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Akamai Cloud
Akamai's developer cloud (formerly Linode) selling dedicated-vCPU GPU virtual machines with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, RTX 4000 Ada and Quadro RTX 6000 cards, billed per hour, alongside managed Kubernetes, storage and networking.
GPU types3with a current offer
Current offers3133 readings on file · last 45 days
H100 from—per GPU-hour, on-demand
Entry price$0.52cheapest GPU-hour listed
Countries1122 named regions
Trust Score v0.148/100
- Company & track record20
- Infrastructure control100
- Pricing & billing transparency85
- Reliability signals30
- Security & compliance0
- Customer signal—
Scored Sep 29, 2026 from the provider's own pages. Dimensions not yet measured are excluded from the denominator. Criteria ↓
Trust Score · 5 of 6 dimensions measuredThe score, criterion by criterion
Each point comes from something the provider publishes, with the page it was read on and the date. Anything not disclosed earns zero.
Company & track record
weight 15%
20 / 100
| Founding year published | not disclosedapi.linode.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 4 |
| Headquarters published | Cambridge, MAapi.linode.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
| Legal entity named | not disclosedapi.linode.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 4 |
| Funding or ownership disclosed | not disclosedapi.linode.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 4 |
Infrastructure control
weight 15%
100 / 100
| Capacity model published | operates or rents dedicated capacityapi.linode.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 10 / 10 |
| Regions published | 22 regions or countriesapi.linode.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 5 |
Pricing & billing transparency
weight 20%
85 / 100
| Public prices without an account | yes (read on the pricing page)api.linode.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 5 |
| Billing granularity published | per started hourapi.linode.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Egress policy published | metered: 0.005 USD/GB (Jakarta 0.015, Sao Paulo 0.007) per the network-transfer prices API. RTX 4000 Ada and RTX PRO 6000 plans include 0 TB, so all outbound traffic leaving the data center (and same-DC traffic over public IPv4) is billed; inbound free.api.linode.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Stopped-instance billing published | Billed in full: charges accrue for any service on the account even when powered off; only deletion stops billing.api.linode.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Public IPv4 policy published | not published (additional IPv4 addresses billed hourly and require technical justification; price not captured)api.linode.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 3 |
Reliability signals
weight 20%
30 / 100
| Status page | https://status.linode.com/api.linode.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 6 / 6 |
| SLA published | not disclosedapi.linode.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 6 |
| SLA with a numeric uptime commitment | not disclosedapi.linode.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 3 |
| Uptime history published | not disclosedapi.linode.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 5 |
| Observed availability (30 days) | not measured yet | — |
Security & compliance
weight 15%
0 / 100
| SOC 2 | not disclosedapi.linode.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 8 |
| ISO 27001 | not disclosedapi.linode.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 4 |
| HIPAA or GDPR DPA | not disclosedapi.linode.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 3 |
Customer signal
weight 15%
not measured
| Aggregated public reviews | not collected yet | — |
provisional v0.1: evidence from the provider's own pages; dimensions not yet measured are excluded from the denominatorFull method →
Prices by GPU · 2 GPU types with a current offerWhat Akamai Cloud charges, against the market
Cheapest current on-demand true cost here, next to the market median for the same GPU. Negative means cheaper than the market.
| GPU | Cheapest here | Market median | vs market | Current offers | Modes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 4000 Ada | $0.52 | $0.29 | +82% | 9 | on-demand | RTX 4000 Ada prices |
| RTX 6000 | $1.50 | $0.20 | +643% | 4 | on-demand | RTX 6000 prices |
All offers · 33 readings on fileEvery Akamai Cloud offer, with its receipt
Current offers (last 45 days) ranked by true cost, all rental modes, each with its read date. Older readings stay listed below, in grey.
