Hetzner vs IONOS

Hetzner is strongest for budget-conscious developers. IONOS is strongest for budget shared/VPS hosting. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Hetzner	IONOS
Starting price	$0.6/mo	$0.02/mo
Best for	Budget-conscious developers EU-based workloads Self-hosters High-performance dedicated servers	Budget shared/VPS hosting Windows workloads EU-based data residency Granular building-block cloud pricing
Stated uptime SLA	99.9%	99.99%
Storage	NVME	NVME
Regions	6	6
Managed Kubernetes	No	Yes
Support channels	Ticket, Docs, Community forum	24/7 Phone, Ticket, Docs, Live Chat
Compliance	GDPR, ISO 27001	GDPR, ISO 27001
Hidden costs to watch for	Setup fees on dedicated servers (e.g. AX42/AX102 setup fee raised from 39 EUR to 79 EUR in 2026; AX162-R/S setup fee raised from 79 EUR to 159 EUR) Traffic overage billed per GB beyond included pool (20 TB EU, as little as 0.5-1 TB in USA/Singapore regions for some lines) CPX and CCX cloud lines saw very large price increases in the 15 June 2026 adjustment (CCX +2.1x to +2.73x, CPX +2.4x to +2.75x monthly in EU); CX and CAX rose a smaller ~1.3x-1.4x Load Balancer and Volume prices separately increased ~36-39% in an April 2026 adjustment VAT excluded from all listed prices	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