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Linode was founded in 2003.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It offers VPS hosting products.

It has datacenters in:
  • Australia
  • Canada
  • Germany
  • India
  • Japan
  • Singapore
  • United Kingdom
  • United States

Best VPS Awards

3rd Best VPS 2022 under $25 (old revision)
3rd Best VPS 2020 under $5 (old revision)

2nd Best VPS April 2020
2nd Best Value November 2019
2nd Best Value July 2019

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Review CPU models found in Linode trials CPUs
Performance variations of Linode VPS over the long term Consistency

Linode VPS Features

Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.

Feature Value Comment
Hourly Billing  Yes
DDOS Protection  Yes

https://www.linode.com/products/ddos/
Backups  No

Available for a fee.
Control Panel  Builtin
SSH Keys Setup  Yes
Total Number of Datacenters  11
Number of Datacenter Continents  4
Monitoring Charts  Yes
Admin REST API  Yes

URL: https://www.linode.com/api
Upgrade VPS from admin console  Yes
Mobile Friendly UI  Yes
Reverse DNS  Yes

Under Linodes/Networking, select ... for IP address and then RDNS.
Accepted Forms of Payment  Credit cards, Paypal
Hidden CPU Model  No
Affiliate Program  Yes
Firewall  Yes

The Firewall is in Beta as of March 2021.
Shelving  No
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Pros and Cons

Strengths

  • Fast growing list of features.
  • Large choice of instance types.
  • Modern and fast management UI.
  • Large choice of datacenters.

Weaknesses

  • Wide mix of CPUs, fast and slow, old and new.

Linode Extra Services

In addition to features included in VPS plans, Linode also offers the following services (possibly for a fee):

Backups   Block storage   Object storage   Load balancer   Floating IP addresses
Team Management   Managed databases   Serverless DDoS protection   Kubernetes  
GPU instances   Private network  

VPS Instance Provisioning Time

For each Linode VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server from the moment it was ordered to the moment it accepted SSH connections.

See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.

Average Provisioning Time Min Provisioning Time Max Provisioning Time Number of VPS Samples
70s 60s 110s 7

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Cloud Storage Prices

For a comparison of storage features and prices from all providers, please check the Cloud Storage Prices page.

Storage Type Price / GB / month Restriction Description
Backups $0.050 $0.05 for 2GB Linode. 25% of instance price in general. Prices vary depending on instance size: 25% of instance price. Backups are automatically scheduled.
https://www.linode.com/products/backups/
Block $0.100 10GB minimum size Volumes are configured with built-in data replication. Linode Block Storage is powered by NVMe SSD drives.
https://www.linode.com/blockstorage
Object $0.020 250GB minimum S3 compatible. 1 TB outbound transfer included. Up to 50 Million Objects per Cluster.
https://www.linode.com/products/object-storage/

Network Bandwidth Prices

These are the network bandwidth prices charged by Linode for outbound transfers from VPS to the internet.

For a comparison of bandwidth prices from all providers, go to the Network Bandwitdh Prices page.

Description Price / GB
Pricing model: Allowance Then Charged (the provider gives a free bandwidth allowance with each server. Bandwidth above the free allowance is charged by the provider.)
Free allowance: 4 TB / month (for a 2 core 4GB instance or closest available)
Transfer pool: yes
https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/network-transfer/ 		$0.010/GB

Linode Plans

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Plan Specifications

URL
Price per month $5.00
Discount or Surcharge for
long or short term use		 No
Disk GB 25
Num Cores 1
Memory GB 1
Hourly Billing Yes
Virtualization KVM
Data Transfer GB 1000
Maximum Network Speed 1000 Mbps
Burstable CPU No
Dedicated CPU No

Plan Grades

Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.

Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.

More details about grades calculation

Overall Score: 37

Web Performance Raw CPU Power Performance Stability Disk IO Performance Network Performance
E E E D C
Show Price Weighted Grades   

Note: A low grade on a low price VPS does not necessarily mean the VPS is underperforming, the server may still perform better than other servers at the same price. Use the Price Weighted Grades or the Best VPS 2022 rankings to find the best VPS in each price range.


Performance Test Results

We conducted 4 different types of tests during the latest trial for Linode - Shared 1GB. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.

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Performance trials run on the Shared 1GB plan

This plan was tested 4 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the Shared 1GB plan with its grade and CPU type.

Start of Trial CPU Datacenter Overall Grade
Mar 06 2022 AMD EPYC 7642 48-Core Processor New Jersey, USA D
Dec 11 2020 Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6148 CPU @ 2.40GHz Texas, USA E
Nov 17 2019 AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core Processor DAllas, TX, USA D
Nov 26 2018 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v4 @ 2.30GHz Dallas, TX D

Plan Specifications

URL
Price per month $10.00
Discount or Surcharge for
long or short term use		 No
Disk GB 50
Num Cores 1
Memory GB 2
Hourly Billing Yes
Virtualization KVM
Data Transfer GB 2000
Burstable CPU No
Dedicated CPU No

Plan Grades

Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.

Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.

More details about grades calculation

Overall Score: 38

Web Performance Raw CPU Power Performance Stability Disk IO Performance Network Performance
F E D C C
Show Price Weighted Grades   

Note: A low grade on a low price VPS does not necessarily mean the VPS is underperforming, the server may still perform better than other servers at the same price. Use the Price Weighted Grades or the Best VPS 2022 rankings to find the best VPS in each price range.


