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GoDaddy
Domain registrar and web host selling shared and high performance hosting, an AI website builder and email, billed in rupees in India.
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Spec sheet
All-in India price
₹299/mo
For a registered business
- Free plan
- Not available
- Free trial
- Not listed
- Status
- Source checked 12 Nov 2026
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Shortlist GoDaddy hosting if you want your domain, hosting and a starter mailbox under one Indian rupee account and are happy to prepay three years. Before paying, compare the struck regular rate on each plan, because that is closer to what renewal will cost, and check that the free email is a trial that turns into a paid mailbox.
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Indian businesses should add their GSTIN to the account before checkout, since GoDaddy validates it and adjusts tax on that basis. Against an India focused host, the trade off is a well known registrar with UPI and RuPay payments versus servers that sit in North America and Europe rather than in India.
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In short
GoDaddy is listed under Cloud Hosting & Infrastructure, reviewed for Indian buyers. It costs about ₹299/mo before GST, billed in rupees. It issues an India GST invoice, so you can claim input credit. FindThatSoftware rates it best for small businesses that want domain, hosting and email billed together in rupees; a poor fit for buyers who avoid long lock ins, because the advertised rupee rate needs a three year prepaid term and then renews at the full price.
What GoDaddy costs in India
The rupee price a business actually pays, after the card forex markup, with GST shown both ways.
True India price
Registered business, per month
₹299
GoDaddy is billed in rupees at ₹299/mo, so there is no forex markup. A registered business reclaims GST, so that is roughly the cost (₹3,588/yr). Without reclaim, add 18% for about ₹353 a month.
- Sticker price
- ₹299/mo
- GST
- 18%, reclaimable if registered
- Registered per month
- ₹299
- Registered per year
- ₹3,588
- If you can't reclaim GST
- ₹353
- Watch for
- Hosting is billed in rupees and the headline rate applies only to the first three year term, paid up front; the vendor says renewal pricing is subject to change and products auto renew until cancelled.
More
Annual or longer plans can be refunded within 30 days and monthly ones within 48 hours, but hosting already performed is non refundable and closing the account ends any refund right. The free email and the Economy SSL certificate renew at the then current price after their first period unless you switch auto renewal off.
Indicative, not a bill. The exchange rate is a single mid-market reference, not a live feed, and GST-registered businesses may reclaim input credit. Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.
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Audit your spendWho GoDaddy fits
What it is, what you gain, what you give up, and who should look elsewhere.
What is GoDaddy?
GoDaddy is run by GoDaddy.com, LLC, a US company that sells domain registration, shared web hosting, a separate Airo AI website builder and business email. Web hosting comes in four standard plans for one to 25 websites and four High Performance plans for 50 to 200 websites with dedicated RAM, vCPUs and a dedicated IP. Plans are managed through the GoDaddy Control Panel, include Node.js support from Economy upward, NVMe storage, unmetered bandwidth and daily backups. The vendor says its data centres are in North America and Europe, so there is no Indian hosting region. The advertised rates need a three year prepaid term and the regular rate applies after that.
What you gain, and what you give up.
The case for
- Billing is in rupees with UPI, RuPay cards and net banking accepted, so Indian buyers avoid forex charges.
- Economy and higher plans bundle a free domain with an annual or longer term plus SSL, and every plan includes NVMe storage, unmetered bandwidth and daily backups.
- The written refund policy gives 30 days on annual plans, 48 hours on monthly plans and 5 days on new domain registrations.
The catch
- The advertised rate needs a three year prepaid term, and the struck regular rate on every plan is roughly two to three times higher, which is the better guide to renewal cost.
- The hosting page lists data centres in North America and Europe only, so Indian visitors take a round trip to another continent.
- The free email on hosting plans is a trial that auto renews at the then current price, and Economy SSL is free for the first year only.
- Hosting is non refundable once the service has been performed, and closing the account first makes you ineligible for any refund.
Best for
- Small businesses that want domain, hosting and email billed together in rupees
- Owners of one to a few simple websites willing to prepay three years
- Agencies running dozens of client sites on the High Performance plans
Who should avoid it
- Buyers who avoid long lock ins, because the advertised rupee rate needs a three year prepaid term and then renews at the full price.
- Sites where Indian latency or data residency matters, since shared hosting is served from North American and European data centres.
India readiness
How well GoDaddy fits an Indian business operationally, from the verified pricing and company facts we hold.
- ✓GST invoice
Issues a GST-compliant invoice, so a registered business can reclaim input tax.
- ✓Bills in INR
Priced in rupees, so there is no forex conversion or card markup on top.
- ✗India HQ
Headquartered outside India, so check support hours and India-specific features.
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What we verified about GoDaddy
Read from GoDaddy’s own pages. Each line is a finding and what it was based on, so you can check any of it yourself.
