General Purpose 2C · 8 GB
Bundle
Price
$43.99/mo
$0.0591/hour
$5.50 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 64% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 8 GB> 26% of offers
- vCPU
- 2 shared> 10% of offers
- Disk
- 160 GB SSD> 62% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 5 TB/mo
Flat-rate bundle incl. public IPv4; monthly derived from the published hourly USD rate × 744 h (matches AWS's advertised bundle price within a cent). Specs anchored to US East (N. Virginia); transfer quota is lower in some Asia-Pacific regions.
Value score
61/100
Percentile of RAM, vCPU, disk and bandwidth per dollar across all 280 tracked offers. Higher = more machine for the money.
Regions · 19
- Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)
- Asia Pacific (Malaysia)
- Dublin, IE
- Europe (Spain)
- Frankfurt, DE
- Jakarta, ID
- London, GB
- Montreal, CA
- Mumbai, IN
- N. Virginia, US
- Ohio, US
- Oregon, US
- Paris, FR
- Seoul, KR
- Singapore, SG
- Stockholm, SE
- Sydney, AU
- São Paulo, BR
- Tokyo, JP
Data provenance
AWS Lightsail · AWS public price list — pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (AmazonLightsail)
Fetched 5 Sept 2026
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Where this sits in the market
At $43.99/mo, General Purpose 2C · 8 GB is cheaper than 64% of the 280 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 8 GB of RAM at $5.50/GB — 8% below the $6/GB market median. Its value score of 61/100 ranks it #111 overall, and it is the 6th cheapest of AWS Lightsail's 12 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen2.5-Coder 7B~1–2.1 tok/s
- Gemma 3 4B~1.8–3.7 tok/s
- Qwen3 4B~2–3.9 tok/s
- Phi-4-mini 3.8B~2.1–4.1 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 3B~2.5–4.9 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 1B~6.4–13 tok/s
- Gemma 3 1B~7.9–16 tok/s
Largest two per lineup that fit 8 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 2 shared vCPU.