Linode (Akamai) Pricing — Linode Compute Instances, Linode Object Storage, Linode Managed Databases & Egress Costs (2026)
Linode, now part of Akamai, keeps pricing simple and bandwidth generous: transfer is pooled account-wide across every instance and the overage rate is the lowest in this comparison. Control planes are free on every Kubernetes tier, including production-grade HA clusters. Every figure below is computed from Linode published rates by the same engine as the live estimator.
- Simple, developer-friendly pricing with the lowest egress overage rate in the industry.
- Free control plane on every Kubernetes cluster, including production-grade LKE Enterprise.
What a Linode architecture costs
Four reference architectures, priced for Linode (Akamai) alone by the same engine that powers the live estimator — list prices in USD, us-east-1 baseline, on-demand unless noted.
SaaS Starter MVP
Ideal for early-stage startups and production web apps with up to 25k monthly active users.
- Virtual Machines / Compute
- $48.03/mo
- Object & Block Storage
- $10.35/mo
- Managed Relational Database
- $78.62/mo
- Networking & Data Egress
- $10.00/mo
High-Traffic E-Commerce
Engineered for high concurrent checkouts, product catalogs, and intensive flash sales.
- Virtual Machines / Compute
- $288.20/mo
- Object & Block Storage
- $42.10/mo
- Managed Relational Database
- $308.96/mo
- Networking & Data Egress
- $20.00/mo
Enterprise Microservices (K8s)
Multi-service containerized architecture with managed Kubernetes clusters and service mesh.
- Object & Block Storage
- $105.20/mo
- Managed Relational Database
- $1035.82/mo
- Networking & Data Egress
- $30.00/mo
- Managed Kubernetes
- $384.27/mo
AI / ML Inference & Pipeline
Compute and memory-optimized instances designed for low-latency LLM serving and vector retrieval.
- Virtual Machines / Compute
- $1151.94/mo
- Object & Block Storage
- $168.00/mo
- Managed Relational Database
- $935.82/mo
- Networking & Data Egress
- $20.00/mo
Linode Compute Instances instance pricing
Every published shape in the catalog, priced at 730 hours/month in USD list rates.
| Instance | Shape | On-demand | 1-year reserved | 3-year reserved | Spot / preemptible |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
g6-standard-2 Shared CPU (g6-standard) | 2 vCPU / 4 GB | $24.02/mo | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
g6-dedicated-2 Dedicated CPU (g6-dedicated) | 2 vCPU / 4 GB | $35.99/mo | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
g6-standard-4 Shared CPU (g6-standard) | 4 vCPU / 8 GB | $48.03/mo | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
g6-standard-8 Shared CPU (g6-standard) | 8 vCPU / 32 GB | $191.99/mo | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
g6-dedicated-16 Dedicated CPU (g6-dedicated) | 16 vCPU / 32 GB | $287.99/mo | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
g6-standard-24 Shared CPU (g6-standard) | 24 vCPU / 128 GB | $768.03/mo | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
g6-standard-32 Shared CPU (g6-standard) | 32 vCPU / 192 GB | $1152.01/mo | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
Linode Object Storage storage tiers
| Hot / standard | $0.0200/GB-mo $20.00 per TB-month · $0.0040/10k reads · $0.0500/10k writes · $5.00/mo minimum |
|---|---|
| Cool / infrequent | Not offered Linode Object Storage has a single class — no Cool/Cold/Archive tiering. |
| Cold | Not offered Linode Object Storage has a single class — no Cool/Cold/Archive tiering. |
| Archive | Not offered Linode Object Storage has a single class — no Cool/Cold/Archive tiering. |
Linode Managed Databases pricing
| g6-standard-2 (2 vCPU / 4 GB) | PostgreSQL $68.62/mo · MySQL $68.62/mo · SQL Server Not offered Storage $0.1000/GB-mo · multi-AZ multiplies the instance rate by 2.34× |
|---|---|
| g6-standard-4 (4 vCPU / 8 GB) | PostgreSQL $137.97/mo · MySQL $137.97/mo · SQL Server Not offered Storage $0.1000/GB-mo · multi-AZ multiplies the instance rate by 2.33× |
