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Akamai Cloud (Linode) vs OVHcloud
Entry prices are within a dollar of each other (Akamai Cloud (Linode) $5.00, OVHcloud $5.35), so price alone does not decide it. Akamai Cloud (Linode) lists more regions, which matters if latency to a specific city is your constraint. OVHcloud is the better pick for bandwidth-heavy workloads that would blow through a metered-transfer plan at another provider.
Akamai Cloud (Linode)
$5.00/mo entry
Teams that value platform maturity and stability over the lowest possible invoice.
OVHcloud
$5.35/mo entry
Bandwidth-heavy workloads that would blow through a metered-transfer plan at another provider.
Specification differences
Entry plans compared line by line. Rows marked with a dash are preferences rather than measurable wins, so we do not pick a side on them.
| Attribute | Akamai Cloud (Linode) | OVHcloud | Better |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry plan price / month | $5.00 | $5.35 | Akamai Cloud (Linode) |
| Entry plan vCPU | 1 | 2 | OVHcloud |
| Entry plan RAM | 1 GB | 4 GB | OVHcloud |
| Entry plan storage | 25 GB | 40 GB | OVHcloud |
| Listed regions | 20 | 15 | Akamai Cloud (Linode) |
| Management model | Unmanaged (you run the OS) | Unmanaged (you run the OS) | |
| Support | Ticket and phone support; paid premium tiers available. | Ticket support included; paid Business and Enterprise support tiers via the OVHcloud Control Panel. | |
| Billing | Hourly metering, capped at the listed monthly price. | Month-to-month on the US VPS range, with lower per-month rates for 6- and 12-month commitments. Public Cloud instances are a separate, hourly-billed product. | |
| Free tier | No free tier. Trial credit is offered to new accounts from time to time. | No free tier on the VPS range. |
Same size, side by side
The cheapest plan from each provider that meets each size, so the comparison is between equal servers rather than two entry plans. Prices include a separately-billed IPv4 address where the provider charges for one.
| Size | Akamai Cloud (Linode) | OVHcloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 vCPU / 1 GB | $5.00Nanode 1GB · 1 vCPU · 1 GB · 25 GBEntry shared instance. | $5.35VPS-1 · 2 vCPU · 4 GB · 40 GBTwo vCPUs and 4GB for about five dollars. Unlimited traffic at 500 Mbps public bandwidth. Month-to-month price; a 12-month commitment lowers it to $4.54. | Akamai Cloud (Linode) cheaper by $0.35 |
| 2 vCPU / 4 GB | $24.00Linode 4GB · 2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GBMid-tier shared instance. | $5.35VPS-1 · 2 vCPU · 4 GB · 40 GBTwo vCPUs and 4GB for about five dollars. Unlimited traffic at 500 Mbps public bandwidth. Month-to-month price; a 12-month commitment lowers it to $4.54. | OVHcloud cheaper by $18.65 |
| 4 vCPU / 8 GB | $48.00Linode 8GB · 4 vCPU · 8 GB · 160 GBFour cores with the largest included transfer in the shared range. | $10.00VPS-2 · 4 vCPU · 8 GB · 75 GBFour cores and 8GB for ten dollars, at 1 Gbps with unlimited traffic. Month-to-month price; a 12-month commitment lowers it to $8.50. The tier that most directly undercuts DigitalOcean. | OVHcloud cheaper by $38.00 |
| 8 vCPU / 16 GB | $192.00Linode 32GB · 8 vCPU · 32 GB · 640 GBEight shared cores and 32GB, with 16TB of transfer included. | $27.50VPS-4 · 8 vCPU · 24 GB · 200 GBEight cores and 24GB of RAM, unlimited traffic at 3 Gbps. Month-to-month price; a 12-month commitment lowers it to $23.37. | OVHcloud cheaper by $164.50 |
Every provider at these sizes, ranked: 1 GB RAM · 4 GB RAM · 8 GB RAM · 16 GB RAM
Where each one wins and loses
Akamai Cloud (Linode)
Linode predates most of the budget cloud market and was acquired by Akamai, which folded it into a much larger edge network. The instance shapes and flat pricing remain close to DigitalOcean, and the platform is mature and stable. It is the safe, unexciting choice in this list.
