Shingle vs Hostinger
Hostinger is a low-cost site with hosting. Shingle helps you sell sites to others.
- Shingle
- Best ifYou sell websites to other businesses and need leadsFirst paid plan$49 a month
- Hostinger
- Best ifYou want one site for yourself at the lowest monthly priceFirst paid plan$1.99 a month, for 48 months
The short answer
Choose Hostinger if you want your own site at the lowest monthly price, with hosting included and a domain and email free for the first year, and you can pay 48 months upfront. Choose Shingle if websites are what you sell. It shows you which local businesses have a weak site or none, reviews each line of your demo against their facts, and alerts you when they open it.
What Hostinger does well
An AI website builder bundled with hosting, for beginners and small businesses.
- Very low introductory prices on long terms
- Hosting and SSL with each plan, and a domain free for the first year
- Builds from a prompt or from a website address you paste
- Booking, a store and memberships, with 0% transaction fees stated
- Agency hosting for up to 300 client sites, with optional unbranded dashboards
What each one has
Read from each builder's own pages. "Not shown" isn't proof it's missing.
| Feature | Shingle | Hostinger |
|---|---|---|
| Finds businesses to pitch | Yes | Not shown |
| Pitch link that says when it's opened | Yes | Not verified |
| Reviews every line against the business's facts | Yes | Not verified |
| Take payments | No | Yes |
| Online store | No | Yes |
| Online booking | Yes | Partly |
| Logo maker | Yes | Yes |
| Buy a domain in the app | No | Yes |
| Site from a Google listing | Yes | Not verified |
| Site from an existing website | Yes | Yes |
| AI chat that edits the site | Yes | Yes |
| Version history with restore | Yes | Yes |
| Leads inbox or CRM | Yes | Partly |
| Newsletter and campaigns | Yes | Yes |
| Share link for clients | Yes | Not verified |
| Client access to one site | Yes | Partly |
| White label | Partly | Partly |
| Client billing | No | Not shown |
| Bulk site creation | Yes | Partly |
| Code export | Yes | Partly |
| Publishes for free | No | Not shown |
Where it differs
It finds the client
Search a trade and a town to see who has no website. Hostinger's pages don't show a lead finder.
No long term upfront
Pay monthly or yearly. Hostinger's lowest prices need 48 months paid upfront, and renew higher.
Facts kept straight
Phone, hours and prices come from the listing or your notes, and a review removes what they don't support.
What each one costs
Hostinger's prices as its own pages showed them on 6 November 2026.
Shingle
- 7-day trial$1 with 1 live site and 100 credits
- Shingle plan$49 a month, with 1 live site and 200 credits
- Paid yearly$39 a month
- Each more live site$7 a month, or $67 a year
- 10 live sites$112 a month
Hostinger
- Premium$1.99 a month, for 48 months
- Unlimited$2.79 a month, for 48 months
- Cloud Startup$7.99 a month, for 48 months
- Agency hosting$29 a month, for 24 months
These are introductory prices, paid upfront, and a Black Friday offer was doubling AI credits that day. You pay $95.52, $133.92 or $383.52 for 48 months, and the plans renew at $10.99, $16.99 and $25.99 a month. Agency hosting, a separate product, costs $696 for 24 months and renews at $49 a month.
Free plan at Hostinger: none shown, with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Shingle has no free plan. It starts with a 7-day trial for $1, which includes a live site. Sources: Hostinger pricing, Hostinger AI builder, Hostinger agency hosting.
Who each one suits
Choose Shingle if
- You sell websites to other businesses and need leads
- You want to know when a business opens your demo
- You'd rather not pay years upfront
- A wrong phone number or a made-up review would cost you the client
Choose Hostinger if
- You want one site for yourself at the lowest monthly price
- You're happy paying 48 months upfront to get it
- You want hosting, a domain and mailboxes in one place
- You need a store or memberships on the same plan
Moving over from Hostinger
- Give Shingle's composer your Hostinger site's address and choose Clone to copy the page as it looks, once you've confirmed you have the right.
- It starts from one public page and offers the others in its menu afterward.
- You can keep your domain at Hostinger. Add the two DNS records Shingle shows you, and keep your email records as they are.
Common questions
Can't find your answer? Read Shingle Help or email [email protected].
For a seller, yes. Shingle shows who needs a site, builds the demo from their facts and alerts you when it's opened. If you want one site of your own for the least money, Hostinger costs far less.
Its $1.99 Premium price needs 48 months paid upfront, which is $95.52, and it renews at $10.99 a month. Unlimited and Cloud Startup work the same way. That's still a low price, and a 30-day money-back guarantee covers the start.
Its separate Agency hosting runs up to 300 sites on one plan, with access shared per site and optional unbranded dashboards. Its first tier, at $29 a month for 24 months, holds 100, which is far less per site than Shingle's $7. Its pages don't show client billing or a way to find clients. Shingle's plan includes lead finding, pitch links and client access.
Yes. Shingle doesn't sell domains, so you keep yours where you bought it. Add the two DNS records Shingle shows you, and your site goes live on your domain, with HTTPS set up for you. Connecting a domain needs the plan.
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- Pricing7 days for $1, then one plan at $49 a month.
Build your first site
Start from a Google listing or a few notes. Demos usually take 5–15 minutes.
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