Linode is an American cloud hosting provider founded in 2003 and acquired by Akamai Technologies in March 2022. Its main focus is Linux virtual machines that can run pretty much any kind of application.
One thing to know before you go shopping: Linode is now sold under the Akamai name. Akamai folded it into Akamai Connected Cloud in 2023, and the old linode.com pricing page now redirects to Akamai Cloud pricing. The plans, the “Nanode” and “Linode” plan names and the Cloud Manager are still there, so everything below applies to Akamai Cloud too.
Regardless of whether you are doing a personal initiative such as a project or working within an enterprise, Linode will provide you with great support at great prices.
Linode promotes origination with its effortless, inexpensive, and simple Linux hosting facilities and solutions with prices starting at only $5/month for shared CPU plans and pay as you go payment method.
Linode Compute can be used to develop and build websites using physical and virtual machines and tools offering a wide range of products that suit every business size such as dedicated CPU, shared CPU, High Memory, GPU, and Kubernetes.
Read how to create a WordPress website on shared CPU VPS on Linode.
Shared CPU (VPS) Plans and Pricing
The shared CPU Plan provides its users with shared virtual machines that will give you somewhat stable power and stable functioning.
If you are just starting out or want to build a small business website such as CMS, SAAS, or blog, Linode shared CPU is a great tool to start with.
The cheapest Linode plan (the Nanode 1 GB) starts at $5/month ($0.0075 per hour). It gives you the bare minimum for a small business application: 1GB of RAM, 1 CPU, 25GB of storage, and 1TB of monthly transfer. The next step up, Linode 2 GB, costs $12/month.
If you need an upgrade later when you scale up your business, there are ten shared plans in total, topping out at 192 GB of RAM, 32 CPUs, 3840GB of storage, and 20 TB of transfer for $1,152/month.
All prices and screenshots in this post come from Akamai’s pricing pages as of October 2026 (North America prices; some regions cost a bit more).
Dedicated CPU Plans and Pricing
The Dedicated CPU Plan as the name implies offers dedicated servers for applications that are CPU intensive. They are more for big websites and eCommerce businesses.
Starting at $36/month (the G6 Dedicated 4 GB plan), you get a dedicated CPU server with 4 GB RAM, 2 CPUs, 80GB storage, and 4 TB of transfer. That’s still cheap for dedicated cores, although it’s no longer the $30 it used to be.
If you want to scale up later, the G6 line has nine plans up to 512GB RAM, 64 CPUs, 7200 GB storage, and 12TB of transfer for $4,608 per month. Those are huge resources.
Akamai has also added newer hardware generations. G7 dedicated plans start at $43/month for the same 4 GB, 2 CPU shape. The newest G8 plans run on 5th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs and are listed by the hour (from $0.07/hour for 4 GB and 2 vCPUs), but keep in mind that G8 plans don’t include any bundled transfer, so every GB of outbound traffic is billed at $0.005.
High Memory Plans and Pricing
One of the compute options that Linode offers is high memory plans with virtual machines enhanced with devoted cores that are best for applications requiring demanding memory.
If you want to build a website that requires more RAM such as a video hosting platform, this plan might be the savior from paying more for a high price plan that has the same amount of RAM.
The High Memory product cheapest plan starts at $60/month and acquires you 24 GB of RAM, 2 CPUs, 20GB Storage, a 5TB Transfer rate, and a 40/5 Gbps Network in/out.
It has four other different plans with 48GB, 90GB, 150GB, and a maximum of 300GB memory at a rate of 1.44 dollars per hour adding up to a total of 960 dollars per month.
GPU Plans and Pricing
The Linode GPU plans are virtual machines with NVIDIA GPUs attached, made for heavy processing like AI inference, video transcoding and rendering. So on top of CPUs, you also get one or more GPUs.
When we first wrote this, the only option was the Quadro RTX 6000, starting at about $1,000 a month for one GPU, 32 GB of RAM, 8 CPUs, 640 GB storage, and 16 TB of transfer. Those plans are still listed at $1.50 per hour for one GPU and $6.00 per hour for four. The cheaper entry point now is the RTX 4000 Ada line, starting at $0.52 per hour for one GPU, 16 GB of RAM, 4 CPUs and 500 GB of storage.
At the top end, Akamai now offers RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell plans from $3.00 per hour for one GPU up to $24.00 per hour for eight. GPU pricing is shown by the hour, and the RTX 4000 Ada and Blackwell plans don’t include bundled transfer, so outbound traffic is billed separately.
Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) Plans
The Linode Kubernetes Engine Plan or LKE is a fully-managed K8s container for deploying and managing containerized applications and workloads. You get an API to access and control the Engine.
It’s a good choice when building a cluster of servers, because the standard control plane is free: you only pay for the worker nodes. If you want a high availability control plane, that starts at $60 per cluster per month, and LKE Enterprise (with a dedicated HA control plane) costs $300 per cluster per month plus the nodes.
LKE Plans are different for Dedicated CPUs, shared CPUs, and High memory.
Shared LKE Plans:
The shared CPU LKE plan offers 9 options with a constant amount of 3 nodes for all options. The first option starts at $36/month and gives you 3 CPUs, 6GB RAM, 150 GB storage, and a 6TB transfer rate Bandwidth.
Dedicated LKE Plans:
The dedicated CPU option also has 9 plans (per hardware generation), again with 3 nodes each. The first G6 plan starts at $108/month and gives you 6 CPUs, 12GB RAM, 240GB storage, and 12TB of transfer. The G7 equivalent costs $129/month.
High Memory LKE Plans:
The last option is the high memory option which has only 5 plans with a constant amount of also 3 nodes for all plans.
The first plan starts at $180/month and offers 6 CPUs, 72GB RAM, 60GB storage, and 15 TB bandwidth resources.
Conclusion: Which is Best For You
Linode has various computing product options that can be applied by anyone regardless of their needs.
- The shared cloud VPS plans suit small to medium applications and website businesses that do not require that much memory or CPUs.
- The dedicated CPU plans are best for CPU-intensive projects or applications.
- The High memory plans are the best choice for memory-intensive applications that require a decent amount of RAM.
- The GPU plans are more for complex applications that require more GPU resources such as online render engines.
- and finally, the Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) plans give you quick, easy Kubernetes clusters for running multiple nodes and managing them through one API.
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