Linode Nanode 1 GB

Editorial notes

Low-cost 1 vCPU / 1 GB plan with 25 GB SSD and ~1 TB transfer at $5/mo. Useful for testing small workloads without much commitment.

Who it's for: Budget personal projects, monitoring, staging, and first-time Linode testing (verify the refund window and terms).

Data signals

Auto-generated from plan signals and measurement metadata.

Overview

Provider

Linode (Akamai)

Promotions: Promotional credits may be available for new accounts (offer varies)

Location

Global (14 locations)

IPv4 / IPv6

1 IPv4 | IPv6 available

Traffic

1024 GB/mo

Route tags

global ipv6 refund-eligible shared-cpu ssd

Why this plan stands out

Internal score: 16.8. Used for sorting; see scoring methodology .

Score rank (overall)

#1167 / 1257

Score rank (provider)

#109 / 120

USD / GB RAM

$5 / GB

USD / vCPU

$5 / vCPU

• OK SSD storage
• OK IPv6 available
• OK Refund eligible (180 days, medium confidence)
• OK Provider refund policy: prorated
• OK Value for money

Performance Badges

Achievement badges based on benchmark performance and value metrics. How we test →

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Benchmarks

Latest run: 2024-10-24T00:00:00Z | Method: vpsbenchmarks-yabs

CPU model

AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core Processor

Geekbench 6 (single)

507 Result

Geekbench 6 (multi)

390

GB6 multi / $

78.0

fio 4k read

100.3 MB/s | 25,686 IOPS

fio 4k write

100.6 MB/s | 25,754 IOPS

iperf send (max)

-

iperf recv (max)

-

Notes: Source: https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/yabs/linode-1c-1gb-20241024-14ccf1 (third-party YABS run; reference only)

Benchmarks can vary due to host load and noisy neighbors. See Methodology .

Sources & freshness

Plan lastChecked

2026-01-23

Provider lastChecked

2026-01-11

Recent updates

Based on the internal dataset change log. Always confirm on the provider checkout page.

As of

2026-01-28

Last event

n/a

Change log events

0 total | 0 price | 0 promo | 0 link | last 30d: 0 price, 0 promo, 0 link

Price range (last 90 points)

$5 - $5

No recent changes recorded for this plan.

Latency tiers

Tiers are a normalized signal. Always verify with your own tests.