Cheap web hosting in India: ₹1,188 a year, and ₹1,188 again next year.
Most cheap hosting in India is cheap once. Ours is cheap every year: the Basic plan is ₹1,188 for twelve months and renews at ₹1,188, with 70 GB SSD, free SSL, 10 mailboxes and the DirectAdmin panel. Pay by UPI and be online in minutes.
Cheap hosting plans, priced for the whole year
Yearly billing is selected because a one-year price is the fairest way to compare cheap hosts: no four-year lock-in, no teaser month. Switch to 3 years for the lowest rate, or to monthly to try us first.
- 1 website
- 70 GB pure SSD storage
- Unlimited bandwidth
- 2 MySQL databases · 10 subdomains
- 10 business email accounts
- Renews at the same price
- 10 websites
- 150 GB pure SSD storage
- Unlimited bandwidth
- 20 MySQL databases · 100 subdomains
- 20 business email accounts
- Renews at the same price
- Unlimited websites
- 300 GB pure SSD storage
- Unlimited bandwidth
- Unlimited databases and subdomains
- Unlimited business email accounts
- Renews at the same price
Prices in Indian rupees, charged in INR. GST extra where applicable. No setup fee. How the ₹99 a month works → · Every plan under ₹1,000 a year →
The cheapest hosting over three years, not just one
A cheap first year is easy to advertise. The real test is what you pay across the life of a website. We took the one-site plan from five Indian hosts, checked 18 Sep 2026 on each company's own Indian price page, and added up three years.
| HostKarle Basic | Hostinger India | YouStable | RoyalClouds | HostLelo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First year | ₹1,188 | ₹1,188 | ₹1,428 | about ₹2,277 | ₹2,388 |
| Renewal | same | about ₹3,468 +190 % | same | not checked | not checked |
| Three years, paid yearly | ₹3,564 | about ₹8,124 | ₹4,284 | — | — |
| Control panel | DirectAdmin | hPanel | DirectAdmin or cPanel | cPanel | cPanel |
| UPI at checkout | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
First-year and renewal prices checked 18 Sep 2026; three-year totals are our arithmetic from those figures and assume each renewal stays where it was; "not checked" means we did not record that renewal, so no total is shown. Prices change often, so check before you decide. GST extra everywhere.
What the table says
On day one, Hostinger's ₹1,188 and ours look identical. By the end of year three the gap is about ₹4,500, because their renewal is roughly three times the first year. That is the most common pattern in cheap hosting in India: a low entry price paid for by the renewal.
YouStable keeps its price flat at renewal, which we respect; its one-year price is simply ₹240 higher than ours. RoyalClouds and HostLelo start between about ₹1,090 and ₹1,200 a year above us, and we did not record their renewal prices.
How to compare any cheap host yourself
Ignore the per-month banner. Find the price for one year, then find the renewal price (usually in the small print or the cart), and multiply out to three years. If the per-month figure only appears on a 36- or 48-month term, the one-year price is the honest number to compare.
Want the per-year cost of every cycle we sell, including the 3-year plan at ₹588 a year? It is on hosting under ₹1,000.
What cheap hosting usually cuts, and what we kept
A low price has to come from somewhere. At many hosts it comes out of the plan itself. These are the things we refused to remove from the cheapest plan.
Where the savings usually come from
- A tiny disk. 1 to 10 GB fills up after a year of WordPress uploads, and the upgrade is the plan you should have bought.
- No email. Mailboxes on your domain are sold as a separate "business email" product.
- Paid SSL. The padlock is an add-on, or free for one year and billed after.
- Overcrowded servers. Too many accounts on one machine, so every site on it slows down together.
What ₹1,188 a year includes here
- 70 GB pure SSD and unlimited bandwidth on the cheapest plan.
- 10 business mailboxes with webmail, IMAP and POP3.
- Free Let's Encrypt SSL, issued and renewed automatically for every domain.
- Servers we never oversell, plus backup tools in the panel so you can take and download a full backup any time.
Cheap, but a complete hosting account
Every plan, from ₹1,188 a year up, gets the same toolkit. Only the number of sites, the disk space and the mailbox count change between plans.
Pure SSD storage
70, 150 or 300 GB on solid-state disks, so pages and databases load without waiting on spinning drives.
DirectAdmin panel
Files, email, databases, DNS and PHP versions from one clean screen. The lighter, lower-cost cPanel alternative.
Free SSL
Let's Encrypt for every domain and subdomain, issued within about half an hour and renewed on its own.
Business email
Addresses like sales@yourshop.in on your own domain, on your phone, Outlook or webmail.
One-click WordPress
WordPress, WooCommerce and 100+ other apps from Softaculous, installed in about a minute.
