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
Render
Website render.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2018
Data Center Locations 4
Example Customers Red Bull, Watershed, Equals, Felt

Cost Comparison

How do Linode's prices compare against Render?

Example configuration Linode Render
VM Small $5.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared) $25.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Web Service)
VM Medium $48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared) $175.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Web Service)
VM Large $114.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Dedicated) $450.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (Web Service)
Block Storage $16.00 / mo 160 GB $25.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $20.00 / mo 1 TB --
Load Balancer $10.00 / mo Included in plan
Managed PostgreSQL $65.00 / mo 2 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage $95.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®* -- $32.00 / mo 1 GB RAM
Free egress allowance 1-20 TB / mo per instance 100 GB - 1 TB, depends on plan
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $5.00 $300.00

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 Linode and Render offer:

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

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Our data for Linode was last updated on Feb. 8, 2024, and for Render on Feb. 29, 2024.