{
  "slug": "kinsta",
  "name": "Kinsta",
  "domain": "kinsta.com",
  "category": "hosting-deployment",
  "categoryName": "Hosting & deployment",
  "description": "Managed WordPress hosting with single-site, multi-site, agency, and custom enterprise plans.",
  "directAnswer": "Cancel Kinsta in MyKinsta: the Company Owner opens Company settings, selects My Plan, chooses Cancel plan and confirms with the password. It takes about 5 minutes; an initial 30-day cancellation is immediate, while later cancellations stay active through the current billing period. First-time customers can use the 30-day money-back guarantee; after that, unused plan time is not refunded.",
  "price": "$35 / month",
  "priceMonthlyUsd": 35,
  "planName": "Single 20GB",
  "subscriptionPlans": [
    {
      "id": "single-20gb",
      "name": "Single 20GB",
      "billingOptions": [
        {
          "cycle": "month",
          "priceUsd": 35
        },
        {
          "cycle": "year",
          "priceUsd": 350
        }
      ],
      "sourceUrl": "https://kinsta.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "id": "single-35k",
      "name": "Single 35k",
      "billingOptions": [
        {
          "cycle": "month",
          "priceUsd": 35
        },
        {
          "cycle": "year",
          "priceUsd": 350
        }
      ],
      "sourceUrl": "https://kinsta.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "id": "single-40gb",
      "name": "Single 40GB",
      "billingOptions": [
        {
          "cycle": "month",
          "priceUsd": 50
        },
        {
          "cycle": "year",
          "priceUsd": 500
        }
      ],
      "sourceUrl": "https://kinsta.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "id": "single-65k",
      "name": "Single 65k",
      "billingOptions": [
        {
          "cycle": "month",
          "priceUsd": 50
        },
        {
          "cycle": "year",
          "priceUsd": 500
        }
      ],
      "sourceUrl": "https://kinsta.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "id": "single-65gb",
      "name": "Single 65GB",
      "billingOptions": [
        {
          "cycle": "month",
          "priceUsd": 90
        },
        {
          "cycle": "year",
          "priceUsd": 900
        }
      ],
      "sourceUrl": "https://kinsta.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "id": "single-125k",
      "name": "Single 125k",
      "billingOptions": [
        {
          "cycle": "month",
          "priceUsd": 90
        },
        {
          "cycle": "year",
          "priceUsd": 900
        }
      ],
      "sourceUrl": "https://kinsta.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "id": "single-125gb",
      "name": "Single 125GB",
      "billingOptions": [
        {
          "cycle": "month",
          "priceUsd": 170
        },
        {
          "cycle": "year",
          "priceUsd": 1700
        }
      ],
      "sourceUrl": "https://kinsta.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "id": "single-315k",
      "name": "Single 315k",
      "billingOptions": [
        {
          "cycle": "month",
          "priceUsd": 170
        },
        {
          "cycle": "year",
          "priceUsd": 1700
        }
      ],
      "sourceUrl": "https://kinsta.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "id": "single-250gb",
      "name": "Single 250GB",
      "billingOptions": [
        {
          "cycle": "month",
          "priceUsd": 290
        },
        {
          "cycle": "year",
          "priceUsd": 2900
        }
      ],
      "sourceUrl": "https://kinsta.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "id": "single-500k",
      "name": "Single 500k",
      "billingOptions": [
        {
          "cycle": "month",
          "priceUsd": 290
        },
        {
          "cycle": "year",
          "priceUsd": 2900
        }
      ],
      "sourceUrl": "https://kinsta.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "id": "single-500gb",
      "name": "Single 500GB",
      "billingOptions": [
        {
          "cycle": "month",
          "priceUsd": 375
        },
        {
          "cycle": "year",
          "priceUsd": 3750
        }
      ],
      "sourceUrl": "https://kinsta.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "id": "single-750k",
      "name": "Single 750k",
      "billingOptions": [
        {
          "cycle": "month",
          "priceUsd": 375
        },
        {
          "cycle": "year",
