Prices checked 9 November 2026.
Side by side.
| InkySites | Hostinger AI Website Builder | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $29 a month, paid month to month. Hosting and your changes are in it. | Premium is $12.99 a month, paid month to month, before tax. The $1.99 a month Hostinger advertises is for 48 months paid up front ($95.52 today), renewing at $10.99 a month. A lower list price than InkySites either way. |
| Free look before you pay | Yes. A redesign of your site, free, no card. | Its website cloner is free to try with no card, and you choose a paid plan when you're ready to publish. Hostinger also has a 30-day money-back guarantee, which does not cover AI credits. |
| Starts from your existing site | Yes. Paste your URL. If you like your site as it is, we just copy it over. | Yes. Paste a link and its AI recreates the content, structure and design as an editable site. Hostinger calls it a close starting point, not a pixel-perfect copy. |
| How fast you see something | 48 hours. A person on our team looks over your new site before it is sent to you. | Hostinger says its builder can have your site up and running in minutes. |
| Who makes your changes | We do. Write what you want in your dashboard in your own words, tap the thing you mean on your own site, or ask for changes on WhatsApp. Your evening stays yours, because you never open an editor or learn a tool you'd use twice a year. Most changes are live within the hour. All within 48 hours. | You do, in the drag-and-drop editor or by describing the change to its AI in a chat. Hostinger says the changes you make go live instantly. AI work spends AI credits: Premium comes with 250 (500 on a 48-month plan during its current sale), a one-time allowance that does not renew monthly, and more are bought as top-ups. For a person to do the work, Hostinger points you to its directory of partner agencies, which are separate businesses with their own prices. |
| Your domain | Yours. It never leaves your hands. | Free for the first year on a plan of 12 months or longer, for eligible domains, then renewed at the regular price. You can connect a domain you already own. |
| Your site when you leave | Yours, complete, whenever you ask. Plain static files, no CMS, no proprietary format. | A site built by chat (Agentic mode) exports as a React and Vite project, which Hostinger says needs coding knowledge and Node.js to edit, and must be built into static files before it goes on ordinary hosting. A site built in the drag-and-drop editor (Manual mode) cannot be downloaded; its content exports to WordPress, without its styles, layout, forms or SEO settings. If the plan expires, Hostinger says the site is unavailable until you renew, and its data is deleted once the plan is cancelled. |
| Built to be found | Search and AI-search groundwork on your site as standard, checked before it goes live. | Hostinger says most SEO foundations are handled automatically, including a sitemap, with SEO settings and an AI SEO assistant in the editor and AI search visibility listed on every plan. |
Hostinger's prices, plans and answers were read from hostinger.com/ai-website-builder and its checkout, its website cloner page, its help articles on AI credits, exporting code, exporting to WordPress, hosting requirements, cancelling a plan and Hostinger Agent, and its agency directory, on 9 November 2026, and are described in their own words. The $12.99 is their month-to-month price, listed without tax. Hostinger was running a sale that day; its month-to-month price carried no sale discount, and its longer-term prices change with its sales. InkySites's "most within the hour, all within 48 hours" is our normal turnaround, not a contractual SLA, and the changes we make are within reason: small-to-medium tweaks rather than a monthly rebuild.
Who each one is right for.
Choose Hostinger if
You want the lower list price and you're happy to make changes yourself, in an editor or by asking its AI. Premium is $12.99 a month, paid month to month, and less again if you pay for years up front. You may also want hosting for more than one site, or email mailboxes, from the same company. If doing it yourself suits you, Hostinger is the better buy at list price.
Choose InkySites if
You don't want to be the one doing it. You ask in plain English, on WhatsApp or in your dashboard, as often as you like, within reason, and we make the change. Your site is plain static files, and the complete code comes back whenever you ask. That's $29 a month, and the redesign is free before you decide.
Questions people ask.
Is Hostinger's AI Website Builder really $1.99 a month?
Only on a 48-month plan paid up front. Hostinger's Premium plan shows $1.99 a month when you pay $95.52 for 48 months, and it renews at $10.99 a month. Paid month to month, Premium is $12.99 a month, before tax. That is still a lower list price than InkySites's flat $29 a month. The two buy different things: on Hostinger you make the changes yourself, and on InkySites you ask and we make them. Checked 9 November 2026.
Can I take my site with me if I leave Hostinger?
It depends which way you built it. Hostinger's AI Builder has two modes. A site built by chatting with the AI (Agentic mode) can be exported as a React and Vite project, which Hostinger says needs coding knowledge and Node.js to edit, and must be built into static files before it goes on ordinary hosting. A site built in the drag-and-drop editor (Manual mode) cannot be downloaded; its content can be exported to WordPress, without its styles, layout, forms or SEO settings. With InkySites your site is plain static files, and the complete code comes back whenever you ask.
What is the difference between Hostinger's AI Website Builder and InkySites?
Who makes the changes. On Hostinger you do, in a drag-and-drop editor or by asking its AI in a chat, and Hostinger says the changes you make go live instantly. On InkySites you ask in plain English, on WhatsApp or in your dashboard, and we make the change. Most changes are live within the hour. All within 48 hours. Hostinger has the lower list price and says it can have a site up in minutes. InkySites takes 48 hours to email your redesign.
See your site redesigned. Then decide.
Paste your URL and we'll email you a fresh redesign in 48 hours. Free, no card. If you like it, it's $29 a month from there.
It is free, needs no card, and there is nothing to cancel.
Other comparisons.
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