AWS LightsailGeneral Purpose 8C · 32 GB
Bundle
AWS Lightsail General Purpose 8C costs $164/mo for 8 vCPU, 32 GB of RAM and 640 GB SSD, cheaper than 13% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$164/mo
$0.2204/hour
$5.13 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 13% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 32 GB> 80% of offers
- vCPU
- 8 shared> 71% of offers
- Disk
- 640 GB SSD> 94% 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
39/100
- RAM · 32 GB
- 32.0
- vCPU · 8
- 12.0
- Disk · 640 GB SSD, 500 GB counted
- 16.0
- Traffic · 7 TB
- 2.1
- 62.1 points ÷ $164
- 0.38 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 0.38 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 $164/mo, General Purpose 8C · 32 GB is cheaper than 13% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 32 GB of RAM at $5.13/GB, 5% below the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 39/100 ranks it #261 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 11th cheapest of AWS Lightsail's 12 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen3 32B~1–1.9 tok/s
- Qwen2.5-Coder 32B~1–1.9 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 32B~1–1.9 tok/s
- Gemma 3 27B~1.2–2.3 tok/s
- Mistral Small 3.2 24B~1.3–2.6 tok/s
- Devstral Small 24B~1.3–2.7 tok/s
- gpt-oss-20b (MoE)~4.4–8.7 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B~2.1–4.3 tok/s
Largest two per lineup that fit 32 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 8 shared vCPU.
