IONOS vs Kinsta

IONOS is strongest for budget shared/VPS hosting. Kinsta is strongest for managed WordPress. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	IONOS	Kinsta
Starting price	$0.02/mo	$35/mo
Best for	Budget shared/VPS hosting Windows workloads EU-based data residency Granular building-block cloud pricing	Managed WordPress Agencies High-traffic WordPress sites Enterprise WordPress
Stated uptime SLA	99.99%	99.9%
Storage	NVME	SSD
Regions	6	37
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	No
Support channels	24/7 Phone, Ticket, Docs, Live Chat	24/7 live chat, Ticket, Docs, MyKinsta dashboard
Compliance	GDPR, ISO 27001	GDPR
Hidden costs to watch for	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	Overage per extra 1,000 visits above plan allowance billed per Kinsta overage schedule (not itemized on public pricing page) Premium Staging Environment add-on reported at $20/month per extra environment beyond the included free staging environment (figure from secondary source, not independently verified on a primary Kinsta page) CDN bandwidth overage reported at approximately $0.05/GB past plan allowance (figure from secondary source, not independently verified) Sevalla Application Hosting: egress bandwidth billed at $0.10/GB (ingress free); build time billed at $0.0003333/second ($0.02/minute) Sevalla Database Hosting: disk space add-ons sold in 10 GB increments at $10/month per 10 GB; external egress bandwidth billed at $0.10/GB (internal app-to-db connections free)
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18