# Hostinger Website Builder — Website Builders Hostinger Website Builder by Hostinger International Limited holds a panel rating of 3/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2.5/5), as of 2026-10-29. Provenance: EU-Made; sovereignty: not determined. - Vendor: Hostinger International Limited (https://www.hostinger.com/website-builder) - Category: [Website Builders](https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder.md) - Provenance (editorial classification): EU-Made - Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/hostinger-website-builder - Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/hostinger-website-builder/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/hostinger-website-builder/alternatives.md)) - Data as of: 2026-11-04 · evaluated 2026-10-29 · oldest source captured 2026-10-28 **AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology ## At a glance - Vendor: Hostinger International Limited - Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026 - Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026 - Free plan: Yes, per the vendor’s own page [S15] ## The panel's verdict Hostinger's AI Builder is an all-in-one website builder with hosting, booking and a small shop; persona-weighted totals run 5.7 to 6.3. It is strongest on pricing transparency at 6-8: plan pages print the exact upfront total, term and renewal — Premium at $2.49/mo, $119.52 for 48 months, renewing at $10.99/mo — a 14-day free trial requires no credit card, and a 30-day money-back guarantee applies with the domain registration fee deducted from the refund. Hosting and portability at 6-7 and forms and business at 6-7 hold up well: named European data centres, a 99.9% uptime guarantee, bookings with calendar sync that prevents double bookings and reminders, and 0% transaction fees. Editor and design and SEO and marketing cluster at 6. The weak spot is legal compliance at 3-4 — no public information on a blocking cookie banner, imprint help, accessibility or form-entry handling. Sovereignty spans 5-7: an EU contracting entity and named European data centres, but the privacy policy names servers in the US, Brazil, Singapore and Indonesia. **Speaks for it:** - Plan pages print the exact upfront total, term and renewal rate — Premium at $2.49/mo, $119.52 for 48 months, renews at $10.99/mo — with prices listed without VAT - Bookings are documented in depth: one-to-one appointments, Google Calendar and Calendly sync against double bookings, automatic reminders, and client logins to manage appointments - Hosting is spelled out with named data centres in France, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands and the UK, a 99.9% uptime guarantee, unlimited free auto-renewing SSL and a free first-year domain in the buyer's name - A published data processing agreement, incorporated into the terms, offers EU standard contractual clauses, breach notification without undue delay and audit rights on written request - The shop side carries 0% transaction fees with 100+ payment methods and Stripe payments **Held against it:** - No public information on a cookie consent banner that blocks scripts until consent, imprint or privacy-policy help, accessibility, or GDPR handling of form entries for the owner's published site - No public information on contact-form specifics — field types, spam protection, notification emails, where entries are stored - The captured pages give different signals on backups — plan pages list daily backups with restore while the terms place backup responsibility solely on the customer — and no documented export of pages, content and media - The Ecommerce add-on needed for booking payments is "a small extra cost" with no figure; AI credit top-ups and the domain's renewal price after the free first year are unpriced - The privacy policy names servers in the US, Brazil, Singapore and Indonesia, and the eight listed subprocessors come without locations **Best for:** - You run a service business — a practice, consultancy or trade — and want appointment booking with calendar sync, reminders and client logins built in - You want the true multi-year cost visible before buying: every plan page shows the total due today, the term and the renewal rate - You want a fast launch from 600+ templates with AI assistance, with hosting, SSL and mailboxes bundled, on a 14-day free trial with no credit card required **Avoid if:** - You need the builder to carry the site's own legal layer — we found no public information on a blocking cookie banner, imprint or privacy-policy help, or