Which is cheaper, AWS Lightsail General Purpose 8C or Vultr Cloud Compute 8C?

Vultr Cloud Compute 8C at $160/mo (excl. VAT) versus $164/mo — a difference of $4/mo, as of 5 Sept 2026.

Which offers more RAM per dollar?

Vultr Cloud Compute 8C: $5 per GB of RAM per month versus $5.13 for AWS Lightsail General Purpose 8C.

Yes — both plans are offered in 12 shared countries: AU, BR, CA, DE, FR, GB, IN, JP, KR, SE, SG, US.

plan vs plan · September 2026 · refreshed daily

Vultr Cloud Compute 8C takes 2 of 6 spec rounds against AWS Lightsail General Purpose 8C. It is also the cheaper plan, at $160/mo versus $164/mo.

AWS Lightsail

$164/mo

8 vCPU shared · 32 GB · 640 GB SSD

Vultrwins 2 rounds

$160/mo

8 vCPU shared · 32 GB · 640 GB SSD

Monthly price(lower wins)

$164/mo

$160/mo

$ per GB RAM(lower wins)

$5.13

RAM

32 GB

vCPU

8 shared

Disk

640 GB SSD

Bandwidth

7 TB/mo

6.1 TB/mo

Value score

63/100

Regions

Countries served by both · 12

Go further

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

Which is cheaper, AWS Lightsail General Purpose 8C or Vultr Cloud Compute 8C?: Vultr Cloud Compute 8C at $160/mo (excl. VAT) versus $164/mo — a difference of $4/mo, as of 5 Sept 2026.
Which offers more RAM per dollar?: Vultr Cloud Compute 8C: $5 per GB of RAM per month versus $5.13 for AWS Lightsail General Purpose 8C.
Can I deploy both in the same country?: Yes — both plans are offered in 12 shared countries: AU, BR, CA, DE, FR, GB, IN, JP, KR, SE, SG, US.

Prices exclude VAT, fetched 5 Sept 2026 from each provider's own API or public price page. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.