSL): covers 58% of SiteGround; missing or partial: Data center choice, Staging sites, CDN & page caching, Firewall & malware protection, SSH, Git & WP-CLI
Netlify (Hosting): covers 58% of SiteGround; missing or partial: WordPress management, Data center choice, Email on your domain, Automated site backups, Store-ready performance

Every change we logged

Apr 3, 2026 · Repriced: GrowBig storage rose from 20 GB to 50 GB and GoGeek from 40 GB to 100 GB, relabeled as Premium Google storage. PricingSaaS records no price change for this entry.
Jun 18, 2020 · Price increase: An affiliate blog says intro and renewal prices rose on 18 June 2020; StartUp renewal was $14.99/mo (intro $6.99). It gives no pre-increase prices, and its GrowBig and GoGeek figures do not reconcile with its own yearly totals, so only StartUp is recorded.

Sources

Pricing page: siteground.com/web-hosting.htm. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Renewal prices ($17.99 StartUp, $29.99 GrowBig, $44.99 GoGeek) come from the SiteGround pricing page and match PricingSaaS. The June 2020 rise is from an affiliate blog with no pre-increase prices, and its $14.99 StartUp renewal means the later rise to $17.99 has no sourced date.