Same hourly price, higher bill: OVHcloud unbundles its instances

What happened

Effective October 1, 2026, OVHcloud changed how it bills its Generation 3 Public Cloud instances (the B3, C3 and R3 ranges). Local storage and public IPv4 addresses, which used to be bundled into the instance price, are now separate line items.

The hourly price of the instance itself stays the same. Local storage becomes a storage class called Local Low Latency, at about €0.11 per GB per month. A public IPv4 address is about €1.97 per month.

For the same configuration, the total rises by between 1.4% and 21.9%. Because the new charges are roughly fixed in euros, smaller instances take the biggest percentage hit. A b3-8 goes from €37 to €45 a month, up 19.5%. A b3-640 goes from €2,987 to €3,032, up 1.5%.

Separately, a new Savings Plans grid started on September 1: 12 months for 15% off or 36 months for 30% off, applying to compute only. The 1-, 6- and 24-month terms are no longer offered. Existing plans keep their price until they end. Block, object and file storage, and the older B2, C2 and R2 ranges, are not affected.

So what for your business

This is a good example of how cloud prices change in practice. Nobody announced a rate rise. A bundle was split into parts, and the sum went up.

It matters most if you run many small instances, since the fixed charges are a bigger share of a small bill. It also matters if you need local disks, or many public IPs.

The wider lesson applies to any provider. The advertised unit price is only one part of the bill. Storage, IP addresses, data transfer and support are where changes tend to show up.

What to do this month

1. Re-read last month's invoice by line item. Look at what's billed separately and what's bundled.
2. Model the change per instance size. If you run mostly small instances, expect the larger percentage.
3. Count your public IPs. Release any you don't need, or put services behind a load balancer.
4. Re-run the savings plan maths. The new terms are 12 or 36 months. Check which suits how stable your workload is.
5. Keep an exit path. If a provider's pricing keeps shifting, being able to move a workload in weeks is leverage.