Which is cheaper, Linode or OCI?

OCI is cheaper in 5 of 5 comparable categories, with an average price difference of 74.5%.

How do Linode and OCI compare for general purpose workloads?

Both providers offer competitive pricing for general purpose workloads.

Updated Apr 6, 2026LinodeOCI

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Linode Wins

OCI Wins

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Oracle Cloud wins 5 of 5 price comparisons, averaging 74.5% lower prices in categories where it leads.

Prices range from $0.0113/hr to $6.84/hr across comparable tiers.

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Comparing Linode and OCI across 5 equivalent tiers. On-demand hourly rates are shown in USD for the default region.

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Category	Linode Linode	OCI OCI	Diff	Cheapest
Linodes - Shared CPU - 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM	$0.2880/hr g6-standard-8 ($210.24/mo)	$0.1480/hr VM.Standard.E4.Flex.4 ($108.04/mo)	+48.6%	OCI
Linodes - GPU - 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM	$0.5200/hr g2-gpu-rtx4000a1-s ($379.60/mo)	$0.0740/hr VM.Standard.E4.Flex.2 ($54.02/mo)	+85.8%	OCI
Linodes - Dedicated CPU - 128 vCPU, 512 GB RAM	$6.8400/hr g8-dedicated-512-128 ($4,993.20/mo)	$2.3680/hr VM.Standard.E4.Flex.64 ($1,728.64/mo)	+65.4%	OCI
LKE - Kubernetes Control Plane - LKE Enterprise	$0.4500/hr lke-e ($328.50/mo)	$0.1000/hr B96545 ($73.00/mo)	+77.8%	OCI
NodeBalancers - Load Balancer - Nodebalancer Premium	$0.2250/hr nodebalancer-pr100 ($164.25/mo)	$0.0113/hr B93030 ($8.25/mo)	+95.0%	OCI

✓Linodes - Shared CPU - 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM - saves $102.20/mo (48.6% cheaper)
✓Linodes - GPU - 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM - saves $325.58/mo (85.8% cheaper)
✓Linodes - Dedicated CPU - 128 vCPU, 512 GB RAM - saves $3,264.56/mo (65.4% cheaper)
✓LKE - Kubernetes Control Plane - LKE Enterprise - saves $255.50/mo (77.8% cheaper)
✓NodeBalancers - Load Balancer - Nodebalancer Premium - saves $156.00/mo (95% cheaper)