Google Cloud vs Linode

The Basics

	Google Cloud	Linode
Website	cloud.google.com	www.linode.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2008	2003
Data Center Locations	40	24
Example Customers	PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank	Panasonic, Best Buy, WayFair and Giphy

	Google Cloud
Website	cloud.google.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2008
Data Center Locations	40
Example Customers	PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank

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

Cost Comparison

How do Google Cloud's prices compare against Linode?

Example configuration	Google Cloud	Linode
VM Small	$20.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (E2 custom)	$5.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Medium	$90.15 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)	$48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Large	$179.87 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)	$114.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Dedicated)
Block Storage	$4.10 / mo 100 GB	$16.00 / mo 160 GB
Object Storage	$24.93 / mo 1 TB	$20.00 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$29.44 / mo	$10.00 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	$93.60 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage	$65.00 / mo 2 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	$35.28 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (Basic)	--
Serverless 25M Executions	$47.62 / mo 25M invocations, 2nd gen, 150 ms duration	--
Free egress allowance	Depends on service	1-20 TB / mo per instance
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$111.60	$5.00

Note: These 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 of the managed services that Google Cloud and Linode offer:

Service	Google Cloud	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)

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