As of 29 Oct 2026, the panel rates IONOS MyWebsite 2.5/5 and STRATO Homepage-Baukasten 2.5/5 in Website Builders. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 2 of the 6 judges pick IONOS MyWebsite and 3 pick STRATO Homepage-Baukasten, 1 calls it a tie. IONOS MyWebsite scores higher on 3 of 7 criteria (Forms, bookings & business features, Editor, templates & design control and SEO, analytics & visibility). STRATO Homepage-Baukasten scores higher on 4 of 7 criteria (Hosting, domains & portability, European sovereignty, Imprint, privacy & cookie compliance, plus 1 more). Provenance — IONOS MyWebsite: EU-Made; STRATO Homepage-Baukasten: EU-Made. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
The panel splits. IONOS MyWebsite leads on editor and design (5.0 vs 4.2, four lean IONOS, one STRATO, one tie) and forms and business (4.0 vs 3.0, five lean IONOS). STRATO Homepage-Baukasten leads on hosting and portability (5.7 vs 5.0, four lean STRATO), sovereignty (5.5 vs 4.8, four lean STRATO), legal compliance (6.2 vs 5.8, two lean STRATO, four tie) and pricing transparency (7.2 vs 7.0, one lean STRATO, five tie). SEO and marketing sits closest (4.0 vs 3.7, two lean IONOS, four tie). Weighted totals split: the freelance designer has IONOS 4.8 to STRATO 4.3, the marketing lead IONOS 4.8 to 4.7, the data protection officer 5 to 5, the skeptic STRATO 5.3 to IONOS 5.2; no totals appear for the small-business owner and practice owner. Sovereignty attributes: STRATO's data residency reads EU-only, ownership unknown; IONOS's ownership reads listed, data residency unknown; both list US Cloud Act subprocessor exposure.
Choose IONOS MyWebsite if
You need the editor the panel favors: four judges lean IONOS MyWebsite on editor and design (5.0 vs 4.2), where the skeptic and small-business owner scored the AI generator and template gallery at 6.
Forms and business features decide your choice: five judges lean IONOS MyWebsite there (4.0 vs 3.0).
Your buying mirrors the freelance designer's or the marketing lead's view: their weighted totals are IONOS MyWebsite 4.8 to STRATO 4.3, and 4.8 to 4.7.
You want an owner on the record: IONOS MyWebsite's ownership attribute reads 'listed', while STRATO Homepage-Baukasten's reads 'unknown'.
SEO and marketing tools are your focus: two judges lean IONOS MyWebsite (4.0 vs 3.7) and four tie, with SEO and analytics tools named on its pages.
Choose STRATO Homepage-Baukasten if
Your policy requires data residency in the EU: STRATO Homepage-Baukasten's data residency attribute reads EU-only; IONOS MyWebsite's reads unknown.
Hosting matters most to your team: four judges lean STRATO on hosting and portability (5.7 vs 5.0), citing German data centres, a permanently included domain with SSL and 10 GB webspace.
You need legal texts that update automatically: two judges lean STRATO on legal compliance (6.2 vs 5.8); its texts are generated with IT-Recht Kanzlei and updated when the law changes.
Sovereignty carries extra weight in your review: four judges lean STRATO (5.5 vs 4.8).
You compare published prices line by line: STRATO leads pricing transparency 7.2 to 7.0, with one judge leaning its way and five tying; plans list introductory and regular prices, VAT included, and "Einrichtung: 0 €".
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The Data Protection Officer
Serves as external data protection officer for thirty small companies and reviews their websites once a year. Wants a consent banner that blocks scripts and embeds until the visitor agrees, fonts and maps that do not leave for the US on page load, a data processing agreement and subprocessor list that can be filed, form entries with a retention period, and hosting that is named rather than implied.
IONOS MyWebsite
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
This judge calls it a tie.
Criterion by criterion
Editor, templates & design control
IONOS MyWebsite
Templates are sorted into business, services, gastro, health, creative and non-profit categories and described as individually customisable, with an AI generator drafting a complete site with texts and images, flexible sections and colours, AI colour palettes and a desktop, tablet and smartphone preview. We found no public information on multilingual pages, custom code, collaborator roles or version history, so this is a competent visual editor rather than fine design control.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
A WYSIWYG editor with design templates across several industries, responsive layouts and AI generators for site, text and images is documented, with twenty-nine industry templates and over 130 designs via the design service. The multilingual function, however, is explicitly listed as not available, and we found no public information on separate mobile editing, custom code snippets or collaborator roles.
Hosting, domains & portability
IONOS MyWebsite
Hosting with an included domain, a free wildcard SSL certificate, redundant storage in two geographically independent data centres, unlimited bandwidth, a tariff-dependent CDN, PHP 8.2 with HTTP/2 and gzip, mailboxes and SSH access are documented in depth. We found no public information on backups, a restore function, an uptime commitment or any export of pages, content and media — for a hosting vendor I want the export answer in writing.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
Hosting in named German data centres, a permanently included domain with SSL, ten gigabytes of webspace, unlimited traffic and two mailboxes are documented, and the terms promise at least 99 percent availability in the annual average. Portability is the weak point: only importing from WordPress, Wix or Jimdo is described, we found no public information on a documented export of the built site, and the terms put regular backups on the customer.
