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Plans & pricing
29 plans tracked
You pay (intro)$6.00/mo
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Market avg$6.00/mo
You pay (intro)$2.00/mo
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Renews at$15.00/mo
▲ +650% at renewal | # | Plan | Specs | Price | |
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| 1 | WordPress Hosting Essential★ Cheapest | 1 CPU0.5 GB RAM20 GB SSDUnlimited traffic | $2.00/mo then $15.00/mo | Get → |
| 2 | WordPress Hosting Starter | 1 CPU0.5 GB RAM20 GB SSDUnlimited traffic | $3.99/mo then $15.00/mo | Get → |
| 3 | WordPress Hosting Advanced | 2 CPU1 GB RAM50 GB SSDUnlimited traffic | $4.99/mo then $20.00/mo | Get → |
| 4 | WordPress Hosting Pro | 3 CPU2 GB RAM100 GB SSDUnlimited traffic | $5.99/mo then $25.00/mo | Get → |
| 5 | WordPress Hosting Business | 4 CPU4 GB RAM200 GB SSDUnlimited traffic | $7.99/mo then $30.00/mo | Get → |
You pay (intro)$4.99/mo
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Market avg$4.99/mo
You pay (intro)$4.99/mo
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Renews at$20.00/mo
▲ +301% at renewal | # | Plan | Specs | Price | |
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| 1 | Prestashop Hosting Advanced★ Cheapest | 2 CPU1 GB RAM50 GB SSDUnlimited traffic | $4.99/mo then $20.00/mo | Get → |
| 2 | Prestashop Hosting Pro | 3 CPU2 GB RAM100 GB SSDUnlimited traffic | $5.99/mo then $25.00/mo | Get → |
| 3 | Prestashop Hosting Business | 4 CPU4 GB RAM200 GB SSDUnlimited traffic | $7.99/mo then $30.00/mo | Get → |
| # | Plan | Specs | Price | |
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| 1 | GandiCloud Volume Snapshot (per GB)★ Cheapest | 1 GB SNAPSHOT | $0.03/mo not re-checked | Get → |
| 2 | GandiCloud Block Storage (per GB) | 1 GB BLOCK STORAGE | $0.07/mo not re-checked | Get → |
| 3 | Nextcloud Hosting Advanced | 2 vCPU1 GB RAM50 GB SSDUnlimited traffic | $4.99/mo then $20.00/mo | Get → |
| 4 | Nextcloud Hosting Pro | 3 vCPU2 GB RAM100 GB SSDUnlimited traffic | $5.99/mo then $25.00/mo | Get → |
| 5 | Nextcloud Hosting Business | 4 vCPU4 GB RAM200 GB SSDUnlimited traffic | $7.99/mo then $30.00/mo | Get → |
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What's included
✓ included · $ paid add-on · ✗ not offered
Essentials
check_circleFree SSL
check_circleFree domain
Performance
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Management
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speed
Performance & reliability
monitored every 5 min · last 30 days
Daily uptime — 30 days
▲ 99.69%
OperationalDegradedOutage
Response time — 30 days
⚡ 158 ms avg
<300ms300–500ms>500ms
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Global data centers
2 locations
Paris 
Luxembourg 
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Security & compliance
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ISO 27001 & ISO 22301 (BSI); private rooms at Equinix PA3 (Paris) and LuxConnect (Luxembourg); free SSL/ACME; DNSSEC; Anycast LiveDNS; 2FA; free WHOIS privacy
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ISO 27001
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ISO 22301
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ICANN-accredited registrar
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GDPR
certified
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Support & guarantees
Channels24/6 email & chat — EN/FR/ES/ZH/JA
Avg first reply24/6 by email and chat (phone = paid advisory)
LanguagesEN, FR, ES, ZH, JA
Knowledge basedocs.gandi.net guides, helpdesk and status page
Uptime SLANo public uptime SLA; status.gandi.net
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Company & billing
Founded1999
HeadquartersParis, France
Team size135
NetworkPrivate rooms at Equinix PA3 (Paris) and LuxConnect (Luxembourg); OpenStack cloud; Anycast LiveDNS
PaymentCredit / Debit Card, PayPal, Wire transfer, Check, Cryptocurrency (BTC/ETH/BCH), Prepaid account
BillingMonthly · 12-month term (hosting) · 1-10 years (domains) · hourly (block storage)
Free trialNot advertised publicly (no free trial promoted)
Refund policyNo money-back guarantee published; unpaid orders can be cancelled in the account
ServicesShared Hosting, WordPress, VPS, Storage, Email Hosting, eCommerce, SSL Certificates, DNS, Domain registrar
Websitewww.gandi.net →
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Price history
cheapest plan · tracked by DohoHub · 1 months
$2.00/mo
▼ 0% vs 1 mo ago
Lowest seen: $2.00 · Highest: $2.00
Sep '26Sep '26
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Pros, cons & verdict
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About Gandi
Gandi is one of the oldest independent domain registrars in Europe, founded in Paris in 1999 by French internet pioneers and ICANN-accredited since its early years. It now runs a catalogue of 996 domain extensions alongside LXC-based Simple Hosting (with preconfigured WordPress, PrestaShop and Nextcloud variants), GandiCloud VPS on OpenStack with block storage and snapshots, mailboxes, TLS/SSL certificates, Premium DNS built on Cloudflare and a public API for automation. Its infrastructure sits in private rooms at Equinix PA3 in Paris and LuxConnect in Luxembourg, and the company is certified against ISO 27001 and ISO 22301. Gandi is best known for price transparency — every zone's creation, transfer, renewal, owner-change and restore price is published — and for free WHOIS privacy and free Anycast DNS on every domain.