accessibility, and legal compliance scores 3-4 - Your site's core is a plain contact form rather than bookings — we found no public information on form spam protection, notifications or entry storage - You need a documented commitment that your site's data stays in Europe — ask the vendor: the public pages we read do not show it - You expect an easy exit with a full export of your pages and content — the terms make export before termination the customer's responsibility ## Scores by judge and criterion Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price, or the judge found no public information on that criterion. | Criterion | The Small-Business Owner | The Freelance Web Designer | The Marketing Lead | The Practice Owner | The Data Protection Officer | The Skeptic | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Editor, templates & design control | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | | Hosting, domains & portability | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | | SEO, analytics & visibility | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | | Forms, bookings & business features | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | | Imprint, privacy & cookie compliance | 2/5 | 1.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | | European sovereignty | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | | Pricing transparency | 4/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | | **Weighted verdict** | **3/5** | **3/5** | **3/5** | **3/5** | **3/5** | **3/5** | ### The judges - **The Small-Business Owner** (v1.0): Runs a joinery with six staff and builds the company website on a Sunday afternoon. Wants a template that looks like a craftsman and not like a start-up, to be found when someone nearby searches for a carpenter, an enquiry form that lands in the inbox, the imprint and cookie banner handled without a lawyer, and a price that is still clear in the second year. - **The Freelance Web Designer** (v1.0): Builds about twenty sites a year for doctors, restaurants and consultants, and looks after them afterwards. Wants real control over layout, mobile breakpoints and type, reusable sections across client sites, a client login that cannot break the design, backups that restore in one click, and a way to take the site and its content elsewhere if the client or the tool changes. - **The Marketing Lead** (v1.0): Owns the website of a forty-person engineering firm and is measured on enquiries, not on page views. Wants landing pages built without waiting for the agency, clean URLs, redirects and structured data, analytics that work without a consent wall in front of every visit, and form entries that reach the CRM instead of a shared mailbox. - **The Practice Owner** (v1.0): Runs a physiotherapy practice with four therapists and a waiting list. Wants patients to book and cancel appointments online, a contact form that does not send health details around in plain email, a site an older patient can read and use, a cookie banner that holds up if the regulator asks, and the data kept in Europe. - **The Data Protection Officer** (v1.0): Serves as external data protection officer for thirty small companies and reviews their websites once a year. Wants a consent banner that blocks scripts and embeds until the visitor agrees, fonts and maps that do not leave for the US on page load, a data processing agreement and subprocessor list that can be filed, form entries with a retention period, and hosting that is named rather than implied. - **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Has seen "your website for 1 euro" renew at thirty, templates that only exist inside the builder, an export that turns out to be the blog posts alone, and a domain that costs a fee to move. Reads "GDPR compliant" next to a cookie banner that loads trackers before anyone clicks, and a subprocessor list that stops at the CDN — and asks what leaving would cost. ## European sovereignty — proven facts Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: not determined. | Dimension | Finding | Points | Source | |---|---|---|---| | Legal entity | Not determined | — | — | | Hosting location | Not determined | — | — | | Hosting options | Not determined | — | — | | Open source | Not determined | — | — | | Data processing agreement | Not determined | — | — | | Transfer impact assessment | Not determined | — | — | ## Key facts Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources). **Compliance** - Audit rights: written request at reasonable intervals · yes [S6] - Breach notification: without