VPS Arena

Civo Performance Small vs AWS Lightsail General Purpose 4C.

plan vs plan · September 2026 · refreshed daily

AWS Lightsail General Purpose 4C takes 3 of 6 spec rounds against Civo Performance Small. It is also the cheaper plan, at $84/mo versus $86.91/mo.

Civo

Performance Small · 4 vCPU · 16 GB

$86.91/mo

4 vCPU shared · 16 GB · 100 GB NVME

provider ↗
AWS Lightsailwins 3 rounds

General Purpose 4C · 16 GB

$84/mo

4 vCPU shared · 16 GB · 320 GB SSD

provider ↗

Monthly price(lower wins)

$86.91/mo

$84/mo

$ per GB RAM(lower wins)

$5.43

$5.25

RAM

16 GB

16 GB

vCPU

4 shared

4 shared

Disk

100 GB NVME

320 GB SSD

Bandwidth

unmetered

6 TB/mo

Value score

31/100

51/100

Regions

5

19

Countries served by both · 4

  • DE
  • GB
  • IN
  • US

Go further

Add a third or fourth plan, or switch the workload weighting, in the interactive tool.

Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, Civo Performance Small or AWS Lightsail General Purpose 4C?
AWS Lightsail General Purpose 4C at $84/mo (excl. VAT) versus $86.91/mo — a difference of $2.91/mo, as of 10 Sept 2026.
Which offers more RAM per dollar?
AWS Lightsail General Purpose 4C: $5.25 per GB of RAM per month versus $5.43 for Civo Performance Small.
Can I deploy both in the same country?
Yes — both plans are offered in 4 shared countries: DE, GB, IN, US.

Prices exclude VAT, fetched 10 Sept 2026 from each provider's own API or public price page. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.

Related head-to-headsCherry Servers Premium VDS 2 vs Civo Performance SmallCivo Performance Small vs DigitalOcean Basic Premium AMD 4CCivo Performance Small vs Scaleway PRO2-XSCivo Performance Small vs Vultr VX1 4CDigitalOcean Basic Premium AMD 4C vs AWS Lightsail General Purpose 4CAWS Lightsail General Purpose 4C vs Scaleway GP1-XS