| GPU | Configuration | Mode | Region | Stock | List | True cost | Read | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 4000 Ada | 1× RTX 4000 Ada4 vCPU · 16 GB RAM · 512 GB disk | On-demand | Germany +5 | In stock | $0.52 | $0.52 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4000 Ada | 2× RTX 4000 Ada8 vCPU · 32 GB RAM · 1,024 GB disk | On-demand | Germany +4 | In stock | $0.53 | $0.53 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4000 Ada | 1× RTX 4000 Ada8 vCPU · 32 GB RAM · 512 GB disk | On-demand | Germany +5 | In stock | $0.67 | $0.67 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4000 Ada | 2× RTX 4000 Ada16 vCPU · 64 GB RAM · 1,024 GB disk | On-demand | Germany +4 | In stock | $0.67 | $0.67 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4000 Ada | 4× RTX 4000 Ada32 vCPU · 128 GB RAM · 2,048 GB disk | On-demand | France +3 | In stock | $0.74 | $0.74 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4000 Ada | 2× RTX 4000 Ada16 vCPU · 64 GB RAM · 2,048 GB disk | On-demand | Germany +4 | In stock | $0.75 | $0.75 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4000 Adaoutlier · suspended | 4× RTX 4000 Ada48 vCPU · 196 GB RAM · 2,048 GB disk | On-demand | France +3 | In stock | $0.89 | $0.89 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4000 Adaoutlier · suspended | 1× RTX 4000 Ada16 vCPU · 64 GB RAM · 512 GB disk | On-demand | Germany +5 | In stock | $0.96 | $0.96 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 6000 | 1× RTX 60008 vCPU · 32 GB RAM · 640 GB disk | On-demand | no region can deploy it right now | Unavailable | $1.50 | $1.50 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 6000 | 2× RTX 600016 vCPU · 64 GB RAM · 1,280 GB disk | On-demand | no region can deploy it right now | Unavailable | $1.50 | $1.50 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 6000 | 3× RTX 600020 vCPU · 96 GB RAM · 1,920 GB disk | On-demand | no region can deploy it right now | Unavailable | $1.50 | $1.50 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 6000 | 4× RTX 600024 vCPU · 128 GB RAM · 2,560 GB disk | On-demand | no region can deploy it right now | Unavailable | $1.50 | $1.50 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4000 Adaoutlier · suspended | 1× RTX 4000 Ada32 vCPU · 128 GB RAM · 512 GB disk | On-demand | Germany +5 | In stock | $1.53 | $1.53 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
13 fresh offers · prices per GPU-hour · true cost includes the add-ons the provider publishesOpen in the comparison tool →
True cost & billing · read Sep 29, 2026What the hourly price does not say
Billing granularity, minimums, what a stopped machine costs, traffic, addresses, deposits and identity checks, as published by the provider.
Billing
- Billing granularity
- per started hour
- Minimum charge
- Usage rounded up to the nearest hour; a resize creates a new billable line item.
- Stopped instance
- Billed in full: charges accrue for any service on the account even when powered off; only deletion stops billing.
- Egress
- metered: 0.005 USD/GB (Jakarta 0.015, Sao Paulo 0.007) per the network-transfer prices API. RTX 4000 Ada and RTX PRO 6000 plans include 0 TB, so all outbound traffic leaving the data center (and same-DC traffic over public IPv4) is billed; inbound free.
- Public IPv4
- not published (additional IPv4 addresses billed hourly and require technical justification; price not captured)
- Billing model
- both
- Minimum deposit
- A 100 USD deposit may be required to deploy GPU Linodes (e.g. accounts active less than 90 days or with less than 100 USD spent).
- Free credits
- Promo codes add account credit (accounts under 90 days old); amount not stated in docs.
Account
- Payment
- card · invoice · PayPal
- Sign-up
- email, password, card
- Identity check
- card verification
- Support
- ticket, phone, email, chat (account/billing only)
- Enterprise support
- not published
- SLA
- not published
- Status page
- status.linode.com ↗
- Published uptime
- not published
Infrastructure
- Regions
22 named regions in 11 countries
gb-lon (United Kingdom) · se-sto (Sweden) · in-maa (India) · jp-osa (Japan) · us-mia (United States) · id-cgk (Indonesia) · us-lax (United States) · nl-ams (Netherlands) · in-bom-2 (India) · de-fra-2 (Germany) · sg-sin-2 (Singapore) · jp-tyo-3 (Japan) · us-iad-2 (United States) · fr-par-2 (France) · us-sea (United States) · fr-par (France) · us-ord (United States) · ca-central (Canada) · eu-central (Germany) · ap-south (Singapore) · us-east (United States) · us-southeast (United States)- Countries
- Canada, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States
- Platform
- API, CLI, SSH, persistent volumes, snapshotsTerraform: officialKubernetes: managedInterconnect: PCIe; 8-card plans expose vNUMA topology, cross-socket P2P bandwidth reduced; no NVLink statedClusters: GPU Linodes usable as LKE worker nodes (RTX PRO 6000 and RTX 4000 Ada; not Quadro RTX 6000)
- Storage
- volume · 0.10 USD/GB-month (0.00015 USD/GB-hour) · Block Storage; Jakarta 0.12 and Sao Paulo 0.14 USD/GB-month. GB means GiB.object · 5.00 USD/month base plan with 1 TB transfer allowance; overage 0.02 USD/GB (Jakarta 0.024, Sao Paulo 0.028) · Included capacity of the base plan not stated in the API; no per-request charges before 1 October 2027.ephemeral · included in plan · Plan disk (512 GB per RTX 4000 Ada card, 640 GB per Quadro RTX 6000 card) included; Backups add-on priced per plan (e.g. 0.04 USD/h capped at 30 USD/month for RTX 4000 Ada x1).
