IONOS vs Render

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

Feature	IONOS	Render
Starting price	$0.02/mo	$0.25/mo
Best for	Budget shared/VPS hosting Windows workloads EU-based data residency Granular building-block cloud pricing	Developers Startups Full-stack web apps APIs Small teams replacing Heroku
Stated uptime SLA	99.99%	99.95%
Storage	NVME	SSD
Regions	6	4
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	No
Support channels	24/7 Phone, Ticket, Docs, Live Chat	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Priority support on Pro/Scale/Enterprise
Compliance	GDPR, ISO 27001	SOC 2
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	Persistent disk storage billed separately at $0.25/GB/month Bandwidth overage billed per-GB beyond workspace plan allowance (best-available figure ~$0.15/GB, exact current rate not printed on fetched docs page) Additional custom domains beyond plan allowance billed at $0.25/month each Postgres storage overage billed at roughly $0.30/GB/month beyond included storage Instances billed by the second while running, so scale-to-zero / suspended services still show partial-month charges for the time they were up
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18