--- title: "Does OVHcloud Accept Crypto? OVHcloud Alternatives 2026" description: "OVHcloud doesn’t accept Bitcoin or other crypto, and its 2026 price changes doubled the GAME-1’s price. Compare OVHcloud ranges with crypto-paid servers." url: "https://powerdedi.com/blog/ovhcloud-alternatives-2026" last_updated: "2026-10-15" publisher: "PowerDedi (https://powerdedi.com)" --- # Does OVHcloud accept crypto? OVHcloud alternatives in 2026 OVHcloud does not accept Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency. What its 2026 price changes mean for new orders and renewals, which PowerDedi server matches each OVHcloud range, when OVHcloud remains the better choice, and how to migrate. By PowerDedi Engineering · October 15, 2026 · 10 min read **Share this article** OVHcloud does not accept cryptocurrency. Its payment documentation lists bank cards, PayPal, SEPA direct debit, a prepaid account and, for OVHcloud France customers, bank transfer; a public request to add crypto was declined in 2023. Meanwhile, OVHcloud raised dedicated-server prices in four steps in 2026: in April, July, August and October. ## The short version | Topic | OVHcloud, as of October 2026 | PowerDedi | | --- | --- | --- | | Crypto payment | No: card, PayPal, SEPA direct debit, prepaid account, bank transfer in France | Crypto only: BTC, ETH, XMR, USDT (TRC-20), SOL | | Identity checks | Orders can be held for manual verification and a request for supporting documents | Email-only sign-up: no ID, phone or card | | Setup fee | One month’s rent without commitment; waived for 12 months or more | None | | Public bandwidth | 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps (Eco), 1 Gbps (Game), 3 Gbps (Advance), 5 Gbps (Scale; 10 Gbps for €500 a month more), 10 Gbps (High Grade storage) | 10 Gbps unmetered on every server | | Private network | vRack on most ranges, not on Kimsufi or Game | None | | Locations | Europe, the US, Canada, Singapore, Mumbai and Sydney | 10 cities in Europe, the US and Asia | | Ryzen 9 9950X3D game server | GAME-2: €313.99/month, 64 GB, 2 × 960 GB NVMe, 1 Gbps | $219/month, 192 GB, 2 × 3.84 TB NVMe, 10 Gbps | OVHcloud prices in this article come from its Ireland website, in euros, excluding VAT and without commitment, checked on 15 October 2026. ## Does OVHcloud accept Bitcoin or other crypto? No. OVHcloud’s help page on managing payment methods, updated on 8 October 2026, lets you save two types of payment method, a credit card or a PayPal account, and fund a prepaid account. Its billing FAQ adds SEPA direct debit, where the bank account must belong to the OVHcloud account holder, and bank transfer for customers of OVHcloud France. Cards need 3D Secure, and the cardholder’s details must match the customer account. Neither page mentions cryptocurrency. The question has been put to OVHcloud in public. In March 2023, a user opened issue #383, “Pay OVH with crypto”, on OVHcloud’s public cloud roadmap on GitHub. On 28 August 2023, OVHcloud replied that “we will not be able to proceed with its implementation at this time” and closed it, adding that it would open a new issue if the decision changed. In October 2026 the issue is still closed and locked, and no new crypto-payment issue has been opened there. If paying in crypto is the requirement, PowerDedi accepts nothing else: BTC, ETH, XMR, USDT on TRON and SOL, with prices in US dollars, the crypto amount locked when you open the payment, and renewals drawn from an account balance you top up. See [how crypto payments work](https://powerdedi.com/crypto-payments). ## OVHcloud’s 2026 price changes OVHcloud revised its prices twice this year, blaming a shortage of DDR5 memory and NVMe drives driven by AI demand; its August post says DDR5 “now costs six times as much as it did a year ago”. The timeline: | Date | What changed | | --- | --- | | 5 March 2026 | First update, effective in April. Depending on configuration, prices tied to RAM and storage “could increase by 15% to 300%” over 2025, while the average increase for