IONOS CLOUD MCP Server

Your AI agent, your cloud, your data in Europe

  • API calls go directly to IONOS CLOUD and never through a US third-party relay
  • Read-only by design: safe to connect to live production accounts
  • 100+ tools across compute, storage, DNS, billing, and more
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IONOS CLOUD MCP Server

Connect your AI to your cloud infrastructure

IONOS CLOUD MCP Server gives your AI client direct, read-only visibility into your IONOS CLOUD account with no data leaving European infrastructure.
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DATA SOVEREIGNTY

API calls never leave European infrastructure

  • Runs as a local binary on your machine, not a third-party relay
  • Use IONOS CLOUD AI Model Hub as the model backend to run inference locally in Europe
  • Not proxied through Anthropic, Microsoft, or any other provider

READ-ONLY SAFETY

Safe to connect to production accounts

  • All 100+ tools are inspection and query operations only
  • No tool can create, modify, or delete any resource
  • Share access with your team without risk to live environments
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BROAD COVERAGE

100+ tools across six core products

  • Compute Engine: inspect data centres, servers, volumes, and security groups
  • Billing tools cover invoices, usage, traffic, and FOCUS v1.3 mapping
  • Activity Log gives a full audit trail – who did what, when
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CLIENT COMPATIBILITY

Works with every major AI client

  • Supports Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini CLI, and JetBrains
  • Also compatible with Windsurf, Kiro, Continue, Zed, Cline, and OpenCode
  • Discoverable on the Official MCP Registry, mcp.so, and Cursor Directory

OPEN SOURCE

Inspect, extend, and contribute freely

  • Published under Apache 2.0 at github.com/ionos-cloud/ionoscloud-mcp
  • Full source code available – verify exactly what the server does
  • Report issues or request features directly via GitHub

RICHER CONTEXT

Pair with live documentation in one session
  • Add the IONOS CLOUD Documentation MCP for live product docs alongside account data
  • Your AI assistant gets real infrastructure state and full product knowledge together
  • Selective tool loading keeps you within your AI client's tool limits
Learn more about IONOS CLOUD AI Model Hub and developer tools
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  • ISO 27001 certificate from Federal Office for Information Security, valid until September 13, 2025, certificate number BSI-IGZ-0543-2022.
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  • TUV NORD ISO/IEC 27001 certification logo.
  • TUV NORD CERT GmbH ISO 50001 certification logo.
  • ISO 27001 certificate from Federal Office for Information Security, valid until September 13, 2025, certificate number BSI-IGZ-0543-2022.
  • GDPR logo with twelve blue stars in a circle.
  • Gaia-X logo: text and abstract design with dots and lines.
  • A green circle with a leaf and a computer server inside, with the text "GREEN HOSTING" below it.
  • TUV NORD ISO/IEC 27001 certification logo.
  • TUV NORD CERT GmbH ISO 50001 certification logo.
  • ISO 27001 certificate from Federal Office for Information Security, valid until September 13, 2025, certificate number BSI-IGZ-0543-2022.
  • GDPR logo with twelve blue stars in a circle.
  • Gaia-X logo: text and abstract design with dots and lines.
  • A green circle with a leaf and a computer server inside, with the text "GREEN HOSTING" below it.

Up and running in minutes

1. Create your IONOS CLOUD account
Sign up at cloud.ionos.co.uk and generate an API token with minimum-privilege scoping for the MCP Server.
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2. Install and configure the binary
Install the server and add your credentials to your chosen AI client's MCP configuration file.
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3. Query your infrastructure with AI
Ask your AI client to inspect your servers, review billing, audit DNS records, or analyse your activity log in natural language.

Pricing model

Free MCP Server: No additional cost beyond your cloud usage

The IONOS CLOUD MCP Server is free to use. You pay only for the IONOS CLOUD resources your account already uses and there is no separate licence or subscription fee for the MCP Server itself. Build a tailored estimate for your specific requirements and production workloads with our dynamic pricing calculator.