- Migration out
- Custom images can be captured and deployed elsewhere; disks can be copied over SSH as a binary image; Block Storage volumes can be detached and their data transferred; backups can be downloaded locally. Deleting a Linode active for 24 h or more generates a Recovery image.
Security & compliance
- SOC 2
- not published
- ISO 27001
- not published
- HIPAA
- not published
- GDPR / DPA
- not published
- Other
- Docs point to a Legal & Compliance Center on akamai.com listing certifications per data center; it returned 403 to capture.
- Legal entity
- not published
- Funding
- not published
Read on the provider's own pages · 30 pages read · facts marked "not published" were looked for and not foundPages read ↓
Assessment · documents read Sep 29, 2026Akamai Cloud, in short
What stood out when we read the documents: strengths, weaknesses, who it suits, and what we could not find.
Strengths
- 22 core regions carry the 'GPU Linodes' capability in the public regions API, across 11 countries.
- RTX 4000 Ada from 0.52 USD/h (x1 Small: 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB disk).
- Managed Kubernetes (LKE) accepts GPU worker nodes, with NVIDIA drivers installed automatically on standard clusters.
- Up to 8 RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell cards (768 GB VRAM) per VM, with vNUMA on 8-card plans.
- Cards, Google Pay, PayPal, and check/ACH/wire on request; 7-day full refund on account cancellation.
- Official Terraform provider (linode/linode, Partner tier on the Terraform Registry), open-source CLI, public unauthenticated price and region API endpoints.
- 24/7 ticket and phone support at no extra cost.
Weaknesses
- No data-center training GPUs (no H100, H200, B200, A100, MI300X); catalogue limited to professional RTX cards.
- RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell and Quadro RTX 6000 plans are limited availability; Quadro RTX 6000 cannot join LKE clusters.
- Powered-off instances are billed in full; hourly billing rounded up, no per-second billing.
- No outbound transfer included on RTX 4000 Ada and RTX PRO 6000 plans (0.005 USD/GB metered egress).
- Quadro RTX 6000 (Turing, 24 GB) costs 1.50 USD per GPU-hour.
- A 100 USD deposit may be required before a new account can deploy GPU Linodes.
- No spot/interruptible or reserved GPU pricing and no serverless GPU product documented.
- Documented limitations on Blackwell plans: watchdog restart, slow deletions, no live migration.
Ideal for
- Existing Linode/Akamai customers who want inference or video-encoding GPUs next to their other services
- Small inference and graphics workloads on RTX 4000 Ada in many regions
- Teams wanting managed Kubernetes with GPU nodes and card, PayPal or invoice payment
Not published
- RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell hourly prices: published only on akamai.com/cloud/pricing (403 to the capture browser) and absent from the public types API
- per-size vCPU/RAM/disk split also not captured.
- Company facts (legal entity, HQ, founding year, listing): akamai.com returned 403.
- Compute SLA (akamai.com/legal/sla-compute) returned 403
- SLA level and credits unknown.
- Compliance certifications (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, DPA) sit on the akamai.com Legal & Compliance Center, which returned 403.
- Price of additional IPv4 addresses not captured.
- Quadro RTX 6000 transfer allowance: the API lists 16000 to 20000 GB per plan while the network-transfer doc says Quadro RTX 6000 plans include no transfer.
- Madrid and Milan are listed for RTX PRO 6000 in the GPU doc but lack the 'GPU Linodes' capability in the regions API.
- Sign-up form fields (phone, address) and any ID verification policy are not documented in the captured pages.
- Official Python SDK not confirmed from a captured page.
- Object Storage base plan included capacity not stated in the API.
- RTX 4000 Ada outbound bandwidth: the GPU doc table says 10 Gbps, the types API network_out says 16000 Mbps (16 Gbps is used in includes).
