Akamai Cloud (Linode) review

Pros and cons

Who it suits

• Teams that want one vendor for both vps and bare metal without rebuilding as they grow.
• Developers who need S3-compatible object storage and block volumes alongside their servers.
• Anyone who values included transfer over the lowest possible entry price.

Who should look elsewhere

• Buyers chasing the lowest entry price, since Aruba at €1.99 undercuts $5.
• Teams that need Windows images or real-time support chat, because linux and email and help centre exclude both.

How it compares on our data

Akamai Cloud (Linode) does not sit at the cheap end of this comparison. On entry price it ranks 69 of 200 brands in our data, which places it in the middle of the field rather than near the floor. Its location count is the stronger side of the same coin: 16 of 239. Readers who weigh the entry price above everything else will find cheaper providers listed here. Readers who weigh price together with where compute physically sits get a better trade. The distance between the two ranks is the whole argument: a modest premium at entry buys a much wider footprint, and the plan that follows holds that footprint without a long commitment.

Core features

The smallest Linode machine is 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB disk, and it ships with 1,000 GB outbound transfer already folded into the plan price rather than billed as overage. That allowance is the detail that decides a first server: a small site or a new API can sit inside it without watching a meter. Compute runs in 33 regions, spread across AU, BR and CA, so a workload can stay in the country it serves. One API covers the whole footprint, which means the same machine, the same included transfer and the same hourly switch in every listed place, without special-casing a second vendor.

Where and what you run

Ask two questions here: where the machines sit, and what sits on them. Linode lists 33 regions, and the country codes behind that count are AU, BR and CA, reaching the US and Canada, Brazil, a wide band across western and northern Europe, and points in Asia including India, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore. The same entry configuration, 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB disk, is offered across that footprint, so a small fleet can be split by geography without moving to a different instance family. Accelerated work is the narrower side. The GPU line is limited to RTX 4000 Ada and RTX 6000, which fits single-card inference, rendering and pipeline work rather than a training job that needs a rack of matching accelerators.

The company behind it

The provider is Linode, LLC, headquartered in the United States and founded in 2003, so the operating record runs long and now sits inside a much larger network business rather than standing alone. That scale shows up in the platform, with virtual servers, dedicated machines, object and block storage, and managed Kubernetes drawn from one account. Support is the part to weigh most carefully: email and help centre is the full list, which suits technical users who are comfortable working in written replies and in documentation. It suits them less when something is down and a conversation in real time is the only useful next step.

How Akamai Cloud (Linode) compares

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  ScalaHosting

  Akamai Cloud (Linode) vs ScalaHosting9.3 vs 8.3
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  Contabo

  Akamai Cloud (Linode) vs Contabo9.3 vs 9.2
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  Kamatera

  Akamai Cloud (Linode) vs Kamatera9.3 vs 9.5
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  Cloudways

  Akamai Cloud (Linode) vs Cloudways9.3 vs 9.2
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  PlanetHoster

  Akamai Cloud (Linode) vs PlanetHoster9.3 vs 8.7
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  Acronis

  Akamai Cloud (Linode) vs Acronis9.3 vs 9.9
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  Aruba

  Its entry price of €1.99 undercuts $5, which settles the choice when bandwidth allowance and region count do not matter.

  Akamai Cloud (Linode) vs Aruba9.3 vs 9.3
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  Hostinger

  Akamai Cloud (Linode) vs Hostinger9.3 vs 9.1
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  Proton Drive

  Akamai Cloud (Linode) vs Proton Drive9.3 vs 8.3
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  AIS Cloud

  Akamai Cloud (Linode) vs AIS Cloud9.3 vs 8.1
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  Miss Hosting FI

  Akamai Cloud (Linode) vs Miss Hosting FI9.3 vs 8.0

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• api.linode.com/v4/linode/types checked September 26, 2026

  Backs: Bandwidth allowance, Billing granularity, Billing models, Entry plan, Entry price, GPU hour from, GPU models, Pricing model

  “"transfer": 1000 ... "network_out": 1000”

• api.linode.com/v4/regions checked September 26, 2026

  Backs: Locations, Regions

  “"page": 1, "pages": 1, "results": 33”

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linode checked September 26, 2026

  Backs: Founded, Headquarters, Legal entity

  “was founded in 2003 by Christopher Aker”

• techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs checked September 26, 2026

  Backs: Operating systems, Server types

  “A Linode is a Linux-based virtual private server that lets you deploy applications and services.”

• techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/high-availabilit... checked September 26, 2026

  Backs: HA control plane price

  “The HA control plane feature is an optional billable service that starts at $60/month per cluster, depending on region.”

• techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/linode-kubernete... checked September 26, 2026

  Backs: Control plane price, Free control plane, Maximum nodes

  “Basic control plane infrastructure is provided at no cost.”

• techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/network-transfer... checked September 26, 2026

  Backs: Free egress, Free egress (GB), Support channels

  “Object Storage consumes network transfer and adds 1 TB of transfer allowance per month to your global network transfer pool.”

• techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/object-storage checked September 26, 2026

  Backs: Regions, S3-compatible, Storage types

  “Object Storage is available in more than 20 regions globally”