Web hosting renewal cost calculator

Every figure was read on the host's own pages and carries its check date in the last column. The dataset was last refreshed on 2026-09-06 (checked 2026-09-06).

What it does not include

It includes only the published intro price, its prepaid term, the published renewal price and its billing term where the host states one, and any setup fee. It does not add domain renewal after the free first year, migration fees, overage charges for going past a plan's visit or storage limits, or VAT on UK prices. Your real bill will be higher than the number above. This is a floor, not a quote.

Why some cells are a dash

Several hosts publish a renewal rate without saying how many months it is billed for. Without that, the invoice that arrives on renewal cannot be worked out, so those plans show a dash in the cash columns and are left out of the two cash rankings rather than given an assumed billing term. They still appear under service cost, which does not depend on the billing period. The method page sets out the rule for choosing between a host's renewal options.

Hosts that publish no renewal price are not in the calculator at all. That is not a judgment about their cost. The full list shows which ones.

Why the total is not twelve times the advertised price

Because the advertised price only covers the prepaid term you sign up for. After that the renewal price applies, and on most hosts it is three to four times higher. The cost guide works through where the rest of the money goes, and the method page gives the arithmetic.

When the data was last refreshed

The prices come from a dataset last refreshed on 2026-09-06. This page was rebuilt on 2026-09-07. What changed, most recent first:

• 2026-09-07 — Every host re-read. Renewal prices are now stored per renewal billing term, and the calculator separates cash due today, the renewal invoice, cash paid through the period and the service cost. ChemiCloud, Namecheap, InMotion, Bluehost, WP Engine, HostPresto, Web Hosting UK and Krystal all changed.
• 2026-09-01 — The calculator moved to its own address and gained an embed, a CSV download and a citation line.
• 2026-08-31 — Bluehost and Namecheap prices were read again on their own pages, and both matched the figures then stored.
• 2026-08-20 — Full refresh: the advertised price, prepaid term and renewal price were re-read for every host.

Put this calculator on your site

Copy this into your page. The frame carries a link back to the source, and the figures update when this dataset is refreshed. It opens on three years of US shared hosting.

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<p>Source: <a href="https://q2im.com/web-hosting-renewal-cost/renewal-cost-calculator/">Web hosting renewal cost calculator</a> by Year Two</p>

Cite this tool

Year Two, "Web hosting renewal cost calculator", https://q2im.com/web-hosting-renewal-cost/renewal-cost-calculator/ (data as of 2026-09-06; page updated 2026-09-07).

Download the data

The plans behind the calculator are in a CSV file, one row per plan and market. The full dataset, including the source URL for every figure, is in data.json. Both are published under CC BY 4.0, and the dataset page has the field dictionary, the refresh history and the citation line, so you may reuse them with attribution to Year Two.