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Oleh KemNamecheap Hosting Pricing in August 2026: Stellar, Stellar Plus and Stellar Business Rates, Trial Terms and What Renewal Costs
Namecheap shared hosting costs $5.88 a month on Stellar, $7.88 on Stellar Plus and $11.88 on Stellar Business, billed monthly, as of . Yearly and bi-yearly terms cut those rates for a first purchase only, and no renewal figure is published. Each plan opens with 30 free days.
The monthly rates are the standing ones. They are also the baseline every discount badge is measured against, in Namecheap's own arithmetic. Its disclaimer is blunt: the advertised discount applies to purchases of annual and biennial plans, and it does not apply to renewals. What the second term costs is nowhere on the page.
So this page prices what is published and names what is missing. Trial rules, term lengths and the datacenter footnote come off the shared hosting plans with the US datacenter selected, read in . Two of those change what you get. Only one changes what you pay.
This page prices Namecheap shared hosting: Stellar, Stellar Plus and Stellar Business. Domain registration, SSL certificates and the VPS, dedicated and reseller lines are billed separately and are not priced here.
filled dot = rate the vendor publishes · hollow dot = quote only
One cycle is published free of conditions. The badge is a first-purchase rate, and nothing beside it says what the term after that costs.
Month to month, cancel any time. Free does not move with the cycle.
The three plans, the caps that end each one, and what the annual cycle saves.
Namecheap pricing plans: $5.88, $7.88 and $11.88 a month billed monthly
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Rates here are the standing monthly ones. First-purchase yearly billing quotes $2.28, $2.98 and $4.98 a month, and bi-yearly quotes $1.88, $2.28 and $4.48.
Vendor pricing pageNamecheap renewal price: the one rate the vendor never publishes
The left column is what a first purchase costs. The right one is the standing monthly rate those discounts are calculated from, because Namecheap publishes no renewal figure of its own anywhere on the page.
| Tier | First term | From renewal |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar | $2.28 | $5.88 |
| Stellar Plus | $2.98 | $7.88 |
| Stellar Business | $4.98 | $11.88 |
The lower rate holds for 12 months, first purchase only, paid in front.
Yearly billing is badged 61, 62 and 58 percent off and bi-yearly 68, 71 and 62, all measured against the monthly rates. The disclaimer says the offer does not apply to renewals, and stops there.
Namecheap plan steps: $2 lifts every counter, $4 buys Imunify360
Two steps, and neither is about site count once Stellar is behind you. The first removes every counter. The second changes what security and storage you get.
Read on standing monthly rates. On a first-purchase yearly term the same two steps shrink to $0.70 and $2.00 a month, which is what makes the top tier look easy to reach.
Namecheap cost for your sites: three websites decide the first step
What your line costs on the published rates
You entered Stellar, which stands at $5.88 a month. No badge sits on that figure and no expiry date either.
The monthly figure held on every read we took. What changed between reads was the shape of the offer above it.
Where the bill sits above the advertised rate
Nothing to correct on this line. The remaining choice is the billing period, and the cheap ones arrive with a condition.
What is in your bill that the advertised rate does not price
Stellar holds 3 websites on 20 GB with 30 mailboxes. Stellar Plus makes all three unlimited. Stellar Business trades the unmetered SSD for 50 GB of cloud storage.
No plan in this capture includes a domain with hosting. The one domain figure the page carries is ICANN's $0.20 a year on each registration, renewal or transfer.
Where your rate sits against the category
Your $5.88 a month reads against a $11.99 middle across the nineteen hosts we track. That placement holds for as long as the published rate does, which on a discounted term is one term.
The monthly rate and the first-purchase rate fall on opposite sides of the middle. This page leads with the monthly one because it is the figure with no condition attached.
The configuration we would sign off
Stellar, on monthly billing. It is the cheapest plan that holds the websites you listed without a counter in the way.
Stellar at $5.88 a month on monthly billing, opened without the trial so the refund window survives.
Open namecheap.com pricingWhich Namecheap plan: Stellar holds three sites, the rest are unlimited
| Your case | Plan | Why this one |
|---|---|---|
| Three sites at most, with real mailboxes behind thema personal site, a client site and a landing page on one account | Stellar $5.88/mo billed monthly | 3 websites, 20 GB SSD and 30 mailboxes. The counter is the wall and it arrives early. Mailboxes are still a plan feature here, which most hosts quietly dropped years ago. |
| A fourth site, or a backup you did not have to remembera small studio, a business running a shop and a blog, side projects that keep appearing | Stellar Plus $7.88/mo billed monthly | Unlimited websites, unmetered SSD storage and unlimited mailboxes, with AutoBackup on top. The step is $2 a month and it removes every counter Stellar has. Past three sites the arithmetic is short. |
| Security tooling and cloud storage rather than more rooma business site with customer data, anything that has already been attacked once | Stellar Business $11.88/mo billed monthly | 50 GB of cloud storage and Imunify360 in place of the middle tier's unmetered SSD. Read that swap carefully. The top plan caps storage where Stellar Plus does not, so what the extra $4 buys is the storage type and the security stack. |
| Anyone about to click the trial buttontrying the host before committing, comparing two hosts in the same month | Stellar $0.00 for 30 days, then $5.88/mo on monthly billing | Taking the trial forfeits the money-back guarantee, in Namecheap's own words. Trials come in one-month, one-year and two-year terms, one per term per household. Start a yearly trial and day 31 bills a full year at once. |
Namecheap cost by site count: twenty websites and fifty on one plan
Hosting only, on standing monthly rates. Domains, the ICANN fee and anything added at checkout sit outside these figures.