Features we confirmed25
- Vps hosting
- VPS hosting offers full root access, snapshots and daily backups
- Shared web hosting
- Web Hosting plans sell shared server space with cPanel
- Online store
- GoDaddy Online Store is offered as a PCI-certified commerce product
- Nvme ssd storage
- Plans list 10 to 75 GB of NVMe storage by tier
- Free site migration
- Site Auto Migration Tool moves an existing site free during onboarding
- Domain registration
- GoDaddy describes itself as the largest domain registrar globally
- Ddos protection
- Automated DDoS protection and network monitoring run around the clock
- Agency client management hub
- The Hub by GoDaddy Pro manages client sites and projects free
- Automatic daily backups
- Daily backups run automatically and restore the previous day
- Auto renewing ssl
- AutoSSL auto-renews certificates so they do not expire
- Business email included
- Free email is bundled from the Economy hosting tier upward
- Cagefs file isolation
- Cage FS virtualized file system protects account content
- Cdn and waf addon
- GoDaddy Website Security bundles a CDN and WAF for speed
- Cloudlinux resource isolation
- CloudLinux balances CPU, RAM and Disk IO limits per tenant
- Cpanel control panel
- Every Web Hosting tier from Starter upward includes cPanel
- Free domain with hosting
- Economy and above bundle a free domain with the plan
- Free ssl certificate
- AutoSSL assigns a free Sectigo DV certificate to cPanel sites
- In place plan upgrade
- Linux hosting plans can be upgraded as traffic and storage needs grow
- On demand resource boost
- Extra CPU, RAM, entry processes and I/O are one click away
- One click app installer
- cPanel installs over 125 applications with a single click
- Unlimited ssl on higher tiers
- Deluxe and Ultimate include free unlimited SSL for all websites
- Unmetered bandwidth
- Unmetered bandwidth is included in every Web Hosting plan
- Website builder
- GoDaddy sells a website builder alongside hosting and domains
- Windows vps with plesk
- Windows VPS plans with Plesk Obsidian serve ASP.NET apps
- Wordpress managed hosting
- Managed Hosting for WordPress is a separate optimized product
What people use it for3
- Host wordpress site
- Hosting supports self-installed WordPress plus a managed WordPress product
- Build a website
- Our verdict frames it as one provider for domain, hosting and email
- Run agency client sites
- GoDaddy Pro Hub manages client sites hosted anywhere
Works with10
- Wordpress
- WordPress is a supported and separately optimized CMS
- Stripe
- Stripe Checkout named as an add-on to keep card data off servers
- Square
- Square Online Checkout listed as a payment integration option
- Magento
- Magento listed among self-installable CMS platforms
- Joomla
- Joomla is named as compatible with GoDaddy web hosting
- Drupal
- Drupal is named as a compatible content management system
- Cpanel
- cPanel is the industry-standard control panel shipped with hosting
- Paypal checkout
- PayPal Checkout suggested as a third-party payment add-on
- Plesk
- Windows VPS plans ship with Plesk Obsidian
- Sectigo
- AutoSSL issues DV SSL certificates from Sectigo
Terms, compliance and how you buy26
- Money back guarantee
- Annual hosting plans carry a 30-day money-back guarantee
- Self serve signup
- Plans are bought straight from a cart with no sales call
- No india data residency
- NotBestFor flags sites where Indian data residency matters
- Beginner friendly
- Marketed on user-friendly tools for small businesses and individuals
- Account closure voids refund
- Closing the account first makes you ineligible for any refund
- Five day domain refund window
- New domain registrations carry a five day refund window
- Forty eight hour refund on monthly
- Refund policy gives only 48 hours on monthly plans
- INR pricing
- India hosting is quoted in rupees starting at ₹89 a month
- Introductory pricing
- Every advertised rate is a 61 to 70 percent introductory discount
- Large support organisation
- Over 3,500 support experts across more than 20 countries
- Latency for indian visitors
- Indian visitors take a round trip to another continent for pages
- Long lock in required
- NotBestFor flags buyers who avoid the three-year prepaid commitment
- Mass market brand
- Claims over 20 million customers across more than 50 countries
- Mid tier performance
- Our verdict rates performance and support as mid-tier
- No india data centre
- Hosting page lists data centres in North America and Europe only
- Non refundable once service performed
- Hosting is non refundable once the service has been performed
- Not PCI compliant by default
- Shared hosting expects you to keep card data off the server
- PCI certified store option
- GoDaddy Online Store is PCI-certified for on-server card processing
- Phone support
- Support is available by phone as well as chat and email
- Shared resources not guaranteed
- Web Hosting shares processing and memory across all tenants
- Site count limits by tier
- Plans allow 1, 10 and 25 websites across the four tiers
- Steep renewal increase
- Starter renews at ₹299 and Ultimate at ₹1,099 a month
- Three year term for headline price
- The ₹89 rate applies only to a first three-year prepaid term
- Twenty four seven support
- GoDaddy Guides assist via chat, phone or email around the clock
- Upsell heavy
- Our verdict warns upsells and renewal pricing add up
- Uptime guarantee
- 99.9 percent uptime guarantee with discount eligibility if missed
Source trail
Pricing and free-plan claims can change. FindThatSoftware keeps source URLs visible so users can verify before buying.
- GoDaddy hostinghttps://www.godaddy.com/hosting/web-hosting
- GoDaddy India web hosting planshttps://www.godaddy.com/en-in/hosting/web-hosting
- GoDaddy payment methodshttps://www.godaddy.com/en-in/help/payment-methods-we-accept-for-purchases-8061
- GoDaddy refund policyhttps://www.godaddy.com/en-in/legal/agreements/refund-policy
- GoDaddy sales taxhttps://www.godaddy.com/en-in/help/godaddy-sales-tax-24720
- GoDaddy VAT/GST ID validationhttps://www.godaddy.com/en-in/help/what-is-vatgst-id-validation-3405
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GoDaddy questions
Does GoDaddy give a GST invoice in India?
- GoDaddy issues an India GST invoice, so a GST-registered business can claim input tax credit on it directly.
Is GoDaddy good for Indian small businesses?
- It suits small businesses that want domain, hosting and email billed together in rupees. It bills in rupees and issues a GST invoice, so a registered business claims the GST back. It is not the right pick for buyers who avoid long lock ins, because the advertised rupee rate needs a three year prepaid term and then renews at the full price.
Does GoDaddy have a free plan?
- GoDaddy does not list a permanent free plan in FindThatSoftware data. Check the official pricing page for trial terms and current offers.
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