KEY FINDING. From 1 October 2026, OVHcloud’s Generation 3 Public Cloud instances (B3, C3, R3) stop including local storage and a public IPv4 address. Both become separate lines: local NVMe at €0.0001458 per GB per hour, about €0.11 per GB a month, and IPv4 at €0.0027 per hour, about €1.97 a month. The hourly instance price does not move. For an identical configuration OVHcloud’s own table shows the bill rising 1.4% to 21.9%, and the smallest sizes take the biggest hit: b3-8 €37 to €45, c3-4 €33 to €41, r3-16 €48 to €56 a month. Two levers cut most of it: release IPv4 addresses that instances do not need, and use the flex variants, whose local disk is fixed at 50 GB. A b3-64 rises 14.9% as a standard instance and 2.3% as a flex.
This is a change note. Every figure was read on 6 September 2026 from OVHcloud’s two announcement posts of 25 August 2026, both linked at the end, with the tables read on screen rather than through a converter. We have not run a workload on OVHcloud and this page does not rank providers. It records what changes, for whom, by how much, and what to do before the date. The last section puts the change next to the three other European cloud price increases of 2026 that we have verified against the vendor’s own page.
What changes, in OVHcloud’s words
Two posts by Octave Klaba, both dated 25 August 2026, carry the change. The model post: “these two resources will become separate billable lines. The price of the virtual machine, or the compute, will not change.” The detail post gives the range: “the increase in price ranges from 1.4% to 21.9%, dependent on size.” The stated reason is component cost: “Buying memory costs us six times more today than it did a year ago, and storage is following the same trajectory.” The stated design choice is to make the increase actionable rather than flat: “an IP address that serves no purpose can be released, or an oversized volume can be reduced.”
The three lines
| Component | Rate from 1 October 2026 | Per month at 730 hours |
|---|---|---|
| B3, C3, R3 instance (compute) | Unchanged | Unchanged |
| Local Low Latency storage (the NVMe disk that used to be included) | €0.0001458 per GB per hour | €0.106 per GB, so €5.32 for 50 GB, €10.64 for 100 GB, €21.29 for 200 GB, €42.57 for 400 GB |
| Public IPv4 address | €0.0027 per hour, billed per second, also while unattached | €1.97 |
| Block Storage (HA), Object Storage, File Storage | Unchanged | Unchanged |
Excluding tax throughout. The local disk size is still fixed by instance size (50, 100, 200 or 400 GB), so the new storage line is set by the size you pick, not by how much of the disk you use. OVHcloud says it is working on sizing that disk independently, or starting without one, but “We do not have an announcement date set for now.”
What the same configuration costs after 1 October
Monthly, excluding tax, 730 hours, no commitment, with the local capacity each model ships with today. The standard columns are OVHcloud’s published table. The flex columns are the same sizes with the disk fixed at 50 GB, also from OVHcloud’s table. The smaller sizes are the ones a single WordPress site, an n8n instance or a home-lab gateway would run on, so they are shown in full; the large sizes are there to show where the increase becomes marginal.
| Instance | Local disk today | Today, €/mo | Standard from 1 Oct, €/mo | Change | Flex from 1 Oct, €/mo | Change (flex) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| b3-8 | 50 GB | 37 | 45 | +19.5% | 44 | +18.9% |
| b3-16 | 100 GB | 75 | 87 | +16.9% | 82 | +9.3% |
| b3-32 | 200 GB | 149 | 173 | +15.6% | 156 | +4.7% |
| b3-64 | 400 GB | 299 | 343 | +14.9% | 306 | +2.3% |
| b3-128 | 400 GB | 598 | 642 | +7.5% | 605 | +1.2% |
| b3-256 | 400 GB | 1,195 | 1,240 | +3.7% | 1,202 | +0.6% |
| c3-4 | 50 GB | 33 | 41 | +21.9% | 40 | +21.2% |
| c3-8 | 100 GB | 67 | 79 | +18.9% | 74 | +10.4% |
| c3-16 | 200 GB | 133 | 156 | +17.5% | 140 | +5.3% |
| c3-32 | 400 GB | 266 | 311 | +16.7% | 273 | +2.6% |
| r3-16 | 50 GB | 48 | 56 | +15.1% | 55 | +14.6% |
| r3-32 | 100 GB | 97 | 109 | +13.1% | 104 | +7.2% |
| r3-64 | 200 GB | 193 | 217 | +12.0% | 200 | +3.6% |
| r3-128 | 400 GB | 387 | 431 | +11.5% | 394 | +1.8% |
The euro increase is nearly the same across a family because the disk is capped at 400 GB and the IP is a fixed amount: about €8 a month at 50 GB, €12 at 100 GB, €24 at 200 GB and €44 at 400 GB, which is the component arithmetic (€5.32 + €1.97, €10.64 + €1.97, and so on) rounded to whole euros in OVHcloud’s table. That is why the percentage falls as the instance grows. For a single public-facing server on a b3-8, the change is €8 a month, €96 a year, and there is no configuration that removes all of it: a server that faces the internet needs the IPv4, and the smallest disk is 50 GB. OVHcloud lists the flex b3-8 at €44, one euro less, although both carry the same 50 GB; the table is rounded to whole euros, so read that as rounding rather than a saving.
