IONOS vs Vultr

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

Feature	IONOS	Vultr
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	Developers GPU/AI workloads Price-sensitive scaling
Stated uptime SLA	99.99%	100% network uptime SLA
Storage	NVME	NVME
Regions	6	32
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	Yes
Support channels	24/7 Phone, Ticket, Docs, Live Chat	Ticket, Docs, Community
Compliance	GDPR, ISO 27001	SOC 2, 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	Bandwidth overage rate varies by data center location Windows license cost not included in base price
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18