undue delay [S6] - Data minimization pseudonymization: yes · yes [S6] - Data sources dark web: yes [S4] - DPA available: yes [S4] - DPA incorporated: Data Processing Addendum incorporated into Terms of Service by reference where applicable · yes [S5] - Dsa notice action mechanism: EU Digital Services Act · yes [S5] - Eligibility minimum age: 18 [S5] - Encryption measures: yes · yes · yes [S6] - EU sccs modules: Module Two (Controller to Processor) · Module Three (Processor to Processor) [S6] - GDPR: yes [S4] - GDPR contact: gdpr@hostinger.com [S4] - ISO 27001 standard: information security management systems · ISO/IEC 27001:2022 [S7] - Penetration testing: yes [S6] - Personal data protection: yes [S7] - Policy focus: accessibility · authenticity · integrity · confidentiality [S7] - Renewable energy: yes [S3] - Risk based implementation: yes [S7] - Sanctions excluded countries: Cuba · Iran · North Korea · Russia · Crimea · Donetsk · Luhansk · Zaporizhzhia · Kherson · Belarus · Venezuela [S5] - Scc transfers: yes [S4] - Sccs governing law: courts of the Cyprus · Cyprus law [S6] - Ssl domain validated pci dss: domain-validated · yes [S11] - Supervisory authority: Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection (Cyprus) [S6] - Whois escrow: yes [S4] **Data** - Account deletion process: gdpr@hostinger.com [S4] - Account signup collection: email address · password · first and last name · identity verification · contact details [S4] - AI memory available: yes · yes [S4] - Analytics tool: Google Analytics [S4] - Call recording: yes [S4] - Call recording retention: 30 [S4] - Cancellation domain fee: yes · yes [S10] - Dark web monitor: yes · email · hPanel alerts [S4] - Deletion timeline: 30 [S6] - Export responsibility: yes [S6] - Geolocation collection: yes [S4] - Job applicant retention: 12 [S4] - Mail import AI training: no [S4] - Mail import gmail: yes [S4] - Mail import third parties: no [S4] - Marketing email retention period: 90 [S4] - Marketing optout channels: email unsubscribe link · SMS instructions · account settings [S4] - Payment card storage: 4 · no [S4] - Retention post deactivation: 1 [S4] - Sales communication retention: 90 [S4] - Service billing messages no optout: no [S4] - Sms whatsapp consent duration: 36 [S4] - Users of users role: data controller · data processor [S4] **Hosting** - Cdn locations: Japan · Sydney · Johannesburg [S3] - Datacenters: France · Germany · Lithuania · Netherlands · UK · Phoenix · Boston · Asheville · Brazil [S3] - Free domain: yes [S1] - Infrastructure ownership: yes [S3] - Job applicant locations: Lithuania [S4] - Processing locations: United Kingdom · Netherlands · Lithuania · Cyprus [S4] - Third country locations: US · Brazil · Singapore · Indonesia [S4] **Integrations** - Adsense monetization: Google AdSense · monetize content [S15] - AI custom: unlimited custom integrations via AI-guided setup [S15] - API: yes [S1] - API key responsibilities: APIs and automation tools offered; customer responsible for key confidentiality and rotation · yes [S5] - Backend user management: user management · Integrated backend [S15] - Connector: Cursor · VS Code · Claude Code [S3] - Count: Gmail · Notion · Slack · 1000+ [S13] - Free transfer: yes [S10] - Free transfer eligibility: new Premium or Unlimited plan, 12+ months · VPS · Business Email · Single Web Hosting · monthly plans · renewals · upgrades [S10] - Named: Integrated backend · Stripe · Google AdSense · yes [S15] - No code: yes · payments · user accounts · analytics [S15] - SEO: get found online [S15] - SSO facebook: email · name · surname · Facebook (Meta) [S4] - SSO google: Login · Email · Google [S4] - Stripe payments: Stripe · accept payments [S15] - Transfer eligible extensions: .be · .ch · .com · .com.au · .com.br · .com.es · .com.pl · .co.in · .co.uk · .de · .dk · .es · .eu · .fi · .fr · .id · .in · .lt · .my.id · .nl · .org · .org.uk · .pl · .pt · .se · .uk · .us · 27 [S10] - Webmail migration: yes [S2] **Legal** - Board chair: Arnas Stuopelis · Board chair [S3] - Bug reward program: yes [S7] - Copyright: 2004-2026 · Hostinger [S1] - Copyright: Hostinger [S9] - Data controller: Hostinger [S4] - Default entity: HOSTINGER INTERNATIONAL LIMITED · 61 Lordou Vironos str., 6023 Larnaca, Cyprus · any other country including EU countries · Cyprus private limited company [S5] - DPA available: yes [S7] - English version precedence: yes [S4] - English version prevails: yes · no [S5] - Entity: HOSTINGER operations, UAB [S7] - Founded: 2004 [S3] - Group1 entity: HOSTINGER PTE LTD · 16 Raffles Quay, #33-03, Hong Leong Building, Singapore, 048581 · Group No. 1 countries · Singapore private limited company [S5] - Group2 entity: HOSTINGER Global S.