Cloudways vs Kinsta: green hosting compared
Cloudways and Kinsta side by side: each one's Green Web Foundation listing, where its data centres are and how carbon-intensive those grids are, and the evidence it publishes. They are in alphabetical order: no host pays for its place.
The difference
Only Kinsta is listed in the Green Web Foundation's directory of verified green providers; we found no matching entry for Cloudways.
Neither host's listed countries all have lower-carbon grids than the other's. Across both, their countries' grid averages run from 35 gCO2e/kWh in Sweden (2025) to 902 gCO2e/kWh in Bahrain (2024), so which grid your site runs on depends on the region you choose.
These are the facts we can show, not a verdict on which is greener: the listing, the grids and each company's own claims measure different things, and none of them measures your website. Each host's full page has every quote and source.
Each dot is a country where the host lists data centres, placed by that country's grid average. Cloudways, no matching entry in the Green Web Foundation's directory: 32 countries, from 35 gCO2e/kWh in Sweden to 902 in Bahrain. Kinsta, listed in the Green Web Foundation's directory: 24 countries, from 35 gCO2e/kWh in Sweden to 705 in Indonesia.
Show the data as a table
| Country | Grid average, gCO2e/kWh | Year | Cloudways | Kinsta |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden | 35 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| Switzerland | 39 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| France | 41 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| Finland | 57 | 2025 | Yes | No |
| Brazil | 109 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| Belgium | 151 | 2025 | Yes | No |
| Spain | 153 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| Colombia | 190 | 2025 | No | Yes |
| Canada | 192 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| United Kingdom | 218 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| Netherlands | 254 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| Ireland | 263 | 2025 | Yes | No |
| Italy | 284 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| Chile | 291 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| Germany | 334 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| United States | 384 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| South Korea | 418 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| United Arab Emirates | 470 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| Japan | 474 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| Mexico | 481 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| Israel | 493 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| Singapore | 497 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| Australia | 518 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| Thailand | 526 | 2025 | Yes | No |
| Qatar | 582 | 2025 | Yes | No |
| Poland | 591 | 2025 | Yes | No |
| Malaysia | 606 | 2025 | Yes | No |
| Taiwan (China) | 634 | 2025 | Yes | No |
| India | 671 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| Hong Kong (SAR of China) | 676 | 2024 | Yes | No |
| Saudi Arabia | 680 | 2025 | No | Yes |
| South Africa | 699 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| Indonesia | 705 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| Bahrain | 902 | 2024 | Yes | No |
Cloudways
- Green Web Foundation
No matching entry in the Green Web Foundation's directory when we checked on 17 October 2026.
We looked for a provider with Cloudways's website and found none. That says nothing either way about the energy behind its hosting; the evidence below is Cloudways's own.
- Data centres
Netherlands, United States, Bahrain, India, Belgium, South Africa, Germany, Finland, Hong Kong (SAR of China), Ireland, United Kingdom, Mexico, Italy, Canada, France, Brazil, South Korea, Singapore, Sweden, Australia, Taiwan (China), Japan, Israel, Switzerland, Poland, Indonesia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Spain, Chile, Thailand and Malaysia
Cloudways runs customers' servers on five other companies' clouds (DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS and Google Cloud). The countries are those in its own data-centre picker; its pages give other counts.
- Grid average where they are
- Across the listed countries, from 35 gCO2e/kWh in Sweden (2025) to 902 gCO2e/kWh in Bahrain (2024).
- Cloudways's own evidence
We found no published evidence from Cloudways when we checked on 16 October 2026.
- Evidence checked
- 16 October 2026
Kinsta
- Green Web Foundation
Listed in the Green Web Foundation's directory of verified green providers, checked 17 October 2026.
GWF lists it as “Kinsta” (provider 1226).
GWF does not publish when a provider was last verified. Providers verified before October 2026 are reassessed under its new criteria, which no longer accept offsets, at their next reverification.
- Data centres
South Africa, Indonesia, Australia, India, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Canada, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Brazil, United Kingdom and United States
The data centres a customer can choose, now on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure; Kinsta previously ran on Google Cloud.
- Grid average where they are
- Across the listed countries, from 35 gCO2e/kWh in Sweden (2025) to 705 gCO2e/kWh in Indonesia (2025).
- Kinsta's own evidence
- What Makes Kinsta the Best Green Hosting? 2 June 2021
- Evidence checked
- 16 October 2026
Grid figures: Ember, Yearly electricity data (2026), CC BY 4.0. Listing data from the Green Web Foundation's Green Web Dataset, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL).