# IONOS MyWebsite — Website Builders IONOS MyWebsite by IONOS SE holds a panel rating of 2.5/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2.5/5), as of 2026-10-29. Provenance: EU-Made; sovereignty: not determined. - Vendor: IONOS SE (https://www.ionos.de/websites/homepage-baukasten) - Category: [Website Builders](https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder.md) - Provenance (editorial classification): EU-Made - Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/ionos-mywebsite - Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/ionos-mywebsite/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/ionos-mywebsite/alternatives.md)) - Data as of: 2026-11-04 · evaluated 2026-10-29 · oldest source captured 2026-10-28 **AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology ## At a glance - Vendor: IONOS SE - Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026 - Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026 - Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026 - Starting price: “Ab 1 € /Monat” (vendor’s words) [S1] ## The panel's verdict IONOS MyWebsite is the website builder of IONOS SE of Montabaur, Germany. Pricing transparency leads at a flat 7 — introductory price and duration, the price afterwards, a 10 € setup fee and a 30-day money-back guarantee — though the captured pages give different figures for the Plus plan's regular price (11 € and 18 €). Legal compliance follows at 5–6 on German-law imprint and privacy texts from IT-Recht Kanzlei München, checked daily, auto-updated, with liability takeover in cease-and-desist cases. SEO and marketing, and forms and business, sit flat at 4: SEO and analytics tools are named, but the pages show no public information on page titles, sitemaps, redirects, contact forms, spam protection or where entries are stored. Judges split on editor and design: the skeptic and the small-business owner scored 6 on the AI generator and template gallery; the freelance designer scored 4, wanting breakpoint control and client roles. Hosting and portability split between documented hosting depth and open exit questions. Sovereignty turns on unnamed data-centre locations and no published subprocessor list. **Speaks for it:** - Plans publish the introductory price with its duration, the price afterwards, a 10 € setup fee, VAT inclusion and a 30-day money-back guarantee. - German-law imprint and privacy texts from the named partner IT-Recht Kanzlei München are checked daily, auto-updated and backed by liability takeover in cease-and-desist cases. - Hosting bundles an included domain, a free wildcard SSL certificate, mailboxes, unlimited bandwidth and storage mirrored in two geographically independent data centres. - Templates cover seven industry categories and an AI generator drafts a complete site with texts and images. - A data processing agreement is published, IONOS acts as processor and a German data protection officer is named. **Held against it:** - No public information on contact or custom forms, spam protection, notifications or where form entries are stored. - No public information on editing page titles and descriptions, sitemaps or redirects. - No public information on backups, a restore function or a documented export of pages and content. - The captured pages give different figures for the Plus plan's regular price (11 € and 18 €), with the notice period unpublished. - No named data-centre locations or subprocessor list, while the privacy policy names Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Reddit and Google as marketing partners receiving SHA 256-hashed customer data. **Best for:** - You are a German small business or practice that wants a first site built fast from industry templates and an AI draft, with prices published down to renewals. - You want German-law legal texts handled for you and are open to the Abmahnschutz add-on at 8 € a month for a website (12 € for a shop). - You prefer hosting bundled with the builder — included domain, wildcard SSL certificate and mailbox — from a German-registered provider. **Avoid if:** - You need hands-on control of SEO basics such as page titles and descriptions, sitemaps and redirects for local visibility. - Your intake forms will carry personal or health data whose storage and GDPR handling must be documented before you sign. - You must be able to back up, restore and export your site's content when moving off the platform. - You must file hosting locations and a subprocessor chain for compliance before signing. ## Scores by judge and criterion Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price, or