What Kinsta shipped in July 2026

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Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Starter: promotion changed — 1st month free - Pro: promotion changed — 1st month free - Enterprise 1: $675/mo → $600/mo (11% decrease) - Enterprise 1: new promotion — 1st…

Manage domains, HTTPS, logs, and backups with the Kinsta API

Kinsta expanded its API with endpoints for domain setup (including www subdomains), Force HTTPS toggling, search-and-replace in WordPress databases, time-filtered log retrieval, and backup availabilit…

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Enterprise 1: added annual billing at $563/mo (16% off) - Enterprise 1: allowance changed from Custom to 60 sites - New tier: Sta

How better visibility reduces support tickets, blame, and downtime

Kinsta introduced shared analytics and debugging tools in MyKinsta to provide all teams (developers, marketers, agencies) with the same diagnostic data for WordPress sites, reducing blame and downtime…

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Enterprise 1: promotion ended (was: Save $230) - Enterprise 1: allowance changed from 60 sites to Custom - Dedicated Server: now

AI crawlers vs. bot protection vs. robots.txt vs. llms.txt: what actually controls AI access?

Kinsta clarifies that llms.txt is a discovery aid for AI tools, not a control mechanism, while robots.txt relies on voluntary compliance and bot protection is the only enforceable layer. AI bot traffi…

Getting started with the WordPress Abilities API: A practical guide

WordPress 6.9 introduced the Abilities API, a standardized way for plugins and core to expose functionality as discoverable, actionable capabilities. This transforms WordPress into a distributed execu…

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Enterprise 1: new promotion — Save $230 - Enterprise 1: added annual billing at $562/mo (17% off) - Enterprise 1: allowance chang

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Enterprise 1: promotion ended (was: Save $240) - Enterprise 1: allowance changed from 25 sites to 1 site, up to 3,000,000 visits/

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Starter: $35/mo → $350/mo (900% increase) - Starter: promotion changed — Pay $0 today, $350 after the first month - Pro: $70/mo → $700/mo (900% increase) - Pro: promotion

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - New tier: Starter ($35/mo ($29/mo annually, 17% off) — promo: 1st month free) - New tier: Pro ($70/mo ($58/mo annually, 17% off) — promo: 1st month free) - New tier: Busi

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - New tier: Single 10k ($35/mo ($29/mo annually, 17% off) — promo: Pay $0 today, $35 after the first month) - New tier: Single 35k ($70/mo ($58/mo annually, 17% off) — prom

How Kinsta helps enterprise WordPress teams manage change without the risk

Kinsta introduced premium staging environments, selective push deployments, layered backup systems, and role-based access controls to help enterprise WordPress teams manage change safely. These featur…

See exactly where your site’s traffic goes with bot protection

Kinsta rebuilt its bot protection analytics to trace every request from classification to outcome, replacing separate bar charts with a Sankey diagram. A new widget on the site dashboard shows allowed…

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - New tier: Single 35k ($35/mo ($29/mo annually, 17% off) — promo: 1st month free) - New tier: Single 100k ($70/mo ($58/mo annually, 17% off) — promo: 1st month free) - New

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - New tier: Starter ($350/yr ($29/mo annually) — promo: 1st month free + Save $70) - New tier: Pro ($700/yr ($58/mo annually) — promo: 1st month free + Save $100) - New tie

How to access and edit your WordPress files in MyKinsta (no FTP client required)

Kinsta introduced a native file manager in MyKinsta, allowing users to browse, edit, upload, move, copy, and delete WordPress files directly in the hosting dashboard without FTP clients or third-party…

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Enterprise 1: $675/mo → $1500/mo (122% increase) - Enterprise 1: promotion changed — Save $680 - Enterprise 1: annual price $563/mo → $1250/mo - Enterprise 1: allowance c

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Enterprise 1: new promotion — Save $580 - Enterprise 1: added annual billing at $563/mo (17% off) - Enterprise 1: allowance chang

WordPress AI integration: A deep dive into architecture and a real-world use case

WordPress 7.0 launched a native AI integration framework featuring a centralized AI Connector interface for managing provider credentials, a standardized AI Client PHP API for model-agnostic requests,…

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Enterprise 1: promotion ended (was: 1st month free) - Enterprise 1: allowance changed from 60 sites to Custom - Enterprise 2: $10

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Business 1: $110/mo → $115/mo (5% increase) - Business 1: annual price $92/mo → $95/mo - Business 1: allowance changed from 3 sites to 5 sites - Business 2: annual price

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Business 1: promotion changed — 1st month free - Business 1: annual price $91/mo → $92/mo - Business 1: allowance changed from 5 sites to 3 sites - Business 2: promotion

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Enterprise 1: new promotion — Save $580 - Enterprise 1: added annual billing at $562/mo (17% off) - Enterprise 1: allowance chang

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Enterprise 1: promotion ended (was: Save $580) - Enterprise 1: allowance changed from 60 sites to 1 WordPress site - Enterprise 2

Kinsta bot protection vs. Cloudflare: What’s the difference, and which should you use?