Observations
www.linode.com/pricing redirects to www.akamai.com/cloud/pricing, which returned 403 Access Denied (edge bot protection) to the capture browser on 2026-09-29; the rendered pricing page could not be observed.
The akamai.com pricing landing page routes to regional sub-pages (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America, Jakarta) according to a WebFetch summary; the sub-pages also returned 403 to the browser.
Prices are machine-readable without an account at api.linode.com/v4/linode/types (hourly and monthly per plan plus region overrides), but RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell plans are not in that list.
The techdocs GPU page shows spec ranges per GPU family (cards, VRAM, vCPU, RAM, storage, transfer, bandwidth) and sends readers to the pricing page for prices.
Prices are quoted per plan (VM) per hour, not per GPU; Quadro RTX 6000 scales linearly at 1.50 USD per card, RTX 4000 Ada multi-card plans range from 0.525 to 0.8925 USD per card depending on vCPU, RAM and disk.
Pages read
- api.linode.com/v4/linode/types — GPU plan hourly prices, specs, transfer, backup prices
- api.linode.com/v4/regions — Regions with the GPU Linodes capability
- api.linode.com/v4/volumes/types — Block Storage price
- api.linode.com/v4/object-storage/types — Object Storage price
- api.linode.com/v4/network-transfer/prices — Egress price
- techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/gpu-compute-instances — GPU families, spec ranges, regions, 100 USD deposit
- techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/nvidia-rtx-pro-6000-blackwell-gpu-onboarding — Blackwell plan ranges, API slug, deploy methods
- techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/known-limitations-you-may-encounter-with-nvidia-rtx-pro-6000-blackwell-server-edition-gpu-linodes — 1/2/4/8-card plans, limitations
- techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/gpu-selection-guidance — GPU specifications
- techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/gpus-on-lke — Kubernetes GPU support
- techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/understanding-how-billing-works — Hourly billing, no monthly cap for GPU, powered-off billing, refunds
- techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/billing-faqs — USD only, payment methods, mid-month threshold
- techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/manage-payment-methods — Cards, Google Pay, PayPal, check/ACH/wire, 1 USD authorization hold
- techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/make-a-payment — Prepayment
- techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/network-transfer-usage-and-costs — Transfer allowance and metering
- techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/how-to-choose-a-data-center — Regional pricing differences
- techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/new-data-centers-beta-2026 — Paris 2, Washington 2
- techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/help-and-support — Support channels, compliance pointer
- techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/cancel-an-account — 7-day refund
- techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/add-a-promo-code — Promo credits
- techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/stop-further-billing — Billing while stopped, recovery image
- techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/faqs-for-compute-instances — Additional IPv4 justification, images
- techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/backup-service — Backups and snapshots
- status.linode.com/ — Status page
- registry.terraform.io/providers/linode/linode/latest/docs — Terraform provider
- github.com/linode/linode-cli — CLI
- techdocs.akamai.com/linode-api/reference/api — API
- akamai.com/cloud/pricing — Blocked; not used for any figure
- web.archive.org/web/20261002111808/https://www.akamai.com/cloud/pricing/north-america — RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell plan prices and specs
- sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1086222/000108622226000022/akam-20251231.htm — Headquarters
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Questions about Akamai Cloud
What GPUs does Akamai Cloud offer?
Akamai Cloud has 3 GPU types with a fresh offer today, for example RTX 4000 Ada from $0.52, RTX 6000 from $1.50 per GPU-hour on-demand. The full list with prices and market medians is on this page.
How does Akamai Cloud bill?
Billing granularity: per started hour. Minimum charge: Usage rounded up to the nearest hour; a resize creates a new billable line item. Stopped instance: Billed in full: charges accrue for any service on the account even when powered off; only deletion stops billing.
How trustworthy is Akamai Cloud?
Its Trust Score is 48/100 (v0.1), read from its own documents. Strong on infrastructure control. Weaker on company & track record, reliability signals, security & compliance. The score measures transparency and published guarantees, not customer satisfaction; every criterion and its source is listed above.
Where are Akamai Cloud's data centres?
22 named regions in 11 countries: Canada, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States.
How do you pay Akamai Cloud, and are there credits?
Payment by card, invoice. Free credits: Promo codes add account credit (accounts under 90 days old); amount not stated in docs.. Identity check: card verification.