infrastructure deployed between 2026 and 2028 is put at 9–11%. Renewals of options are capped at +10% for disks and +15% for RAM. An additional IPv4 address goes from €1.50 to €2.00 a month. Kimsufi and So you Start are excluded. | | 1 July 2026 | Memory and storage options on new orders rise: RAM by 68% to 652% (median +127%), storage by 8% to 166% (median +89%). | | 10–11 August 2026 | CEO Octave Klaba warns customers on social media; ITPro reports increases of 87% for Game configurations, 49% for Advance, 40% for Scale and up to 59% for High Grade on this year’s hardware. From 11 August, new base prices apply to new orders: GAME-1 goes from €139.99 to €279.99 a month (+100%), GAME-2 from €179.99 to €313.99 (+74%). | | 1 October 2026 | Running Gen 2024 and Gen 2026 servers move to the new base price at renewal. Installed RAM rises 20% (Gen 2024) or 40% (Gen 2026), installed storage 10% or 15%. Commitments keep their rate until they end. | OVHcloud’s own example shows the effect on an existing customer: an ADVANCE-1 (Gen 2026) with 128 GB of RAM and 4 × 960 GB NVMe went from €204.99 a month to €289.49 at renewal (+41.2%); ordered new, the same server costs €371.99 (+81.5%). Kimsufi, So you Start, Rise and hardware older than Gen 2024 were left out of the second round. To keep a current rate longer, OVHcloud suggests a prepaid subscription for the period you choose. ## Four things to check before ordering from OVHcloud ### Setup fees and commitment Without a commitment, OVHcloud charges a setup fee equal to one month’s rent: €149.99 on a RISE-L, €679.99 on a 2026 Scale-a3, €3,062.99 on an HGR-STOR-2. Its [Rise page](https://eco.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/rise/) states that setup is free “for any commitment periods of 12 months or longer”, and the Game page says the same for a year or more. On 15 October 2026, the Game range also showed free setup as a special offer. ### Bandwidth Public bandwidth is unmetered but capped by range: 100 to 500 Mbps on Kimsufi, 250 Mbps to 1 Gbps on So you Start and Rise, 1 Gbps on Game, 3 Gbps on [Advance](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/bare-metal/advance/) and 5 Gbps on [Scale](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/bare-metal/scale/). Moving a Scale server to 10 Gbps adds €500 a month in [OVHcloud’s public order catalog](https://eu.api.ovh.com/v1/order/catalog/public/baremetalServers?ovhSubsidiary=IE); High Grade storage servers start at 10 Gbps. Ingress and egress are unlimited, except on servers in Asia-Pacific regions. For comparison, each PowerDedi server has its own [10 Gbps unmetered port](https://powerdedi.com/network/10gbps-unmetered). ### Delivery times Orders pass through a “Confirmation” status, in which OVHcloud’s teams verify them manually on working days, and the next step “may take from a few minutes to several days”, according to its documentation. Estimated delivery depends on the datacenter and the configuration. In OVHcloud’s [public availability data](https://eu.api.ovh.com/v1/dedicated/server/datacenter/availabilities) on 15 October 2026, the base ADVANCE-4 could be delivered within about an hour in all seven listed datacenters, but most configurations with extra NVMe drives showed 72 hours, and the RISE-L was unavailable in four of six datacenters. ### Identity verification If an order cannot be verified, OVHcloud emails a request for supporting documents. The order validation FAQ on OVHcloud’s US support site shows what such a request contains: a government-issued photo ID, a photo of the card used showing the name and its last four digits, and a photo of yourself holding the ID, to be provided within about 48 hours or the order can expire. The FAQ adds that validation may be requested again on future orders. ## OVHcloud range → nearest PowerDedi equivalent OVHcloud prices are monthly, without commitment and excluding VAT; the setup fee in brackets applies unless you commit for 12 months. Dollar amounts use the [ECB reference