Namecheap hidden costs: the trial, the guarantee and no published renewal
Price check history
Each read of the published rates is on the record with its date. Across 5 of them the three plans held.
We watched from spring 2026 onward and claim nothing about the years before that. five reads, no movement.
Where this rate sits in the category
nineteen cloud hosting tools priced by one method. Entry rates run $0.83 to $35 a month, and the middle sits at $11.99.
Every calibration point was read the same way and on the same pass, August 2026.
Seven charges that sit outside the advertised rate
Sorted by how much each one adds once the site is live.The renewal rate is not published anywhere
Namecheap states that its advertised discount applies to purchases of annual and biennial plans and does not apply to renewals. It never says what the renewal is. The percentages are taken off the monthly rate, which puts a floor under the guess. A floor is not a figure, so we print none.
The discount is a first-purchase discount
Yearly billing takes 61, 62 and 58 percent off monthly rates of $5.88, $7.88 and $11.88. Bi-yearly takes 68, 71 and 62. Each of those percentages is measured against the monthly rate for the same plan, and each one is conditioned on a first purchase.
Taking the trial cancels the refund
Verbatim from the page: the 30-day money-back guarantee applies only to first-time shared hosting customers who start their account without a 30 day trial. The two protections do not stack. You pick one of them.
A yearly trial converts into a yearly charge
Trial terms run one month, one year and two years, with a maximum of one trial per term per household. Thirty free days on a yearly term end in a full year billed at once. Not a month. The size of that charge is not printed either.
No annual or biennial total is published
The plans publish per-month equivalents and nothing else. What actually leaves your account on day 31 has to be worked out rather than read. We do not print a derived total here, for the same reason the vendor should not have left one out.
The datacenter changes what is in the plan
Namecheap offers free cloud storage on its Singapore and EU datacenters, in its own words on the same page. Our capture used the default US one, where 50 GB of cloud storage is a Stellar Business feature. Pick the region first. Then compare the tiers.
ICANN adds $0.20 per domain per year
The page states a mandatory annual fee of $0.20 for each domain registration, renewal or transfer, added to the listed price for some domains at checkout. It is small. It is also the only tax-shaped line these plans name.
What Namecheap leaves off its pricing page
Three numbers this page would be carrying if the vendor printed them.
- 01The renewal rate. Every plan shows a first-purchase price and none of them shows the price that follows it.
- 02The annual and biennial totals. The published plans quote per-month equivalents, so the amount charged on day 31 is never stated.
- 03What the Singapore and EU datacenters hold. Free cloud storage is advertised for both, and this reading could only capture the US one.
Namecheap billing and commitment terms
| Free trial | $0.00 for 30 days, one per account. Available in one-month, one-year and two-year terms. |
| Money-back guarantee | 30 days, and only for first-time shared hosting customers who start without a trial. |
| First purchase | The condition on every discount badge. Renewals are excluded by the vendor's own disclaimer. |
| Billing period | Monthly, yearly or bi-yearly, chosen inside each plan. Only the monthly figure is free of conditions. |
| Cloud storage | 50 GB on Stellar Business in the US datacenter, and advertised free on the Singapore and EU ones. |
| Imunify360 | The malware and firewall stack. It starts on Stellar Business and appears on no tier below. |
| ICANN fee | $0.20 a year per domain registration, renewal or transfer, added at checkout on some domains. |
Namecheap against Cloudways, Railway and HostGator: three ways to be billed
One shared plan against a managed server, a deployment platform and a second shared host. The unit differs in every column, so the smallest figure on the row rarely answers the question.
| The job | Namecheap | The rival | Our verdict on this job |
|---|---|---|---|
| A WordPress site with a growth curvetraffic that could outgrow a shared box inside a year | Stellar Plus $7.88/mo= $7.88 a month for youshared plan, sites uncounted | Cloudways $11/mo= $11 a month for youa server you size and pay for | Namecheap at this sizeNamecheap wins the first year on price. Cloudways wins the day traffic makes a shared box the bottleneck, and a migration is the cost either way, so the real question is when you expect that day. |
| An app that deploys from a repositorybuilds on push, services instead of a control panel | Stellar $5.88/mo= $5.88 a month for youPHP and MySQL, no build step | Railway $5/mo= $5 a month for youusage-billed, per service | RailwayRailway is built for a workflow Namecheap does not have. Shared hosting serves files and runs PHP. It will not deploy a container on push, and no price gap closes that difference. |
| The same shared hosting, bought from a rivala control panel, unlimited sites, a promotional entry rate | Stellar $5.88/mo= $5.88 a month for youstanding monthly rate published | HostGator $17.59/mo= $17.59 a month for youmonthly rate in the same category | Namecheap on clarityTwo shared hosts with near-identical feature lists, separated by what each one tells you. Namecheap publishes the monthly rate its discounts are taken from. Compare that column and ignore both storefronts. |
HostGator
Moving to Namecheap from Cloudways, Railway or HostGator: no trial first
Three products people arrive from, and one rule that covers all of them. Open the account without the trial if the refund matters more than the free month.
Cloudways
Cloudways runs $11 a month against $8 on Namecheap Stellar Plus.You are trading a server you sized for one you share. The saving is real and so is the ceiling that comes with it.
- Load the busiest site during the trial month and watch it. Thirty days is enough to see a shared box struggle.
- Move the mailboxes deliberately: Stellar Plus carries them unlimited, and mail is what breaks these moves, not files.
- Leave the old server running a week after DNS changes. Rollback is only cheap while it still exists.
Railway
Railway costs $5 a month against $6 on Namecheap Stellar.Railway bills services and Namecheap bills a plan, so the comparison only holds for a site that needs no build step.
- Separate what is a site from what is an application. Only the first one can live here.
- Rewrite anything that assumed a container. Workers, queues and background jobs do not survive this move intact.
- Change the domain last and keep the old project until a full week of traffic has landed.
HostGator
HostGator is $17.59 a month against $6 on Namecheap Stellar.Both vendors sell control-panel shared hosting on promotional entry rates, so the move is technically dull and the saving depends on which term each account is in.
- Ask both vendors what year two costs and keep the answers in writing. Namecheap publishes no renewal figure at all.
- Use the control panel's own transfer tool rather than a plugin. The same panel on both ends is the one easy part here.
- Start on monthly billing until every site is verified, then decide whether a term is worth the condition.
Is Namecheap worth it: cheap on the published rate, unknown after it
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4.4 of 5
Stellar at $5.88 a month sits under half the $11.99 middle across the nineteen cloud hosting tools we price. On published rates that is one of the cheaper doors in the category. The problem is not the price. It is that the second-term price does not exist on the page. A discount of 58 to 71 percent that excludes renewals implies a step upward, and nobody will size it for you.
Here is the inversion. That same monthly rate is the one figure a renewal cannot surprise you with, because month-to-month billing is sold at $5.88 and stays there. A buyer who skips the yearly discount never meets the missing number. The discipline costs $3.60 a month against the yearly rate on Stellar, and what it buys is knowing what the second year costs.
- You are budgeting past the first termno renewal rate is published, and building one out of the discount percentages is guesswork we will not do for you.
- You want the refund as a safety netstarting on the trial removes the 30-day money-back guarantee, in the vendor's own words.
- You need a fourth website at the entry priceStellar caps at three sites on 20 GB, and the next step is $7.88 a month.
- You need to know the upfront charge before you clickthe plans print per-month equivalents and no annual or biennial total at all.
Namecheap FAQ: trials, discounts, datacenters and what is not published
11.1How much does Namecheap hosting cost per month?
11.2What does Namecheap hosting renew at?
11.3Is the Namecheap 30-day free trial actually free?
11.4What is the difference between Stellar and Stellar Plus?
11.5Is Stellar Business worth $11.88 a month?
11.6Can I pay Namecheap monthly instead of yearly?
11.7How big is the Namecheap yearly discount?
11.8Does Namecheap hosting include a free domain?
11.9Is Namecheap cheap compared with other hosts?
11.10How many websites can I host on Namecheap?
11.11Does the datacenter I choose change the price?
11.12What happens when the Namecheap trial ends?
Namecheap price sources: all three billing states read on one pass
Three documents, and what each one was read for.
- namecheap.com/pricingAll three billing states, the trial wording, the discount disclaimer and the datacenter footnote
- ComparEdge open pricing dataWhat the other twenty hosts charge at entry
- our dated price recordEvery dated check recorded against this product
Last verified August 9, 2026. Rates change without notice, so confirm at namecheap.com/pricing before you commit.
ComparEdge is an independent platform and is not affiliated with Namecheap. We take no payment for placement and no payment from the vendors we check. Rates change without notice, which is exactly why we date every read and keep the ones that came before.
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