Linode pricing: which plan to pick and what it costs

The cheapest way to get 8 GB of RAM on dedicated CPUs at Linode, now Akamai Cloud, is the plan with the least disk: High Memory, at $60 a month. The newest line, G8, is the most expensive of the three at $79.31 this November, now that it bills every hour with no monthly cap and charges for every GB it sends.

Linode pricing in 2026: the plans and what they cost

These are US list prices per month, with the outbound transfer each plan adds to your account's pool:

Most plans bill by the hour, rounded up, and stop at the monthly price, so a server that runs all month costs what the table says. G8 is the exception. Since July 1, 2026, G8 and GPU Linodes, plus any extra IPv4 addresses, bill for the hours actually used each month, with no monthly cap. Akamai counts 721 hours in November and 743 in March, so the same G8 server costs $79.31 this month and $81.73 in March.

A powered-off Linode still bills until you delete it, and backups cost extra: $2 a month on a Nanode, $5 on a 2 vCPU dedicated plan.

Shared CPU is fine for staging, side projects and internal tools. An app your customers use all day belongs on dedicated CPU, and that's where the choice gets interesting.

Three ways to buy 8 GB on dedicated CPU

Each of the three has a catch:

• High Memory 24 GB, $60. Two vCPUs, three times the RAM you asked for, and 20 GB of disk. That won't hold a database or user uploads, so plan on a volume at $0.10 per GB. Add 62 GB of volume and it's $66.20 for 2 vCPUs, 24 GB and 82 GB of disk, with 5 TB of transfer.
• G6 Dedicated 8 GB, $72. Twice the CPUs, a 160 GB disk and 5 TB of transfer, with the monthly cap. You pay for four vCPUs just to get the memory.
• G8 Dedicated, $0.11 an hour. The exact shape: 2 vCPUs, 8 GB, 82 GB. It's also the only one of the three that has no monthly cap and no transfer included at all.

On price, G8 doesn't win at this size, whatever you send. Send 5,000 GB a month and High Memory and G6 don't move, while G8 climbs to $104.31. At 10,000 GB, High Memory is $85, G6 is $97 and G8 is $129.31. A G8 server that shares an account with G6 servers draws on their pool and costs less.

[ 8 GB on dedicated CPU, sending 10,000 GB ]

On Linode, then, High Memory is the cheapest route to 8 GB when a volume covers your disk, G6 makes sense when your app can use four CPUs, and G8 earns its price only when you need exactly 4 GB per vCPU and send little.

Linode Kubernetes (LKE) pricing and control plane cost

LKE's standard control plane is free. The high-availability control plane is $60 a month, and LKE Enterprise is $300. Worker nodes are ordinary Linodes at the prices above, and Linode's load balancer, the NodeBalancer, is $10 a month.

A small production cluster, three G6 Dedicated 4 GB nodes behind one NodeBalancer, is $118 a month on the standard control plane and $178 with high availability. That control plane line decides whether LKE is cheap, so settle it before you compare nodes. High Memory nodes give you the most RAM for the money of any plan in the table above, but only 20 GB of disk each. On American Cloud Kubernetes, the first control node is free and each extra one costs the same as a worker node.

Linode vs DigitalOcean, Vultr and Hetzner pricing

Here's the same server, 2 vCPUs and 8 GB on dedicated CPU, sending 5,000 GB a month, at US list prices on November 11, 2026. A GiB is counted as a GB, and an IPv4 address is included where the cloud charges for one:

[ 2 vCPU and 8 GB sending 5,000 GB ]

Our bill is the same in February as in March, and it doesn't move when your traffic does. Hetzner is the cheapest here, and High Memory and Vultr come in $6.13 under us.

Support is where the gap is widest. Linode's live chat covers account and billing questions only, so a technical problem goes to a ticket, the phone or email. On American Cloud, every account gets chat in the console, and our median reply is under 2 minutes.

Our cloud server price comparison has the same server at eight clouds and three sizes, and DigitalOcean pricing has DigitalOcean's full list.

Linode bandwidth pricing and egress fees

Most Linode plans include outbound transfer, from 1 TB on a Nanode up to 20 TB on the biggest plans, and in most data centers Linode pools it across your account, so a Nanode's 1 TB can cover traffic from a busy server next to it. Object Storage adds another 1 TB a month to the pool. Past the pool, transfer costs $0.005 per GB in US data centers, and inbound transfer is free. G8 and GPU plans add nothing to the pool.

We don't charge for outbound transfer on servers, Kubernetes or object storage, so there's no pool to watch.

Linode managed PostgreSQL pricing

Managed PostgreSQL and MySQL cost the same on Linode, priced by node size and node count:

A single shared node is fine for a prototype or a staging copy of your data. A production database that fails over to a standby needs at least two nodes, and you'll want dedicated CPU under it, so plan on $143 to $206 a month, not $16. We run managed PostgreSQL, MySQL and Redis in our US zones, next to your servers.

What a small production app costs on Linode

Put the pieces together for a typical customer-facing app: two G6 Dedicated 4 GB servers at $36 each, backups on both at $5 each, one NodeBalancer at $10 and a two-node dedicated 4 GB PostgreSQL cluster at $143. That's $235 a month, and the database is more than half of it. The two servers bring 8 TB of transfer to the pool, so an app this size rarely pays for traffic, and each TB past the pool adds $5.

Need 8 GB per server? Move both to G8 and the two servers alone cost $158.62 this November, up from $72, and they bring no transfer to the pool, so every GB the app sends is billed. That's the trade the G8 line asks you to make: the exact shape you want, priced by the hour and by the GB. On American Cloud, transfer never enters the math.

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