Linode 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Linode

4.6

(22)

Pricing

Starting at $5.00 per month

About Linode

Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to take your ideas to the next level.

Our infrastructure-as-a-service platform is deployed across 11 global markets from our data centers around the world and is supported by our Next Generation Network, advanced APIs, comprehensive services, and vast library of educational resources.

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Linode Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $5.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$5.00

usage based, per month

No plan information available

Linode Features

Popular features found in Cloud Management
Capacity Analytics
Compliance Management
Disaster Recovery
Event Logs
Real-Time Monitoring
Reporting & Statistics
Resource Management
Security Management
Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management
Third-Party Integrations
More features of Linode
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Activity Management
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Escalation
Alerts/Notifications
API
Archiving & Retention
Authentication
Automatic Backup
Backup and Recovery
Bandwidth Monitoring
Cloud Computing
CMS Integration
Configurable Workflow
Control Panel
Cost Management
Dashboard
Data Capture and Transfer
Data Import/Export
Data Migration
Data Recovery
Data Security
Data Storage Management
Data Synchronization
Data Visualization
Dedicated Virtual Resources
Document Storage
Encryption
File Management
File Sharing
File Transfer
Load Balancing
Log Access
Mobile Access
Monitoring
Multi-Cloud Management
Multi-Device Support
Network Monitoring
Performance Analysis
Performance Management
Performance Metrics
Performance Monitoring
Real-Time Analytics
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Notifications
Real-Time Updates
Reporting/Analytics
Role-Based Permissions
Search/Filter
Secure Data Storage
Secure Login
Security Tools
Server Monitoring
Single Sign On
SSL Security
Third-Party Integration
Uptime Reporting
User Management
Version Control
Virtual Server
Web Framework Support
Website Hosting

Linode Integrations

Terraform

Drupal

Docker

MongoDB

MySQL

PostgreSQL

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Linode User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

68%

27%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.6

Value for money

4.9

Customer support

4.3

Functionality

4.5

Ajay S I.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2021

Best cloud is Linode

Actually, if we discuss the pricing and Service then Pricing is cheap but service is perfect. Most of our clients are using Linode and we always recommend Linode to clients. Our overall experince with Linode is most satisfying. Thank You Linode

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I'm using Linode for the last many years are DevOps and its reliability is awesome. Uptime, Scalability, Speed, and Pricing are very best as compare to their service, which is mind-blowing. I trust Linode and also refer to other companies, who are our clients. I have about 7 running server and all are on Linode. Overall they are the best in case of easiness of dashboard and maintenance.

Cons:

Support, Once I face the issue and all of my hosts went down on the Singapore server and I was in the urgent demo so I call them on the India helpline but it's not working. They helo me by ticketing and also give me compensation. The ticketing system is good. All else is very well.

Reasons for choosing Linode

All are having their our features but AWS and Google Cloud are a little expensive and complex dashboards as compare to Linode. Digital Ocean is most likely Linode type but we are never facing any issue with Linode so we never switched.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for free trial

Review source

Reviewed March 2025

My first free 60 days experience with Linode.

I many used it to store my files in it while practicing docker as it gives high speed SSD storage.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It has free trial and also you get 100$ free credit to use in initial stage.

Cons:

There was no auto scaling and very few data centers were available and only has 60 days free trial.

Reasons for switching to Linode

Virtual Box does not have VPS, we have to download it on local system.

Joël T.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used monthly for free trial

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

Still lacks some of the basic concepts of modern web hosting

Linode didn't just favor me in anyways. From pricing structure to technical support, it didn't find room for my business.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

There isn't much that impressed me with Linode apart from the fact that it supports cyber panel very well (VPS) and the virtual private servers are easy to install.

Cons:

Things I don't like about Linode:-It's exorbitant in terms of pricing-poor client service ( they take anywhere from 1-2 business days to respond to an open ticket)-Poor or almost none reasonable pricing model.-WordPress hosting is slow-High speed servers are available in the dedcated hosting package which are very costful

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2025

Affordable and Reliable, but Needs Manual Setup.

It provides simple and cost effective service to users but also lack in some where in managing fine grain security management.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

There affordable pricing and its easy to use dashboard.

Cons:

It is only good for small scale business as it does not provide advance features like bigger sharks in market such as AWS, GCP etc.

Reasons for switching to Linode

They were slightly expensive as compare to Linode and I also found some videos on youtube so they helped me to setup.

Verified

Reviewer

Logistics and Supply Chain

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2021

Linode is an excellent cloud virtual private server provider

We run all our back-end servers on Linode now, rather than maintaining a pair of physical data centers and standing up and supporting an entire virtual server stack such as VMware vSphere. Using Linode has given us considerable cost savings over our previous physical data centers, and has simplified the resources we need to run our technology stack

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Linode provides virtual private servers using SSDs that have excellent performance characteristics for the pricing, it's important that we get the best value for money, and Linode's VPS price performance ratio is far better than its competitors

Cons:

Linode is not as well known as the other big guys in this space, so it can be a hard sell to convince an large conservative organization to take a bet on the little guy, given the prevailing "no one ever got fired choosing Microsoft" attitude of some people, so it would be better if Linode was more well known and on equal footing with the big guys

Reasons for choosing Linode

Linode is very cost effective and utterly beats out the other big names on both pricing and support services, and their products are competitive, have great performance, and are rock solid reliable.