| g6-standard-8 (8 vCPU / 32 GB) | PostgreSQL $551.88/mo · MySQL $551.88/mo · SQL Server Not offered Storage $0.1000/GB-mo · multi-AZ multiplies the instance rate by 2.33× |
| g6-standard-16 (16 vCPU / 64 GB) | PostgreSQL $1103.76/mo · MySQL $1103.76/mo · SQL Server Not offered Storage $0.1000/GB-mo · multi-AZ multiplies the instance rate by 2.33× |
Networking & egress
| Internet egress | $0.0050/GB (first 10 TB) Then $0.0050/GB up to 40 TB. No standing free allowance. |
|---|---|
| Load balancer | $10.00/mo |
| Static IPv4 address | $0.00/mo |
| Bundled transfer per instance | 4,000 GB/mo $0.0050/GB beyond the pooled allowance. |
| Egress policy detail | Transfer is pooled account-wide across every Linode; overage is billed at $0.005/GB — the lowest rate in this comparison. |
Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE)
| Control plane (first cluster) | Free Billed at $0.000/hr; the first cluster is waived. |
|---|
Where Linode ranks
- Entry-level compute: #4 of 10 ($24.02/mo (g6-standard-2))
- Egress at 20 TB/month: #2 of 10 ($42.40/mo)
Full ranked tables live in the cost guides.
Lowering a Linode bill
Linode Predictable Egress
Akamai’s global network gives Linode the lowest per-GB overage rate of any provider here, once your pooled bandwidth allowance is used up.
LKE control planes are free on every tier, including production HA clusters.
- LKE control planes are free, even for high-availability clusters.
- Transfer is pooled account-wide across every Linode — consolidate instances to avoid overage.
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Linode (Akamai) pricing — frequently asked questions
Is Linode cheaper than DigitalOcean or Vultr?
The three developer clouds price within a few dollars of each other on comparable shapes, which is why this comparison is rarely decided on the instance rate. Linode’s edge is bandwidth economics: transfer pools across the whole account rather than per instance, and the overage rate beyond the allowance is the lowest in the catalog. Kubernetes is also free at every tier, including HA clusters where some providers charge a premium.
What is the cheapest way to run a workload on Linode?
Pool bandwidth deliberately — because the allowance is account-wide, consolidating instances raises the free transfer available to the whole estate, and overage beyond it is charged at the lowest rate in this comparison. Run Kubernetes on LKE, where the control plane is free even for high-availability clusters. There is no reserved or spot tier, so savings come from right-sizing rather than commitment.
Who is Linode the right choice for?
Teams that want developer-cloud simplicity with better bandwidth economics than the hyperscalers: media and file serving, APIs with heavy response payloads, and backup or replication traffic. It is now US-headquartered through Akamai, which matters if EU data residency is a requirement — the EU regions remain available, but corporate control is not European.
What does the cheapest comparable instance cost on Linode?
For a 4 vCPU / 16 GB Linux instance at 730 hours a month on demand, the engine matches Linode Compute Instances to g6-standard-4 at $48.03/month. Instance shapes differ between providers, so the matched shape matters as much as the price — the compute table below lists every published shape with its reserved and spot rates.
How does Linode charge for data transfer?
Internet egress is metered from the first gigabyte — there is no standing free transfer allowance. Load balancers bill at $10.00/month and static IPv4 addresses at $0.00/month in this catalog, both metered hourly.
What storage tiers and managed database engines does Linode offer?
Object storage is available in 1 tier (hot) — see the storage table for per-GB rates. Managed databases cover POSTGRES, MYSQL (SQL Server is not offered as a managed service). The managed Kubernetes control plane is free on the first cluster.
Provenance for every figure on this page is listed on the methodology page.