          "priceUsd": 3750
        }
      ],
      "sourceUrl": "https://kinsta.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "id": "wp-2",
      "name": "WP 2",
      "billingOptions": [
        {
          "cycle": "month",
          "priceUsd": 70
        },
        {
          "cycle": "year",
          "priceUsd": 700
        }
      ],
      "sourceUrl": "https://kinsta.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "id": "wp-5",
      "name": "WP 5",
      "billingOptions": [
        {
          "cycle": "month",
          "priceUsd": 115
        },
        {
          "cycle": "year",
          "priceUsd": 1150
        }
      ],
      "sourceUrl": "https://kinsta.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "id": "wp-10",
      "name": "WP 10",
      "billingOptions": [
        {
          "cycle": "month",
          "priceUsd": 225
        },
        {
          "cycle": "year",
          "priceUsd": 2250
        }
      ],
      "sourceUrl": "https://kinsta.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "id": "wp-20",
      "name": "WP 20",
      "billingOptions": [
        {
          "cycle": "month",
          "priceUsd": 340
        },
        {
          "cycle": "year",
          "priceUsd": 3400
        }
      ],
      "sourceUrl": "https://kinsta.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "id": "wp-40",
      "name": "WP 40",
      "billingOptions": [
        {
          "cycle": "month",
          "priceUsd": 450
        },
        {
          "cycle": "year",
          "priceUsd": 4500
        }
      ],
      "sourceUrl": "https://kinsta.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "id": "agency-20",
      "name": "Agency 20",
      "billingOptions": [
        {
          "cycle": "month",
          "priceUsd": 340
        },
        {
          "cycle": "year",
          "priceUsd": 3400
        }
      ],
      "sourceUrl": "https://kinsta.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "id": "agency-40",
      "name": "Agency 40",
      "billingOptions": [
        {
          "cycle": "month",
          "priceUsd": 450
        },
        {
          "cycle": "year",
          "priceUsd": 4500
        }
      ],
      "sourceUrl": "https://kinsta.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "id": "agency-60",
      "name": "Agency 60",
      "billingOptions": [
        {
          "cycle": "month",
          "priceUsd": 675
        },
        {
          "cycle": "year",
          "priceUsd": 6750
        }
      ],
      "sourceUrl": "https://kinsta.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "id": "enterprise-custom",
      "name": "Enterprise custom plan",
      "billingOptions": [],
      "priceNote": "Custom configuration starting at $500 per month",
      "sourceUrl": "https://kinsta.com/pricing/"
    }
  ],
  "difficulty": "Medium",
  "difficultyScore": 5.8,
  "billingMethods": [
    "web",
    "invoice"
  ],
  "accountTypes": [
    "team",
    "enterprise"
  ],
  "cancellationUrl": "https://my.kinsta.com/",
  "cancellationTime": "~5 minutes",
  "cancellationTimeSeconds": 300,
  "steps": {
    "web": [
      {
        "title": "Sign in as the Company Owner",
        "body": "Only the Company Owner can cancel the Managed WordPress Hosting plan."
      },
      {
        "title": "Open My Plan",
        "body": "In MyKinsta, open Company settings, select My Plan, and choose Cancel plan."
      },
      {
        "title": "Review the deletion warnings",
        "body": "Acknowledge that live and staging environments, sites, and MyKinsta DNS records will be permanently deleted when cancellation takes effect."
      },
      {
        "title": "Review the final invoice",
        "body": "Check the refund or outstanding-cost information for an initial 30-day cancellation, or the end-of-period final invoice notice for a later cancellation."
      },
      {
        "title": "Confirm with your password",
        "body": "Enter the MyKinsta password and select Cancel plan."
      }
    ],
    "ios": [],
    "android": [],
    "team": [
      {
        "title": "Ask the Company Owner to cancel",
        "body": "Company Administrators can change plans but cannot cancel them. The single Company Owner must submit the cancellation."
      },
      {
        "title": "Export every required site first",
        "body": "All live and staging environments and DNS records are permanently deleted when the cancellation becomes effective."