SEO, analytics & visibility
IONOS MyWebsite
The captures show automatic SEO optimisation, a KI SEO assistant, a KI Search-Manager, rankingCoach Standard and tracking via marketingRadar and SiteAnalytics Plus. We found no public information on editable page titles and descriptions, sitemaps, redirects or social previews, so the documented depth falls short of a full SEO toolkit.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
An AI SEO assistant for the site's meta data is documented and a marketing tool is present on all plans; the captured pages give different figures for the rankingCoach SEO tool, shown on the top plan in one place and as not available in another. We found no public information on sitemaps, redirects, redirects handling, visitor analytics or indexing control.
Forms, bookings & business features
IONOS MyWebsite
An onlineshop and a booking tool are described as additions to the website, alongside marketed e-commerce functions and social-media connections. We found no public information on contact or custom forms, spam protection, where form entries are stored or any retention period for them, and as data protection officer that silence decides the score.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
Appointment booking is named as one example of additional functions, a shop arrives via a separate SmartWebshop or WooCommerce upgrade with payment processing, and password protection exists. Beyond that we found no public information on contact or custom forms, field types, spam protection, where entries are stored or notifications — and nothing on retention periods for form entries, which is the first thing I look for.
Imprint, privacy & cookie compliance
IONOS MyWebsite
A named legal-text partner (IT-Recht Kanzlei München) supplies GDPR-conform imprint and privacy texts under German law that are reviewed daily, updated automatically and embedded with one click, liability is assumed in a cease-and-desist case, and a data processing agreement is published with IONOS acting as processor and a reachable data protection officer. We found no public information on a consent banner that blocks scripts until consent, on form data handling, on fonts or maps served without a US transfer, or on accessibility.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
A data processing agreement is published for filing, legal texts for the imprint, privacy policy, terms and revocation notice are generated with the named partner IT-Recht Kanzlei and automatically updated when the law changes, Abmahnschutz is offered as an option, and an accessibility statement is published. For a higher score I would need to see a consent banner that blocks scripts and embeds until the visitor agrees, documented GDPR handling of form entries, and fonts and maps served without a US transfer — on all three we found no public information.
European sovereignty
IONOS MyWebsite
The legal notice establishes IONOS SE in Montabaur with a commercial register entry and a German VAT number, and a data processing agreement is published, but storage is described only as two geographically independent data centres with no named location and no subprocessor list in the captures. From these pages alone I cannot file a hosting location or a subprocessor chain for my clients, so the German contracting entity carries the score on its own.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
The contracting entity is STRATO GmbH in Berlin with register court and VAT identification, hosting runs in STRATO's own German data centres, the company declares itself a processor under Article 28 and the agreement is published. But no subprocessor list with locations is published, and the privacy policy names US marketing partners (Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Reddit, Google) receiving hashed customer contact data; we found no public information on ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certifications.
Pricing transparency
IONOS MyWebsite
Plans are priced publicly with the introductory price and its duration, the regular price afterwards, a setup fee of 10 €, VAT-inclusive figures and a 30-day money-back guarantee, while the domain pages list introductory and regular monthly prices per ending and the legal-text add-ons are priced at 8 € and 12 € per month. The minimum term and notice period are only referenced as conditions of the offers without figures and transaction fees on sales are not described; the captured pages also give different figures for a plan called Plus on the website-builder page and on the hosting pages, which appear to be different product lines.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
All three plans are public with the introductory price, its duration, the regular price after it, a zero setup fee and prices including VAT, and the terms give twelve-month terms with one month's notice. The optional Abmahnschutz and the SmartWebshop tariffs are unpriced, and service fees are named without amounts apart from 2,50 € per postal invoice.
Sovereignty, side by side
Dimension
IONOS MyWebsite
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Legal entity
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Hosting location
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Hosting options
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Open source
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Data processing agreement
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Transfer impact assessment
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Facts, side by side
Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.
Questions about IONOS MyWebsite and STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
Which is better, IONOS MyWebsite or STRATO Homepage-Baukasten?
As of 29 Oct 2026, the panel rates both 2.5/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 2 of the 6 judges pick IONOS MyWebsite and 3 pick STRATO Homepage-Baukasten, 1 calls it a tie. Which one fits depends on the criteria that matter to you; the table on this page shows both side by side, and each judge’s reading has its own page. Both were scored by the same AI bench under the same rubric, from public evidence only, as the methodology describes.
Is IONOS MyWebsite or STRATO Homepage-Baukasten European?
IONOS MyWebsite is European (EU-Made). STRATO Homepage-Baukasten is European (EU-Made). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.