the judge found no public information on that criterion. | Criterion | The Small-Business Owner | The Freelance Web Designer | The Marketing Lead | The Practice Owner | The Data Protection Officer | The Skeptic | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Editor, templates & design control | 3/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | | Hosting, domains & portability | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 2/5 | | SEO, analytics & visibility | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | | Forms, bookings & business features | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | | Imprint, privacy & cookie compliance | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | | European sovereignty | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | | Pricing transparency | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | | **Weighted verdict** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | ### The judges - **The Small-Business Owner** (v1.0): Runs a joinery with six staff and builds the company website on a Sunday afternoon. Wants a template that looks like a craftsman and not like a start-up, to be found when someone nearby searches for a carpenter, an enquiry form that lands in the inbox, the imprint and cookie banner handled without a lawyer, and a price that is still clear in the second year. - **The Freelance Web Designer** (v1.0): Builds about twenty sites a year for doctors, restaurants and consultants, and looks after them afterwards. Wants real control over layout, mobile breakpoints and type, reusable sections across client sites, a client login that cannot break the design, backups that restore in one click, and a way to take the site and its content elsewhere if the client or the tool changes. - **The Marketing Lead** (v1.0): Owns the website of a forty-person engineering firm and is measured on enquiries, not on page views. Wants landing pages built without waiting for the agency, clean URLs, redirects and structured data, analytics that work without a consent wall in front of every visit, and form entries that reach the CRM instead of a shared mailbox. - **The Practice Owner** (v1.0): Runs a physiotherapy practice with four therapists and a waiting list. Wants patients to book and cancel appointments online, a contact form that does not send health details around in plain email, a site an older patient can read and use, a cookie banner that holds up if the regulator asks, and the data kept in Europe. - **The Data Protection Officer** (v1.0): 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. - **The Skeptic** (v1.0): 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. ## European sovereignty — proven facts Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: not determined. | Dimension | Finding | Points | Source | |---|---|---|---| | Legal entity | Not determined | — | — | | Hosting location | Not determined | — | — | | Hosting options | Not determined | — | — | | Open source | Not determined | — | — | | Data processing agreement | Not determined | — | — | | Transfer impact assessment | Not determined | — | — | ## Key facts Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources). **Compliance** - Automated decision making: no [S5] - DPA available: yes [S5] - Objection marketing: Control-Panel · datenschutz@ionos.de [S5] **Legal** - Address: 56410 · Montabaur · Elgendorfer Str. 57 · Deutschland [S6] - Board members: Hüseyin Dogan · Arthur Mai · Dr. Andreas Nauerz · Dr. Markus Noga · Dr. Jens-Christian Reich · Patrik Heider · Achim Weiß [S6] - Commercial register: Amtsgericht Montabaur · HRB 24498 [S6] - Content responsible: Jan Behrens · Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur [S6] - Copyright: 2026 · IONOS SE [S6] - Copyright: 2026 · IONOS SE [S9] - Copyright entity: IONOS SE [S1] - Copyright entity: IONOS SE [S7] - Dsa authority contact: Art. 11 · EU 2022/2065 (DSA) [S6] - Dsa notice form: Art. 16 · Meldeformular / Notice and action mechanisms · EU 2022/2065 (DSA) [S6] - Entity: IONOS SE [S3] - Entity: IONOS SE · Verantwortlicher im Sinne des Art. 4 Nr. 7 DSGVO · Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur, Deutschland [S5] - Entity: IONOS SE [S10] - Entity: IONOS SE [S11] - Entity name: IONOS SE [S6] - Nis2 contact form: Kontaktformular für NIS-2 · NIS-2 (§ 50) [S6] - Ods dispute participation: no [S6] - Privacy policy version: 2025-09-15 [S5] - Regulatory contact point 2021 784: Deutsch · Englisch · EU 2021/784 [S6] - Tech realisation entity: 76137 · Karlsruhe · IONOS SE Website & eCommerce Platforms [S6] - VAT id: DE815563912 [S6] - Youth protection officer: Frau A. Merkl [S6] **Pricing** - Com domain intro: .com · EUR · 12 · 0.08 · 2 [S11] - Couk domain intro: .co.uk · EUR · 12 · 2 · 4 [S11] - De domain intro: .de · EUR · 12 · 0.08 · 1.3 [S11] - Demo plan: Demo · 0 · 7 [S1] - Included all plans: Wunsch-Domain gratis in jedem Tarif [S1] - Info domain intro: .info · EUR · 12 · 0.17 · 3.5 [S11] - Money back: 30 [S10] - Money back guarantee: 30 [S1] - Plus features: 1 · 9 · unlimited · 100 · 200 · 1 [S10] - Plus intro: EUR · 10 · 12 · 1 · 12 · 11 [S10] - Plus plan: Plus · EUR · 1 · 10 · 11 · 12 [S11] - Plus price: Plus · 1 · 18 · 12 [S1] - Premium features: 1 · 15 · unlimited · 250 · 350 · 1 [S10] - Premium intro: EUR · 10 · 6 · 8 · 18 · 16 [S10] - Premium plan: Premium · EUR · 8 · 10 · 16 · 6 [S11] - Pro price: Pro · 18 · 33 · 6 [S1] - Shop plan features: Lizenz für einen Shop · Datenschutzerklärung · Impressum · Update-Service · KI-Website-Scanner · Haftungsübernahme · AGB Erstellung · Widerrufsbelehrung [S4] - Shop plan price: Shop-Abmahnschutz · 12 · monthly [S4] - Standard features: 1 · 6 · unlimited · 10 · 100 · 1 [S10] - Standard intro: EUR · 10 · 6 · 3 · 7 · 6 [S10] - Standard plan: Standard · EUR · 3 · 10 · 6 · 6 [S11] - Starter price: Starter · 6 · 12 · 6 [S1] - Starting price: 1 [S1] - Ultimate features: 1 · 20 · unlimited · 500 · 500 · 1 [S10] - Ultimate intro: EUR · 10 · 6 · 14 · 30 · 28 [S10] - Ultimate plan: Ultimate · EUR · 14 · 10 · 28 · 6 [S11] - VAT included: yes [S1] - VAT included: yes · yes · yes [S4] - VAT included: yes · yes · yes [S3] - VAT included: yes · yes [S9] - VAT included: yes · yes · yes [S10] - VAT included: yes [S11] - VAT note: yes · yes · yes [S6] - Website plan features: Lizenz für eine Website · Datenschutzerklärung · Impressum · Update-Service · KI-Website-Scanner · Haftungsübernahme [S4] - Website plan price: Website-Abmahnschutz · 8 · monthly [S4] **Product** - Act as processor: yes [S5] - AI website generator: yes · yes [S2] - AI website generator: KI-Website-Generator · 5 [S1] - Analytics ultimate: yes [S10] - Cdn: yes [S10] - Click build cms: WordPress · Drupal · Joomla! · TYPO3 [S10] - Custom nameservers: custom nameserver settings / DNS delegation [S11] - Customer count: 8000000 [S7] - Daily legal review: yes · täglich [S4] - Demo webspace: Demo · 1 [S1] - Design preview: desktop · tablet · smartphone · yes [S9] - Domain included with hosting: yes [S11] - DSGVO compliant texts: yes · yes [S4] - Ecommerce features: E-Commerce-Funktionen [S1] - Free domain: yes [S10] - Free domain ssl: Standard · Plus · Premium · free domain and SSL certificate [S11] - Geo redundancy: 2 · yes [S10] - Included all products: yes · yes [S2] - Legal texts included: yes · yes [S4] - Liability takeover: yes [S4] - Managed wordpress features: yes · yes · yes · yes [S2] - Marketing audience hashing: SHA 256 · Meta Custom Audiences · LinkedIn Matched Audiences · TikTok Custom Audiences · Reddit Custom Audiences · Google Customer Match [S5] - Marketing ml recommendations: yes [S5] - Marketing tools: Marketing-Tools [S1] - Mobile optimized: yes [S1] - One click embedding: Website, Shop & Social Media · yes [S4] - Partner law firm: IT-Recht Kanzlei München [S4] - Php version: yes · yes · 8.2 [S10] - Plus features: Web Professionals, Agenturen oder Designer · yes · yes · yes [S2] - Plus features: Plus · KI-Texte und -Bilder · SEO mit KI · Online-Booking · SiteAnalytics [S1] - Plus resources: Plus · 1 · 9 · 100 [S11] - Plus storage: Plus · 200 [S11] - Plus webspace: Plus · 50 · 12 [S1] - Premium resources: Premium · 1 · 15 · 250 [S11] - Premium storage: Premium · 350 [S11] - Presence suite: Presence Suite [S1] - Pro email mailbox: Pro · 50 [S1] - Pro features: 50 · unlimited · unlimited · yes · Plus · yes · yes · yes · yes [S9] - Pro unlimited webspace: Pro · yes · yes [S1] - SEO included: automatische SEO-Optimierung [S1] - Shop excluded: no [S9] - Ssh access: yes · yes · yes [S10] - Ssh access: Standard · Plus · Premium · Ultimate · SSH, SFTP, WP-CLI access [S11] - Ssl ultimate unlimited: yes [S10] - Ssl wildcard: yes [S10] - Ssl wildcard included: yes [S11] - Standard resources: Standard · 1 · 6 · 10 [S11] - Standard storage: Standard · 100 [S11] - Starter AI logo: Starter [S1] - Starter features: Einsteiger · yes · yes · yes [S2] - Starter features: 2 · 10 · 10 · yes · yes · yes [S9] - Starter tracking: Starter · marketingRadar [S1] - Starter webspace: Starter · 10 · 2 [S1] - Template categories: Beliebteste · Business & Unternehmen · Dienstleistungen · Gastro & Events · Gesundheit & Beratung · Kreativ & Portfolio · Persönlich & Non-Profit [S3] - Template customization: Individually customizable design templates with business web apps and image/text suggestions [S3] - Ultimate resources: Ultimate · 1 · 20 · 500 [S11] - Ultimate ssl flat: Ultimate · free domain and unlimited SSL certificates, WebAnalytics Plus [S11] - Ultimate storage: Ultimate · 500 [S11] - Unlimited bandwidth: Standard · Plus · Premium · Ultimate · unlimited [S11] - Webanalytics plus included: Premium · Ultimate · WebAnalytics Plus included [S11] - Wordpress 1click: yes [S10] - Wordpress 1click: Standard · Plus · Premium · Ultimate · 1-click WordPress installation [S11] **Support** - 247 channels: phone · chat · email · yes [S9] - Consultant: yes [S1] - Consulting 247: Standard · Plus · Premium · Ultimate · 24/7 personal [S11] - Expert support: 24/7 · Telefon · Chat · E-Mail [S1] - Personal advisor: yes · nach Ihrer Bestellung [S4] - Personal advisor: yes [S10] - Personal consultant: yes [S9] - Personal contact: }, { [S2] ## Questions ### Is IONOS MyWebsite European? Yes. whats-best.ai classifies IONOS MyWebsite as EU-Made. ### Where does IONOS MyWebsite store data? Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026. ### Does IONOS MyWebsite have a free plan? Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026. ### What are the best alternatives to IONOS MyWebsite? As of 4 Nov 2026, the panel rates [Duda (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/duda), [Wix (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/wix) and [WordPress.com (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/wordpress-com) highest among the other 17 Website Builders products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [Framer](https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/framer) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [IONOS MyWebsite alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/ionos-mywebsite/alternatives). ## Head-to-head - [IONOS MyWebsite vs STRATO Homepage-Baukasten](https://whats-best.ai/compare/ionos-mywebsite-vs-strato-homepage-baukasten.md) ## What this page leaves out - 61 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 16 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 6 compliance facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 5 data facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 4 support facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 3 subprocessors facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 2 hosting facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 2 legal facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 1 sovereignty dimension could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and is shown as unknown. - 6 of the readings below were written against an earlier fact sheet — a fact has been corrected, added or pulled since. Until the panel next runs on this product you are reading the older judgement. ## Sources - [S1] Vendor homepage: https://www.ionos.de/websites/homepage-baukasten (checked 2026-10-28) - [S2] Features page: https://www.ionos.de/websites/homepage-erstellen (checked 2026-10-28) - [S3] Templates page: https://www.ionos.de/websites/templates (checked 2026-10-28) - [S4] Legal-text and cease-and-desist protection page: https://www.ionos.de/websites/abmahnschutz (checked 2026-10-28) - [S5] Privacy policy: https://www.ionos.de/datenschutzerklaerung (checked 2026-10-28) - [S6] Legal notice: https://www.ionos.de/impressum (checked 2026-10-28) - [S7] Security / trust page: https://www.ionos.de/sicherheit (checked 2026-10-28) - [S8] Editor, templates & design control — found from sitemap: https://www.ionos.de/websites/ki-website-erstellen (checked 2026-10-28) - [S9] Editor, templates & design control — found from sitemap: https://www.ionos.de/websites/mobile-webseite-erstellen (checked 2026-10-28) - [S10] Hosting, domains & portability — found from sitemap: https://www.ionos.de/hosting/webspace (checked 2026-10-28) - [S11] Hosting, domains & portability — found from sitemap: https://www.ionos.de/hosting/domain-hosting (checked 2026-10-28) - [S12] Imprint, privacy & cookie compliance — found from sitemap: https://www.ionos.de/tools/impressum-generator (checked 2026-11-01) - [S13] Self-hosting / on-premises installation docs — found from the homepage: https://cloud.ionos.de/preise/on-premise-vs-cloud-computing (checked 2026-11-01) --- Cite as: whats-best.ai, "IONOS MyWebsite — Website Builders", AI panel analysis, as of 2026-11-04. https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/ionos-mywebsite Corrections: https://whats-best.ai/correct/1119?target=page