Backup tools
Back up files, databases and email from the panel whenever you like, download the copy, and restore from the same screen.
Unlimited bandwidth
No traffic meter and no overage bill if a post or a festival sale brings a rush of visitors.
Free migration
Send us your old host's login and we copy the site, databases and mailboxes across at no charge.
We run DirectAdmin, and that is part of why it is cheap
Plenty of people search for cheap cPanel hosting because cPanel is the panel they know. We will be straight with you: we do not sell cPanel. Every HostKarle plan comes with DirectAdmin instead.
Why not cPanel
cPanel moved to per-account licensing in 2019 and has raised its prices several times since. Hosts that use it have to recover that cost somewhere, and at the cheap end it usually shows up as a higher renewal price. DirectAdmin's licence costs us far less, which is one reason ₹1,188 can stay ₹1,188.
The panel is not a downgrade for day-to-day work. File manager, email accounts, databases, DNS records, PHP version, free SSL, backups and the Softaculous app installer are all there, on one page of grouped links.
Coming from a cPanel host?
Send us your cPanel login and we move the website, databases and mailboxes across for free. Your old site stays live until you switch the nameservers to ns1.fastnsdns.com and ns2.fastnsdns.com, so visitors see no gap.
If you have used cPanel before, most people find their way around DirectAdmin in the first session. The side-by-side comparison is on our DirectAdmin hosting page.
Which cheap option fits you
"Cheapest" depends on how long you plan to keep the site and how many sites you run. Here is the lowest-cost route for the common cases.
One site, one year at a time
Basic, yearly: ₹1,188 a year. The best balance of low price and short commitment. More on the ₹99 plan →
One site you will keep for years
Basic, 3 years: ₹1,764 once, or ₹588 a year. The lowest cost per year we offer. Per-year costs →
Two or more sites
Professional, yearly: ₹1,788 for up to ten sites. Two Basic plans would cost ₹2,376. All plans →
Not ready to pay a year
Basic, monthly: ₹149 a month, cancel whenever you like. It costs more over a year, so switch once you are sure. Monthly hosting →
Need a domain as well? A .in is ₹899 a year and a .co.in ₹709, bought in the same checkout. All domain prices → · Students: student web hosting.
Frequently asked questions
Still unsure? Message us on WhatsApp at +91 94764 42228, or open a ticket.
What is the cheapest web hosting in India that does not go up at renewal?
At HostKarle it is the Basic plan: ₹1,188 for one year, and ₹1,188 again every year after. Among the Indian hosts we compared on 18 September 2026, that was the lowest one-year price for a single-site plan that also renews at the same price. Pay three years at once and it drops to ₹1,764 in total.
Why is HostKarle cheaper than the big hosting brands?
Mostly because of what we do not pay for. We run DirectAdmin instead of cPanel, whose per-account licence has risen several times since 2019, and we do not fund a first-year discount by raising the renewal. The price you see is the price that has to pay for itself every year.
Do you sell cheap web hosting with cPanel?
No. Every HostKarle plan uses DirectAdmin, the main cPanel alternative. It does the same everyday jobs (files, email, databases, DNS, free SSL, one-click WordPress) with a simpler screen. If you are moving from a cPanel host, we copy your site across for free. DirectAdmin vs cPanel.
Is cheap hosting safe for a business website?
Cheap is fine; stripped-down is the problem. Check that the plan includes free SSL, email on your domain, backups you can take yourself and a price that holds at renewal. HostKarle Basic includes all four, plus 70 GB SSD and unlimited bandwidth, for ₹1,188 a year.
What does the cheapest plan leave out?
A domain name, and room for more than one site. The domain is a separate purchase (a .in is ₹899 a year, a .co.in ₹709). Basic hosts one website with 2 databases and 10 mailboxes; for two or more sites, Professional hosts ten for ₹1,788 a year.
Is GST included in ₹1,188?
No. GST is added at checkout where it applies, and every payment comes with a GST invoice in your client area. Add your GSTIN before paying if you want to claim input credit. There is no setup fee.
Can I pay for cheap hosting by UPI?
Yes. Checkout runs through Razorpay and Cashfree, so Google Pay, PhonePe, Paytm, BHIM and any other UPI app work, as do RuPay, Visa and Mastercard cards and net banking. Everything is charged in rupees. How to pay by UPI.
Is there a money-back guarantee on the cheap plan?
Yes. The same money-back guarantee covers every hosting plan, including the cheapest one. The window and conditions are set out in our refund policy. Domain registrations are not refundable.
Cheap this year. Cheap next year.
₹1,188 a year for one site with 70 GB SSD, free SSL and 10 mailboxes, renewed at the same ₹1,188. Pay by UPI in a minute, or ask us anything on WhatsApp first.
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