IONOS vs OVHcloud

IONOS is strongest for budget shared/VPS hosting. OVHcloud is strongest for european data residency. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	IONOS	OVHcloud
Starting price	$0.02/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	Budget shared/VPS hosting Windows workloads EU-based data residency Granular building-block cloud pricing	European data residency Cost-conscious scale-outs Managed databases Kubernetes AI/GPU workloads
Stated uptime SLA	99.99%	99.99% (Public Cloud instances, region dependent)
Storage	NVME	NVME
Regions	6	33
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	Yes
Support channels	24/7 Phone, Ticket, Docs, Live Chat	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Phone (paid plans)
Compliance	GDPR, ISO 27001	GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud (France), HDS (health data hosting, France)
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	IPv4 addresses billed separately per instance/Local Zone Windows license surcharge of $0.039/vCore/hour on top of base instance price APAC region (India, Singapore, Australia) outbound traffic loses free-egress status after 2026-06-01/2026-12-31 depending on product Object Storage Infrequent Access / Cold Archive / Active Archive have data-retrieval fees and minimum storage durations (30-180 days) with early-deletion penalties
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18