Strengths
- Mature platform with a long operational track record
- Flat pricing and instance shapes broadly comparable to DigitalOcean
- Backed by Akamai edge infrastructure
Weaknesses
- Unmanaged, same operational burden as its peers
- Product direction now set by a much larger parent company
- Smaller developer community than DigitalOcean
Support: Ticket and phone support; paid premium tiers available.
Billing: Hourly metering, capped at the listed monthly price.
Free tier: No free tier. Trial credit is offered to new accounts from time to time.
OVHcloud
OVHcloud runs its own datacentres and its own network, which is why the VPS list price is denominated in USD and includes unmetered traffic rather than a monthly transfer allowance. The 2027 range replaces the older Value/Essential/Comfort/Elite naming with plain VPS-1 through VPS-4 tiers, all on NVMe storage. It is a serious alternative to Hetzner if you want unmetered egress and a wider region map, and it runs its own data centres in North America as well as Europe.
Strengths
- Unlimited traffic at 500 Mbps–3 Gbps depending on tier
- Prices set in USD on the North American site, no FX drift for the invoice
- NVMe storage across the whole VPS range
- Datacentres OVHcloud actually owns, including US and EU footprints
Weaknesses
- Two vCPUs on the cheapest tier is generous, but shared and inconsistent under load
- Support quality has an uneven reputation; documentation is thinner than DigitalOcean’s
- Add-ons like backups are billed separately (from about a dollar per month)
- Historic outage record (Strasbourg fire, 2021) is worth knowing about before you rely on a single region
Support: Ticket support included; paid Business and Enterprise support tiers via the OVHcloud Control Panel.
Billing: Month-to-month on the US VPS range, with lower per-month rates for 6- and 12-month commitments. Public Cloud instances are a separate, hourly-billed product.
Free tier: No free tier on the VPS range.
The full cost stack
What a server costs beyond its sticker price, shown for 2 vCPU / 4 GB. Only figures read from each provider's own documentation appear; a gap says “not captured yet”.
| Item | Akamai Cloud (Linode) | OVHcloud |
|---|---|---|
| Plan (2 vCPU / 4 GB) | $24.00 | $5.35 |
| Automatic backups | not captured yet | not captured yet |
| Outbound traffic beyond the allowance | not captured yet | not captured yet |
| Smallest managed load balancer | not captured yet | not captured yet |
Sources: none captured yet for this pair.
Price changes we have logged
No tracked price change for either provider yet.
Full record at the change log.
Every plan
The complete plan ladders, with the date and source of every price, are on each provider's page: Akamai Cloud (Linode) and OVHcloud.
All figures are the providers' own published list prices in USD, on-demand monthly. The index was last refreshed 2026-10-14, and every row shows the date its own price was read. Nothing here is live or negotiated pricing. Where a provider bills a public IPv4 address on top, it is added to the monthly price, the ranking and every cost per vCPU or per GB, and the row shows the parts: the server, any disk priced apart, and the IPv4 charge. Some prices exclude VAT or need a commitment; the plan notes say which. Check the provider's pricing page before you commit.
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Akamai Cloud (Linode) vs OVHcloud — frequently asked
Every answer is computed from this pair's own prices and costs.
- Which is cheaper for 1 vCPU / 1 GB, Akamai Cloud (Linode) or OVHcloud?
- Akamai Cloud (Linode) Nanode 1GB at $5.00/mo, which is $0.35 (7%) less than OVHcloud VPS-1 at $5.35/mo.
- How many datacentre locations do Akamai Cloud (Linode) and OVHcloud have?
- Akamai Cloud (Linode) lists 20 and OVHcloud lists 15.