Easy to move
Load Balancer on Akamai (Linode): what it becomes and what it costs.
On Akamai (Linode), Load Balancer becomes Akamai NodeBalancer or HAProxy / Traefik. L4 balancing is available natively.
Effort grade
Easy
Drop-in replacement at the destination or mature open source
Cost after the move, before engineer time
30% of today
Same product exists at the destination; residual is the destination list price for an equivalent, roughly 30% of today.
Engineer time
none added
Priced from usage; it runs on the servers already counted.
Your own Load Balancer line, from your export
Drop one month of your Azure cost export and the report prices every service, Load Balancer included, on Akamai (Linode) list prices of 18 Oct 2026, net of the engineer time to run it. In your browser; nothing is uploaded.