IONOS Cloud Servers pricing

Per-minute billed servers from a German provider, with unlimited traffic and pricing aimed at small European businesses rather than at scale-out workloads.

List prices checked

By IONOS · Cloud compute & VPS

Rate card

What IONOS charges, by billing axis.

AxisPriceApplies to
Entry plan$4.00/moCheapest paid plan or typical entry configuration
Data transfer outFreeStandard tier, cheapest common region
Free tierYesUnlimited traffic included

Source: IONOS pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

What it costs per month

IONOS Cloud Servers billed against three workload profiles, using the rates above. Every line shows its arithmetic.

Side project

A personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process.

$4.00/mo

  • 1 × entry plan at $4/month (this provider sells flat-rate plans, not vCPU-hours)$4.00
  • 100 GB at $0/GB$0

Growing SaaS

A funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.

$8.00/mo

  • 2 × entry plan at $4/month (this provider sells flat-rate plans, not vCPU-hours)$8.00
  • 1 TB at $0/GB$0

Media-heavy site

A publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.

$4.00/mo

  • 1 × entry plan at $4/month (this provider sells flat-rate plans, not vCPU-hours)$4.00
  • 10 TB at $0/GB$0

IONOS Cloud Servers vs the alternatives

The closest compute providers on price, with the difference on cloud compute & vps's headline axis.

ServicePer vCPU-hrvs IONOS Cloud ServersCompare
OVHcloud VPS——Head to head
AWS Lightsail——Head to head
Contabo VPS——Head to head
Azure Virtual Machines$0.052—Head to head
Google Compute Engine$0.048—Head to head
AWS EC2$0.042—Head to head

Questions about pricing

How much does IONOS Cloud Servers cost in 2026?
IONOS Cloud Servers charges $4.00 per month for the entry plan, per IONOS's published pricing page. There is also a free tier: Unlimited traffic included. The tables above break the rate card down by axis and model it against three concrete workloads.
Does IONOS Cloud Servers have a free tier?
Yes — Unlimited traffic included. Check whether it is permanent or a trial before you build a budget around it; the two are often presented identically.
What does IONOS Cloud Servers charge for egress?
Nothing. IONOS Cloud Servers does not meter data transfer out, which for read-heavy workloads is usually the single largest saving available in this category.
Are these IONOS Cloud Servers prices current?
They were checked against IONOS's official pricing page and stamped with that date, which is shown at the top of this page and next to every table. Vendors change list prices without notice — the source link is there so you can confirm before you commit.

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