Bluehost vs SiteGround: the dearest Bluehost plan is cheaper than the cheapest SiteGround one
How to read this page: every number below was read from the vendor’s own public pricing page on the date shown, and the pages are re-checked daily. Currencies differ because that is what each vendor showed an EU visitor. Some links on this page are affiliate links — if you subscribe through one we earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. Per our method, that never changes a number or a verdict. Source links always point to the vendor’s plain page.
Prices as this vendor showed them to a visitor in the United States — USD. A reader elsewhere may be quoted a different figure — we publish what we were served, never a conversion.
Prices as this vendor showed them to a visitor in the United States — USD. A reader elsewhere may be quoted a different figure — we publish what we were served, never a conversion.
What this vendor quotes in each market, as its own page printed it — not one price converted three ways.
Plan
United States USD · 2026-10-13
United Kingdom GBP · 2026-10-13
EU USD · 2026-10-13
StartUp
$17.99
£13.99
$17.99
GrowBig
$29.99
£23.99
$29.99
GoGeek
$44.99
£34.99
$44.99
What the record says
Put the six figures in one line and nothing interleaves. Bluehost publishes $3.99, $6.99 and $14.99. SiteGround publishes $17.99, $29.99 and $44.99. The top of one ladder sits below the bottom of the other, with $3 of clear air between them in the United States.
That is unusual enough to be the whole story. In most pairs on this site the two vendors are competing for the same buyer at two or three price points and the interesting question is which rung suits you. Here there is no rung either vendor shares with the other, so the comparison is not tier against tier — it is one budget bracket against a different one.
It also means the ordinary way of reading a comparison misleads. Bluehost's most expensive plan is not competing with SiteGround's most expensive plan; it is not competing with SiteGround's cheapest either, since it costs less. What Bluehost's top rung actually competes with is the decision to spend at SiteGround's level at all.
The gap widens as you climb. $44.99 is $30 above the top of Bluehost's ladder in the United States, and $27 above SiteGround's own entry. Whatever justifies that spread is not in the prices, and this page does not invent it.
One market is different, and it is worth saying rather than working around. SiteGround converts for British readers and quotes £13.99 there; Bluehost returned the same dollar figures to all five countries we read from. So in Britain the two ladders are in different money, and the comparison above is one we can make in the United States, Germany, France and Spain but not there.
Beyond the price tag
No overlap at any tier
$14.99 is Bluehost's dearest plan; $17.99 is SiteGround's cheapest. In the United States the gap between them is $3, and every other pairing is wider.
The entry rungs
$3.99 against $17.99. These are the two plans a first-time buyer actually chooses between, and they are the furthest apart of any pair on this page.
The gap grows with the ladder
$44.99 is $30 above Bluehost's ceiling in the United States. SiteGround's own climb from $17.99 to $44.99 is $27.
Only one of them converts
SiteGround quoted £13.99 to a British reader. Bluehost returned dollars to all five countries. In Britain the two are therefore in different currencies and no subtraction between them is available.
What we did not read
Renewal rates, contract lengths, storage, visit ceilings and what each plan includes. Shared hosting in particular often advertises an introductory rate; where a vendor's page told us so we record it, and where it did not we do not assume.
Questions people actually search
Which is cheaper, Bluehost or SiteGround?
Bluehost, at every tier and by a wide margin: its most expensive plan, $14.99, still costs less than SiteGround's cheapest, $17.99 — $3 less in the United States. The two ladders do not overlap anywhere.
Are these two even comparable?
On price, barely. They occupy separate ranges, so choosing between them is a decision about how much to spend on hosting rather than about which tier to take. What each vendor gives for the money is a product question the pricing pages do not settle in figures.
Does Bluehost charge in pounds or euros?
Not in our readings. We fetched its pricing page from Britain, Germany, France and Spain and it returned the same dollar figures each time: $3.99, $6.99 and $14.99.
What is SiteGround's most expensive plan?
$44.99 in our reading, which is $27 above its own entry plan in the United States and $30 above anything Bluehost publishes.
THE VERDICT, ONE MORE TIME
On price there is no contest to hold: its top plan is $14.99 and SiteGround's entry plan is $17.99.
Every Bluehost plan we read costs less than every SiteGround plan we read, in each market where the two quote the same currency. There is no tier at which they are asking for comparable money.
Both ladders were read from the vendors' own pricing pages, from five countries in turn, each table dated. Bluehost returned US dollars from all five; SiteGround returned pounds to Britain and dollars elsewhere. Cross-vendor differences here are pinned to the United States, because Britain is the one market where the two are not in the same money. What a plan includes, and what it renews at, are not settled by the figures on this page. The method →
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