Kinsta vs Linode (Akamai)

Kinsta is strongest for managed WordPress. Linode (Akamai) is strongest for developers. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Kinsta	Linode (Akamai)
Starting price	$35/mo	$1/mo
Best for	Managed WordPress Agencies High-traffic WordPress sites Enterprise WordPress	Developers Startups GPU/AI workloads Small-to-mid production apps Kubernetes
Stated uptime SLA	99.9%	99.99%
Storage	SSD	SSD
Regions	37	20
Managed Kubernetes	No	Yes
Support channels	24/7 live chat, Ticket, Docs, MyKinsta dashboard	Ticket, Community forum, Docs, Phone (higher support tiers)
Compliance	GDPR	SOC 2, PCI DSS (for compatible services), GDPR, HIPAA (with BAA on eligible services)
Hidden costs to watch for	Overage per extra 1,000 visits above plan allowance billed per Kinsta overage schedule (not itemized on public pricing page) Premium Staging Environment add-on reported at $20/month per extra environment beyond the included free staging environment (figure from secondary source, not independently verified on a primary Kinsta page) CDN bandwidth overage reported at approximately $0.05/GB past plan allowance (figure from secondary source, not independently verified) Sevalla Application Hosting: egress bandwidth billed at $0.10/GB (ingress free); build time billed at $0.0003333/second ($0.02/minute) Sevalla Database Hosting: disk space add-ons sold in 10 GB increments at $10/month per 10 GB; external egress bandwidth billed at $0.10/GB (internal app-to-db connections free)	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