rate](https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/euro_reference_exchange_rates/html/eurofxref-graph-usd.en.html) of $1.1208 per euro on 15 October 2026. PowerDedi prices include a 10 Gbps unmetered port, DDoS mitigation and no setup fee; every model is on our [dedicated servers page](https://powerdedi.com/dedicated-servers). | OVHcloud model | OVHcloud per month (setup) | Nearest PowerDedi | PowerDedi per month | Main differences | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Kimsufi KS-B: Xeon E5-1620 v2, 32 GB, 1 × 120 GB SSD, 500 Mbps | €9.99 ≈ $11 (+€9.99) | [Ryzen 5 7600](https://powerdedi.com/dedicated-servers/amd-ryzen/ryzen-5-7600), 32 GB DDR5, 2 × 512 GB NVMe | $55 | Nothing in our catalog matches Kimsufi prices; ours is a current Zen 4 machine with a 10 Gbps port | | So you Start SYS-1: Xeon-E 2136, 32 GB, 2 × 512 GB NVMe, from 500 Mbps | €29.99 ≈ $34 (+€29.99) | [Ryzen 5 7600](https://powerdedi.com/dedicated-servers/amd-ryzen/ryzen-5-7600), 32 GB DDR5, 2 × 512 GB NVMe | $55 | Same RAM and disks; OVHcloud is cheaper, ours has a newer CPU and a faster port | | RISE-S: Ryzen 7 9700X, 64 GB DDR5, 2 × 512 GB NVMe, 1 Gbps | €64.99 ≈ $73 (+€64.99) | [Ryzen 7 7700](https://powerdedi.com/dedicated-servers/amd-ryzen/ryzen-7-7700), 64 GB DDR5, 2 × 1 TB NVMe | $79 | OVHcloud’s CPU is a generation newer; ours has twice the storage | | RISE-M: Ryzen 9 9900X, 64 GB DDR5, 2 × 512 GB NVMe, 1 Gbps | €99.99 ≈ $112 (+€99.99) | [Ryzen 9 9900X](https://powerdedi.com/dedicated-servers/amd-ryzen/ryzen-9-9900x), 64 GB DDR5, 2 × 1 TB NVMe | $109 | Same CPU and RAM; ours has twice the storage | | RISE-L: Ryzen 9 9950X, 128 GB DDR5, 2 × 960 GB NVMe, 1 Gbps | €149.99 ≈ $168 (+€149.99) | [Ryzen 9 9950X](https://powerdedi.com/dedicated-servers/amd-ryzen/ryzen-9-9950x), 128 GB DDR5, 2 × 1.92 TB NVMe | $159 | Same CPU and RAM; ours has twice the storage | | GAME-2: Ryzen 9 9950X3D, 64 GB DDR5, 2 × 960 GB NVMe, 1 Gbps | €313.99 ≈ $352 (setup waived as an offer) | [Ryzen 9 9950X3D](https://powerdedi.com/dedicated-servers/amd-ryzen/ryzen-9-9950x3d), 192 GB DDR5, 2 × 3.84 TB NVMe | $219 | Same CPU; ours has three times the RAM and four times the storage; OVHcloud adds game-specific DDoS filtering | | ADVANCE-4 (2026): EPYC 4585PX, 64 GB DDR5, 2 × 960 GB NVMe, 3 Gbps | €299.99 ≈ $336 (+€299.99) | [EPYC 4585PX](https://powerdedi.com/dedicated-servers/amd-epyc/epyc-4585px), 128 GB DDR5 ECC, 2 × 1.92 TB NVMe | $179 | Same CPU; ours has twice the RAM and storage; OVHcloud includes vRack | | SCALE-a3 (2026): EPYC 9355, 128 GB DDR5 ECC, 2 × 1.92 TB NVMe, 5 Gbps | €679.99 ≈ $762 (+€679.99); 10 Gbps: +€500 | [EPYC 9355P](https://powerdedi.com/dedicated-servers/amd-epyc/epyc-9355p), 384 GB DDR5 ECC, 2 × 3.84 TB NVMe Gen5 | $519 | 32 cores on both; ours has three times the RAM and twice the storage; OVHcloud includes vRack | | SCALE-a8 (2026): EPYC 9965, 128 GB DDR5 ECC, 2 × 1.92 TB NVMe, 5 Gbps | €1,199.99 ≈ $1,345 (+€1,199.99) | [EPYC 9965](https://powerdedi.com/dedicated-servers/amd-epyc/epyc-9965), 1.5 TB DDR5 ECC, 4 × 7.68 TB NVMe Gen5 | $1,790 | Same 192-core CPU; OVHcloud’s base price is lower, ours includes 1.5 TB of RAM and eight times the storage | | RISE-STOR: Ryzen 7 Pro 3700, 32 GB, 4 × 14 TB HDD, 1 Gbps | €164.99 ≈ $185 (+€164.99) | [Storage 88 TB](https://powerdedi.com/dedicated-servers/storage/88tb): EPYC 4244P, 64 GB DDR5 ECC, 4 × 22 TB HDD + 2 × 1 TB NVMe | $149 | Same drive count, larger drives and twice the RAM on ours | | HGR-STOR-2: EPYC 9355, 256 GB DDR5 ECC, 24 × 24 TB SAS HDD, 10 Gbps | €3,062.99 ≈ $3,433 (+€3,062.99) | [Storage 528 TB](https://powerdedi.com/dedicated-servers/storage/528tb): EPYC 9254, 256 GB DDR5 ECC, 24 × 22 TB HDD + 2 × 3.84 TB NVMe | $999 | Same drive count; OVHcloud uses 24 TB SAS drives and adds vRack and certifications | On 15 October 2026, OVHcloud was cheaper per month on Kimsufi, So you Start and the RISE-S, roughly level on the RISE-M, and cheaper on the base SCALE-a8, which comes with a twelfth of our RAM. PowerDedi cost less per month in every other