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addFrench internet pioneer and ICANN-accredited registrar since 1999 — 135 employees, HQ in Paris, ISO 27001 & ISO 22301 certified
addOne of the most transparent domain price lists in the industry: 996 extensions with creation, transfer, renewal, owner-change and restore prices published
addFree Anycast DNS with LiveDNS (sub-250 ms propagation), DNSSEC, 2 free mailboxes and a free SSL certificate with every domain
addSimple Hosting runs every site in its own LXC container with dedicated CPU/RAM — not the usual shared-resource plan
addFive languages on the same plan (PHP, Python, Node) with MySQL or PostgreSQL, plus free snapshots and a Varnish cache
addGandiCloud VPS on OpenStack with block storage, volume snapshots and a public API/Terraform/Ansible automation
addData stays in Europe: private rooms at Equinix PA3 (Paris) and LuxConnect (Luxembourg) — no colocation or third-party cloud
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removeRenewal prices are steep on the popular zones — .com renews at $38.38/year and .net at $39.98, well above the market
removePromo pricing covers the first term only; standard rates are 3-4x higher (Starter $3.99 → $15.00 per month)
removeNo dedicated servers, GPU or colocation — the top of the line is an 8 vCPU / 16 GB VPS
removeNo money-back guarantee or free trial is published, unlike most US and EU hosts
removeSupport is 24/6 (not 24/7) by email and chat; phone help is a paid advisory service
removeOnly two data centers, both in Europe — latency is poor for Asia-Pacific and most of the Americas
removeVPS storage starts at 25 GB and is extended only with paid block storage, billed per GB
4.3/10
auto_awesomeDohoHub verdict
Gandi is the registrar for people who read price tables: 996 extensions, every fee published, free Anycast DNS with DNSSEC and no upsell games on renewals you can see coming. Its European hosting line is genuinely different from shared hosting — each site gets its own LXC container with dedicated CPU and RAM, PHP/Python/Node with MySQL or PostgreSQL, free snapshots and a free domain. The trade-offs are real: renewals on .com/.net are among the most expensive of the majors, promos last one term only, there is no dedicated-server or GPU line, and support is 24/6 rather than 24/7. Best for EU/GDPR-minded businesses, domain portfolio owners and developers who want an OpenStack API rather than a control panel.
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How it is calculated →
DHH Score
4.3/10
Computed from data we collected ourselves: live prices, renewal terms, facts documented from
Gandi's own pages and our uptime monitor. Nobody types this number in, and nothing
a company pays us changes it.
Parts with data this time: 90% of the formula; a part without data is left out, not counted as zero. Updated Oct 1, 2026.
