Compute Optimized 8C · 16 GB
Bundle
Price
$168/mo
$0.2258/hour
$10.50 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 15% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 16 GB> 51% of offers
- vCPU
- 8 shared> 74% of offers
- Disk
- 640 GB SSD> 95% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 7 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
43/100
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 $168/mo, Compute Optimized 8C · 16 GB is cheaper than 15% of the 280 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 16 GB of RAM at $10.50/GB — 75% above the $6/GB market median. Its value score of 43/100 ranks it #160 overall, and it is the 12th cheapest of AWS Lightsail's 12 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen3 14B~2.1–4.3 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B~2.1–4.3 tok/s
- Phi-4 14B~2.2–4.3 tok/s
- Mistral Nemo 12B~2.6–5.2 tok/s
- Gemma 3 12B~2.6–5.2 tok/s
- Qwen3 8B~3.9–7.7 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen3 8B~3.9–7.7 tok/s
- Llama 3.1 8B~3.9–7.9 tok/s
Largest two per lineup that fit 16 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 8 shared vCPU.