      }
    ]
  },
  "platformNotes": {
    "web": {
      "note": "Initial 30-day cancellations are immediate. Later cancellations stay active through the current billing period.",
      "warning": "All affected environments, sites, and MyKinsta DNS records are permanently deleted when cancellation takes effect."
    },
    "team": {
      "note": "Only the Company Owner can cancel. Company Administrators can change the plan but cannot cancel it."
    }
  },
  "refundInfo": "First-time customers who cancel within 30 days of activation are eligible for the Managed WordPress Hosting money-back guarantee. Dedicated server fees, one-time fees, and overages are excluded and reduce the refund. After 30 days, the plan stays active to period end and ordinary unused plan time is not refunded.",
  "pauseInfo": "No plan pause is documented in the official pricing, plan-management, cancellation, or money-back pages reviewed on 2026-08-08. Kinsta documents plan changes and scheduled cancellation instead.",
  "downgradeInfo": "The Company Owner or Company Administrator can normally switch to a smaller plan in MyKinsta. Changes are prorated to the second. Kinsta does not document a permanent free hosting downgrade.",
  "dataRetentionInfo": "When cancellation takes effect, Kinsta permanently deletes live and staging environments, WordPress sites, and MyKinsta DNS records. The data cannot be recovered. Initial 30-day cancellations are immediate; later cancellations delete data at the current billing period's end.",
  "factRows": [
    {
      "k": "Cancellation fee",
      "v": "None documented"
    },
    {
      "k": "Refund window",
      "v": "30 days for first-time customers"
    },
    {
      "k": "Effective",
      "v": "Immediate or period end"
    },
    {
      "k": "Free plan after",
      "v": "No"
    }
  ],
  "faq": [
    {
      "question": "When does Kinsta cancellation take effect?",
      "answer": "Within the first 30 days it is immediate. Later cancellations remain active through the current billing period."
    },
    {
      "question": "Who can cancel a Kinsta plan?",
      "answer": "Only the Company Owner. Company Administrators can change plans but cannot cancel them."
    },
    {
      "question": "Does Kinsta have a refund window?",
      "answer": "Yes. First-time customers have a 30-day money-back guarantee, subject to stated exclusions."
    },
    {
      "question": "Can I pause Kinsta hosting?",
      "answer": "No pause is documented in the official billing and cancellation pages reviewed."
    },
    {
      "question": "Can canceled Kinsta sites be recovered?",
      "answer": "No. Kinsta says affected site environments and DNS data are permanently deleted and cannot be recovered."
    }
  ],
  "officialSources": [
    {
      "title": "Kinsta WordPress hosting pricing",
      "url": "https://kinsta.com/pricing/",
      "lastCheckedAt": "2026-08-08"
    },
    {
      "title": "Cancel a Kinsta WordPress plan",
      "url": "https://kinsta.com/docs/billing/wordpress-hosting-plans/cancel-wordpress-plan/",
      "lastCheckedAt": "2026-08-08"
    },
    {
      "title": "Kinsta WordPress Hosting money-back guarantee",
      "url": "https://kinsta.com/docs/service-information/money-back-guarantee/",
      "lastCheckedAt": "2026-08-08"
    },
    {
      "title": "Manage Kinsta WordPress hosting plans",
      "url": "https://kinsta.com/docs/billing/wordpress-hosting-plans/",
      "lastCheckedAt": "2026-08-08"
    },
    {
      "title": "Kinsta user management and roles",
      "url": "https://kinsta.com/docs/company-settings/user-management/",
      "lastCheckedAt": "2026-08-08"
    }
  ],
  "verified": true,
  "manuallyVerifiedAt": "2026-08-08",
  "nextReviewAt": "2026-10-07",
  "urls": {
    "guide": "https://canicancelit.com/cancel/kinsta",
    "json": "https://canicancelit.com/cancel/kinsta.json",
    "markdown": "https://canicancelit.com/cancel/kinsta.md"
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}