OVHcloud vs UpCloud

OVHcloud is strongest for european data residency. UpCloud is strongest for performance-sensitive VPS workloads. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	OVHcloud	UpCloud
Starting price	$0.01/mo	$3.5/mo
Best for	European data residency Cost-conscious scale-outs Managed databases Kubernetes AI/GPU workloads	Performance-sensitive VPS workloads European data residency Simple predictable billing
Stated uptime SLA	99.99% (Public Cloud instances, region dependent)	99.999%
Storage	NVME	NVME
Regions	33	13
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	Yes
Support channels	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Phone (paid plans)	Ticket, Docs, Community
Compliance	GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud (France), HDS (health data hosting, France)	GDPR, ISO 27001
Hidden costs to watch for	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	Simple Backups add-on billed as a percentage surcharge on server price (Day +10%, Week +20%, Month +40%, Year +60%) Data transfer beyond the Fair Transfer Policy allowance can incur overage charges despite marketing free egress Premium plans require MaxIOPS block storage which is priced/allocated differently than Starter plan Standard SSD
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18