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Reviewer

Libraries

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2021

Linode - an excellent product that is reasonably priced and very very reliable

Linode allowed us to host our product for a very reasonable price and with very reliable uptime.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Linode allows you to install a number of Linux distributions, so you can tailor that depending on what you want and are used to. Have been using Linode for several years have found it very reliable. They have also never raised the price in those years, it has remained constant. I like everything with it, Linode Manager and Longview are all excellent products to help you manage your servers.

Cons:

Linux distributions for Linode are not hardened by default, so you will have to spend some time securing your deployments. There are mitigations for this though - Linode provides the ability to create scripts to create and configure your stack - so you may only have to do it once anyway. Also at the moment, there is still no support for running FreeBSD on Linode as an official image.

Reasons for choosing Linode

Linode had great reviews, the pricing was simple and fair. I had also used Linode before in another role.

Reasons for switching to Linode

When RedHat moved from Openshift v2 to v3, it was very abrupt with little to no help (documentation was bare and useless) in migrating. Version 3 was completely different and the time frame given for businesses to move was bordered on plain rude. I really liked v2 Openshift, but this experience forced us to move away from Red Hat completely.

Pius E.

Verified reviewer

Internet

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Linode

My Virtual machines on Linode have always been up and every time I needed help the support has always been there for me. Support from the community, Linode team, and the YouTube videos they put up. I can always afford Linode and keep track of my plan and costs easily.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Linode is really so easy to use. I'm not a professional network engineer but I find my way quite easily in Linode. Everything is within the site, from setting a server, to creating and updating your stacks. It's not jumbled up like in AWS, Google Cloud, and Alibaba. Even as a newbie, with just watching Linode's youtube channel, you set up your services and learn as you go along. That's what I did, and it's going well. One other thing is Linode's pricing! It is by far the most affordable yet very efficient and comprehensive cloud provider out there in comparison to Digital Ocean and AWS.

Cons:

Linode needs to add more easily deployable apps in its marketplace to help even more of the less technical founders and learning developers get started.

Reasons for choosing Linode

Plainly, Linode had a better price for me when getting started and testing my project.

Dakota M.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2021

Cost-Effective, Reliable Servers

My overall experience with Linode has been great. Moving from shared web hosting to a VPS had a learning curve, but the guides provided by Linode along with their extremely responsive support helped me get set up and ensure I had access to the ports I needed. We haven't even had so much as an outage that was caused by Linode. The one time maintenance did occur it was done before we could even notice an issue! They also provide 100 dollars in credit for your first two months, giving you the ability to test their services before paying out of pocket.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Our businesses use case for servers is for websites and we could not be happier with Linode. We had hosted websites with shared hosting providers but for one reason or another, we always had issues. On the cheapest VPS Linode provides we have been able to have multiple low-traffic websites running without an incident.

Cons:

The only caveat of VPS hosting at Linode I can think of is that you need to pay for backups separately and these backups only go back 14 days. You can initiate a manual backup which can be as old as you like, but if you want a more comprehensive backup solution you will need to set one up yourself.

Reasons for choosing Linode

Reputation and what Linode stood for. I am responsible for web management at my business and so I went with someone who had long-term notoriety in this space and also values that I supported.

Reasons for switching to Linode

Shared hosting simply was just too slow. Considering the price we were going to have to pay to continue with our previous host along with the random downtime and speed hiccups made us switch. Even a simple $5/mo Linode server outperformed what we had from Namecheap.

Gianluigi M.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2022

Very good services at a lower price than competitors

We deploy some micro services related to our PaaS CI/CD product. Performance and reliability are very high compared to a very cheao price. We plan to migrate more services to Linode.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Easy dashboard to manage and monitor all our active services. Very cheap but very stable and good VPS performance.

Cons:

Poor LoadBalancer settings. Set up process for some services could be more easy

Reasons for choosing Linode

Best price comparison with similar VPS performance.

Reasons for switching to Linode

Try to save money

Romaric S.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

Linode

Linode is a better alternative for any project infrastructure. From common apps to complex websites hosting, Linode does well at it. I recommend it.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I have tried out a lot of web hosting solutions and Linode is my #2 VPS recommendation for businesses looking for affordable and effective VPS hosting solutions.The company keeps track of the client's objectives and tries all in its capacities to meet them. Linode's hosting technology is quite advanced.It has a variety of server locations and the server installation process is also very easy as there are documentations to avail this.The support staff is very friendly and proactive. They care about their clients as well as their satisfaction. I have seen some competitors who only care about money.

Cons:

The cost for hosting with Linode is medium-high as compared to digital ocean. Sincerely, this is the only dark side of it.

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