Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Linode
The 20 closest cloud computing (IaaS) alternatives to Linode, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 11 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Linode? The closest matches are Akamai Technologies, Cloudinary and DigitalOcean. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Linode
Linode linode.com
The World's Most Distributed Cloud Computing Platform | Akamai
Build and deliver low-latency, edge native applications on Akamai Connected Cloud.
Wikidata: North American physical infrastructure provider for cloud computing
Summary by Claude
Linode, now operating as Akamai Cloud, provides cloud infrastructure including Linux virtual machines, GPU instances, managed Kubernetes, managed databases, object storage and edge function-as-a-service across a global network of data centers.
- Who it’s for
- Developers, startups and enterprises
- Business model
- Usage-based cloud subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Linode’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Linode
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Linode, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Image and Video Platform for Visual Experiences | Cloudinary
Streamline media management and improve user experience by automatically delivering images and videos, enhanced and optimized for every user.
Very close cos 0.902 - 02
AI-Native Cloud | DigitalOcean
Run AI products in production with a unified stack for agents, inference, and cloud—built for control, performance, and economics at scale.
Very close cos 0.899 - 03
European Cloud & AI. | Scaleway
Build on a secure, transparent, and fast-moving cloud & AI platform built for what’s next.
Close cos 0.892 - 04
Alibaba Cloud: Reliable Secure Cloud Solutions to Empower Your Global Business
Alibaba Cloud offers a integrated suite of cloud products and services that are reliable and secure, to help you build cloud infrastructure, data centers in multi regions empower your global business. Try for Free.
Close cos 0.890 - 05
Rackspace Technology | Where Enterprise AI runs and outcomes scale
As a cloud computing services pioneer, we deliver proven multicloud solutions across your apps, data, and security. Maximize the benefits of modern cloud.
Close cos 0.886 - 06
Fly.io | Deploy apps and agents on fast, hardware-isolated VMs
Deploy apps, agents, and databases on fast, hardware-isolated VMs. Pay only for the seconds they run. Sign up free.
Close cos 0.885 - 07
JumpCloud: Unified Platform for Identity, Access, & Devices
JumpCloud makes it simple to manage Windows, Apple, Linux, and Android devices and to deliver secure access with SSO, MFA, Zero Trust, RADIUS, and more.
Close cos 0.884 - 08
AI-powered Observability
New Relic is an AI-powered observability platform that correlates your telemetry across your entire stack, so you can isolate the root cause and reduce MTTR.
Close cos 0.883 - 09
Cloudflare: Build for the agent era
Welcome to Cloudflare - Powering the next generation of applications
Close cos 0.883 - 10
Kubernetes
Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community. Planet scaleDesigned on the same principles that allow Google to run billions of containers a week, Kubernetes can scale without increasing your operations team.
Close cos 0.880 - 11
Heroku | The Cloud Application Platform For Developers
Experience fully managed app hosting that just works. Build, deploy, and scale on the battle-tested platform that defines the industry.
Close cos 0.880 - 12
The enterprise Linux for open source innovation | Ubuntu
Ubuntu is the modern, enterprise Linux operating system for servers, desktop, cloud, and IoT. Supported for up to 15 years
Close cos 0.881 - 13
Agentic Infrastructure - Vercel
The autonomous stack for every app and agent.
Close cos 0.880 - 14
RingCentral: The Voice of Your Business
Power the voice of your business with RingCentral Agentic Voice AI, including AI Receptionist (AIR), AI Virtual Assistant (AVA), & AI Conversation Expert (ACE).
Close cos 0.883 - 15
OVHcloud
OVHcloud is a global, cloud provider delivering hosted private cloud, public cloud, and dedicated server solutions trusted by over 1.5 million developers.
Close cos 0.881 - 16
Genesys Cloud: The Agentic AI CX Platform for the Enterprise | Genesys
Genesys Cloud is an agentic AI CX platform that delivers personalized customer and employee experiences across every channel.
Close cos 0.880 - 17
AI-Ready Networking & Secure Cloud Solutions | Lumen Technologies
Power your business with our global fiber network. We provide secure networking, edge cloud and AI-ready infrastructure to connect people, data and apps.
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Adobe Experience Platform Tags
- Google Search Console
- Microsoft 365
- Proofpoint
- Fastly
Close cos 0.878 - 18
Vercel Security Checkpoint
American software company
Close cos 0.879 - 19
Amazon Web Services - The World Leading Cloud Computing Services Provider - Operated by NWCD and Sinnet
Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.
Close cos 0.879 - 20
Vercel Security Checkpoint
American provider of Voice over IP products
Close cos 0.880
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to linode.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Linode uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Linode is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- Adobe Experience Manager page source: /etc.clientlibs/
- Tag managers
- Adobe Experience Platform Tags asset https://assets.adobedtm.com/fcfd3580c848/f9e7661907ee/launch-2fb69de42220.min.js
- Marketing automation
- Marketo TXT v=spf1 a:outbound.mail.linode.com include:sendersv4b.mail.linode.com …
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: otSDKStub
- Security
- Akamai Bot Manager cookie bm_sz
- CDN
- Akamai header x-akamai-transformed: 9 161682 0 pmb=mRUM,3
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 a:outbound.mail.linode.com include:sendersv4b.mail.linode.com …
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms93951359
- Proofpoint MX mxb-00190b01.gslb.pphosted.com
- DNS hosting
- Akamai Edge DNS NS a7-65.akam.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=pUYBl3BO8G5rgQrfHoQDxfu7HqKEcnGY7v20KYL0vNQ
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Linode adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Apple Business · not on linode.com 13/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- Atlassian · not on linode.com 10/20
- Microsoft 365 10/20
- DocuSign · not on linode.com 8/20
- OpenAI · not on linode.com 8/20
- PHP · not on linode.com 7/20
- Stripe · not on linode.com 7/20
- Miro · not on linode.com 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on linode.com 6/20
- jQuery · not on linode.com 6/20
- OneTrust 6/20
- Salesforce · not on linode.com 6/20
- Adobe · not on linode.com 5/20
- Canva · not on linode.com 5/20