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Reserved IPs

The reserved IP feature is designed for the reservation of individual public IPv4 addresses within a specific region.

Reserved IP addresses offer a persistent, static public IPv4 entry point for your cloud infrastructure. Because a reserved IP is bound to a specific datacenter, it can't be moved across regions. Unlike ephemeral IPs, which the network assigns and recycles automatically, a reserved IP stays linked to your account until you release it.

Features

  • Reserve public IPv4 addresses on‑demand via Cloud Manager, CLI, Terraform, and Linode API.
  • Keep the same address even if you delete the underlying Linode or NodeBalancer.
  • Rebuild or migrate Linode and NodeBalancers within the same region without changing your public-facing IP.
  • Eliminates the need to update allowlists, firewall rules, automation scripts, or DNS records during deployments.
  • Maintain ownership of the address during failovers or maintenance windows when it may be temporarily unassigned.

Availability

You can reserve public IPv4 addresses to use for your Linodes and NodeBalancers across all regions.

Pricing

Reserved IPs are available at a flat hourly rate per IP, whether or not the address is currently assigned to a resource. This straightforward billing model provides predictable costs and supports operational safety during failovers or maintenance, when an IP might be temporarily unassigned. When you unreserve an IP, billing stops immediately and the address is recycled, making it unavailable for recovery.

Limits and considerations

  • You can use reserved IPs only for Linode and NodeBalancer IPv4 addresses. However, reserved IPs are not supported when NodeBalancers are automatically provisioned by an Akamai Kubernetes Engine (LKE) or LKE-Enterprise cluster. Instead, NodeBalancers deployed via Kubernetes services will automatically allocate an ephemeral public IP address.
  • Users must have unrestricted access to fully interact with the reserved IPs feature. Restricted users may encounter limitations when reserving or viewing IPs.
  • This feature is used for reserving individual public IPv4 addresses, not CIDR blocks. You can reserve only one public IPv4 at a time, not all 256 IPs in the subnet.
  • A maximum of 200 public IPv4 addresses can be reserved per account. To request an increase, open a support ticket.
  • Reservations for IPv6 addresses are not supported at this point.
  • Since reserved IPs are specific to a single region, they won't move with your Linode during a migration across data centers. To maintain a reserved IP in your new location, reserve a new address in the target region and assign it to your migrated Linode.
  • Reserved IPs can use the IP Sharing feature.

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