AWS LightsailGeneral Purpose 2C · 0.5 GB
Bundle
AWS Lightsail General Purpose 2C costs $5/mo for 2 vCPU, 512 MB of RAM and 20 GB SSD, cheaper than 95% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$5/mo
$0.0067/hour
$10 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 95% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 512 MB> 0% of offers
- vCPU
- 2 shared> 14% of offers
- Disk
- 20 GB SSD> 31% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 1 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
80/100
- RAM · 512 MB
- 0.5
- vCPU · 2
- 3.0
- Disk · 20 GB SSD
- 0.6
- Traffic · 1 TB
- 0.3
- 4.4 points ÷ $5
- 0.89 per $
1 point per GB of RAM, 1.5 per vCPU, 1 per 25 GB of disk up to 500 GB (SSD × 0.8, HDD × 0.4), and 0.3 per TB of traffic up to 20 TB.
The score ranks 0.89 points per dollar against the 524 tracked VPS plans, whose median is 0.43. A higher score means 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 16 Sept 2026
Prices exclude VAT. Always confirm on the provider's site.
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Where this sits in the market
At $5/mo, General Purpose 2C · 0.5 GB is cheaper than 95% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 512 MB of RAM at $10/GB, 85% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 80/100 ranks it #96 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the cheapest of AWS Lightsail's 12 tracked plans.