Kinsta introduced a built-in bot protection tool for WordPress sites, adding a WordPress-specific classification layer on top of Cloudflare’s bot detection engine. The feature offers four preset prote…

Why client access management is the quiet scaling killer for agencies

Kinsta highlights how unmanaged user access in agencies leads to 'access sprawl'—where shortcuts like shared admin credentials or improper role assignments scale into security risks. The post details …

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Single 35k: allowance changed from 1 site, up to 35,000 visits/month to 35,000 visits/month - Single 100k: allowance changed from 1 site, up to 100,000 visits/month to 10

Why scaling agencies optimize for fewer incidents, not faster fixes

Kinsta argues that scaling WordPress agencies should focus on reducing incident frequency (MTBF) rather than just faster recovery (MTTR). The post highlights Kinsta’s infrastructure features—container…

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Single 1M: $340/mo → $350/mo (3% increase) - Single 1M: new promotion — Pay $0 today, $350 after the first month - Single 1M: annual price $283/mo → $292/mo - WP Starter:

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Single 35k: promotion changed — Pay $0 today, $35 after the first month - Single 100k: $100/mo → $70/mo (30% decrease) - Single 100k: promotion changed — Pay $0 today, $7

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Business 1: $110/mo → $70/mo (36% decrease) - Business 1: annual price $92/mo → $58/mo - Business 1: allowance changed from 5 sites to 5 sites, up to 100,000 visits/month

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Starter: promotion changed — 1st month free - Pro: promotion changed — 1st month free - Enterprise 1: $600/mo → $675/mo (12% increase) - Enterprise 1: promotion changed —

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Starter: $350/mo → $35/mo (90% decrease) - Starter: promotion changed — Pay $0 today, $35 after the first month - Starter: added annual billing at $29/mo (17% off) - Pro:

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Starter: $35/yr → $350/yr (900% increase) - Starter: promotion changed — Pay $0 today, $350 after the first month - Pro: $70/yr → $700/yr (900% increase) - Pro: promotion

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Business: $115/mo → $110/mo (4% decrease) - Business: annual price $96/mo → $92/mo - Enterprise 1: $225/mo → $600/mo (167% increase) - Enterprise 1: annual price $188/mo

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Starter: promotion changed — 1st month free - Pro: promotion changed — 1st month free - Enterprise 1: $675/mo → $225/mo (67% decrease) - Enterprise 1: promotion changed —

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Business 1: allowance changed from 5 sites to 3 sites - Business 2: allowance changed from 10 sites to 5 sites - Business 3: promotion changed — 1st month free + Save $14

WordPress Hosting Money-Back Guarantee

Kinsta outlines its money-back guarantee policy for WordPress hosting services, detailing refund terms and conditions for customers.

Reverse Proxy

Kinsta now offers a $50 monthly add-on to configure reverse proxy setups for WordPress sites, enabling single-domain hosting of multiple sites or subsites. The add-on is managed by Kinsta’s Support Te…

PHP Performance add-onHandle traffic spikes without upgrading your plan

Kinsta introduced a PHP Performance add-on that lets users dynamically increase PHP threads, memory per thread, and total memory for individual sites without upgrading hosting plans. Priced at $10/mon…

Automate WordPress plugin & theme updates

Kinsta introduced Automatic Updates, a service that automatically updates WordPress plugins and themes while running visual regression tests to detect issues. If problems arise, Kinsta rolls back upda…

High-performance hosting for WordPress

High-performance hosting for WordPress

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Starter: promotion changed — Pay $0 today, $35 after the first month - Pro: promotion changed — Pay $0 today, $70 after the first month - Business 1: $110/mo → $115/mo (5

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Starter: $350/mo → $35/mo (90% decrease) - Starter: promotion changed — 1st month free - Pro: $700/mo → $70/mo (90% decrease) - Pro: promotion changed — 1st month free -

Pricing updated for Kinsta: - Starter: $35/yr → $350/yr (900% increase) - Starter: promotion changed — 1st month free + Save $70 - Pro: $70/yr → $700/yr (900% increase) - Pro: promotion changed — 1st

Vibe coding real WordPress workflows using the Kinsta API

Kinsta published a guide on Vibe Coding—a new AI-driven development approach for WordPress agencies—using GitHub Copilot and the Kinsta API to automate workflows. The article details how agencies can …