OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes vs Linode Kubernetes Engine
A detailed comparison to help you choose between OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes and Linode Kubernetes Engine.
Quick Verdict
3.9/5
OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes
0 reviews
4.0/5
Linode Kubernetes Engine
0 reviews
Linode Kubernetes Engine is rated higher (4.0 vs 3.9). managed K8s clusters in all OVHcloud Public Cloud regions (Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific) Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) offers managed Kubernetes with free control plane — pay only for worker nodes. HA control plane available, auto node recycling, and Akamai CDN integration.
OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes EU managed Kubernetes from OVH at low cost | Linode Kubernetes Engine Managed Kubernetes with free control plane | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.9 (0 reviews) | 4.0 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | freemium | paid |
| Starting price | Free tier available✓ | From $5/mo |
| Best for | EU-focused teams that want managed Kubernetes economics without control-plane fees and are comfortable driving clusters through Terraform and kubectl. | Teams that want production Kubernetes without paying hyperscaler control-plane fees, especially small-to-mid clusters, bursty dev/test fleets and GPU inference workloads. |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ✓ | |
| DDoS protection | ✓ | |
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ✓ | |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | managed optionhourly billingeu datacentergdpr compliantapi access | managed optionhourly billingeu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenterapi access |
| Visit OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes → | Visit Linode Kubernetes Engine → | |
OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes
Pros
- + Permanently free managed control plane on the Free plan (up to 100 nodes)
- + Standard plan adds dedicated multi-AZ control plane for $0.099/hour per cluster
- + Official Terraform/Pulumi support, autoscaling, OIDC, vRack private networking
- + EU data residency with regions in France, Germany, UK and Poland
- + $200 Public Cloud trial credit covers roughly a month of real worker nodes
Cons
- - Free plan SLA is 99.5% with no service credits; Standard 99.99% promised only after beta
- - Control panel is dense and less polished than GKE or DigitalOcean
- - Ticket-based support on standard tiers; no multi-cluster management in-product
- - etcd quota (400 MiB free / 8 GiB standard) limits CRD-heavy operator usage
Linode Kubernetes Engine
Pros
- + Free managed control plane — no per-cluster fee on the standard tier
- + Transparent pricing: worker nodes billed at standard plan rates, hourly up to a monthly cap
- + Current-generation GPU node pools (RTX 4000 Ada, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) for AI workloads
- + CNCF-certified, upstream-compatible Kubernetes with API/CLI/Terraform automation
- + 33 core regions on third-party counts, with IPv6 on every instance
Cons
- - Standard control plane is not replicated and carries no uptime SLA
- - HA upgrade is one-way: nodes are rebuilt and local storage erased
- - No GKE Autopilot-style abstraction and fewer managed add-ons than hyperscaler K8s
- - Newest G8 plans bundle no transfer; egress at $0.005/GB can dominate traffic-heavy bills
- - LKE Enterprise (the tier with VPC isolation and Cilium) has limited availability
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