IONOS Cloud and VPS

Platform

Products

name: IONOS VPS+; category: self_managed_root_virtual_private_server; service model: Fully virtualized Linux or Windows VPS administered in Cloud Panel, with root or Administrator control, browser KVM recovery console, firewall, snapshots/images, private networking, load balancing, DNS tools, one public IPv4 address, IPv6 and unlimited traffic on a nominal 1 Gbit/s connection.; current regular plan grid: name: VPS S+; monthly usd: 5; vcpu: 2; memory gib: 2; nvme gb: 90, name: VPS M+; monthly usd: 11; vcpu: 4; memory gib: 4; nvme gb: 120, name: VPS L+; monthly usd: 21; vcpu: 6; memory gib: 8; nvme gb: 240, name: VPS XL+; monthly usd: 44; vcpu: 8; memory gib: 16; nvme gb: 480, name: VPS XXL+; monthly usd: 68; vcpu: 12; memory gib: 24; nvme gb: 720; contract: The current US catalog pairs the displayed acquisition campaign with a one-year minimum term. The directory excludes the first-three-month discount and benchmarks the regular recurring amount.; locations: The order selector names Germany, Spain, the United States and the United Kingdom. Only the first three are in this directory's country universe; the consumer page does not identify their facility cities.; variants: Linux, Windows, paid Plesk and application-focused n8n/OpenClaw paths use the same VPS platform and are not duplicated as separate compute families., name: Compute Engine — vCPU Servers; category: self_service_shared_vcpu_virtual_machine; service model: Minute-billed, freely configurable VM resources in a customer Virtual Data Center. Current limits are 1–60 vCPUs and 0.25–230 GiB RAM, with separately sized dual-redundant HDD, SSD Standard or SSD Premium Block Storage, stock or uploaded images, remote console, virtual LANs and full API/DCD administration.; pricing: Current public US rates are USD 0.013 per vCPU-hour and USD 0.0022 per GiB RAM-hour, plus storage and outbound traffic. The published sizing suggestions begin at 2 vCPU and 8 GiB, but the full-flex controls permit the smaller comparison configuration recorded below.; responsibility: IONOS operates the physical and virtualization platform; the customer administers the guest OS, applications, network policy, access, backups and data., name: Compute Engine — Dedicated Core Servers; category: self_service_vm_with_dedicated_physical_cpu_cores; service model: Flexible VMs whose billed cores are exclusive physical processor cores. Hyper-Threading-capable cores present two logical vCPUs to the guest for each physical core. Current processor choices include AMD EPYC Milan/Turin and Intel Haswell, Skylake, Ice Lake and Sierra Forest, subject to a location matrix.; pricing: On-demand core rates currently start at USD 0.045/core-hour for AMD EPYC Gen 3 Milan; RAM is USD 0.0071/GiB-hour and Block Storage is separate. One- and three-year Savings Plans are documented but excluded from the benchmark.; location boundary: The lowest-rate Milan generation is currently listed in Berlin, Frankfurt, Las Vegas and Lenexa. Other regions can expose different dedicated-core generations at different rates., name: Cloud Cubes; category: self_service_preconfigured_shared_resource_virtual_machine; service model: Preconfigured, isolated VM instances with shared compute resources and direct-attached NVMe. Basic Cubes run from 1 vCPU/2 GiB/60 GB through 16 vCPU/32 GiB/960 GB; Memory Cubes begin at 2 vCPU/8 GiB/120 GB. They use the IONOS Cloud VDC, network and image ecosystem.; billing: Billed per minute with no minimum term, but allocated Cubes continue billing until deleted; powering off is not a complete billing stop. The price page's per-30-day figures are 720-hour illustrations rather than contractual monthly caps.; locations: The live price page says current availability is IONOS data centers in the European Union plus Newark, New Jersey., name: Cloud GPU VM; category: approval_gated_gpu_virtual_machine; service model: API-only Linux VM family using dedicated AMD EPYC Turin CPU cores and direct PCIe passthrough of NVIDIA H200 GPUs. The smallest H200 S shape has one H200 PCIe GPU, 15 dedicated CPU cores, 267 GiB RAM and 1,024 GB storage.; availability: Access must be requested and approved; current deployment is limited to Frankfurt DE/FRA/2. Larger M/L/XL quantities require a limit increase. Stopped instances continue to bill and must be deleted to end resource charges.; price boundary: The current public product documentation says pricing is predictable but neither the public USD price table nor anonymous product documentation publishes an H200 amount. The family is documented without a benchmark rather than assigned an inferred price., name: IONOS Private Cloud powered by VMware; category: dedicated_multi_host_vmware_private_cloud; service model: A customer-exclusive VMware vSphere/vSAN/NSX environment, starting with a three-host cluster, in which the customer creates and administers multiple VMs. Current public configurations use Dell Granite Rapids hosts with 512–1,024 GiB RAM and 15.36–46.08 TB NVMe vSAN storage per host class.; pricing boundary: The public price page starts the M-512 cluster at USD 8,400 per month. This is a dedicated multi-host capacity pool rather than one defined guest VM, so it is not forced into a per-VM benchmark.; location reconciliation: The current service narrative says new Private Cloud is available in Berlin, Worcester and Logroño. A later table also lists Niederlauterbach, France without reconciling new-order status. This directory attributes the family only to the explicitly current Berlin and Logroño in-scope sites; Karlsruhe is explicitly existing-deployments-only and excluded.