row, including the Game, Advance, SCALE-a3 and High Grade servers repriced in August, and without a setup fee. If €10 to €40 a month is the budget, OVHcloud’s Eco ranges are the better deal; our [pricing page](https://powerdedi.com/pricing) shows where our catalog starts. ## Is there an OVHcloud game server alternative? OVHcloud’s Game range is purpose-built: Ryzen 7 9800X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D processors, Game DDoS Protection with profiles for “35+ games and protected network protocols”, a 99.95% SLA and a 1 Gbps unmetered port, deployable in five regions on two continents. Since 11 August, the GAME-2 costs €313.99 a month with 64 GB of RAM, and the 128 GB option went from €40 to €91 a month in July. Our [Ryzen 9 9950X3D](https://powerdedi.com/dedicated-servers/amd-ryzen/ryzen-9-9950x3d) uses the same processor with 192 GB of DDR5, 2 × 3.84 TB NVMe and a 10 Gbps unmetered port for $219 a month, with always-on [network DDoS mitigation](https://powerdedi.com/network/ddos-protection) included. What it doesn’t have: game-specific filtering profiles, a game control panel, or a location other than Amsterdam, Frankfurt, New York and Los Angeles. More on [game server hosting](https://powerdedi.com/solutions/game-servers). ## When OVHcloud is the better choice - **You need Canada, Australia or India.** OVHcloud lists dedicated servers in Beauharnois and Toronto, Vint Hill and Hillsboro, Singapore, Mumbai and Sydney, alongside its European regions. PowerDedi has no location in Canada, Australia or India; ours are listed on our [locations page](https://powerdedi.com/locations). - **You need private networking.** OVHcloud’s [vRack](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/bare-metal/scale/) connects servers in a private network with up to 4,000 VLANs, though not on Game servers. PowerDedi has no private network between servers. - **You need certifications.** OVHcloud offers ISO/IEC 27001, 27017, 27018 and 27701, CSA STAR, SOC 1–2 type 1 and HDS for bare metal, as options subject to local availability; its Game page also cites HIPAA and PCI DSS. PowerDedi holds no compliance certifications. - **Your game needs game-aware filtering.** On top of its [anti-DDoS infrastructure](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/security/anti-ddos/), the VAC, with over 17 Tbps of global mitigation capacity, OVHcloud adds Game DDoS Protection on Game servers. - **You pay by card, PayPal or SEPA**, or want a 12- or 24-month commitment to waive the setup fee and fix the price. - **You need the cheapest possible box or many IP addresses.** Kimsufi starts at €9.99 a month, and an additional IPv4 address costs €2.00 a month, against $2.50 at PowerDedi. To be explicit about what PowerDedi does not offer: card, PayPal or bank payments; managed services; private networking such as vRack; locations in Canada, Australia or India; servers with more than one GPU; compliance certifications; and email, phone or chat support. Support is by ticket from the client area, for customers with an active server. ## Other OVHcloud alternatives | Provider | Consider it if | Verified fact, October 2026 | | --- | --- | --- | | Hetzner | You want budget servers in Germany or Finland, as a Kimsufi alternative | Its [Server Auction](https://www.hetzner.com/sb/) sells refurbished dedicated servers without setup fees. Compared in our [Hetzner alternatives guide](https://powerdedi.com/blog/hetzner-alternatives-2026). | | Leaseweb | You need Canada or Australia from another provider | Its [knowledge base](https://kb.leaseweb.com/kb/dedicated-server/dedicated-server-overview/) lists dedicated servers in Montreal and Sydney, plus nine US cities. | | Latitude.sh | You want bare metal across the Americas and Asia-Pacific | [Lists 26 locations](https://www.latitude.sh/locations), including Toronto, São Paulo, Sydney and Tokyo. | | Scaleway | You want a French provider with hourly bare metal | [Elastic Metal](https://www.scaleway.com/en/elastic-metal/) starts at €0.077 an hour in Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw. | | Cherry Servers | You want to pay in crypto through a payment processor | [Accepts Bitcoin and 15+ other coins](https://www.cherryservers.com/bitcoin-dedicated-server) for dedicated servers, processed by CoinGate. | ## Migrating from OVHcloud: a checklist 1. **Check your renewal date and any commitment.