Website Hosting Cost Comparison Calculator

Choose a plan tier to fill the form with starting values. Shared loads an $8 base fee, 100 GB of included bandwidth at $0.10/GB overage, and 20 GB of included storage at $0.15/GB. VPS loads $40 with 1,000 GB at $0.08 and 80 GB at $0.12. Cloud loads $80 with 2,000 GB at $0.08 and 100 GB at $0.12. Switching tiers replaces the plan fields but leaves your usage figures alone, so you can compare tiers against the same month.

Enter your bandwidth and storage used. For 250 GB and 35 GB on the Shared preset, the results panel shows Estimated Monthly Cost $25.25, Base Plan Fee $8, Bandwidth Overage $15 (150 GB over) and Storage Overage $2.25 (15 GB over), with a bar chart showing that overage, not the base fee, is most of the bill.

Your hosting control panel or analytics usually reports monthly data transfer. Use that figure rather than page views, since one page view can be anything from a few hundred kilobytes to several megabytes depending on images and video.

Bandwidth overage (GB) = max(0, bandwidth used − included bandwidth).

Storage overage (GB) = max(0, storage used − included storage).

Bandwidth overage cost = bandwidth overage GB × bandwidth overage rate. Storage overage cost = storage overage GB × storage overage rate.

Total monthly cost = base plan fee + bandwidth overage cost + storage overage cost.

The max(0, …) means unused allowance is simply lost: 50 GB under your bandwidth limit does not reduce the bill, and it cannot offset storage overage. Every input is clamped at zero, and the rate applies in a straight line to every GB over, with no tiers or caps.

Take a site that normally transfers 90 GB a month and stores 35 GB. On the Shared preset the normal month costs $10.25: bandwidth stays within the 100 GB allowance, and storage adds $2.25. On the VPS preset the same month costs $40.00, because 90 GB and 35 GB both fit inside its allowances. Shared is clearly cheaper.

Then a post goes viral and the month's transfer jumps to 900 GB. Shared now bills 800 GB of overage at $0.10, $80.00, for a total of $90.25. The VPS preset still costs $40.00, because 900 GB is under its 1,000 GB allowance. Running the numbers in between shows the Shared plan reaches the same $40 at 397.5 GB of transfer.

Allowances matter at larger scale too. At 3,200 GB and 140 GB, the Cloud preset totals $180.80, while the cheaper-looking VPS preset totals $223.20, because its smaller allowances leave 2,200 GB and 60 GB to bill as overage. The lowest base price is only the cheapest plan below its crossover point.

Shared hosting puts many sites on one server and pools CPU, memory and disk. A VPS gives you a reserved slice of a server that you or the host administers. Managed hosting adds platform upkeep such as updates, caching and backups, and some managed plans meter monthly visits or sites instead of gigabytes. The tier names in this calculator only change the starting numbers; the arithmetic is the same for all three.

Not every host bills overage the way this model does. Some sell bandwidth or storage in prepaid blocks, some advertise "unmetered" transfer subject to an acceptable-use policy and throttle or suspend heavy sites rather than charging, and some move you to a higher plan automatically. Read the fair-use and overage terms before relying on a per-GB figure, and if the host sells blocks, enter the block price divided by its size as the rate.

Renewal pricing. Many hosts advertise an introductory rate for the first term and renew at a higher list price. Enter the renewal price, not the promotional one. If the $8 Shared preset renewed at double, $16, the normal month would cost $18.25 and the spike month $98.25, and the base fee alone would come to $192 over a year.

SSL certificates. Let's Encrypt, a nonprofit certificate authority, issues domain-validated certificates free of charge, and many hosts install them automatically. Organisation- or extended-validation certificates, or a host that charges to install one, are a separate line item.

Backups and extras. Off-site backups, staging sites, email mailboxes, dedicated IPs and domain renewals are often billed as add-ons. If a host keeps backups inside your account, they count toward storage used and can trigger storage overage on their own. Convert each add-on to a monthly amount and add it to the base plan cost so the total reflects the whole bill.

The calculator performs exact arithmetic on what you enter, so the result is only as good as those numbers. The Shared, VPS and Cloud presets are illustrative starting points, not current prices from any provider, and real plans vary widely between hosts and change over time.

It does not model tiered or stepped overage rates, prepaid bandwidth blocks, throttling under fair-use policies, one-time setup or migration fees, taxes, currency conversion, or discounts for multi-year prepayment. It prices one month at a time, so a seasonal site should be run once per typical month rather than on an annual average.

If bandwidth overage dominates, the CDN edge caching cost calculator shows how much transfer a cache could take off the origin plan, and the cloud egress cost calculator prices the same data leaving a cloud provider instead. The data storage calculator estimates how many GB a media library needs before you enter storage used. For a site that has outgrown bundled plans, the VPS and server cost calculator prices vCPU, RAM and transfer individually, and the serverless cost calculator compares paying per request with a fixed monthly fee. If the site still needs a name, the domain name valuation estimator gives a rough price range before you commit to a premium domain on top of the hosting bill.