Krova Cloud vs Linode
Akamai Cloud's general-purpose VMs — the Shared CPU plans. Here is the same machine priced both ways, the arithmetic that produced each number, and what a Cube gives you beyond the price.
Cubes from $2.92/moThis machine $11.68/moNo credit card to sign up
At 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM, Linode costs
2.1×
more than Krova Cloud
Their figure read from their own pricing page on
The same machine, both prices
Both sides priced at 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · 80 GB disk, running 24/7. Theirs comes from their own pricing page; ours is computed from the live rate card the product bills from.
Krova Cloud
$11.68 /mo
$0.0160/hr · billed by the minute · no platform fee
Linode
$24.00 /mo
$0.0360/hr
At this size Linode costs 2.1× more than Krova Cloud.
What you get on a Cube that you don't get there
Price is the headline. This is the part that decides whether you stay.
Any vCPU, RAM and disk combination you like, instead of a fixed ladder you have to round up to.
Its own kernel per instance in a per-cube jailer sandbox, rather than a shared-CPU plan their own page describes as running on legacy hardware.
Billed by the minute, and powering a Cube off stops compute billing the same minute rather than paying a flat month regardless.
No inbound route until you open a port, and every port mapping is IP-allowlistable.
RAM and disk reserved 1:1 against real hardware — no overselling, no thin provisioning.
Automatic snapshots with retention included, plus clone-to-a-new-Cube and portable .cube export.
Before you decide
Where do these Linode numbers come from?
From Linode's own pricing page, opened in a browser and read off it on 2026-08-14 — not from a blog post, a comparison site or memory. The rates and the arithmetic are printed above so you can redo the sum yourself, and a build-time guard fails once any comparison on this site passes ninety days, so a stale reading cannot sit here quietly.
Why is Krova Cloud cheaper at the same size?
You pay per resource — $0.001 per vCPU-hour, $0.0025 per GB of RAM and $0.00005 per GB of disk — instead of buying a fixed plan and rounding up to whatever it includes. There is no platform fee and no subscription on top, so what you pay for is the machine you asked for, by the minute — and every GB of RAM and disk in it is reserved 1:1 against real hardware.
What am I committing to?
Nothing monthly. There is no subscription and no minimum — you top up prepaid credit and pay for the minutes a Cube runs, and powering one off stops compute billing that same minute, with only its disk still billing. Signing up is free and needs no card, and your first top-up of $5 or more earns a flat $5 bonus credit, one-time.
What exactly is a Cube?
A Firecracker microVM with its own Linux kernel and full root SSH, inside a per-cube jailer sandbox — install anything, run systemd, run Docker, and leave it up as long as you like. Your app is public; your server isn't: outbound is unrestricted, so package installs, image pulls and API calls all work normally, while nothing reaches in until you map a port, and every mapping takes an IP allowlist. Custom domains run through the managed HTTPS ingress, so the origin is never exposed.
Run the same machine for $11.68 a month
No subscription and no minimum — top up prepaid credit, size a Cube however you like, and compute billing stops the minute you power it off. Signing up is free and needs no card, and your first top-up of $5 or more earns a flat $5 bonus credit, one-time.