Google Cloud vs IONOS

Google Cloud is strongest for enterprises. IONOS is strongest for budget shared/VPS hosting. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Google Cloud	IONOS
Starting price	$0.01/mo	$0.02/mo
Best for	Enterprises Data & AI/ML workloads Kubernetes-native teams BigQuery/analytics-heavy stacks	Budget shared/VPS hosting Windows workloads EU-based data residency Granular building-block cloud pricing
Stated uptime SLA	99.99%	99.99%
Storage	SSD	NVME
Regions	40	6
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	Yes
Support channels	Ticket, Docs, Community, Phone (paid support tiers)	24/7 Phone, Ticket, Docs, Live Chat
Compliance	SOC 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA (BAA available), GDPR, FedRAMP (select services)	GDPR, ISO 27001
Hidden costs to watch for	Network egress to internet billed per-GB and rises past free tier (200 GiB/month egress to certain destinations) Sustained-use and committed-use discounts are separate mechanisms and easy to miss when comparing to flat-rate competitors Custom machine types carry a 5% premium over predefined machine type pricing GKE charges a $0.10/hour cluster management fee per cluster (Standard and Autopilot alike) Cloud SQL high-availability configuration doubles vCPU, memory, and persistent disk costs Nearline/Coldline/Archive storage classes carry early-deletion minimum storage durations (30/90/365 days) and per-GB retrieval fees	Intro pricing on VPS+ and Web Hosting plans (e.g. $2/mo, $1/mo) is a 3-month or 1-year promotional rate on a 1-year contract; renewal pricing after the promo/contract period is 2-6x higher Additional static IPv4 addresses billed at $6.00 per 30 days each Outbound data transfer beyond the free 2TB pooled allowance is tiered: $0.036/GB (2-10TB), dropping to $0.018/GB beyond 150TB Windows Server and RedHat Enterprise Linux require separate per-vCPU/core license surcharges on top of Compute Engine/Cube pricing IONOS CLOUD Compute Engine building-block pricing (Cores + RAM + Storage priced independently) can be harder to estimate than fixed-tier competitors without using their price calculator
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18