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Pricing breakdown

IONOS pricing

Promotional price, renewal price, first invoice and three-year true cost for every plan and term.

IONOS leads with $1-a-month offers that run for the first 12 months, then step up to the regular price. The regular prices are moderate; the first-year number is the marketing.

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Shared hosting

Essential

Essential: each row is one way to buy the plan. "First invoice" is what checkout charges; the three-year cost assumes you keep it for 36 months and renew at the renewal rate.
PlanTerm boughtPromo / moRenewal / moFirst invoice3-year true cost
IONOS
Essential
Checked Oct 15, 2026Verified
1 year$4.00$8.00
from month 13
$48.00$240.00
$6.67/mo effective
What Essential includes
FeatureEssential
Websites1
Storage10 GB
Bandwidth / visitsUnlimited
Free domainFirst 12 months
Email hostingIncluded
BackupsIncluded
CDNNot included
StagingNot included
SSLIncluded
Shared hosting

Business

Business: each row is one way to buy the plan. "First invoice" is what checkout charges; the three-year cost assumes you keep it for 36 months and renew at the renewal rate.
PlanTerm boughtPromo / moRenewal / moFirst invoice3-year true cost
IONOS
Business
Checked Oct 9, 2026Unverified
1 year$1.00$10.00
from month 13
$12.00$252.00
$7.00/mo effective
What Business includes
FeatureBusiness
WebsitesUnlimited
Storage50 GB
Bandwidth / visitsUnlimited
Free domainFirst 12 months
Email hostingIncluded
BackupsIncluded
CDNIncluded
StagingNot included
SSLIncluded
Shared hosting

Expert

Expert: each row is one way to buy the plan. "First invoice" is what checkout charges; the three-year cost assumes you keep it for 36 months and renew at the renewal rate.
PlanTerm boughtPromo / moRenewal / moFirst invoice3-year true cost
IONOS
Expert
Checked Oct 9, 2026Unverified
1 year$12.00$16.00
from month 13
$144.00$528.00
$14.67/mo effective
What Expert includes
FeatureExpert
WebsitesUnlimited
Storage100 GB
Bandwidth / visitsUnlimited
Free domainFirst 12 months
Email hostingIncluded
BackupsIncluded
CDNIncluded
StagingNot included
SSLIncluded

Add-ons IONOS charges for

Per year. A plan that includes one of these (see “What the plan includes”) doesn’t pay it for the included months.

Add-onFirst yearRenewal / yearChecked
Domain name
.com renewal · Free for the first year.
$0.00$20.00Checked Oct 9, 2026Unverified

Prices in USD for US customers. Sources: IONOS’s pricing pages on the dates shown. How we compute the three-year cost.