Hostinger vs IONOS

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

Feature	Hostinger	IONOS
Starting price	$2.99/mo	$0.02/mo
Best for	Budget-conscious site owners WordPress sites Small business web hosting First-time VPS users	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	10	6
Managed Kubernetes	No	Yes
Support channels	24/7 live chat, Ticket, Knowledge base, AI assistant (Kodee)	24/7 Phone, Ticket, Docs, Live Chat
Compliance	GDPR	GDPR, ISO 27001
Hidden costs to watch for	Displayed price is an introductory promo rate tied to prepaying a 12/24/48-month term; renewal price is 2-4x higher (e.g. VPS KVM 1 renews at $11.99/mo vs $6.49/mo intro) Monthly (1-month) billing is available but at a significantly higher per-month rate than any multi-month term Free domain is only free for the first year; renews at standard domain pricing Dedicated IP, extra backups, and some AI/Vibe coding credits are limited allotments, not unlimited Weekly (not daily) backups on base VPS plans; daily backups reserved for Cloud plans	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