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Linode pricing and limits

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

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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.
Regions33 regions listed by the Linode API v4 /regions endpoint on 2026-09-13 (every entry returned has site_type core)
Free tierNo — Only free offer published is a US$100 credit for new customers, not an ongoing free plan.

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 25 criteria comparedSources last checked

Linode pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
$5.00/month for g6-nanode-1, the Nanode 1GB shared-CPU plan source ↗
Pricing model
Hybrid hourly billing, invoiced monthly, with hourly usage capped at each service's monthly rate source ↗
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 source ↗
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… source ↗

First line of each sourced value. The full text is in Linode pricing below.

Linode plans and prices

Shared CPU plansNanode and Linode shared-CPU plans, from Akamai's public Linode types API. Base region prices; Jakarta and São Paulo are listed higher in the same API (Nanode 1GB: $6 and $7). Transfer is the monthly allowance in GB.
PlanvCPURAMDiskTransferPrice
Nanode 1GB11 GB25 GB1,000 GB$5 a month
Linode 2GB12 GB50 GB2,000 GB$12 a month
Linode 4GB24 GB80 GB4,000 GB$24 a month
Linode 8GB48 GB160 GB5,000 GB$48 a month
Linode 16GB616 GB320 GB8,000 GB$96 a month
Linode 32GB832 GB640 GB16,000 GB$192 a month
Linode 64GB1664 GB1280 GB20,000 GB$384 a month

Linode API: List Types · read · every row quoted from this page

01.Evaluation guide

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.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

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Linode pricing

6 criteria
Free tierNo — Only free offer published is a US$100 credit for new customers, not an ongoing free plan.
Sources (1) →
  • Akamai Cloud | Akamai ↗

    “Try Akamai Cloud with US$100 in credits [...] Sign up for an account and start using your credits today. Explore Akamai Cloud and try out our products and services — on us. Offer valid for new customers only.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

Kind of free offerFree credit
Sources (1) →
  • Akamai Cloud | Akamai ↗

    “Try Akamai Cloud with US$100 in credits [...] Sign up for an account and start using your credits today. Explore Akamai Cloud and try out our products and services — on us. Offer valid for new customers only.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

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.
Sources (1) →
  • List Types — Linode API v4 ↗

    “{"id": "g6-nanode-1", "label": "Nanode 1GB", "price": {"hourly": 0.0075, "monthly": 5.0}, "region_prices": [{"id": "id-cgk", "hourly": 0.009, "monthly": 6.0}, {"id": "br-gru", "hourly": 0.0105, "monthly": 7.0}]”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official docs · Report a correction

Pricing modelHybrid hourly billing, invoiced monthly, with hourly usage capped at each service's monthly rate
Sources (1) →
  • Billing ↗

    “Akamai uses a hybrid hourly billing model that's simple and flexible. You can continuously add, modify, and remove services throughout the month. Once the month ends, you receive an invoice for the hourly usage of each service up to the monthly cap.”

    Read 2026-09-05 · official docs · Report a correction

Egress over allowance0.005 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.
Sources (1) →
  • Network Transfer Prices — Linode API v4 ↗

    “{"id": "network_transfer", "label": "Network Transfer", "price": {"hourly": 0.005, "monthly": null}, "region_prices": [{"id": "id-cgk", "hourly": 0.015, "monthly": null}, {"id": "br-gru", "hourly": 0.007, "monthly": null}]”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official docs · Report a correction

When you exceed a capBilled 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.
Sources (1) →

Limits

4 criteria
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.
Sources (1) →
  • List Types — Linode API v4 ↗

    “"memory": 1024, "disk": 25600, "transfer": 1000, "vcpus": 1, "gpus": 0, "network_out": 1000, "class": "nanode", "successor": null, "capabilities": [], "accelerated_devices": 0}”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official docs · Report a correction

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.
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Included bandwidth1 TB per month on the Nanode 1GB plan, the cheapest Linode; larger shared-CPU plans include more.
Sources (1) →
  • List Types — Linode API v4 ↗

    “"memory": 1024, "disk": 25600, "transfer": 1000, "vcpus": 1, "gpus": 0, "network_out": 1000, "class": "nanode", "successor": null, "capabilities": [], "accelerated_devices": 0}, {"id": "g6-standard-1", "label": "Linode 2GB"”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official docs · Report a correction

