Kinsta's Black Friday 2026 starts on November 9, by the countdown on its own Black Friday page. Last year the sale ran from November 17 to December 2, for new customers only, with "6 months free". That put the $35 plan at $210 for the first year instead of $350. Even at that price, one Kinsta site costs more than a whole Cloudways server for a year ($132), and a server holds as many sites as you like.
I'm Mangesh, and I have tested Kinsta's Single 20GB on the same WordPress site I use for every host. It is quick: 92ms with 100 visitors at once and no failed requests. But Kinsta charges per WordPress install, so the bill climbs with every site. Below are the sale dates and prices from Kinsta's own pages, and the two Black Friday deals I would pick for the money.
⚡ Kinsta Black Friday 2026: starts November 9
- Starts: November 9, 2026, by the countdown on Kinsta's own Black Friday page, eight days earlier than last year.
- Last year: November 17 to December 2, 2025, new customers only: 6 months free on annual billing ($210 instead of $350 on the $35 plan), or half price for six months on monthly billing.
- Right now: Kinsta's 2026 Black Friday waitlist is open. Join it here and Kinsta emails you the moment the sale starts, with the discount applied to your order. Until then, Single 20GB is $350 a year or $35.00/mo, with the first month free.
- My pick for the same money: Cloudways, from $11.00/mo for a whole server, with a free 3-day trial and $30 credit with CLOUDS2022.
My Black Friday Picks for Kinsta Shoppers
If you are looking at Kinsta, you want fast, managed WordPress hosting. These give you that for less, and the gap grows with every site you add.
Managed cloud, unlimited sites
- 48ms from New York on Vultr High Frequency
- Fast caching built in, free migration
- Last Black Friday: 50% off, plus free migrations
Managed VPS with email included
- 38ms from New York, quicker than Kinsta
- Unlimited sites on one server
- Email accounts included
One high-value site
- 92ms with 100 visitors at once
- 1 WordPress install, 20GB bandwidth
- New customers only
A Year of Hosting at Black Friday Prices: 1, 5 and 10 Sites
Kinsta's sale takes six months off the first year, but it still charges per site. Cloudways and ScalaHosting charge for the server, and one server carries all of your sites.
| Sites | Kinsta, last year's sale | Kinsta, normal year | Cloudways, 12 months | ScalaHosting, first year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 site | $210 (Single 20GB) | $350 | $132 (DigitalOcean 1GB) | $179 (Entry Cloud) |
| 5 sites | $690 (WP 5) | $1,150 | $288 (DigitalOcean 2GB) | $179 (Entry Cloud) |
| 10 sites | $1,350 (WP 10) | $2,250 | $720 (Vultr HF 4GB) | $539 (Build #2) |
Kinsta's sale column applies last year's "6 months free" to each plan's monthly price, which is how Kinsta's 2025 pricing page priced Single 20GB ($210), WP 2 ($420) and Agency ($2,040). Cloudways is billed hourly for the server size shown; ScalaHosting renews higher after the first year ($39.95/mo on Entry Cloud).
Even with Kinsta's best Black Friday, five sites cost $690 for the first year against $288 on a Cloudways server, and the Kinsta bill goes back to $1,150 a year after that. Cloudways was also quicker from New York in my tests on Vultr High Frequency.
Kinsta's Black Friday Deal at a Glance
Single 20GB tested
- $350 a year today, $210 in the last two Black Friday sales
- Renews at $350 a year
- 92ms with 100 visitors at once
1 WordPress install, 20GB bandwidth, 10GB storage, 125GB CDN
See KinstaWP 2
- $700 a year today, $420 in the last two sales
- Renews at $700 a year
- Same platform as Single 20GB
2 WordPress installs, 40GB bandwidth, 20GB storage, 250GB CDN
See KinstaSingle 20GB, monthly tested
- $35.00/mo today, $17.50 for six months in the last sale
- Then $35.00/mo
- No annual commitment
The same plan, billed monthly; first month free today
See KinstaKinsta Black Friday Prices, Plan by Plan
Kinsta sells managed WordPress hosting on monthly or annual billing. Annual billing costs ten months' price for twelve ("2 months free" on Kinsta's page), and the rate does not change at renewal. Here are the plans most buyers choose between.
| Plan | Sites | Monthly | A year, annual billing | Renews at | Last sale on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single 20GB tested | 1 | $35.00/mo | $350 | Same rate | $210 first year |
| Single 40GB | 1 | $50.00/mo | $500 | Same rate | In the offer; price not on our copy |
| WP 2 | 2 | $70.00/mo | $700 | Same rate | $420 first year |
| WP 5 | 5 | $115.00/mo | $1,150 | Same rate | In the offer; price not on our copy |
| Agency 20 | 20 | $340.00/mo | $3,400 | Same rate | $2,040 first year |
US dollars before tax. "Last sale on record" is the first-year price on Kinsta's pricing page in the 2025 Black Friday sale; our saved copy names the prices of Single 20GB, WP 2 and Agency, and shows the same offer on the other standard plans. Single 20GB includes 14-day backup retention and unlimited free migrations. Kinsta also sells plans measured by monthly visits instead of bandwidth at the same prices.
