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Managed NAT Gateway · $34.56/mo
IONOS NAT Gateway at $34.56/mo is significantly overpriced for basic gateway functionality. Multiple providers offer comparable or superior networking services at 5-30% of the cost, with clearer pricing and fewer hidden surcharges. The IONOS offering lacks transparency on data-processing charges and sits well above market rates for this service category.
| 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 |
| 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 |
If you need load-balancing capability alongside gateway functions, this offers 200GB transfer, 200 Mbps, and 10,000 req/s for $6.94/mo, still 5x cheaper.
Caveat: IPv4 addresses billed separately; APAC free-egress sunset in 2026.
Entry load balancer with TLS termination, 25 services, and 10,000 connections for $7.49/mo; 4.6x cheaper than IONOS with included security features.
Caveat: VAT excluded from price; traffic overage rates vary sharply by region (0.5-1 TB included in USA/Singapore vs 20 TB in EU).
Flat-rate load balancer at $10/mo with outbound transfer billed at $0.015/GB beyond pooled allowance; 3.5x cheaper with predictable overage costs.
Caveat: Outbound bandwidth charged at $0.015/GB once pooled allowance exceeded; no data-processing tier transparency like IONOS.
Regional load balancer with 10,000 req/s and 10,000 connections per node for $12/mo; 2.9x cheaper with clear per-node scaling and $0.01/GB bandwidth overage.
Caveat: Bandwidth overages at $0.01/GB past pooled allowance; multi-node deployments scale linearly.
Before you switch
| 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 |
| Kamatera | Load Balancer · Load Balancer Small | $19/mo | Fixed monthly rate, size details (max connections/throughput) not publicly itemized. | Visit |
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