Kamatera vs OVHcloud

Kamatera is strongest for custom VM sizing. OVHcloud is strongest for european data residency. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Kamatera	OVHcloud
Starting price	$0.05/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	Custom VM sizing Global data center selection Windows Server hosting Dev/test environments	European data residency Cost-conscious scale-outs Managed databases Kubernetes AI/GPU workloads
Stated uptime SLA	99.95%	99.99% (Public Cloud instances, region dependent)
Storage	NVME	NVME
Regions	20	33
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	Yes
Support channels	Ticket, Phone, Docs, Pro/Premium Managed Services (paid)	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Phone (paid plans)
Compliance	GDPR	GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud (France), HDS (health data hosting, France)
Hidden costs to watch for	Bandwidth overage billed at $0.01/GB past the pooled monthly allowance (5 TB US/Canada/Europe, 1 TB Asia-Pacific) Windows Server / SQL Server / Exchange / RDS licensing adds an undisclosed per-server surcharge only shown at calculator checkout Type T (Burstable) CPU incurs a $0.041/hour/CPU overage charge once average CPU usage exceeds 10% Powered-off (but not terminated) servers may continue to accrue charges Pro Managed Services add $50/server/month; Premium Managed Services add $150/server/month	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