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.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles linode the way a machine reads it — 159 machine-readable artifacts across 23 APIs, 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 46.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). 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.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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 1
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.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Linode API v4
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing 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 six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Linode Plans Pricing
PLANSRate 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
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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
FINOPSFeatures 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.
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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
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
linode API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 109
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Account
JSON SCHEMABackup
JSON SCHEMABackupResponse
JSON SCHEMADatabase
JSON SCHEMADatabaseRequest
JSON SCHEMADomain
JSON SCHEMADomainRecord
JSON SCHEMADomainRecordRequest
JSON SCHEMADomainRequest
JSON SCHEMAEvent
JSON SCHEMAFirewall
JSON SCHEMAFirewallRequest
JSON SCHEMAFirewallRule
JSON SCHEMAFirewallUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMAImage
JSON SCHEMAImageRequest
JSON SCHEMAImageUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMALinode Instance
JSON SCHEMAInvoice
JSON SCHEMAIPAddress
JSON SCHEMAIPv6Address
JSON SCHEMAIPv6Range
JSON SCHEMAKubernetesVersion
JSON SCHEMALinode
JSON SCHEMALinodeIPAddresses
JSON SCHEMALinodeRebuildRequest
JSON SCHEMALinodeRequest
JSON SCHEMALinodeUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMALKECluster
JSON SCHEMALKEClusterRequest
JSON SCHEMALKEClusterUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMALongviewClient
JSON SCHEMALongviewClientRequest
JSON SCHEMAManagedService
JSON SCHEMAManagedServiceRequest
JSON SCHEMANodeBalancer
JSON SCHEMANodeBalancerRequest
JSON SCHEMANodeBalancerUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMANodePool
JSON SCHEMANodePoolRequest
JSON SCHEMAObjectStorageBucket
JSON SCHEMAObjectStorageEndpointList
JSON SCHEMAObjectStorageKey
JSON SCHEMAObjectStorageKeyRequest
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedConfigList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedDatabaseEngineList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedDatabaseList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedDatabaseTypeList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedDiskList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedDomainList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedDomainRecordList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedEventList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedFirewallList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedImageList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedInvoiceList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedIPAddressList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedKernelList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedLinodeList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedLinodeTypeList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedLKEClusterList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedLongviewClientList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedManagedContactList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedManagedIssueList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedManagedServiceList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedNodeBalancerConfigList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedNodeBalancerList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedNodePoolList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedObjectStorageBucketList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedObjectStorageKeyList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedPaymentList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedPlacementGroupList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedRegionList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedSSHKeyList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedStackScriptList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedSubnetList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedSupportTicketList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedTagList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedTokenList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedUserList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedVLANList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedVolumeList
JSON SCHEMAPaginatedVPCList
JSON SCHEMAPagination
JSON SCHEMAPayment
JSON SCHEMAPaymentRequest
JSON SCHEMAPlacementGroup
JSON SCHEMAPlacementGroupRequest
JSON SCHEMAProfile
JSON SCHEMARegion
JSON SCHEMASSHKey
JSON SCHEMASSHKeyRequest
JSON SCHEMAStackScript
JSON SCHEMAStackScriptRequest
JSON SCHEMASubnet
JSON SCHEMASubnetRequest
JSON SCHEMASupportTicket
JSON SCHEMASupportTicketRequest
JSON SCHEMATag
JSON SCHEMATagRequest
JSON SCHEMAToken
JSON SCHEMATokenRequest
JSON SCHEMAUser
JSON SCHEMAUserRequest
JSON SCHEMAVolume
JSON SCHEMAVolumeRequest
JSON SCHEMAVolumeUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMAVPC
JSON SCHEMAVPCRequest
JSON SCHEMAVPCUpdateRequest
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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
JSON STRUCTURESecurity 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.
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.
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.
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
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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