I quite like linode and have used them for years but it seems a bit disingenuous to not include competitors like digitalocean[1] and vultr[2] in this comparison. They have very similar pricing.
Great marketing on Linode's part by adding in the Bandwidth to the cost. It is kind of the opposite of Tesla factoring in the rebates and other cost savings in their pricing. Linode is instead inflating competitors pricing assuming maximum bandwidth usage which wouldn't happen in most normal scenarios with a vm that size.
Agreed - essentially in the new age of single page apps where the biggest payloads (static assets) are being offloaded to CDNs and the apps running on VPSs are simply providing lightweight APIs (in terms of bandwidth). Memory and CPU cores are a far more relevant metric of value for an api deployment.
In general, Linode and DigitalOcean have been very competitive in terms of customer satisfaction for VPS.
In this case, Linode offers only 125 Mbps which could be less compared to other cloud providers.
From what I have seen in the startup world around me, small sized companies use AWS/Google/Azure for production systems and tend to use DigitalOcean/Linode for staging / developer environments given they manage their own Devops.
There is a table here which explains exactly how to calculate Google's bandwidth costs. Incoming network is free; outgoing costs between $0.08 and $0.23 per gigabyte, depending on where it is going.
[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/#droplet [2] https://www.vultr.com/pricing/