** A commitment keeps its rate until it ends, so plan the move around that date. 2. **Take inventory.** List services, cron jobs, firewall rules, reverse DNS entries and every IP address, including additional IPs, which stay with OVHcloud. 3. **Replace vRack links.** Without a private network, carry traffic between servers over an encrypted tunnel such as WireGuard, and restrict it with firewall rules. 4. **Lower DNS TTLs** to about 300 seconds, at least one old TTL period before the switch. 5. **Order and test the new server.** Start with our [getting started guide](https://powerdedi.com/docs/getting-started), then run iperf3 in both directions between the two servers, as described in [testing your server’s network speed](https://powerdedi.com/docs/network-speed-test). 6. **Copy the data** with rsync, once live and once with services stopped; move databases with dumps or replication. For game servers, copy worlds and saves with the server stopped. ```bash rsync -aHAX --numeric-ids --info=progress2 /srv/ root@203.0.113.10:/srv/ rsync -aHAX --numeric-ids --delete /srv/ root@203.0.113.10:/srv/ ``` 7. **Update IPv6 and reverse DNS** for the new addresses: each PowerDedi server has its own routed /64. 8. **Switch DNS**, or publish the new address to players, and cancel at OVHcloud once traffic to the old server has stopped. ## Sources - [Managing payment methods](https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/account-and-service-management/managing-billing-payments-and-services/manage-payment-methods) — OVHcloud Documentation, updated 8 October 2026 - [Billing and payment FAQ](https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/account-and-service-management/managing-billing-payments-and-services/faq-billing) — OVHcloud Documentation, updated 8 October 2026 - [Pay OVH with crypto (issue #383)](https://github.com/ovh/public-cloud-roadmap/issues/383) — ovh/public-cloud-roadmap, GitHub, closed 28 August 2023 - [Pricing changes for Public Cloud, Bare Metal and VPS at OVHcloud](https://blog.ovhcloud.com/en/posts/pricing-evolution-of-public-cloud-bare-metal-and-vps-at-ovhcloud/) — OVHcloud blog, 5 March 2026 - [Dedicated servers: price change in the second half of 2026](https://blog.ovhcloud.com/en/posts/dedicated-servers-pricing-update-h2-2026/) — OVHcloud blog, 17 August 2026 - [OVHcloud chief issues customer price warning amid surging hardware costs](https://www.itpro.com/hardware/ovhcloud-chief-issues-customer-price-warning-amid-surging-hardware-costs) — ITPro, 11 August 2026 - [Low-cost dedicated servers](https://eco.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/) — OVHcloud Eco, Ireland, checked 15 October 2026 - [Dedicated server prices](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/bare-metal/prices/) — OVHcloud Ireland, checked 15 October 2026 - [Dedicated game server](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/bare-metal/game/) — OVHcloud Ireland, checked 15 October 2026 - [Global Availability of our Dedicated Servers](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/bare-metal/regions-availability/) — OVHcloud - [Managing OVHcloud orders](https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/account-and-service-management/managing-billing-payments-and-services/ovh-orders) — OVHcloud Documentation, updated 8 October 2026 - [OVHcloud order validation FAQ](https://support.us.ovhcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/29332308749587-OVHcloud-order-validation-FAQ) — OVHcloud US Support **Share this article** PowerDedi Engineering The team that builds, racks and runs every PowerDedi server. 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