Linode

Linode is a cloud hosting provider offering virtual private servers, managed databases, object storage, Kubernetes, and other infrastructure-as-a-service products to developers and businesses.

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Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

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API Evangelist profiles Linode the way a machine reads it — 179 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Linode scores 28.3/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 22/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 28.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 16.9 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.4 / 20

Access Clarity 3.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 13

Contract Governance 1.2 / 12

Discoverability 4.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract derived 2.5 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth bearer 3.5 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling documented 3.5 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity documented 3.0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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How we profile Linode

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Linode. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 23

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Linode CLI

The Linode CLI is a command-line interface that wraps the Linode API v4, allowing developers and system administrators to manage Akamai Connected Cloud resources directly from t...

Linode Python SDK

The Linode Python SDK (linode_api4) is the official Python client library for interacting with the Linode API v4. It provides a Pythonic interface for managing all Akamai Connec...

Linode Go SDK

The Linode Go SDK (linodego) is the official Go client library for the Linode API v4. It provides idiomatic Go interfaces for managing Akamai Connected Cloud infrastructure prog...

Linode Terraform Provider

The Linode Terraform Provider enables infrastructure-as-code management of Akamai Connected Cloud resources using HashiCorp Terraform. It supports provisioning and managing comp...

linode Account API

Manage your account settings, users, billing information, OAuth clients, service transfers, and payment methods.

linode Databases API

Manage Managed Database instances including MySQL and PostgreSQL clusters, backups, credentials, and maintenance windows.

linode Domains API

Manage DNS domains and their associated resource records including A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, SRV, CAA, and NS records.

linode Images API

Manage custom images for deploying Linode instances, including creating images from disks, uploading images, and managing image metadata.

linode Linode Instances API

Create and manage Linode compute instances, including configuration profiles, disks, backups, networking, migration, resize, and rebuild operations.

linode Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) API

Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters, node pools, and cluster configurations through the Linode Kubernetes Engine.

linode Longview API

Manage Longview clients and subscriptions for system-level monitoring and metrics collection on Linode instances.

linode Managed API

Manage Linode Managed services including monitored contacts, credentials, issues, service monitors, and SSH access settings.

linode Networking API

Manage networking resources including IP addresses, IPv6 ranges and pools, firewalls, VLANs, and IP address sharing and assignment.

linode NodeBalancers API

Create and manage NodeBalancer load balancers, their configurations, and backend nodes for distributing traffic across Linode instances.

linode Object Storage API

Manage Object Storage buckets, access keys, clusters, and endpoints for S3-compatible object storage.

linode Placement Groups API

Create and manage placement groups for controlling the physical placement of Linode instances within a data center.

linode Profile API

Manage your user profile settings, SSH keys, authorized applications, personal access tokens, and two-factor authentication.

linode Regions API

List available data center regions and their capabilities for deploying Linode services.

linode StackScripts API

Create and manage StackScripts for automating the deployment and configuration of Linode instances.

linode Support API

Create and manage support tickets and view replies for getting help from the Linode support team.

linode Tags API

The Tags API from linode — 2 operation(s) for tags.

linode Volumes API

Create and manage Block Storage volumes that can be attached to Linode instances for persistent data storage.

linode VPCs API

Create and manage Virtual Private Clouds for isolated network environments and subnets for Linode instances.

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Open Collections 21

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Linode Plans Pricing

6 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Linode Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Linode Finops

FINOPS

Features 16

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Nanode 1 GB at $5/mo (smallest plan)

Shared CPU 4 GB at $20/mo (most popular)

Dedicated CPU 4 GB at $36/mo

High Memory from $60/mo

GPU (NVIDIA Blackwell) from ~$1.50/hr

Distributed Compute Regions (200+ edge locations)

Hourly billing capped at monthly rate

API v4: 800 req/2-min default

Linode create/boot: 25 req/min

Object Storage (S3-compatible): $5/250 GB

NodeBalancer (load balancer): $10/mo

Backups: $2-$60/mo

Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE): control plane free

Managed Databases (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB)

Personal access tokens (PATs)

Now Akamai Cloud Computing (Linode brand retired)

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Linode Context

0 classes · 12 properties

JSON-LD

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Linode Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Linode Authentication

http/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Linode Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Linode Scopes

28 scopes · authorizationCode

28 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Linode Agentic Access

116 operations · 56 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

116 operations · 56 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Linode — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Company 1

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

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This is an independent, third-party profile of Linode, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

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