Operating systems

vps plus: linux families: AlmaLinux, Debian, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu; windows: Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2025; versions: The sales page promises current versions but does not expose every selectable Linux release in its anonymous plan table; the authenticated selector controls at order time.; variants: Paid Plesk and provider-guided n8n/OpenClaw variants are available.; public cloud standard images: AlmaLinux, Debian Linux, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (BYOS, region-limited), Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Microsoft Windows Server 2016, Microsoft Windows Server 2019, Microsoft Windows Server 2022, Microsoft Windows Server 2025, Microsoft SQL Server images; custom images: Per-location upload supports ISO optical images and documented disk-image formats including VMDK and QEMU-compatible COW/QCOW/QCOW2; the customer must supply compatible drivers and licensing.; cloud gpu: Current launch support is IONOS-provided Linux images only.; private cloud: Customer-administered VMware VM templates and guest operating systems, subject to VMware and guest-license compatibility.

Virtualization

vps plus: The current page promises full virtualization and exposes a browser KVM console, but it does not name the production hypervisor. A KVM console is an input/output console and is not itself proof that the guest runs on the KVM hypervisor; directory virtualizer is therefore not_found.; compute engine: vCPU, Dedicated Core and Cubes documentation requires compatible VirtIO drivers for arbitrary images and supports QEMU image formats, but the current platform documentation reviewed does not explicitly name the production hypervisor. Directory virtualizer is not_found rather than inferred.; cloud gpu: A VM with PCIe GPU passthrough; the GPU attachment method is explicit, while the underlying VM hypervisor is not_found.; private cloud: VMware vSphere private cloud with vSAN and NSX on customer-exclusive hosts.; remote console: Public Cloud and VPS both expose an integrated browser KVM-style out-of-band console.; nested virtualization: not_found

CPU isolation

vps plus: shared; the product explanation says physical resources are divided among multiple virtual servers and makes no exclusive physical-core commitment.; cloud cubes: shared; IONOS explicitly describes shared resources assigned on demand.; vcpu servers: shared; multiple customers' vCPU servers can share a physical host and the service does not map each vCPU exclusively to a physical core.; dedicated core servers: dedicated; IONOS explicitly says the cores are dedicated physical processor cores. One Hyper-Threading-capable physical core presents two logical vCPUs.; cloud gpu: dedicated CPU cores plus PCIe-passthrough GPU; the smallest documented VM has 15 dedicated AMD EPYC Turin cores.; private cloud: single-tenant physical hosts; the cluster hardware is exclusive to the customer, while that customer decides how its own VMs share the pool.; oversubscription ratio: not_found