Today's price, straight from Kinsta
Kinsta's pricing page today: Single 20GB with the first month free, then $350 a year on annual billing. There is no Black Friday price yet.
What Kinsta Offered on Past Black Fridays
We went back to Kinsta's own homepage and pricing page as the Wayback Machine saved them around Black Friday each year, and to the same pages a few weeks before and after. Kinsta's $35 entry plan has had three names in that time (Starter, Single 35k, Single 20GB), at the same price.
| Year | What Kinsta's page said | $35 plan, first year on annual billing | Lower than before the sale? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | No sale wording on the homepage | No saved copy of the pricing page | No record |
| 2022 | No sale wording on the homepage | No saved copy of the pricing page | No record |
| 2023 | "Save $140+ by paying annually!", new customers, until November 30, then extended to January 1 | $280, renewing at $350 | Yes: $350 in early October |
| 2024 | "Enjoy 50% off all plans!", new customers, ended December 3 | $210 after a free first month, renewing at $350 | Yes: $350 in early October |
| 2025 | "6 months free this Black Friday!", new customers, November 17 to December 2 | $210 after a free first month, renewing at $350 | Yes: $350 after a free first month in early October |
Prices as shown on Kinsta's pricing page, not a checkout. In 2024 and 2025 the monthly option in the sale was the first month free, then half price for six months ($17.50 on the $35 plan; the 2024 page rounded it to $18), then the full rate.
In 2025 existing customers had a separate upgrade deal: 25% off the first three months on a higher monthly plan, or three months free on a higher annual plan. There is no saved copy of the pricing page near Black Friday 2021 or 2022, so we cannot say whether those years had an offer there.
Kinsta's normal price does not move, so the sale is the one time a year the first year costs noticeably less. On the $35 plan the last two sales took the first annual bill from $350 to $210, a saving of $140, and the plan then renewed at the normal $350. The offer was for new customers, so if you are already on Kinsta, the upgrade deal is the one to watch.
How Kinsta Held Up in Our Tests
We ran the same WordPress site on Kinsta's Single 20GB and on the managed WordPress and cloud plans buyers usually compare it with. We measured response time (TTFB) from 10 locations at the origin server, with no CDN in front, a load ramp from 0 to 250 clients requesting pages at once (8,250 requests per host), and uptime over 54 days. Full method: How We Test.
| Host | TTFB, New York | 10 locations | 100 at once | Failed | Uptime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kinsta Single 20GB | 64ms | 143ms | 92ms | 0% | 99.99% 8 minutes down |
| WP Engine Startup | 242ms | 540ms | 487ms | 0% | 99.97% 23 minutes down |
| WP Engine Professional | 230ms | 513ms | 435ms | 0% | 99.97% 23 minutes down |
| Cloudways DigitalOcean Premium | 54ms | 121ms | 86ms | 0% | 99.985% 12 minutes down |
Lower is better for response times. "10 locations" is the average TTFB across our 10 test locations; "100 at once" is the response time with 100 visitors at the same moment. No host in this table failed a request on the climb to 250 clients. Cloudways is a cloud server you size yourself, so it has no single plan price to set beside these.
Kinsta was the quickest managed WordPress plan we tested, more than five times quicker than WP Engine's Startup under load (92ms against 487ms with 100 visitors at once), and it lost the least time to downtime. A Cloudways DigitalOcean Premium server came close, at 86ms, if you are happy to manage a server's size yourself. Our Cloudways vs Kinsta comparison covers that choice.
What Kinsta Costs Over Four Years, Compared
Kinsta charges the same rate at renewal, and WP Engine prints no renewal figure (the rows below assume today's rate), so the four-year cost is mostly a question of billing: annual or monthly, and whether you start in a sale.
| Host and plan | Billing | Four-year total | 100 visitors at once |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kinsta Single 20GB | Annual, starting on the last sale's $210 | $1,260 | 92ms |
| Kinsta Single 20GB | Annual, today's price | $1,400 | 92ms |
| Kinsta Single 20GB | Monthly | $1,680 | 92ms |
| WP Engine Essential, 1 site | Annual, today's price | $1,596 | 487ms |
| WP Engine Essential, 1 site | Monthly | $1,680 | 487ms |
Today's prices before tax, renewing at the rate each host prints (WP Engine's annual row counts the first year at today's price and later years at the renewal its payment page prints). WP Engine's 1-site plan is the Startup plan we tested, now sold as Essential. Kinsta's free first month is left out of every row. The test column is the response with 100 visitors at once in our load test.
