AWS Lightsail

General Purpose 2C · 4 GB

Bundle

AWS Lightsail General Purpose 2C costs $23.99/mo for 2 vCPU, 4 GB of RAM and 80 GB SSD, cheaper than 70% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.

Price

$23.99/mo

$0.0323/hour

$6 per GB RAM

Cheaper than 70% of tracked offers

Specs vs the whole index

RAM
4 GB> 16% of offers
vCPU
2 shared> 14% of offers
Disk
80 GB SSD> 50% of offers
Bandwidth
4 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

54/100

RAM · 4 GB
4.0
vCPU · 2
3.0
Disk · 80 GB SSD
2.6
Traffic · 4 TB
1.2
10.8 points ÷ $23.99
0.45 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 0.45 points per dollar against the 524 tracked VPS plans, whose median is 0.43. A higher score means more machine for the money.

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 $23.99/mo, General Purpose 2C · 4 GB is cheaper than 70% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 4 GB of RAM at $6/GB, 11% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 54/100 ranks it #210 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 4th 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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