à r.l · 6 Avenue Pasteur, L-2310 Luxembourg, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg · Group No. 2 countries · Luxembourg private limited company · 10191883/0 [S5] - Headquarters: Vilnius · Lithuania · yes [S3] - Hostinger entities: Hostinger International Ltd (Cyprus) · Hostinger UK Limited · Hostinger Global S.a r.l (Luxembourg) [S6] - Indonesia entity: PT WEB MEDIA TECHNOLOGY INDONESIA · Jl. Palagan Tentara Pelajar No. 81 Jongkang, Sariharjo, Ngaglik, Sleman, Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta, 55581 · Indonesia [S5] - Jurisdiction cyprus: Hostinger International Ltd · Cyprus · yes [S4] - Last revised: 2025-11-07 12:27:12 [S7] - Last revised: 2026-09-29 14:31:57 [S5] - Last revised: 2026-10-14 [S4] - Offices: Kaunas, Lithuania · Vilnius, Lithuania · Luxembourg · Yogyakarta, Indonesia [S3] - Ownership: 30 · ConHostinger [S3] - Translation precedence: yes · no [S7] - UK entity: Hostinger UK Limited · United Kingdom · UK private limited company · 6 Lloyds Avenue Suite 4CL London, England EC3N 3AX [S5] **Pricing** - Billing model: yes [S8] - Cloud startup: Cloud Startup · 383.52 · 25.99 · 71 · 7.99 · 48 · 27.99 [S1] - Cloud startup: 48 months upfront · 383.52 · 7.99 · 25.99 [S14] - Cloud startup: 7.99 · 48 · 383.52 · 25.99 · 27.99 [S8] - Cloud startup features: yes · daily and on demand · 100 GB NVMe · unlimited · yes [S2] - Cloud startup features: yes · free for 1 year · 100 GB NVMe · unlimited · Daily and on demand [S11] - Cloud startup upfront terms: 383.52 · 48 · 25.99 [S11] - Credit topup: yes [S8] - Discount code: AIPOWER10 · 12-month plans and longer · 10 [S13] - Fair usage: yes [S11] - Free domain eligibility: Premium · Unlimited · 12 [S10] - Free domain monthly plans: no [S10] - Free domain renewal: regular price after first year [S10] - Free tier: yes · no [S12] - Free tier: Start for free [S15] - Free tier: yes · 5 · no [S14] - Free trial: no · 14 [S1] - Free trial condition: no [S9] - Free trial features: drag-and-drop · 24/7 · yes · 600+ · yes · yes [S1] - Guarantee: 30 · yes [S13] - Guarantee: money-back guarantee [S15] - Money back: 30 [S3] - Money back: 30 [S12] - Money back: 30 [S8] **Product** - Account sharing: yes · yes [S5] - Agency: Hostinger Pro · multi-site dashboard · client access management · migrations · AI toolset · Agency Directory listing [S3] - Agency directory: Agency Directory · yes [S4] - Agent: Hostinger Agent performs routine maintenance across sites, domains, and email [S3] - Agentic languages: 80+ [S14] - Agentic mode: yes [S9] - Agentic mode: conversational vibe coding [S8] - AI builder modes: Manual drag-and-drop · Agentic vibe coding [S1] - AI credit usage: 5-10 · 15+ [S14] - AI discovery: ChatGPT · Gemini · Meta AI [S12] - AI domain generator: yes [S10] - AI modes: Manual · Agentic [S8] - AI services: AI/ML tools for website building and content generation; input/output treated as Customer Content · yes [S5] - AI tools: AI Builder · Agent · AI Agents · Reach · Connector [S3] - AI tools: AI Logo Maker · AI Writer · AI SEO Assistant [S1] - AI tools: yes · yes · yes [S8] - Appointment booking: yes [S1] - Appointment types: one-on-one appointments · intro calls · consultations · classes · group sessions [S14] - Auto SEO files: sitemap.xml · robots.txt · llms.txt · yes [S12] - Backup responsibility customer: no · yes [S5] - Beta services: provided as-is, may be modified or discontinued at any time, support may be limited · yes [S5] - Booking payments ecommerce addon: yes · yes [S14] - Calendly integration: yes · yes [S14] - Client accounts: yes [S14] **Subprocessors** - AI providers: nexos.ai · Oxylabs Studio AI [S4] - Idenfy: iDenfy · identity verification · yes [S4] - Manual verification alternative: yes [S4] - Named list: Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL · Google Cloud EMEA Limited · Cloudflare, Inc. · MailChannels Corporation · Proofpoint, Inc. · Anthropic Ireland, Limited · spectra tech, UAB · Vonage B.V. [S6] - Ravelin: Ravelin · fraud prevention [S4] - Subprocessor consent termination: 10 · yes [S6] **Support** - 24 7: 24/7 [S1] - 24 7: 24/7 [S12] - 24 7: 24/7 · priority expert support [S11] - Abuse email: abuse@hostinger.com · spam/abuse reports and EU authority orders [S5] - Availability: 24/7 [S3] - Availability: 24/7 [S2] - Availability: 24/7 [S6] - Availability: 24/7 [S10] - Availability: 24/7 [S13] - Availability: 24/7 [S14] - Availability: yes [S8] - Cancel anytime: yes [S1] - Change termination right: material change detrimental to customer · 30 [S5] - Channels: yes · 24/7 · 10+ · Kodee [S10] - Chat: yes [S1] - Chatbot agent: yes [S14] - Complaints email: compliance@hostinger.com · content moderation complaints and DSA point of contact [S5] - Hours: 24/7 [S9] - Hours: 24/7 [S15] - Hours 24 7: 24/7 [S5] - Languages: 30+ [S3] - Priority: yes [S8] - Priority expert: Unlimited · Cloud Startup [S14] 142 more facts on the canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/hostinger-website-builder ## Questions ### Is Hostinger Website Builder European? Yes. whats-best.ai classifies Hostinger Website Builder as EU-Made. ### Where does Hostinger Website Builder store data? Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026. ### Does Hostinger Website Builder have a free plan? Yes. Hostinger Website Builder has a free plan, per [the vendor’s page captured 28 Oct 2026](https://whats-best.ai/evidence/11968). ### What are the best alternatives to Hostinger Website Builder? As of 4 Nov 2026, the panel rates [Duda (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/duda), [Wix (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/wix) and [WordPress.com (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/wordpress-com) highest among the other 17 Website Builders products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [Framer](https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/framer) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Hostinger Website Builder alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/hostinger-website-builder/alternatives). ## What this page leaves out - 30 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 16 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 5 compliance facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 3 integrations facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 1 data fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 1 support fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 3 sovereignty dimensions could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and are shown as unknown. - 6 of the readings below were written against an earlier fact sheet — a fact has been corrected, added or pulled since. Until the panel next runs on this product you are reading the older judgement. ## Sources - [S1] Vendor homepage: https://www.hostinger.com/website-builder (checked 2026-10-28) - [S2] Pricing page: https://www.hostinger.com/pricing (checked 2026-10-28) - [S3] About page: https://www.hostinger.com/about (checked 2026-10-28) - [S4] Privacy policy: https://www.hostinger.com/legal/privacy-policy (checked 2026-10-28) - [S5] Terms naming the legal entity: https://www.hostinger.com/legal/universal-terms-of-service-agreement (checked 2026-10-28) - [S6] Data processing agreement (dpa): https://www.hostinger.com/legal/dpa (checked 2026-10-28) - [S7] Security page: https://www.hostinger.com/legal/security-policy (checked 2026-10-28) - [S8] Editor, templates & design control — found from sitemap: https://www.hostinger.com/ai-website-builder (checked 2026-10-28) - [S9] Editor, templates & design control — found from sitemap: https://www.hostinger.com/ai-builder/remixable-templates (checked 2026-10-28) - [S10] Hosting, domains & portability — found from sitemap: https://www.hostinger.com/free-domain (checked 2026-10-28) - [S11] Hosting, domains & portability — found from sitemap: https://www.hostinger.com/free-ssl-certificate (checked 2026-10-28) - [S12] SEO, analytics & visibility — found from sitemap: https://www.hostinger.com/ai-builder/features/built-in-seo (checked 2026-10-28) - [S13] SEO, analytics & visibility — found from sitemap: https://www.hostinger.com/seo-ai-agent (checked 2026-10-28) - [S14] Forms, bookings & business features — found from sitemap: https://www.hostinger.com/booking-website-builder (checked 2026-10-28) - [S15] Forms, bookings & business features — found from sitemap: https://www.hostinger.com/ai-builder/features/integrations (checked 2026-10-28) - [S16] Self-hosting / on-premises installation docs — found from the homepage: https://www.hostinger.com/self-hosted-n8n (checked 2026-11-01) - [S17] Code repository (open-source licence) — found from the homepage: https://github.com/hostinger (checked 2026-11-01) --- Cite as: whats-best.ai, "Hostinger Website Builder — Website Builders", AI panel analysis, as of 2026-11-04. https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/hostinger-website-builder Corrections: https://whats-best.ai/correct/1124?target=page