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Rocket.net costs $1,020.00 across three years against $107.64. That is 9.5 times more.
On cached pages it delivers 85 milliseconds globally against 495, which is 5.8 times faster. On pages it cannot cache, the same comparison narrows to 1.6 times.
The Comparison Splits by Page Type
In practice, Rocket.net’s product is Cloudflare Enterprise on every plan, and full WordPress pages served from edge locations rather than static assets alone.
That works on anything identical for every visitor. ⚠️ It does not work on cart, checkout, account pages or search results, which bypass the cache by design and reach the origin server every time.
The same twelve-month test measured that origin at 310 milliseconds. So the premium buys 85 milliseconds where a visitor reads and 310 where a visitor pays.
Which Hostinger Plan Are We Comparing
Of course, Hostinger appears twice in the benchmarking project we cite throughout, and the two entries are far apart.
Business ranks fifth of 34 hosts at 223 milliseconds globally. Premium ranks twenty-eighth at 495 milliseconds. The difference is a content network, which Premium omits.
Premium is the plan priced above at $2.99 and $10.99. ⚠️ Against Business, Rocket.net’s origin figure of 310 milliseconds is actually slower — the full review sets both out.
The Short Answer
Hostinger, 4.2 against 3.9, on price and on what we could verify.
Rocket.net delivers genuinely fast cached pages and the gentlest renewal increase across the sixteen plans we have priced, other than a flat-rate one. It also carries a benchmark verdict that has reversed since 2021. The same Rocket.net figures set against SiteGround are in our SiteGround and Rocket.net comparison.
Head to Head
| Hostinger Premium | Rocket.net Starter | |
|---|---|---|
| Advertised | $2.99/mo | $25.00/mo |
| Intro term | 48 months | 12 months |
| Renews at | $10.99/mo | $30.00/mo |
| Multiplier | 3.68 | 1.20 |
| Three years | $107.64 | $1,020.00 |
| Six years | $407.28 | $2,100.00 |
| Cached response | 495 ms | 85 ms |
| Origin response | 495 ms | 310 ms |
| Load handling | 245 ms | test blocked by host |
| Visit ceiling | None | 25,000/mo |
| Our score | 4.2 | 3.9 |
The Verdict That Flipped
In fact, the project that ranks both hosts once described Rocket.net as the fastest response time among everything it tested.
Its current score is 6.1 out of 10 and the words not recommended. The hardware score fell from 8.5 to 7.5, and the field improved around it.
⚠️ More unusual is what could not be measured at all. Rocket.net blocks that project’s load test, so load handling carries no result rather than a poor one. Hostinger Premium records 245 milliseconds on the same test and Business 31. The same Rocket.net figures against a Cloudways server are in our Cloudways and Rocket.net comparison.
The Renewal Barely Moves
Here Rocket.net does something almost nothing else in these reviews does.
Meanwhile, published figures put the Starter plan at $25 a month rising to $30, a multiplier of 1.20. Among the sixteen hosts we have priced, only a flat-rate plan is gentler — the full field is here.
Hostinger’s multiplier is 3.68, though it applies after 48 months rather than 12. Both facts matter: one host raises the price less, the other raises it later.
Across six years the ratio narrows from 9.5 to 5.2, because Hostinger’s renewal finally arrives while Rocket.net’s has been in effect for five years. The same Rocket.net figures set against Newfold Digital’s Bluehost are in our Bluehost and Rocket.net comparison.
What the Money Buys Besides Speed
Besides, application performance monitoring built in, staging, and free unlimited migrations on every plan.
What it does not buy is an absent resource ceiling. Rocket.net meters plans by monthly visits, 25,000 on the entry tier, with overage handling above that. Hostinger imposes no visit ceiling, though it publishes no resource limits either — we wrote about that separately.
Rocket.net also gives you one site and ten gigabytes of storage at that price. For an agency running client sites, the per-site model becomes expensive quickly.
Winners by Category
Three-year cost: Hostinger, by $912.36.
Six-year cost: Hostinger, by $1,692.72.
Cached page delivery: Rocket.net, by 5.8 times against Premium.
Origin response: Rocket.net against Premium, Hostinger Business against Rocket.net.
Load handling: Hostinger, since the other test does not run.
Renewal multiplier: Rocket.net, at 1.20 against 3.68.
Promotional length: Hostinger, at 48 months against 12.
Visit ceiling: Hostinger, by not having one.
Included CDN: Rocket.net.
When to Choose Rocket.net Instead
Your pages cache well and your visitors are spread across continents. That is the entire case and it is a strong one for a content site.
You value a renewal you can plan for. A multiplier of 1.20 means year two costs roughly what year one did, which almost nothing else here offers.
Your traffic is predictable enough that a visit ceiling is a planning figure rather than a surprise.
How We Research
Every figure comes from the two underlying reviews, where each is attributed to a named project with its window. Where a host appears in a ranking under more than one plan, we say which plan the pricing describes. Where a test could not be completed, we say that rather than omitting the dimension.
We run no tests of our own. Our criteria are on our About page. The long versions are in our Hostinger review and our Rocket.net review.
Frequently Asked Questions
Hostinger, by $912.36 over three years. It costs $107.64 against $1,020.00, a ratio of 9.5 to one. Across six years the gap widens to $1,692.72 while the ratio narrows to 5.2.
It depends on the page. Rocket.net delivers cached pages at 85 milliseconds globally against 495 on Hostinger Premium. Its origin figure of 310 milliseconds applies to cart and checkout, and Hostinger Business reaches 223.
The project scoring it once called it the fastest host it had tested. Its current score is 6.1 out of 10, with the hardware score falling from 8.5 to 7.5 while the field improved. Its load test is also blocked by the host.
Barely. Published figures put the Starter plan at $25 rising to $30, a multiplier of 1.20, which is the gentlest increase across the sixteen hosts we have priced other than a flat-rate plan.
The entry plan allows 25,000 monthly visits with overage handling above that, plus one site and ten gigabytes of storage. Hostinger imposes no visit ceiling but publishes no resource limits either.
The Verdict
Hostinger, 4.2 against 3.9, and the gap is smaller than the prices suggest.
In short, nine and a half times the money buys 85 millisecond cached delivery, a renewal that barely moves, and a benchmark verdict its own tracker has downgraded. For a content site with global readers, the first two may justify it.
Choose Rocket.net if your pages cache and your readers are everywhere. Choose Hostinger if you run a store, because the pages that complete a sale are exactly the ones the cache does not touch.