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DigitalOcean vs Linode Egress Cost Calculator

DigitalOcean Droplets against Akamai's Linodes: pooled transfer allowances, overage rates and CDN options for your traffic.

Updated · By Niraj Kumar · 14 sources

Providers

Where

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Traffic to users

GB / month

Everything your servers, storage and CDN send to users and other services on the internet.

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No CDNAll of it

Each provider's own CDN: CloudFront, Cloud CDN, Front Door, Cloudflare or Spaces CDN.

Traffic inside the cloud

GB / month

Replication, backups and calls to services in a different region.

GB / month

Service-to-service calls, load balancing and database replicas in other zones of the same region.

NAT and servers

GB / month

Outbound calls, package and image pulls from private subnets.

Usually one per availability zone.

Sets pooled transfer allowances and Cloud NAT's per-VM fee.

Monthly data transfer$0.00Both sides cost the same.
DigitalOcean
$0.00 a month
$0.00 a year · 2nd cheapest of 8
Akamai Cloud (Linode)
$0.00 a month
$0.00 a year · 3rd cheapest of 8
Cheapest cloud with servers
DigitalOcean
$0.00 a month
Every provider on this traffic, per month, North AmericaHover or focus a row for its line items.
  1. 1Cloudflarebandwidth only$0.00Cloudflare runs no servers, so region, zone and NAT traffic is priced on whatever compute sits behind it.
  2. 2DigitalOcean$0.00DigitalOcean has no managed NAT gateway to bill; servers reach the internet on their own addresses.
  3. 3Akamai Cloud (Linode)$0.00Linode has no managed NAT gateway to bill; servers reach the internet on their own addresses.
  4. 4Oracle Cloud$4.25
  5. 5Hetzner Cloud$8.51Uses 10.5 TB against a pooled allowance of 3 TB across 3 servers.
  6. 6Microsoft Azure$948
  7. 7AWS$998
  8. 8Google Cloud$1,182
Line by line, per month
ProviderInternet egressInter-regionCross-AZNAT gateway hoursNAT data processedTotal
Cloudflare–––––$0.00
DigitalOcean–––––$0.00
Akamai Cloud (Linode)–––––$0.00
Oracle Cloud$4.25––––$4.25
Hetzner Cloud$8.51––––$8.51
Microsoft Azure$882$10.00–$32.85$22.50$948
AWS$913$10.00$20.00$32.85$22.50$998
Google Cloud$1,137$10.00$10.00$3.07$22.50$1,182

How is cloud data transfer billed?

monthly = tiered(internet egress) + CDN delivery + misses × origin fetch + inter-region GB × rate + cross-AZ GB × rate + NAT gateways × hourly × 730 + NAT GB × processing rate

This page uses the same method as the Cloud Egress Cost Calculator, which explains each term and assumption in full.

Worked example

A workload in North America: 10 TB a month to the internet, 500 GB to another region, 1,000 GB across zones, 500 GB through NAT, on 3 servers.

  1. 1DigitalOcean: nothing billable = $0.00
  2. 2Akamai Cloud (Linode): nothing billable = $0.00
  3. 3Difference: $0.00 a month

Both cost $0.00 a month at list rates.

Frequently asked questions

Is DigitalOcean or Akamai Cloud (Linode) cheaper for egress?

For internet egress from North America on 3 servers at list rates, at 1 TB a month they cost about the same ($0.00); at 10 TB a month they cost about the same ($0.00); and at 100 TB a month Akamai Cloud (Linode) costs $452 against $904. Zone, NAT and CDN charges can change the answer, so enter your own traffic.

Which has cheaper bandwidth overage, DigitalOcean or Linode?

Linode: $0.005 per GB in core regions against DigitalOcean's $0.01, half the price. Their allowances are similar, 4,000 GB for a 4 GB plan on both, and both pool allowances across your account. DigitalOcean offers the Spaces CDN with its $5 Spaces subscription; Akamai's CDN is sold on contract, so for self-service delivery a Linode setup usually adds Cloudflare.

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