Price 30%3.1
Plans compared with other companies selling the same kind of plan at the same size
Long-term price 20%0.0
How far the regular price (renewal or month-to-month) is above the advertised one
What's included 25%5.9
What plans include and what the company guarantees, documented from its own pages
Reliability 15%9.9
Uptime and response time of the company's website, measured by our monitor
Users 10%not enough data
Approved user reviews (from 5) and community votes (from 20)
| Product line | Plans | Price vs market | Long-term price | What's included |
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| Shared Hosting | 5 | 2.4 · cheapest plan vs 28 other companies | 0.0 · regular price ×4.01 | 6.9 · 7 of 11 checks known |
| WordPress | 5 | 4.1 · cheapest plan vs 20 other companies | 0.0 · regular price ×4.01 | 6.9 · 7 of 11 checks known |
| eCommerce | 3 | no comparable market yet | 0.0 · regular price ×4.01 | 4.0 · 1 of 2 checks known |
| Storage | 3 | no like-for-like plan to compare | 0.0 · regular price ×4.01 | too few documented facts (2 of 6) |
| Cloud VPS | 4 | 3.1 · 4 plans vs 34 other companies | renewal price not tracked | too few documented facts (3 of 9) |
| Email Hosting | 3 | 2.6 · cheapest plan vs 12 other companies | renewal price not tracked | 4.0 · 1 of 2 checks known |
Documented facts · what Gandi states on its own pages; we record the page and the date we checked it
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Support:
chat · email — Email and chat, 24/6
Source: gandi.net · checked Sep 27, 2026
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Data center locations:
2 — France and Luxembourg
Source: gandi.net · checked Sep 27, 2026
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Free SSL Web hosting:
Yes — Unlimited free, auto-renewed certificates
Source: gandi.net · checked Sep 27, 2026
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Free domain Web hosting:
Yes — Free domain registration included
Source: gandi.net · checked Sep 27, 2026
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Email accounts included Web hosting:
Yes — 1 or 2 addresses with 10 GB each
Source: gandi.net · checked Sep 27, 2026
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Renewal price Web hosting:
Higher after the first term — First-year prices; renews at standard rates
Source: gandi.net · checked Sep 27, 2026
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*DHH Score, 0–10 — computed by DohoHub · «—» = not tracked yetCompare vs similar
| Provider | From | Renewal | Uptime | Datacenters | Free domain | Backups | Support | DHH* |
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| Gandi |
$2.00 | $15.00 | 99.69% | 2 regions | ✓ | Free snapshots (hosting) | 24/6 email & chat — EN/FR/ES/ZH/JA | 4.3 |
| TalCloud |
$5.66 | Same price (no promo) | 99.11% | — | — | Included on VPS; €2/mo add-on on games | 24/7 Discord & tickets (French) | 9.3 |
| OVHcloud |
$5.14 | $2.95 | 99.86% | — | — | — | — | 9.2 |
 Hetzner |
$1.81 | Same as initial | 99.78% | 6 regions | — | Daily · paid add-on | Tickets, weekday phone | 8.3 |
 SSD Nodes |
$5.50 | $3.25 | 99.83% | 14 regions | — | On demand (snapshots) | 24/7 Ticket, Email, Knowledge Base | 8.3 |
| Database Mart |
$2.88 | — | 99.70% | 3 regions | — | Daily | 24/7 Live Chat, Ticket System | 8.1 |
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Gandi publishes prices for 996 domain extensions — .com renews at $38.38
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Frequently asked questions
Why are Gandi domain renewals so much more expensive than the first year?expand_more
Promotional rates cover the first registration or transfer term only. On renewal Gandi charges its standard zone rate — for .com that is $38.38/year versus $11.00 for the first year, and .net renews at $39.98. The full price table for all 996 zones, including transfer, owner-change and restore fees, is published on gandi.net, so the real cost of ownership is easy to check before you buy.
What is included for free with a Gandi domain name?expand_more
Every domain comes with Anycast DNS on the LiveDNS platform (propagation under 250 ms), DNSSEC, WHOIS privacy for private individuals, email aliases and forwarding, 2 free mailboxes and a free SSL certificate for the first year.
How is Gandi hosting different from classic shared hosting?expand_more
Simple Hosting runs each site in its own LXC container with dedicated CPU and RAM allocation rather than sharing resources across accounts. Plans start at 20 GB with 1 CPU / 512 MB and scale to 200 GB with 4 CPU / 4 GB, and you choose the runtime (PHP, Python or Node) and the database (MySQL or PostgreSQL). Free snapshots, a Varnish cache, Git/SFTP deployment and automatic WordPress, PrestaShop or Nextcloud installation are included.
Where are Gandi servers located?expand_more
Gandi rents private rooms in two European data centres: Equinix PA3 in Paris (France) and LuxConnect in Luxembourg. Web hosting can be placed in France or Luxembourg; GandiCloud VPS instances are hosted in France. There is no US, Asian or Latin American location.
Does Gandi offer dedicated servers or GPU hosting?expand_more
No. The top of the line is GandiCloud VPS — V-R16 with 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM and 25 GB of storage at $106.20/month, expandable with block storage at €0.06/GB/month. For dedicated hardware or GPUs you need another provider.
Can I automate Gandi with Terraform or Ansible?expand_more
Yes. GandiCloud VPS is built on OpenStack with a public API, and Gandi publishes an API for domains and services with official documentation and a Python library. Gandi also supports a documented Terraform provider and Ansible collection, plus ACME clients such as acme.sh and certbot for certificates.