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OVH Cloud warns of 87% price hikes to help it cover RAMpocalypse costs
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OVH Cloud announced steep price increases for new server rentals, especially gaming servers, and introduced separate billing for storage and IP while dropping several short-term discount contracts.
Engineers using OVH must account for substantially higher monthly expenses on fresh hardware, with memory-heavy workloads hit hardest. The shift to itemised storage and IP charges and the loss of short-term price-lock plans complicates budgeting and may drive users toward older machines or other providers.
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New server orders will rise by up to 87% for gaming machines and between 40% and 59% for other recent models starting in September.
From October, storage and IP addresses will be billed as separate line items with defined per-GB-hour and per-hour rates.
OVH is eliminating one-month, six-month, and 24-month price-lock contracts, leaving only 12- and 36-month plans.
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OVH’s leadership highlighted that the cost of RAM has multiplied several times over the past year, prompting a decision to pass those expenses onto customers. The surge in memory prices, along with notable increases in NVMe, HDD, and component costs, forms the financial backdrop for the announced hikes. This means any new server order will now carry a markedly higher price tag than before.
The steepest impact falls on the company’s 2026-edition gaming servers, where the price jump approaches 87%, while other recent server generations will see increases in the 40-to-59% range. Older hardware, including equipment from 2024, will still be affected but the rise will be three to six times smaller than for brand-new machines. Consequently, workloads that can operate on legacy boxes may avoid the full brunt of the hike.
In addition to the rental price changes, OVH is restructuring how it charges for ancillary resources. Starting in early October, storage and IP address usage will be billed separately, with specific rates per gigabyte-hour and per hour respectively. This decoupling forces operators to track these consumables individually rather than relying on bundled pricing, altering cost-optimization strategies.
The provider is also removing its short-term saving plans that previously locked in lower rates for one-month, six-month, and 24-month commitments. Only longer-term 12- and 36-month plans remain, reducing flexibility for customers who preferred shorter contracts to match project timelines. Engineers will need to reassess contract lengths to balance cost certainty against operational agility.
Overall, the combined effect of higher base prices, separate resource billing, and fewer discount options means that teams must revisit their cloud cost models. Those with existing deployments may see modest increases, but any expansion or migration to newer hardware will be significantly more expensive. The changes may incentivize a shift toward older OVH equipment, tighter resource usage, or evaluation of alternative cloud providers.
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