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AWS Lightsail

Compute Optimized 2C · 4 GB

Bundle

Price

$42/mo

$0.0565/hour

$10.50 per GB RAM

Cheaper than 66% of tracked offers

Specs vs the whole index

RAM
4 GB> 14% 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

47/100

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 $42/mo, Compute Optimized 2C · 4 GB is cheaper than 66% of the 280 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 4 GB of RAM at $10.50/GB — 75% above the $6/GB market median. Its value score of 47/100 ranks it #148 overall, and it is the 5th cheapest of AWS Lightsail's 12 tracked plans.

Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference

how we compute this →

Largest two per lineup that fit 4 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 2 shared vCPU.

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