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Managed Load Balancer · $17.28/mo
IONOS's $17.28/mo Application LB is moderately priced but lacks transparency on renewal costs and has limited rule capacity. Several competitors offer comparable or superior load-balancing features at lower entry prices with clearer pricing structures, though you should verify feature parity (connection limits, request rates, SSL termination) against your specific workload.
Entry load balancer with up to 25 services, 10,000 connections, and built-in HTTP/HTTPS/TCP with TLS termination at less than half IONOS's price.
Caveat: Price increased 36-39% in April 2026; traffic overage rates vary by region (EU has 20TB pool, USA/Singapore much lower); VAT not included.
Flat-rate load balancer with 99.99% SLA and clear per-GB overage pricing ($0.015/GB) once pooled allowance is exceeded.
Caveat: Outbound bandwidth overages are billed separately; no mention of rule limits or connection/request-rate caps in the tier description.
Regional load balancer at $10/mo with 100% network uptime SLA, matching Linode's price and beating IONOS by 42%.
Caveat: Bandwidth overage rates vary by data center location; Windows license cost not included if applicable; feature parity (rule limits, connection caps) not detailed.
Includes 200GB transfer, 200 Mbps, 250 connections/s, and 10,000 req/s at $6.94/mo with 99.99% SLA, significantly undercutting IONOS.
Caveat: IPv4 addresses billed separately per instance; APAC outbound traffic loses free-egress status after mid-2026; early-deletion penalties on archived storage.
Per-node regional load balancer with 10,000 req/s, 10,000 connections, 250 SSL/s, and 99.99% SLA at $12/mo.
Caveat: Bandwidth overages billed at $0.01/GB past pooled allowance; pricing is per node, so multi-node setups scale linearly.
Before you switch
| Provider | Plan | Price | Specs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fly.io | Private Networking / Egress · North America / Europe - private cross-region | $0.01/mo | WireGuard (6PN) private cross-region transfer, per GB, North America and Europe. Within-region private transfer is free. | Visit |
| Bunny CDN | CDN · Europe & North America | $0.01/mo | Standard Network CDN, per-GB pay-as-you-go rate for Europe & North America. | Visit |
| Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Outbound Data Transfer · Prior policy: overage to internet | $0.01/mo | Legacy per-GB overage rate beyond the 10TB free allowance, prior to the stated 2026 free-egress policy change | Visit |
| Fly.io | IP Addresses & Certificates · SSL certificate (single hostname) | $0.1/mo | Per custom hostname; first 10 certificates free per organization. | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Gateway · Gateway S | $2.34/mo | 200 Mbps public network | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Floating IP · Floating IP IPv4 (/32) | $2.34/mo | Reassignable public IPv4 address, /32. | Visit |
| AWS Lightsail | CDN · 50 GB transfer | $2.5/mo | First year free | Visit |
| Vultr | Direct Connect · 50 Mbps Hosted | $5/mo | Visit | |
| DigitalOcean | Container Registry · Basic | $5/mo | 5 repositories, 5 GiB storage, $0.02/GiB overage | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Load Balancer · Load Balancer S | $6.94/mo | 200 Mbps, 250 connections/s, 10000 req/s | Visit |
| Hetzner | Load Balancers · LB11 | $7.49/mo | Entry load balancer: up to 25 services, 10,000 connections, HTTP/HTTPS/TCP with TLS termination included. Price raised from 0.0088/h in April 2026 adjustment. | Visit |
| Vultr | CDN · CDN | $10/mo | Flat rate plus bandwidth usage | Visit |
| Vultr | Load Balancers · Regional | $10/mo | Visit | |
| Linode (Akamai) | NodeBalancers · NodeBalancer | $10/mo | Flat rate load balancer; outbound transfer billed at $0.015/GB beyond pooled allowance | Visit |
| DigitalOcean | Load Balancers · Regional | $12/mo | Per node; +10,000 req/s, +10,000 connections, +250 SSL/s per additional node | Visit |
Hetzner
Linode (Akamai)
Vultr
OVHcloud
DigitalOcean
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