# Linode (Akamai Cloud)

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/linode/

Akamai's cloud computing platform, formerly Linode, offering shared and dedicated CPU virtual machines, managed Kubernetes, managed databases, and block and object storage.

## Who it suits

Akamai Cloud virtual machines from $5 a month in North America, with 1 TB of transfer included and egress at half a cent per gigabyte in core data centres.

Consider something else if Pricing varies by region, so the North American rate is not what you will pay everywhere, and stopped instances continue to bill.

## Adoption signals

- Detected running on 1,315,314 live sites (BuiltWith, checked 2026-09-12)

## iScore

57 / 100 (80% interval 51–63), rank 11 of 17 in hosting — interval overlaps the next rank, so this is an ordering, not a finding.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every hosting peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/linode/alternatives/

- Price: 37 (19–55), weight 29%, 3 of 5 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: egress_overage_price, free_card_required
- Capacity and limits: 55 (45–66), weight 29%, 5 of 6 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: backup_retention
- Capabilities: 79 (72–86), weight 10%, 6 of 11 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: docker_deploy, edge_network, git_deploy, persistent_processes, scheduled_jobs
- Trust and compliance: 80 (71–88), weight 14%, 8 of 13 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: iso27001, pci_dss, support_included, support_response_time, uptime_sla
- Evidence: 84 (84–84), weight 10%, 4 of 4 criteria scored
- Adoption: 38 (28–48), weight 10%, 1 of 2 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: No — Only free offer published is a US$100 credit for new customers, not an ongoing free plan. ([source](https://www.akamai.com/cloud-computing), read 2026-09-13)
- Kind of free offer: Free credit ([source](https://www.akamai.com/cloud-computing), read 2026-09-13)
- Entry paid plan: $5.00/month for g6-nanode-1, the Nanode 1GB shared-CPU plan. Two regions are priced above it: $6.00 in Jakarta and $7.00 in São Paulo. ([source](https://api.linode.com/v4/linode/types?page_size=200), read 2026-09-14)
- Pricing model: Hybrid hourly billing, invoiced monthly, with hourly usage capped at each service's monthly rate ([source](https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/understanding-how-billing-works), read 2026-09-05)
- Egress over allowance: 0.005 for Network Transfer, with regional overrides of 0.015 in Jakarta and 0.007 in São Paulo, and 0.01 for Distributed Network Transfer. Published in Linode's API rather than in documentation: the techdocs page carried these as per-GB rates until it was edited on 14 September 2026 to remove them and point at a pricing page that refuses this checker. The API's price field is named "hourly", which transfer is not billed by, so no unit is asserted here. ([source](https://api.linode.com/v4/network-transfer/prices), read 2026-09-15)
- When you exceed a cap: Billed automatically and by region: transfer over the monthly allotment is charged at the service region's rate, all transfer is billed where no allowance is included, and the charge lands at the end of the billing period. The rates themselves left this page on 14 September 2026 — see egress_overage_price for where they are now. ([source](https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/network-transfer-usage-and-costs), read 2026-09-15)

### Limits

- Storage (entry plan): 25 GB on the Nanode 1GB plan, the cheapest Linode at $5.00/month. The types API reports it as "disk": 25600. ([source](https://api.linode.com/v4/linode/types?page_size=200), read 2026-09-14)
- Memory (entry plan): 1 GB on the Nanode 1GB plan, the cheapest Linode at $5.00/month. The types API reports it as "memory": 1024. ([source](https://api.linode.com/v4/linode/types?page_size=200), read 2026-09-14)
- Included bandwidth: 1 TB per month on the Nanode 1GB plan, the cheapest Linode; larger shared-CPU plans include more. ([source](https://api.linode.com/v4/linode/types?page_size=200), read 2026-09-14)
- File, inode or volume limit: 250 Block Storage volumes per account across all regions (default global quota; increases can be requested) ([source](https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/block-storage-quotas), read 2026-09-13)

### Execution

- Managed connection pooling: Supported ([source](https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/aiven-manage-database), read 2026-09-05)

### Deployment

- Containers: Supported ([source](https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/linode-kubernetes-engine), read 2026-09-05)

### Infrastructure

- Persistent storage: Supported ([source](https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/block-storage), read 2026-09-05)
- Managed databases: Supported ([source](https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/managed-databases), read 2026-09-13)
- Scales to zero: Not supported ([source](https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/understanding-how-billing-works), read 2026-09-27)
- Autoscaling: Limited ([source](https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/manage-nodes-and-node-pools), read 2026-09-05)
- Regions: 33 regions listed by the Linode API v4 /regions endpoint on 2026-09-13 (every entry returned has site_type core) ([source](https://api.linode.com/v4/regions), read 2026-09-13)

### Compliance

- SOC 2: Akamai cites its information security compliance with standards such as SOC 2 in the Akamai Cloud disk encryption documentation. Stated in passing in product docs; Akamai's Trust Center requires requesting access to see reports. ([source](https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/local-disk-encryption), read 2026-09-13)
- HIPAA: Akamai lists Compute (Dedicated/Shared CPU, High Memory, GPU, LKE), Storage, NodeBalancers and Cloud Manager among the services in scope for HIPAA/HITECH. Read from a failover copy of the compliance-programs page on 13 September 2026. As of 15 September both that copy and www.akamai.com/legal/compliance answer 403 to this checker, so neither can be re-read. ([source](https://www.akamai.com/x-failover/legal/compliance.html), read 2026-09-15)
- GDPR / data residency: Workloads can be placed in specific geographies, across core and distributed sites, to meet data residency and regulatory requirements. Page describes region placement for residency; it does not mention GDPR. ([source](https://www.akamai.com/why-akamai/global-infrastructure), read 2026-09-13)
- Encryption at rest: Local disk encryption is enabled by default on all Linodes, with the platform managing encryption and decryption. Same page notes backups are not encrypted even when taken from an encrypted disk. ([source](https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/local-disk-encryption), read 2026-09-13)
- Customer-managed keys: Platform-managed only; docs state the platform manages disk and Block Storage volume encryption and decryption, and document no customer-supplied key option. No mention of BYOK, KMS, SSE-C or customer-managed keys in any of the 394 Akamai Cloud guides. ([source](https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/local-disk-encryption.md), read 2026-09-13)
- Role-based access control: Identity and Access uses an RBAC model: fine-grained per-endpoint permissions combined into predefined roles assigned to users. Natively enabled for Linodes, Cloud Firewall, NodeBalancer, Volume, Image and VPC. ([source](https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/identity-and-access-cm), read 2026-09-13)
- Private networking / VPC: VPC traffic is walled off from the public internet and from other services in the same data center; VPCs cost nothing extra. ([source](https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/vpc), read 2026-09-13)
- Dedicated infrastructure: Dedicated CPU plans reserve each assigned vCPU core exclusively for your instance, with no contention from neighboring users. ([source](https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/dedicated-cpu-compute-instances), read 2026-09-13)

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