The Basics

Linode
Website www.linode.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2003
Data Center Locations 24
Example Customers Panasonic, Best Buy, WayFair and Giphy
OVHcloud
Website www.ovhcloud.com
Headquarters France 🇫🇷
Founded 1999
Data Center Locations 12
Example Customers Société Générale, Louis Vuitton, Capgemini, Tenesys

Cost Comparison

How do Linode's prices compare against OVHcloud?

Example configuration Linode OVHcloud
VM Small $5.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared) $36.58 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (b3-8)
VM Medium $48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared) $73.15 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (b3-16)
VM Large $114.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Dedicated) $130.54 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (c3-16)
Block Storage $16.00 / mo 160 GB $9.50 / mo 100 GB (3000 IOPS)
Object Storage $20.00 / mo 1 TB $10.75 / mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB read
Load Balancer $10.00 / mo $45.58 / mo Large 2 Gbps
Managed PostgreSQL $65.00 / mo 2 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage $51.26 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Essential DB1-4)
Managed Redis®* -- $44.57 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Essential DB1-4)
Free egress allowance 1-20 TB / mo per instance --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $5.00 Free and unlimited

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 Linode and OVHcloud offer:

Service Linode OVHcloud
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN) --
Container Registry --
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®* --
Object Storage
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

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Our data for Linode was last updated on Feb. 8, 2024, and for OVHcloud on Feb. 13, 2024.