Akamai Cloud (Linode)
Legal entity: Akamai Technologies, Inc. (operator; Linode LLC was acquired in 2022)
Benchmark offers
Brazil
| Plan | Price /mo | vCPU | RAM | Storage | Transfer | vCPU/€ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nanode 1 GB Shared CPU · shared | €6.14
≈ $7.00 Monthly cap | 1 | 1 GiB | 25 GB SSD | 1 TB | 0.16 |
Canada
| Plan | Price /mo | vCPU | RAM | Storage | Transfer | vCPU/€ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nanode 1 GB Shared CPU · shared | €4.38
≈ $5.00 Monthly cap | 1 | 1 GiB | 25 GB SSD | 1 TB | 0.23 |
France
| Plan | Price /mo | vCPU | RAM | Storage | Transfer | vCPU/€ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nanode 1 GB Shared CPU · shared | €4.38
≈ $5.00 Monthly cap | 1 | 1 GiB | 25 GB SSD | 1 TB | 0.23 |
Germany
| Plan | Price /mo | vCPU | RAM | Storage | Transfer | vCPU/€ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nanode 1 GB Shared CPU · shared | €4.38
≈ $5.00 Monthly cap | 1 | 1 GiB | 25 GB SSD | 1 TB | 0.23 |
Italy
| Plan | Price /mo | vCPU | RAM | Storage | Transfer | vCPU/€ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nanode 1 GB Shared CPU · shared | €4.38
≈ $5.00 Monthly cap | 1 | 1 GiB | 25 GB SSD | 1 TB | 0.23 |
Netherlands
| Plan | Price /mo | vCPU | RAM | Storage | Transfer | vCPU/€ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nanode 1 GB Shared CPU · shared | €4.38
≈ $5.00 Monthly cap | 1 | 1 GiB | 25 GB SSD | 1 TB | 0.23 |
Spain
| Plan | Price /mo | vCPU | RAM | Storage | Transfer | vCPU/€ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nanode 1 GB Shared CPU · shared | €4.38
≈ $5.00 Monthly cap | 1 | 1 GiB | 25 GB SSD | 1 TB | 0.23 |
Sweden
| Plan | Price /mo | vCPU | RAM | Storage | Transfer | vCPU/€ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nanode 1 GB Shared CPU · shared | €4.38
≈ $5.00 Monthly cap | 1 | 1 GiB | 25 GB SSD | 1 TB | 0.23 |
United States
| Plan | Price /mo | vCPU | RAM | Storage | Transfer | vCPU/€ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nanode 1 GB Shared CPU · shared | €4.38
≈ $5.00 Monthly cap | 1 | 1 GiB | 25 GB SSD | 1 TB | 0.23 |
Platform
- Products
- name: Shared CPU; category: virtual_machine; cpu isolation: shared; description: General-purpose virtual machines with shared physical CPU cores., name: Dedicated CPU; category: virtual_machine; cpu isolation: dedicated; description: Virtual machines with physical CPU cores reserved for the instance., name: High Memory; category: virtual_machine; cpu isolation: dedicated; description: Memory-heavy virtual machines with dedicated CPU., name: GPU; category: gpu_virtual_machine; cpu isolation: dedicated; description: Virtual machines with dedicated CPU and GPU resources., name: Accelerated; category: accelerated_virtual_machine; cpu isolation: dedicated; description: Dedicated-CPU virtual machines with video processing units.
- Operating systems
- AlmaLinux 8, AlmaLinux 9, AlmaLinux 10, Alpine 3.21, Alpine 3.22, Alpine 3.23, Arch Linux, CentOS Stream 9, CentOS Stream 10, Debian 11, Debian 12, Debian 13, Fedora 43, Gentoo, Kali Linux, Rocky Linux 8, Rocky Linux 9, Rocky Linux 10, Slackware 15.0, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Custom images
- Virtualization
- KVM
- CPU isolation
- shared, dedicated
Features
- App installation names: Quick Deploy Apps, StackScripts; description: Preconfigured applications and reusable deployment scripts.✓
- Templates & images types: distribution images, custom images, recovery images, StackScripts✓
- Network orchestration services: VPC, VLAN, API, CLI, Terraform provider, Linode Kubernetes Engine✓
- Firewall name: Cloud Firewalls; price: no additional charge; type: stateful network firewall✓
- Load balancer name: NodeBalancers; type: managed load balancer as a service✓
- DNS management name: DNS Manager; price: no charge with an active Linode✓
- Git integrations—
- Container registry—
Support
24/7 infrastructure, account, billing, routing, and base-system support; guest third-party application configuration is outside the standard scope.
Email ✓
address: support@linode.com; scope: general, non-account-specific questions
Phone ✓
numbers: +1 609 380 7100, +1 855 454 6633 (North America toll-free); language: English
Ticket system ✓
access: Cloud Manager, CLI, API; primary contact method: Yes
Live chat —
Languages: English (phone); languages for email and tickets not found
Hours: 24 hours a day
What customers say
2.40
(205)
Trustpilot: 2.4/5 · 205
Recurring praise
- + Some reviewers highlight responsive support, good performance, and reliable service for long-running workloads.
Recurring complaints
- − Recurring complaints mention new-account closures, maintenance disruption, and dissatisfaction with abuse or account-handling decisions.
Sources
- API Linode API v4 — List Regions — Akamai, checked 2026-07-15
- API Linode API v4 — List Types — Akamai, checked 2026-07-15
- API Linode API v4 — List Images — Akamai, checked 2026-07-15
- Docs Compute instance plan types — Akamai, checked 2026-07-15
- Docs Choose between shared and dedicated CPUs — Akamai, checked 2026-07-15
- Docs Install a Custom Distribution on a Xen Linode (legacy note confirms current KVM architecture) — Linode, checked 2026-07-15
- Docs Images — Akamai, checked 2026-07-15
- Docs Common use cases for StackScripts — Akamai, checked 2026-07-15
- Docs Overview of Cloud Manager — Akamai, checked 2026-07-15
- Docs Cloud computing — Akamai, checked 2026-07-15
- Docs Getting started with Cloud Firewalls — Akamai, checked 2026-07-15
- Docs NodeBalancers — Akamai, checked 2026-07-15
- Docs DNS Manager — Akamai, checked 2026-07-15
- Docs Help and support — Akamai, checked 2026-07-15
- Docs Support commands — Akamai, checked 2026-07-15
- Company Akamai Technologies Completes Acquisition of Linode — Akamai, checked 2026-07-15
- Company Contact Us — Akamai headquarters — Akamai, checked 2026-07-15
- Company Examining the Value and Opportunity in Alternative Clouds — Akamai, checked 2026-07-15
- Reviews Linode Reviews — Trustpilot, checked 2026-07-15
- Product Akamai cloud computing instances — shared CPU plans — Akamai, checked 2026-07-22