DigitalOcean vs Linode

DigitalOcean and Linode both offer cloud services with VPS and managed options and focus on ease of use, performance and competitive pricing.

In this page:

What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

DigitalOcean

Wide range of managed services: from databases to serverless to Kubernetes
Many VPS configurations available (GPUs, high memory, dedicated CPU)
Plenty of datacenter locations around the world
There's lots of guides, docs and community tutorials online

Linode

Many VPS configurations available (high memory, dedicated CPU, GPU)
Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kubernetes and Object Storage available
Good performance/price for most of its services
Multiple data center locations

Price comparison

How do DigitalOcean's prices compare against Linode?

Example configuration	DigitalOcean	Linode
VM Small	$6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic)	$5.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Medium	$48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic)	$48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Large	$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized)	$114.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Dedicated)
Block Storage	$10.00 / mo 100 GB	$16.00 / mo 160 GB
Object Storage	$20.00 / mo 1 TiB	$20.00 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$12.00 / mo	$10.00 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	$60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage	$65.00 / mo 2 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	$15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM	--
Serverless 25M Executions	$34.69 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration	--
Free egress allowance	100 GB - 10 TB / mo per instance	1-20 TB / mo per instance
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$10.00 $0.01 / GB	$5.00 $0.005 / GB

DigitalOcean offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
Nvidia H100 SXM	1x H100	80GB	20	240GB	$3.39	Launch
Nvidia H100 SXM	8x H100	640GB	160	1920GB	$23.92	Launch

Linode offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
GPU1	1x RTX 6000	24GB	8	32GB	$1.50	Source
GPU2	2x RTX 6000	48GB	16	64GB	$3.00	Source
GPU3	3x RTX 6000	72GB	20	96GB	$4.50	Source
GPU4	4x RTX 6000	96GB	24	128GB	$6.00	Source

Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that DigitalOcean and Linode offer:

Service	DigitalOcean	Linode
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)		--
Container Registry		--
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers		--
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*		--
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs		--
Serverless Functions		--
Static Sites		--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

	DigitalOcean	Linode
Website	digitalocean.com	www.linode.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2011	2003
Data Center Locations	14	24
Example Customers	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai	Panasonic, Best Buy, WayFair and Giphy

	DigitalOcean
Website	digitalocean.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2011
Data Center Locations	14
Example Customers	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai

	Linode
Website	www.linode.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2003
Data Center Locations	24
Example Customers	Panasonic, Best Buy, WayFair and Giphy