IONOS vs Linode (Akamai)

IONOS is strongest for budget shared/VPS hosting. Linode (Akamai) is strongest for developers. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	IONOS	Linode (Akamai)
Starting price	$0.02/mo	$1/mo
Best for	Budget shared/VPS hosting Windows workloads EU-based data residency Granular building-block cloud pricing	Developers Startups GPU/AI workloads Small-to-mid production apps Kubernetes
Stated uptime SLA	99.99%	99.99%
Storage	NVME	SSD
Regions	6	20
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	Yes
Support channels	24/7 Phone, Ticket, Docs, Live Chat	Ticket, Community forum, Docs, Phone (higher support tiers)
Compliance	GDPR, ISO 27001	SOC 2, PCI DSS (for compatible services), GDPR, HIPAA (with BAA on eligible services)
Hidden costs to watch for	Intro pricing on VPS+ and Web Hosting plans (e.g. $2/mo, $1/mo) is a 3-month or 1-year promotional rate on a 1-year contract; renewal pricing after the promo/contract period is 2-6x higher Additional static IPv4 addresses billed at $6.00 per 30 days each Outbound data transfer beyond the free 2TB pooled allowance is tiered: $0.036/GB (2-10TB), dropping to $0.018/GB beyond 150TB Windows Server and RedHat Enterprise Linux require separate per-vCPU/core license surcharges on top of Compute Engine/Cube pricing IONOS CLOUD Compute Engine building-block pricing (Cores + RAM + Storage priced independently) can be harder to estimate than fixed-tier competitors without using their price calculator	Outbound bandwidth billed at $0.005/GB (compute/storage) or $0.015/GB (NodeBalancer) once pooled network transfer allowance is exceeded Backups service is a separate add-on priced per instance (roughly 20-25% of the instance monthly price) HA control plane for LKE Kubernetes is a flat $60/mo add-on per cluster; LKE Enterprise clusters are $300/mo per cluster Managed Database HA (3-node) clusters cost roughly 2-3x the single-node price
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18