Akamai Cloud (Linode) — provider assessment
Subject: Akamai Cloud (Linode)
Akamai exposes Linode types and regions through a public API. This assessment verifies three shared-CPU plans, backup add-on prices and core regions including Osaka, Tokyo and Singapore. Regional surcharges and independent performance are not assessed.
Overall score withheld
The evidence coverage is insufficient for a single overall score. The dimension results below are evidence assessments, not a universal quality ranking.
Conclusion
A useful option when Japan or broad Asia-Pacific availability matters, with API-verifiable specs and backup pricing. The overall score is withheld pending independent performance, stock and support evidence.
Dimensions
Assessed dimensions have a score and rationale. Not-assessed dimensions remain visibly unknown; they are not assigned a neutral score.
| Dimension | Status | Score | Rationale and evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Location fit | assessed | 4 / 5 | The region API lists core regions including Singapore, Osaka, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and London. Per-size stock is not confirmed. |
| Network performance | not assessed | Overall score withheld | No independent throughput or latency test was run on a Linode. |
| Policies and limitations | assessed | 3 / 5 | IPv6 assignment and backup add-on behavior are documented. Refund, SLA and abuse policies were not reviewed. |
| Price transparency | assessed | 4 / 5 | Base USD prices and backup add-on prices are API-visible. Some regions have surcharges that are outside this dataset. |
| Source freshness | assessed | 5 / 5 | Types and regions were read from the provider's live API on 2026-10-24. |
| Specifications | assessed | 5 / 5 | The public types API provides vCPU, RAM, disk, transfer, monthly price and backup add-on price for each plan. |
| Support and reliability | not assessed | Overall score withheld | No support interaction or independent reliability data was collected. |
Strengths
- Public API exposes specs, monthly prices and backup add-on prices.
- Core regions include Osaka, Tokyo and Singapore.
- Primary IPv6 is assigned automatically.
- Fixed backup add-on prices are available for each plan.
Weaknesses and limits
- Jakarta and São Paulo region surcharges are outside this dataset.
- Per-size stock by region is not confirmed.
- No independent performance test was run.
- Snapshot pricing and availability are unknown.
Suitable for
- Japan or Asia-Pacific development environments
- Small websites and staging hosts
- Buyers who want API-verifiable specifications
Not suitable for
- High-traffic sites on the smaller plans
- High-availability clusters
- Workloads that require measured latency comparisons
Known unknowns
- Per-size stock by region
- Snapshot pricing
- Independent network performance
- Support reliability
Limitations
- Provider-stated evidence only; no Linode was purchased or benchmarked.
- The dataset covers three shared-CPU plans, not the full Linode catalog.
Correction path: use the source links and verification dates to challenge a claim. Do not treat an old snapshot as current.
Alternatives
DigitalOcean Basic 2 GB
Broader western datacenter catalog, but no Osaka/Tokyo in this dataset.
Hetzner CPX12
Strong EU/Singapore price transparency, but no Japan region here.
Cited evidence
- Manage IP addresses on a Linodehttps://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/managing-ip-addresses-on-a-compute-instance
- Linode API — List regionshttps://api.linode.com/v4/regions
- Linode API — List Linode typeshttps://api.linode.com/v4/linode/types
- VPSTab review and evaluation methodology v1https://github.com/niceyayale/vpstab/blob/feat/phase-0-foundation/docs/product/review-methodology.md