Performance Test Results

We conducted 4 different types of tests during the latest trial for Linode - Shared 2GB. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.

Web Runs Network Transfers Sysbench Endurance
Review Review Review Review
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Performance trials run on the Shared 2GB plan

This plan was tested 4 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the Shared 2GB plan with its grade and CPU type.

Start of Trial CPU Datacenter Overall Grade
Jul 26 2021 AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core Processor New Jersey, USA D
May 02 2020 AMD EPYC 7501 32-Core Processor Georgia, USA D
Sep 10 2019 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v4 @ 2.30GHz Newark, NJ, USA E
Oct 01 2018 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v4 @ 2.30GHz Dallas, TX D

Plan Specifications

URL
Price per month $20.00
Discount or Surcharge for
long or short term use		 No
Disk GB 80
Num Cores 2
Memory GB 4
Hourly Billing Yes
Virtualization KVM
Data Transfer GB 4000
Burstable CPU No
Dedicated CPU No

Plan Grades

Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.

Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.

More details about grades calculation

Overall Score: 69

Web Performance Raw CPU Power Performance Stability Disk IO Performance Network Performance
B C B C C
Show Price Weighted Grades   

Performance Test Results

We conducted 4 different types of tests during the latest trial for Linode - Shared 4GB. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.

Web Runs Network Transfers Sysbench Endurance
Review Review Review Review
Compare Compare Compare Compare

Performance trials run on the Shared 4GB plan

This plan was tested 3 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the Shared 4GB plan with its grade and CPU type.

Start of Trial CPU Datacenter Overall Grade
Dec 20 2021 AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core Processor New Jersey, USA B
Sep 27 2020 AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core Processor New Jersey, USA B
Jul 01 2019 AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core Processor Dallas, TX, USA C

Plan Specifications

URL
Price per month $30.00
Discount or Surcharge for
long or short term use		 No
Disk GB 80
Num Cores 2
Memory GB 4
Hourly Billing Yes
Virtualization KVM
Data Transfer GB 4000
Burstable CPU No
Dedicated CPU Yes

Plan Grades

Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.

Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.

More details about grades calculation

Overall Score: 38

Web Performance Raw CPU Power Performance Stability Disk IO Performance Network Performance
E E E D B
Show Price Weighted Grades   

Performance Test Results

We conducted 5 different types of tests during the latest trial for Linode - Dedicated 4GB. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.

Yabs Web Runs Network Transfers Sysbench Endurance
Review Review Review Review Review
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Performance trials run on the Dedicated 4GB plan

This plan was tested 4 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the Dedicated 4GB plan with its grade and CPU type.

Start of Trial CPU Datacenter Overall Grade
May 19 2022 AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core Processor Georgia, USA D
Feb 25 2021 AMD EPYC 7501 32-Core Processor Toronto, Canada D
Jan 28 2020 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz Atlanta, GA, USA C
Feb 20 2019 AMD EPYC 7501 32-Core Processor Dallas, TX, USA C

Plan Specifications

URL
Price per month $40.00
Discount or Surcharge for
long or short term use		 No
Disk GB 160
Num Cores 4
Memory GB 8
Hourly Billing Yes
Virtualization KVM
Data Transfer GB 5000
Burstable CPU No
Dedicated CPU No

Plan Grades

Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.

Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.

More details about grades calculation

Overall Score: 58

Web Performance Raw CPU Power Performance Stability Disk IO Performance Network Performance
E B D C B
Show Price Weighted Grades   

Performance Test Results

We conducted 4 different types of tests during the latest trial for Linode - Shared 8GB. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.

Web Runs Network Transfers Sysbench Endurance
Review Review Review Review
Compare Compare Compare Compare

Performance trials run on the Shared 8GB plan

This plan was tested 4 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the Shared 8GB plan with its grade and CPU type.

Start of Trial CPU Datacenter Overall Grade
Oct 13 2021 AMD EPYC 7501 32-Core Processor Toronto, Canada C
Jul 15 2020 AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core Processor California, USA C
May 13 2020 AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core Processor New Jersey, USA C
Apr 14 2019 AMD EPYC 7501 32-Core Processor Texas, USA C

Plan Specifications

URL
Price per month $60.00
Discount or Surcharge for
long or short term use		 No
Disk GB 160
Num Cores 4
Memory GB 8
Hourly Billing Yes
Virtualization KVM
Data Transfer GB 5000
Burstable CPU No
Dedicated CPU Yes

Plan Grades

Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.

Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.

More details about grades calculation

Overall Score: 57

Web Performance Raw CPU Power Performance Stability Disk IO Performance Network Performance
C C E C B
Show Price Weighted Grades   

Performance Test Results

We conducted 5 different types of tests during the latest trial for Linode - Dedicated 8GB. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.

Yabs Web Runs Network Transfers Sysbench Endurance
Review Review Review Review Review
Compare Compare Compare Compare Compare

Performance trials run on the Dedicated 8GB plan

This plan was tested 3 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the Dedicated 8GB plan with its grade and CPU type.

Start of Trial CPU Datacenter Overall Grade
Aug 04 2022 AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core Processor New Jersey, USA C
May 11 2021 AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core Processor New Jersey, USA C
Mar 29 2020 AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core Processor New Jersey, USA C

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