Over four years, Kinsta Single 20GB on annual billing costs $1,400, less than WP Engine's 1-site plan at $1,596 once WP Engine's first-year discount ends, for a plan that was more than five times quicker under load in our test. Starting in a Black Friday sale like the last two takes $140 off that, and monthly billing adds $280 over the four years.
What Happens When the First Year Ends
A Black Friday price covers the first year only. After that Single 20GB renews at $350 a year on annual billing, the same as Kinsta's normal price, and $35.00/mo on monthly billing. There is no renewal jump beyond the normal rate, which is unusual in hosting, but the step from $210 to $350 is still worth planning for.
- Put the renewal date in your calendar when you buy, with a reminder about six weeks before.
- Check your plan size before it renews. Kinsta meters bandwidth (or visits) per plan; if your site has grown past Single 20GB's 20GB a month, price the next tier before the renewal rather than after.
- Compare before it renews. Our guide on whether to renew or move walks through the numbers, and our Kinsta pricing page covers every tier.
How to Buy at the Lowest Price
- Join Kinsta's Black Friday waitlist through our link before the sale. Kinsta emails waitlist members when the offer goes live and applies the discount for them. In the last two sales, the sale price also showed on the plan cards.
- Pick the billing: annual for the lowest price per year, monthly if you want to leave without a year's commitment.
- Pick the plan: Single 20GB for one site, WP 2 or larger for several.
- Choose the data center closest to most of your visitors.
- Read the order summary: check the amount due today, the amount after the first month and the renewal line before you pay.
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Who Should Buy It
Weighing Kinsta against the other managed hosts? Our Kinsta review covers the plan in depth, and the WP Engine Black Friday page covers the closest alternative.
Check These Before You Pay
- New customers only. Kinsta's Black Friday offer has been for new accounts; existing customers had a separate upgrade deal in 2025.
- The amount after the first month. The order summary shows what you pay today, after the free month, and at renewal.
- The site count. Kinsta charges per WordPress install; a second site means a bigger plan.
- The bandwidth or visits allowance. Pick the tier your traffic needs now, not after an overage.
What I Would Do
For most buyers, I would skip Kinsta's sale and take a Cloudways server: from $11.00/mo, billed hourly, with as many sites as the server holds, and a free 3-day trial to test it first. If I needed email on the same bill or the quickest response in my tests, I would take ScalaHosting's Managed Cloud, $14.98 a month on each of the last three Black Fridays.
If you want Kinsta for one high-value site, wait for the sale and buy annual: last year that was $210 for the first year instead of $350, from November 17 to December 2. Then plan for $350 a year from the second year on.
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Kinsta Black Friday FAQ
When does Kinsta Black Friday 2026 start?
On November 9, 2026: Kinsta's own Black Friday countdown ends that day, a week earlier than last year, and its waitlist is open now. On the records we have, the 2025 sale ran from November 17 to December 2, the 2024 sale ended on December 3, and the 2023 offer was on the pricing page by November 29 and was extended to January 1, 2024. In 2024 and 2025 the normal annual price was back on the pricing page by early December.
How much is Kinsta on Black Friday?
In 2024 and 2025 Kinsta's $35 entry plan was $210 for the first year on annual billing, against $350 today, or half price for six months on monthly billing, with the first month free either way. Kinsta called it "6 months free". In 2023 the same plan was $280 for the first year. The plan renewed at the normal rate after that.
Do I need a coupon code for Kinsta Black Friday?
Not on the records we have: the sale prices showed on Kinsta's own pricing page. Check the amount on the order summary before you pay.
Can existing Kinsta customers get the Black Friday deal?
The new-plan offer was for new customers only in 2023, 2024 and 2025. In 2025 Kinsta ran a separate upgrade deal for existing customers on standard plans, from November 17 to December 2: 25% off the first three months when moving to a higher monthly plan, or three months free when moving to a higher annual plan, with conditions on Kinsta's page.
What does Kinsta renew at after the Black Friday year?
Kinsta charges the same rate at renewal as its normal price: Single 20GB renews at $350 a year on annual billing or $35.00/mo on monthly billing. The sale price covers the first year only.
Which Kinsta plan should I buy on Black Friday?
For one site, Single 20GB: it is the plan we tested, and it was the quickest managed WordPress plan in our comparison, 92ms with 100 visitors at once. For two sites, WP 2 at $700 a year today; in the last two sales it was $420 for the first year.
Is Kinsta fast enough to justify the price?
In our tests, yes for a site that earns money. Single 20GB answered in 64ms from New York with one visitor, 143ms on average across 10 locations and 92ms with 100 visitors at once, with no failed requests, and uptime was 99.99% over 54 days. For a small blog, a shared host costs a fraction of the price.