Linode alternatives
Every VPS and cloud provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Linode (Akamai Cloud)'s own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Linode (Akamai Cloud)'s; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.
- DigitalOceanvs Linode (Akamai Cloud)Kind of free offer: Free tier vs Free credit
- Oracle CloudKind of free offer: Always free vs Free credit
- Google CloudKind of free offer: Always free vs Free credit
- HetznerContainers: Limited vs Supported
- netcupContainers: Limited vs Supported
- LeasewebEntry paid plan: €4.99/month excluding VAT for Leaseweb VPS 1 (4 vCPU, 6 GiB, 100 GB NVMe, 30 TB traffic)…
- Alibaba CloudEntry paid plan: $4/month for SAS 2vCPU 0.5GiB (2 vCPUs, 0.5 GiB memory, 20 GiB system disk, up to 200 Mbi…
- KamateraKind of free offer: Free trial vs Free credit · Containers: Limited vs Supported
- OVHcloudContainers: Limited vs Supported
- ContaboContainers: Limited vs Supported · Managed databases: Not supported vs Supported
- CivoEntry paid plan: $5.43/month ($0.007440/hour) for the xSmall Standard compute instance: 1 core, 1 GB RAM,…
- UpCloudKind of free offer: Free trial vs Free credit
- IONOS VPSKind of free offer: No free offer vs Free credit · Containers: Limited vs Supported
- Vultrvs Linode (Akamai Cloud)Entry paid plan: $2.50/month for vc2-1c-0.5gb-v6: 1 vCPU, 512 MB memory, 10 GB SSD, 512 GB bandwidth, IPv6…
- Hostinger VPSvs Linode (Akamai Cloud)Kind of free offer: No free offer vs Free credit
- RackNerdKind of free offer: No free offer vs Free credit · Containers: Limited vs Supported
Where Linode stands against these 16
Linode (Akamai Cloud)'s own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.
- Free tier
- No. 3 of the 11 alternatives that document it have one: DigitalOcean, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud.
- Entry paid plan
- $5.00/month for g6-nanode-1, the Nanode 1GB shared-CPU plan7th cheapest of the 15 that document it. Cheapest: Vultr — $2.50/month for vc2-1c-0.5gb-v6: 1 vCPU, 512 MB memory, 10 GB SSD, 512 GB bandwidth, IPv6 only — and…
- Storage (entry plan)
- 25 GB on the Nanode 1GB plan, the cheapest Linode at $5.00/month9th highest of the 15 that document it. Highest: Contabo — 100 GB SSD on Cloud VPS 4, the smallest plan in the Core VPS line; a paid Storage Extension doubles it.
- Memory (entry plan)
- 1 GB on the Nanode 1GB plan, the cheapest Linode at $5.00/monthJoint 7th highest of the 15 that document it. Highest: Contabo — 8 GB RAM on Cloud VPS 4, the smallest plan in the Core VPS line.
- Included bandwidth
- 1 TB per month on the Nanode 1GB plan, the cheapest Linode; larger shared-CPU plans include moreJoint 6th highest of the 10 that document it. Highest: Leaseweb — 30 TB of outgoing traffic per month on every plan in the European, US and Singapore listings; incoming…
- File, inode or volume limit
- 250 Block Storage volumes per account across all regions (default global quota; increases can be requested)2nd highest of the 4 that document it. Highest: DigitalOcean — Up to 5000 Block Storage volumes per account.
- Regions
- 33 regions listed by the Linode API v4 /regions endpoint on 2026-09-13 (every entry returned has site_type…Joint 3rd highest of the 15 that document it. Highest: Oracle Cloud — 45 regions in the commercial-realm table of Oracle's Regions and Availability Domains page on 2026-09-25: 44…
A rank whose 80% interval overlaps its neighbour's is an ordering, not a finding; the intervals are on each provider's page and in /scores.json.