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 Skeptic
Has seen "your website for 1 euro" renew at thirty, templates that only exist inside the builder, an export that turns out to be the blog posts alone, and a domain that costs a fee to move. Reads "GDPR compliant" next to a cookie banner that loads trackers before anyone clicks, and a subprocessor list that stops at the CDN — and asks what leaving would cost.
IONOS MyWebsite
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
This judge's pick
Criterion by criterion
Editor, templates & design control
IONOS MyWebsite
The template gallery covers seven industry categories, an AI generator drafts a site with texts and images from the branch alone, and higher tiers document flexibly designable sections and colours plus AI image, colour and text tools. But we found no public information on separate mobile editing beyond a three-device preview at template selection, pages in a second language, custom code in the builder, collaborator roles or a version history that can be restored.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
The captured pages show a WYSIWYG web editor with design templates, responsive layouts, widgets and AI generators for websites, text, images and meta data, backed by 29 industry templates and over 130 designs. The multilingual function is stated as not available, and we found no public information on custom code, separate mobile editing, roles for collaborators or version history.
Hosting, domains & portability
IONOS MyWebsite
The running side is solid: a domain included (free the first year on Starter), a free wildcard SSL certificate, stated storage from 100 GB, unlimited bandwidth, a plan-dependent CDN, geo-redundant storage across two datacentres, mailboxes and SSH/SFTP access. What leaving would cost is the question these pages never answer: we found no public information on backups or a restore function, on an export of pages, content or media, on an uptime commitment, or on where the datacentres sit.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
Hosting comes with a permanently included domain, an included SSL certificate, 10 GB webspace, unlimited traffic, mailboxes on the own domain and German data centres, and the terms commit to at least 99 % availability in the annual average — while also expecting the customer to make regular backups. Leaving is the open question: moving a site in from five other builders is documented, but we found no public information on exporting pages, content or media.
SEO, analytics & visibility
IONOS MyWebsite
Visibility tooling is documented and named: automatic SEO optimisation, an AI SEO assistant, rankingCoach Standard and built-in visitor statistics (marketingRadar, SiteAnalytics Plus on higher plans). We found no public information, however, on editable page titles and descriptions, sitemaps, redirects, indexing control or local listings — the technical basics an owner cannot verify are undescribed.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
An AI SEO assistant for the website's meta data is documented and the Pro plan is marketed with an SEO focus; the captured pages give different figures for whether rankingCoach is included, from present in Pro on one page to listed as not present on another. We found no public information on sitemaps, redirects, visitor statistics or indexing control.
Forms, bookings & business features
IONOS MyWebsite
An integrated online booking tool and an optional online shop with social-media connections are documented, which is more than static pages. We found no public information on contact or custom forms, spam protection, notifications, where entries are stored, payment handling or named CRM, newsletter or calendar integrations — the form side of the story is simply not told.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
Appointment booking is named among the additional functions, and a shop can be added through separate SmartWebshop or WooCommerce tariffs, so the site does more than show pages. The form side is undocumented: we found no public information on contact or custom forms, spam protection, where entries are stored or notifications.
Imprint, privacy & cookie compliance
IONOS MyWebsite
A genuine strength: GDPR-conform imprint and privacy texts under German law from a named partner, IT-Recht Kanzlei München, checked daily and auto-updated, with liability takeover in cease-and-desist cases and a published data processing agreement. But the visitor-facing half is dark: we found no public information on a cookie consent banner, consent blocking for embeds, GDPR handling of form entries, fonts served without third-country transfer, or accessibility.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
Legal texts for the site are genuinely covered: AGB, revocation notice, privacy policy and imprint are generated with a named partner, IT-Recht Kanzlei, and updated automatically when the law changes; cease-and-desist protection is offered as an optional add-on, a data processing agreement is published, and an accessibility statement under the European Accessibility Act exists. We found no public information on a consent banner that blocks scripts on the customer's site until visitors consent, or on GDPR handling of form entries.
European sovereignty
IONOS MyWebsite
The contracting entity is provably European — IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, Montabaur, registered at Amtsgericht Montabaur under HRB 24498 — and the vendor publishes a data processing agreement and acts as processor. The chain behind it stays cloudy: hosting location is not stated beyond "two geographically independent datacentres", and the only subprocessors named anywhere are the privacy policy's marketing partners — Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Reddit and Google, receiving hashed customer data — without locations or certifications.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
The core of the chain is German and documented: STRATO GmbH in Berlin, registered at Berlin-Charlottenburg, under German law with the courts in Berlin, part of United Internet, with data centres in Germany and a published data processing agreement. Hashed customer master data is transmitted to US marketing partners (Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Reddit, Google Customer Match), a Microsoft cloud agreement covers optionally resold products, and we found no public information on subprocessor locations or certifications such as ISO 27001.
Pricing transparency
IONOS MyWebsite
Plans show the introductory price, its duration, the price after it and a 10 € setup fee, domain renewals are published (.de at 0,08 €/Monat for 12 months, then 1,30 €/Monat), VAT inclusion is stated and the legal-protection add-ons carry monthly prices (8 € and 12 €). Two things stop full computability: the captured pages give different regular prices for the Plus plan — 18 €/Monat on the builder page, 11 €/Monat on the hosting pages — and minimum term and notice period are only acknowledged to exist ("teils abhängig von Mindestvertragslaufzeiten") without being stated; transaction fees are also not described.
STRATO Homepage-Baukasten
Every plan is priced publicly with its introductory offer and the price after it — Basic at "0 €/Mon. für 1 Monat danach 7 €/Mon.", Plus at "1 €/Mon. für 12 Monate danach 12 €/Mon." — with "Einrichtung: 0 €", VAT included, a twelve-month term and one month's notice, plus a 2,50 € charge per invoice for postal delivery. The add-on edges stay fuzzy: service fees for contract transfer, reactivation or repeat invoices are named without amounts, and we found no public information on prices for the optional cease-and-desist protection, the optional 24/7 hotline or the separate shop tariffs.
Sovereignty, side by side
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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.