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How teams use IONOS CLOUD MCP Server

Use case

Infrastructure audit and security review

Use your AI client to systematically inspect your IONOS CLOUD environment and surface misconfigurations before they become incidents.

  • List all security groups and review inbound rules across every data centre
  • Inspect certificate expiry dates via Certificate Manager tools
  • Cross-reference Activity Log entries with current resource configurations
  • Identify unused volumes, unattached NICs, and overlooked NAT gateways

Use case

Billing analysis and FinOps workflows

Give your finance and engineering teams a natural-language interface to IONOS CLOUD billing data without writing a single script.

  • Query invoices and usage breakdowns across any billing period
  • Map spend data to FOCUS v1.3 for standardised cloud cost reporting
  • Analyse traffic costs alongside compute usage in a single session
  • Feed billing outputs directly into agentic FinOps pipelines

Use case

Agentic infrastructure workflows

Connect AI agents to live IONOS CLOUD account data so they can reason over real infrastructure state rather than static documentation.

  • Combine live account data with the IONOS CLOUD Documentation MCP for full context
  • Automate routine inspection tasks across DNS, Object Storage, and Compute
  • Use Activity Log tools to answer audit queries without manual log searching
  • Integrate with VS Code, JetBrains, or Cursor for in-editor infrastructure queries

Documentation and guides

Getting started

Install the binary and connect your first AI client in a few minutes.

Tool Reference

Complete list of all 100+ tools across Compute, DNS, Billing, and more.

GitHub Repository

Source code, releases, and contribution guide under Apache 2.0.

IONOS CLOUD MCP Server – FAQ

Yes. The IONOS CLOUD MCP Server is a free MCP server: there are no licence or subscription fees, and the source code is published under Apache 2.0 on GitHub. You are billed only for the IONOS CLOUD resources your account actually consumes. An IONOS CLOUD account and an API token are required.

Via Homebrew, as a pre-built binary for Linux, macOS and Windows, with go install, or as a Docker image. The container image is available on ghcr.io for linux/amd64 and linux/arm64, and runs locally, on a CI runner or inside a container. The server is also listed on the major MCP registries and IDE marketplaces, including the official MCP Registry, Smithery, mcp.so, the Cursor Directory and Glama. The full list is in the GitHub repository.

The MCP Server provides around 200 tools across seven products: Compute Engine, IONOS CLOUD Object Storage, Billing, Cloud DNS, Managed Kubernetes, Certificate Manager and Activity Log. That includes inspecting your Kubernetes clusters, node pools and available versions. Database as a Service with PostgreSQL, MongoDB and MariaDB is not covered at present. You can request further products via GitHub.

Not by default. Out of the box every tool is an inspection or query operation: write tools are not registered and do not appear in your AI client at all. Using them requires you to enable them explicitly. Until you do, connecting the server to live production accounts remains just as safe.

Yes. Create a separate token and give it only the permissions you actually need. For analysis and audit work, read access to Compute Engine, Cloud DNS, billing and Object Storage is enough. Write operations require broader permissions, so handle that token with more care and rotate it regularly.

The split matters: API calls go from your machine directly to IONOS CLOUD over HTTPS - no third-party relay involved. Your prompts and tool outputs are sent to whichever AI model provider your client uses (e.g. Anthropic, Microsoft). For a path where inference also stays within EU infrastructure, pair the MCP Server with the IONOS CLOUD AI Model Hub.

Dedicated setup guides cover Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code (GitHub Copilot), Gemini CLI, JetBrains AI Assistant, Windsurf, Kiro, Continue, Cline, Zed, and OpenCode. Any other MCP-compliant client also works, including AI agent frameworks such as the OpenAI Agents SDK and LangGraph.

Yes. The full source code is published at github.com/ionos-cloud/ionoscloud-mcp under the Apache 2.0 licence. You can inspect exactly what the server does, contribute, or report issues directly via GitHub.