Who is affected, and who is not
| Your situation | What happens on 1 October | Source wording |
|---|---|---|
| B3, C3 or R3 instance, pay as you go | Local disk and IPv4 appear as two new lines at the rates above | “now two separate billing lines” |
| B2, C2, R2 or older generation | Nothing changes; the disk stays included | “Local storage remains included on all previous ranges” |
| Savings Plan bought before the new grid | Instance price and discount stay guaranteed to the end of the term, but disk and IPv4 are charged at full rate from 1 October anyway | “they will be charged at the current rate, even if your commitment is still in progress” |
| Savings Plan on the new grid (from 1 September) | 12 months at 15% off or 36 months at 30% off, applied to compute only; the 1, 6 and 24-month terms are gone | “The discount is on compute” |
| Public IPv4 reserved but not attached | Billed anyway, per second | “including when the address is not attached to an instance” |
OVHcloud’s own worked example for the Savings Plan case is the clearest statement of what a pre-October plan does and does not protect: a c3-8 bought on 1 July 2026 under the old 35% discount pays €44 a month through September, then €56 a month from October to the end of the term, because “local storage and IPv4 address will no longer be included in the discount and will be charged at the full rate.” At renewal on the new grid the same instance is €69.
The cheapest way through it
Three levers, all from OVHcloud’s posts, in order of how much they save. First, release IPv4 addresses that instances do not need. Put one gateway in front and keep the rest on the private network; OVHcloud’s estimate is that this “saves around €2 per month per instance,” and its example of one gateway plus ten private instances lands at €860.70 instead of €869.70 with an address on every box. Do this before 1 October, because reserved addresses are billed whether or not they are attached. Second, use flex instances where the workload does not need the big local disk. Their disk is fixed at 50 GB, so the added line is about €7 a month for every size in a family; the table above shows a b3-64 going from +14.9% to +2.3%. Third, if you need capacity beyond 50 GB, price remote Block Storage against local; the HA Block Storage classes are unchanged by this announcement. What you cannot do is lock the old all-in price: even a Savings Plan bought before the change pays the new disk and IP lines from 1 October.
The 2026 European cloud price ledger, as of 6 September
OVHcloud is the fourth European infrastructure vendor to raise prices this year. Two of the four touched the IPv4 line: Scaleway raised its Flexible IPv4 by 25% and OVHcloud made the address a line of its own. All four cite memory and storage component costs. Each entry below was read from the vendor’s own announcement on 6 September 2026; the figures are the vendor’s, not ours.
| Vendor | Announced | Effective | What changed | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OVHcloud (this page) | 25 Aug 2026 | 1 Oct 2026 | Local disk (€0.11/GB/mo) and IPv4 (€1.97/mo) billed separately on B3/C3/R3; same configuration +1.4% to +21.9%. Savings Plans cut to 12 months at 15% and 36 at 30% | Gen 3 instances; older generations unchanged |
| OVHcloud, earlier round | 5 Mar 2026 | April 2026 | Public Cloud, Bare Metal and VPS list prices: “between 9% and 11%” on average for 2026 to 2028 infrastructure, “2% to 6%” on pre-2025 lines. Renewals at the old rate were allowed for up to two years before the date | New orders and renewals |
| Hetzner | 27 May 2026 | 15 Jun 2026 | Cloud server prices raised across CX, CPX and CCX lines “for new orders and cloud instance rescales”. Our line-by-line table and the alternatives arithmetic | New orders and rescales; running servers keep their price until changed |
| netcup | 19 Mar 2026 | 19 Mar (new) and 1 May 2026 (existing) | New orders “will increase by 24.33%”; existing hosting contracts “will increase by 18.51%” from the first billing period after 1 May; Storage Space and Local Block Storage add-ons +21.52% | VPS, VPS ARM, VPS Lite, Root Server, web hosting, vGPU, managed private server |
| Scaleway | 27 Apr 2026 | 1 Jun 2026 | Compute roughly +2% (DEV1-S €0.0088 to €0.00898 an hour, PRO2-XXS €0.055 to €0.0561); Flexible IPv4 €0.004 to €0.005 an hour (+25%, about €2.92 to €3.65 a month); Block Storage SSD €0.000118 to €0.00013 per GB-hour (+10%); STARDUST1-S €0.00015 to €0.0006 an hour (four times); Dedibox Core-10-S €199.99 to €229.99 a month. Products not listed in its table are unchanged | New and existing customers |
One pattern is worth naming because it changes how to read a price list. In two of the four cases the compute line barely moved (Scaleway about 2%, OVHcloud 0%) and the increase arrived through the lines around it: the IP address, the disk, the snapshot. A comparison that looks only at the instance price will now understate the bill on exactly the vendors that chose that route. Our price-per-GB table and the managed hosting calculator price the server line; from October, on OVHcloud, add the two lines above to any figure you take from either.
Limits of this page
We have no OVHcloud account and no invoice to check the new lines against; the instance figures are OVHcloud’s published table and the per-month component figures are our arithmetic at 730 hours from the published hourly rates. The gateway example and the “around €2 per month per instance” saving are OVHcloud’s estimates. We did not price Block Storage as a replacement for local disk, only noted that its rates are unchanged. The OVHcloud April round is described from the announcement’s own averages, not from a per-product table. The ledger covers four vendors we have verified; it is not a claim that no other European provider changed prices in 2026.
Sources, read 6 September 2026
- OVHcloud, 25 August 2026: Public Cloud: the end of the all-in-one plan (model, reasons, Savings Plans)
- OVHcloud, 25 August 2026: Public Cloud: Pricing changes as of October 1, 2026 (component rates, instance-by-instance table, flex table, worked examples)
- OVHcloud, 5 March 2026: Pricing evolution of Public Cloud, Bare Metal and VPS
- Hetzner: Price adjustment and 27 May 2026 press release
- netcup: Price adjustment
- Scaleway, 27 April 2026: A transparent update on Scaleway pricing