Features

• App installation guest control: Linux root and Windows Administrator access permit compatible customer-managed software on VPS+, Compute Engine and Cubes.; bootstrap: Public Cloud accepts startup/user-data automation and exposes console, API, CLI, SDK and Terraform workflows; uploaded images and ISO media support custom installation paths.; vps variants: n8n and OpenClaw marketing paths use the VPS platform; Plesk is a paid panel option. These are variants, not additional compute families.; managed boundary: Deploy Now builds GitHub projects on a separate managed hosting product. Managed Kubernetes, databases and Deploy Now are not software bundled into the benchmark VM.
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• Templates & images public cloud: Stock Linux/Windows/SQL images, per-location custom image and ISO upload, snapshots of HDD/SSD/DAS volumes, snapshot-based volume creation and image lifecycle controls through DCD and Cloud API.; vps plus: Provider OS images, VM cloning, snapshots and optional backup/storage products are exposed in Cloud Panel.; cubes: Cubes deploy from IONOS images and use attached NVMe plus the surrounding VDC image/network controls; deleting the Cube ends the instance and its direct-attached storage lifecycle.; private cloud: VMware templates, snapshots and cloning are customer-controlled inside the private vSphere environment.; backup boundary: Snapshots and optional Backup Service are separate protection mechanisms and are not represented as included independent off-site backup in every benchmark.
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• Network orchestration public cloud: Data Center Designer models Virtual Data Centers, servers, NICs, public/private LANs and storage graphically. Cloud API, CLI, SDKs and the IONOS Terraform provider automate compute, storage and network lifecycle.; services: Managed NAT Gateway, VPN Gateway, Cloud Connect/cross-connect options, public IP blocks, IPv6, flow logs, DDoS protection, application/network load balancers and private connectivity are current ecosystem resources with location-specific availability.; vps plus: Cloud Panel exposes private networking, additional VMs, block/object storage, public addressing, load balancing and traffic controls in a reduced feature set compared with enterprise DCD.; transfer: VPS+ advertises unlimited traffic at 1 Gbit/s. Public Cloud separately meters outbound traffic; private same-datacenter traffic is treated under the price-list rules, so no public egress allowance is attributed to Compute Engine or Cube benchmarks.; availability boundary: Karlsruhe remains in infrastructure documentation for existing workloads but cannot accept new VDC creation and is excluded from this directory.
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• Firewall vps plus: Cloud Panel firewall and DDoS protection are included; customers also retain responsibility for guest firewall policy.; public cloud: NIC-level ingress and egress firewall rules are managed independently of the guest through DCD/API. Managed NAT can prevent unsolicited inbound connections, and Flow Logs aid policy analysis.; advanced: IONOS markets Firewall as a Service for managed/customized cloud security and DDoS Protect tiers; these are separate from the raw VM price.; responsibility: IONOS protects and operates the platform, while the customer configures network rules, guest firewall, identities and applications.
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• Load balancer managed application: Managed Application Load Balancer provides layer-7 traffic distribution, health checks, TLS handling and API/DCD administration as a separately billed resource.; managed network: Managed Network Load Balancer provides layer-4 traffic distribution with listener and target rules as a separately billed resource.; vps plus: The current VPS+ feature set includes a load-balancer control alongside private network and extra-VM resources.; price boundary: No load-balancer fee is included in the benchmark VM prices.
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• DNS management cloud dns: IONOS Cloud DNS is a separately operated authoritative DNS service with zones, records, API/automation and geographically distributed infrastructure.; consumer dns: IONOS domain/DNS controls can point managed names and records at VPS addresses; DNS management is listed with VPS+.; reverse dns: Public Cloud support handles service requests such as reverse DNS; a universal automatic PTR entitlement for every address is not inferred.; price boundary: Domain registration and separately priced Cloud DNS usage are not included in VM benchmark prices.
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• Git integrations github: IONOS Deploy Now connects to GitHub, detects supported frameworks, creates a GitHub Actions workflow and automatically rebuilds/deploys selected branches.; infrastructure automation: IONOS Cloud APIs and Terraform can be invoked from a customer CI/CD pipeline or Git-hosted workflow to provision VMs and networks.; boundary: Deploy Now is managed application hosting, not a raw-VM control-plane integration and not software automatically installed in a benchmark VM. No equivalent first-party GitLab or Bitbucket account integration for raw VM provisioning was verified.
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• Container registry ionos registry: IONOS Cloud Private Container Registry stores Docker images, OCI artifacts and Helm charts, implements Docker Registry HTTP API v2, supports Docker CLI and CI/CD access, and is described as integrated with Compute Engine.; kubernetes: Registry images can be referenced directly by IONOS Managed Kubernetes deployments; the current managed registry is available in the Frankfurt region.; raw vm use: A root customer can authenticate and pull registry images with Docker-compatible guest tooling, but a raw VM is not booted from an OCI image and the registry is separately billed.; external boundary: The documentation positions the private service as an alternative to relying on Docker Hub; it does not establish native VM-control-plane OAuth integrations with Docker Hub, GitHub Container Registry, GitLab Registry, Quay or Amazon ECR.
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