File, inode or volume limit250 Block Storage volumes per account across all regions (default global quota; increases can be requested)
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Execution

1 criteria
Managed connection poolingSupported
Sources (1) →
  • Create and manage database clusters ↗

    “To improve performance and scalability of your PostgreSQL database clusters, you can configure connection pooling. PgBouncer pooler utilizes fewer backend connections so it frees up server resources. This leaves you resources for more important uses, such as disk caching. PgBouncer connection pools let you maintain a large number of database connections without sacrificing overall performance.”

    Read 2026-09-05 · official docs · Report a correction

Deployment

1 criteria
ContainersSupported
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  • Linode Kubernetes Engine ↗

    “Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) is Akamai's managed container orchestration engine built on top of Kubernetes. Through LKE, you can quickly deploy and manage your containerized applications without needing to build and maintain your own Kubernetes cluster.”

    Read 2026-09-05 · official docs · Report a correction

Infrastructure

5 criteria
Persistent storageSupported
Sources (1) →
  • Block Storage ↗

    “Block Storage volumes are configured to be durable and fault tolerant using erasure coding, ensuring that your data is protected from loss. Since volumes are managed independently of Linodes, your data persists even if you delete your attached Linode.”

    Read 2026-09-05 · official docs · Report a correction

Managed databasesSupported
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Scales to zeroNot supported
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  • Understanding how billing works — Akamai TechDocs ↗

    “Will I be billed for powered off or unused services? Charges accrue for any service present on an account, even if it's powered off or otherwise not actively being used. This is because data is still maintained and resources, such as RAM and network capacity are still reserved.”

    Read 2026-09-27 · official docs · Report a correction

AutoscalingLimited
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  • Manage nodes and node pools ↗

    “While autoscaling can be applied to any cluster using tools like Cluster Autoscaler, LKE has built-in autoscaling. When this feature is enabled, nodes can automatically be added or removed from a pool when the following conditions are met:”

    Read 2026-09-05 · official docs · Report a correction

Regions33 regions listed by the Linode API v4 /regions endpoint on 2026-09-13 (every entry returned has site_type core)
Sources (1) →

Compliance

8 criteria
SOC 2Akamai 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.
Sources (1) →
HIPAAAkamai 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.
Sources (1) →
GDPR / data residencyWorkloads 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.
Sources (1) →
  • Akamai Global Infrastructure | Akamai ↗

    “Teams start in core sites for full-stack scale and centralized control, then extend into distributed sites when they need to place workloads closer to users for lower latency, or within specific geographies to meet data residency and regulatory requirements.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

Encryption at restLocal 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.
Sources (1) →
Customer-managed keysPlatform-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.
Sources (1) →
Role-based access controlIdentity 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.
Sources (1) →
  • Identity and Access in Akamai Cloud | Akamai Cloud TechDocs ↗

    “Identity and Access uses the role-based access control (RBAC) model to authorize operations on entities. [...] each service has a set of fine-grained permissions that control access to a specific service API endpoint. These permissions are then combined into predefined, functional roles that can be assigned to users.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

Private networking / VPCVPC traffic is walled off from the public internet and from other services in the same data center; VPCs cost nothing extra.
Sources (1) →
  • VPC | Akamai Cloud TechDocs ↗

    “Networking packets sent over a VPC are walled off from the public internet as well as from other services within the same data center that don't belong to the same VPC. [...] VPCs are provided at no additional cost.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

Dedicated infrastructureDedicated CPU plans reserve each assigned vCPU core exclusively for your instance, with no contention from neighboring users.
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Linode pricing questions

How much does Linode cost?

$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.

List Types — Linode API v4 · read

How does Linode charge?

Hybrid hourly billing, invoiced monthly, with hourly usage capped at each service's monthly rate.

Billing · read

Does Linode have a free tier?

No free tier; the free offer is a free credit.

Akamai Cloud | Akamai · read

What happens if you exceed Linode's limits?

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.

Network transfer usage and costs — Akamai TechDocs · read

How much does Linode charge for egress?

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.

Network Transfer Prices — Linode API v4 · read

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