Retrieve a Template

Templates in IONOS Cloud are pre-configured blueprints that define the specifications and settings for s. When you retrieve a template, you access its complete configuration details including CPU cores, RAM allocation, storage size, and other properties that can be used to create new instances.

Retrieving template information is useful for:

• Planning deployments: Review available configurations before creating instances.

• Automation: Programmatically access template specifications for scripted deployments.

• Resource management: Understand template capabilities and limitations.

• Cost estimation: Analyze resource specifications to estimate usage costs.

This API call returns comprehensive template metadata including creation details, current state, and all configuration properties.

Endpoint

Use the following endpoint to retrieve a specific template: https://api.ionos.com/cloudapi/v6/templates/{templateId}

Request

Note: The following request contains sample values. Remember to replace them with the relevant information.

curl --location \
--request GET 'https://api.ionos.com/cloudapi/v6/templates/{templateId}' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJraWQiO' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json'

Path Parameters

To make authenticated requests to the API, the following fields are mandatory in the request header:

Name	Type	Description
v6	string	The API version.
templates	string	Template attributes: ID, metadata, and properties.
templateId	string	The unique template ID.

Response

A 200 message confirms that the desired template details are fetched.

{
  "id" : "e15d15e7-ea9a-48ae-a60a-29b9463f4519",
  "type" : "template",
  "href" : "https://api.ionos.com/cloudapi/v6/templates/e15d15e7-ea9a-48ae-a60a-29b9463f4519",
  "metadata" : {
    "etag" : "575c44e6fa3ba8",
    "createdDate" : "2025-10-16T08:41:00Z",
    "createdBy" : "[email protected]",
    "createdByUserId" : "[email protected]",
    "lastModifiedDate" : "2025-12-02T09:44:15Z",
    "lastModifiedBy" : "[email protected]",
    "lastModifiedByUserId" : "[email protected]",
    "state" : "AVAILABLE"
  },
  "properties" : {
    "name" : "H200 - S",
    "cores" : 15,
    "ram" : 273408,
    "storageSize" : 1000,
    "storageType" : "SSD Premium",
    "category" : "GPU Category",
    "gpus" : [ {
      "vendor" : "NVIDIA Corporation",
      "model" : "GH100 [H200 NVL]",
      "type" : "passthrough",
      "count" : 1
    } ]
  }
}