Linode

Affordable cloud hosting and infrastructure

As of 30 August 2026, Linode has a free plan and paid plans start at $5/month. Linode is a cloud provider offering secure, reliable, and affordable cloud computing solutions. Softwr lists it under Cloud. Linode is made by Linode/Akamai, launched in 2003, available on Web, API.

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Overview

What Linode does

Linode is a cloud provider offering secure, reliable, and affordable cloud computing solutions. They provide a suite of cloud computing products that includes cloud servers, object storage, Kubernetes platform, database services, and networking tools.

What people use it for

Running Linux virtual machines on hourly billed shared or dedicated CPU plans
Managed Kubernetes, block storage and object storage on a single cloud account
Hosting workloads in a specific one of the listed global regions

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Linode.

linode.com/pricing returns a 301 redirect to akamai.com/cloud/pricing; the service is now sold as Akamai Cloud
Charges accrue for any service on the account even when it is powered off, because RAM and network capacity stay reserved; only deleting the service stops billing
Network transfer beyond the monthly allotment is billed from $0.005 per GB and the rate varies by region
The Akamai Cloud pricing landing page shows no rates and directs visitors to regional pricing pages or sales

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Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.

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Pricing

What Linode costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Nanode 1GB

$5 /mo

1GB RAM
1 vCPU
25GB SSD
1TB bandwidth

Linode 4GB

$20 /mo

4GB RAM
2 vCPU
80GB SSD
4TB bandwidth

Capabilities

Features

Compute instances
Object storage
Block storage
Kubernetes
Managed database
Load balancers
Firewalls
Private networks
Terraform
Integration with Terraform
Ansible
Integration with Ansible
Docker
Integration with Docker
Kubernetes
Integration with Kubernetes

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

Does Linode charge for data egress?

Linode emphasizes transparent pricing with no egress surprises and a free egress allowance included in the service. The pricing is described as straightforward with no hidden fees and no vendor lock-in.

Source

What is the free trial credit amount?

New and existing enterprise customers can receive up to $5,000 in cloud credits through promotional offers.

Source

Is there vendor lock-in with Linode's pricing model?

No. Linode explicitly states there is no vendor lock-in as part of their transparent pricing approach.

Source

Behind it

Who makes Linode

Company: Linode/Akamai
Based in: Philadelphia, PA

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Softwr does not host reviews and shows no star rating for Linode, because a rating we did not collect is not ours to publish. What is here is the pricing and platform detail from the vendor’s own pages, limitations we could state concretely, and alternatives a reviewer confirmed people weigh against it. Tell us if any of it is wrong.