Linode (Akamai Cloud) pricing

Flat-rate VPS instances now sold under Akamai, with transfer pooled across the account and egress overage priced at half a cent per gigabyte.

List prices checked

By Akamai · Cloud compute & VPS

Rate card

What Akamai charges, by billing axis.

AxisPriceApplies to
Entry plan$5.00/moCheapest paid plan or typical entry configuration
Compute$0.0075/vCPU-hrOn-demand, cheapest general-purpose region
Data transfer out$0.0050/GB1 TB included, then metered
Free tierYes1 TB of egress included on the $5 plan

Source: Akamai pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

Plans

Every Linode (Akamai Cloud) tier Akamai lists, with the cost per GB of RAM worked out so the lineup can be compared against itself.

PlanvCPURAMStorageTransferMonthlyPer GB RAM
Nanode 1 GB11 GB25 GB1 TB$5.00$5.00
Linode 2 GB12 GB50 GB2 TB$12$6.00
Linode 4 GB24 GB80 GB4 TB$24$6.00
Linode 8 GB48 GB160 GB5 TB$48$6.00
Linode 16 GB616 GB320 GB8 TB$96$6.00

Source: Akamai pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

What it costs per month

Linode (Akamai Cloud) billed against three workload profiles, using the rates above. Every line shows its arithmetic.

Side project

A personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process.

$5.47/mo

  • 730 vCPU-hours at $0.0075/hour$5.47
  • 100 GB used, 1 TB included, 0 GB billable at $0.005/GB$0

Growing SaaS

A funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.

$11/mo

  • 1,460 vCPU-hours at $0.0075/hour$11
  • 1 TB used, 1 TB included, 0 GB billable at $0.005/GB$0

Media-heavy site

A publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.

$50/mo

  • 730 vCPU-hours at $0.0075/hour$5.47
  • 10 TB used, 1 TB included, 9 TB billable at $0.005/GB$45

Linode (Akamai Cloud) vs the alternatives

The closest compute providers on price, with the difference on cloud compute & vps's headline axis.

ServicePer vCPU-hrvs Linode (Akamai Cloud)Compare
UpCloud$0.00741× cheaperHead to head
Scaleway Instances$0.00601.3× cheaperHead to head
DigitalOcean Droplets$0.00601.3× cheaperHead to head
Hetzner Cloud$0.00521.4× cheaperHead to head
Oracle Cloud Compute$0.0101.3× dearerHead to head
Vultr Cloud Compute$0.00401.9× cheaperHead to head

Questions about pricing

How much does Linode (Akamai Cloud) cost in 2026?
Linode (Akamai Cloud) charges $5.00 per month for the entry plan, per Akamai's published pricing page. There is also a free tier: 1 TB of egress included on the $5 plan. The tables above break the rate card down by axis and model it against three concrete workloads.
Does Linode (Akamai Cloud) have a free tier?
Yes — 1 TB of egress included on the $5 plan. Check whether it is permanent or a trial before you build a budget around it; the two are often presented identically.
What does Linode (Akamai Cloud) charge for egress?
$0.0050 per GB, after 1 TB included in the plan. Egress is where providers in this category differ most, so it is worth checking against the alternatives before committing.
Are these Linode (Akamai Cloud) prices current?
They were checked against Akamai's official pricing page and stamped with that date, which is shown at the top of this page and next to every table. Vendors change list prices without notice — the source link is there so you can confirm before you commit.

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