Hostinger Horizons pricing: it is not called that anymore

By Anwar Benhamada · August 23, 2026

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Type “hostinger horizons” into Google and you’ll land on hostinger.com/horizons. Load it, and the first thing the page tells you is that the product you’re looking for got renamed: “Website Builder and Horizons are now AI Builder.” Checked live 23 August 2026 — that redirect and that sentence are both real, not a caching artifact.

That’s not just a branding footnote. Horizons used to be its own product with its own pricing page: a natural-language tool that built full web apps from a prompt, sold on a standalone AI-credit subscription. Website Builder was the older, simpler tool — drag-and-drop templates plus small AI credits for writing copy or generating an image. Hostinger folded both into one “AI Builder” brand, and in doing so, merged two different credit systems into a single set of plans. If you’ve read a “Hostinger Horizons pricing” roundup dated 2026 that lists tiers called Explorer, Starter, Hobbyist, or Hustler, that page is describing a pricing structure Hostinger’s own site no longer shows. I looked for it directly — hostinger.com/pricing/horizons and the Canadian equivalent both now redirect to the same bundled AI Builder plans below. Whatever standalone Horizons page those reviews screenshotted, it’s gone.

What AI Builder actually costs today

Checked on hostinger.com, US pricing in USD, 23 August 2026. All three plans are quoted at a discounted monthly rate but billed as a single 48-month upfront charge:

The math on the discount checks out — I ran it rather than trusting the badges: 75% off Premium, 79% off Unlimited, 71% off Cloud Startup, all matching what the page claims. What the page doesn’t put in a badge is the renewal jump once your 48 months run out. Premium goes from $2.99 to $10.99/mo, a 268% increase. Unlimited jumps 326%, from $3.99 to $16.99. Cloud Startup rises 225%, to $25.99. None of that is unusual for hosting — it’s the same prepaid-term structure most of this industry runs on. What’s new is that it now also gates whether you can build an app at all: only Unlimited and Cloud Startup include the “AI agent credits” pool. Buy Premium, and there’s no agent-building tier available to you at any price on this page.

The credits don’t mean what they used to

“5 AI credits” and “500 credits for AI agents” look like the same kind of number. They’re not. The first pool, confirmed on the pricing page, covers website and app creation inside the drag-and-drop builder — closer to the old Website Builder’s image-generation credits, where Hostinger’s own help center says one credit produces one image.

The second pool — the one that actually runs what used to be Horizons — works nothing like that. Hostinger’s support article on the topic is explicit: this is a “dynamic credit model,” not a flat per-message charge. Credits are metered against the compute a request actually uses. A simple prompt might cost 0.12 credits. A complex one — heavy code generation, a deep analysis — can run 2.45 credits. Even manually editing text or swapping an image through the builder’s “select & edit” mode burns 0.01 to 0.05 credits. Every message counts toward the total, including ones that aren’t building anything — asking the AI a question spends credits the same as asking it to write a feature.

Run the range against the two plans that actually get a credit pool:

That’s roughly a 20x spread on what the same subscription gets you, and you find out which end of it you’re on only after you’ve built something. Run out mid-month and top-ups are available, but Hostinger’s own help article says they cost more per credit than the subscription and expire three months after purchase if unused — so overpaying for a rush of usage is the default failure mode, not an edge case.

Where this leaves you

If you want the actual “describe an app, get an app” product that used to be called Horizons, you need Unlimited at minimum — Premium doesn’t include agent credits at all. And once you’re on Unlimited or Cloud Startup, the number on the pricing page (“500 credits,” “1,000 credits”) tells you almost nothing about how much building you’ll actually get, because the site never publishes a stable rate per feature. The closest thing to a rate card is buried in a support article about a dashboard modal, not the pricing page itself.

None of this makes AI Builder a bad product — a dynamic, compute-based credit model is at least honest about the fact that a one-line text edit and a full backend integration don’t cost the same thing to run. But it does mean the plan comparison on the pricing page is incomplete on its own. Before committing to 48 months, it’s worth spending a few prompts inside the free trial and checking the credit-usage number it shows you per response — that’s the only place the real exchange rate actually shows up.

Figures from hostinger.com/horizons and hostinger.com’s AI Builder pricing page, plus support.hostinger.com’s article on AI credits and top-ups in agentic mode, all checked 23 August 2026. Dynamic per-request credit costs are the kind of number a vendor can retune without announcing it — re-verify before building a cost model around them.