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Accelerated Compute · $189.44/mo (16 GB RAM, 8 vCPU, 320 GB NVMe, 6000 GB transfer)
Linode's Premium 16GB plan is expensive for what you get. Several competitors offer comparable or better specs at 50-90% lower cost, though most require longer contract commitments and have renewal-price traps. The real value depends on your bandwidth needs and contract flexibility tolerance.
12GB RAM, 8 vCPU (vs your 8), 240GB SSD, 6TB transfer at 7.6x cheaper; unmanaged by default but management add-ons available.
Caveat: Unmanaged (user-responsible) unless you add $10-25/mo for management; renewal pricing substantially higher; SLA undefined.
Exactly matches your 16GB RAM and 4 vCPU with 240GB NVMe at 13% of Linode's price; 99.99% SLA.
Caveat: Intro pricing on 1-year contract; renewal 2-6x higher; outbound traffic beyond 2TB tiered at $0.036/GB.
8GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 240GB NVMe, unlimited traffic (up to 1 Gbps) at 6% of Linode's cost; 99.99% SLA.
Caveat: Intro pricing on 1-year contract; renewal 2-6x higher; half your RAM and vCPU vs Linode, but vastly cheaper.
8GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 80GB SSD, 20TB transfer at 5% of Linode's price; no bandwidth overage charges within EU.
Caveat: Half your RAM and vCPU; traffic overages outside EU (USA/Singapore) as low as 0.5-1TB; prices exclude VAT; recent large price increases on other lines.
Before you switch
| InMotion Hosting | VPS Hosting · VPS 4 vCPU | $9.99/mo | 8 GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 160 GB NVMe SSD | Visit |
| Hetzner | Cloud Servers · CX33 | $9.99/mo | 8 GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 80 GB SSD | Visit |
| IONOS | Cloud VPS (Linux) · Cloud VPS L | $11.5/mo | 8 GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 240 GB NVMe | Visit |
| Contabo | Performance VPS · Cloud VPS Plus 4 | $12.39/mo | 8 GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 150 GB NVMe | Visit |
| Hostinger | KVM VPS · KVM 4 | $12.99/mo | 16 GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 200 GB NVMe SSD | Visit |
| IONOS | IONOS CLOUD Cubes (Basic) · Basic Cube M | $18.72/mo | 8 GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 240 GB NVMe | Visit |
| Hosting.com (formerly A2 Hosting) | VPS Hosting (Self-Managed) · VPS S | $19.99/mo | 8 GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 160 GB NVMe SSD | Visit |
| IONOS | VPS Hosting (VPS+) · VPS L+ | $21/mo | 8 GB RAM, 6 vCPU, 240 GB NVMe | Visit |
| Gcore | Cloud Compute (Standard Gen 0, Linux) · g0-standard-4-8 | $24.64/mo | 8 GB RAM, 4 vCPU | Visit |
| Namecheap | VPS Hosting · Magnetar | $24.88/mo | 12 GB RAM, 8 vCPU, 240 GB SSD | Visit |
| IONOS | IONOS CLOUD Cubes (Memory) · Memory Cube M | $25.2/mo | 16 GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 240 GB NVMe | Visit |
| IONOS | Cloud VPS (Windows) · Windows VPS L | $30.5/mo | 8 GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 240 GB NVMe | Visit |
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