What changes in OVHcloud Public Cloud pricing on 1 October 2026?
From 1 October 2026 OVHcloud bills local NVMe storage and the public IPv4 address separately on B3, C3 and R3 instances: storage 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 change. For an identical configuration the bill rises 1.4% to 21.9%: b3-8 €37 to €45, c3-4 €33 to €41, r3-16 €48 to €56 a month. Older generations (B2, C2, R2) keep storage included.
Key finding Release IPv4 addresses that instances do not need (OVHcloud: about €2 a month per instance) and use flex instances with a fixed 50 GB disk; a b3-64 rises 2.3% as a flex against 14.9% as a standard instance. A Savings Plan bought before the change keeps its instance price but pays the new disk and IP lines from 1 October.
Prices verified 6 September 2026 against each vendor’s own pricing page, linked in full below.
Also updated 8 September 2026. The summary row on this page still said the change was limited to Gen 3 instances after we widened the IPv4 scope to eight ranges earlier the same day. The two scopes are now separated: the disk unbundling is Gen 3, the IPv4 unbundling is wider. Two further corrections the same day: the euro table here is rounded to whole euros by us and not by OVHcloud, whose price pages carry cents, and the claim that a public facing server simply needs an IPv4 address has been replaced with the two ways to avoid one and what each of them costs you instead.
Updated 8 September 2026. Our daily price watch caught the OVHcloud price list adding the same 1 October notice to five more ranges: Storage Optimized, Discovery, GPU, Metal and Gateway all lose the included IPv4 address on that date. Only b3, c3 and r3 lose the local disk as well. The table below now covers all eight. Updated 7 September 2026. The sentence on stated causes in the ledger section now quotes each vendor’s own wording; the earlier version said all four cited memory and storage costs, which is true of OVHcloud and Scaleway only. Every entry below is also a row in our 2026 infrastructure price change ledger.
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 and flex columns follow OVHcloud’s published prices for the same sizes, with the flex disk fixed at 50 GB, rounded here to whole euros. OVHcloud does not publish them that way: its price pages display these figures to the cent. So read a one euro gap between two rows as rounding rather than a real difference, and read the percentages as approximate for the same reason. 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 the table above. The component rates are OVHcloud’s; the whole euros are ours. 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 while keeping the same shape of server. The disk cannot go below 50 GB. The IPv4 line is avoidable in a narrower sense than the first version of this page implied: an instance can run without a public IPv4 address, either by serving IPv6 only or by keeping the public address on a gateway or load balancer in front of a private instance. Both move the cost rather than deleting it, and the IPv6 only route means every client on an IPv4 only network stops reaching the server directly. For a single public facing box that has to answer the general internet today, the address is not optional in practice, which is why €96 a year is the figure to plan against. The flex b3-8 shows one euro less than the standard b3-8 in the table above although both carry the same 50 GB; that gap is our rounding, not 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 | The disk stays included | “Local storage remains included on all previous ranges” |
| Storage Optimized, Discovery, GPU, Metal and Gateway instances | The IPv4 address is unbundled here too, on the same date, without the storage change. On 8 September 2026 the OVHcloud price list carried a dated notice on all eight ranges, not only the three above | “Starting 1 October 2026 The IPv4 address will no longer be included in the price and will be billed separately” |
| 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 hardware costs: OVHcloud and Scaleway name memory and storage specifically, Hetzner “the ongoing challenges in the hardware procurement market”, netcup “drastically increased costs for hardware and infrastructure”. 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) unbundled on B3/C3/R3; same configuration +1.4% to +21.9%. IPv4 (€1.97/mo) unbundled on eight ranges, not only those three. Savings Plans cut to 12 months at 15% and 36 at 30% | The disk change is Gen 3 only. The IPv4 change also reaches Storage Optimized, Discovery, GPU, Metal and Gateway. B2, C2, R2 keep included storage |
| 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