How much does AWS Lightsail Compute Optimized 8C cost?

$168 a month excl. VAT, which is $10.50 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on AWS Lightsail's own site.

What do you get with AWS Lightsail Compute Optimized 8C?

8 shared vCPU, 16 GB of RAM, 640 GB SSD of disk and 7 TB of traffic a month.

Where does AWS Lightsail Compute Optimized 8C run?

In 19 locations: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Dublin, IE, Europe (Spain), Frankfurt, DE, Jakarta, ID, London, GB, Montreal, CA, and more.

How does AWS Lightsail Compute Optimized 8C compare with other VPS plans?

It is cheaper than 12% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 100% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 21/100 on hardware per dollar, #306 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

AWS Lightsail Compute Optimized 8C.

Prices checked 31 Oct

AWS Lightsail Compute Optimized 8C costs $168 a month for 8 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and 640 GB SSD, cheaper than 12% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

Bundleshared vCPU

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Price

AWS Lightsail

$168/mo

$10.50 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 12% of the 527 plans we track.

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Value

21/100

hardware per dollar

It ranks #306 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

Bundleshared vCPU

Compare withvs Linode Premium 16GB or any plan

What you get

RAM: 16 GBmore than 51% of plans
vCPU: 8 sharedmore than 70% of plans
Disk: 640 GB SSDmore than 95% of plans
Traffic: 7 TB a month

19 locations

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.

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How it scores

Value 21/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.27 points for each dollar, against a typical 0.44 across the 527 plans we track.

RAM, 16 GB: 16.0
vCPU, 8: 12.0
Disk, 640 GB SSD, 500 GB counted: 16.0
Traffic, 7 TB: 2.1
46.1 points for $168: 0.27 a dollar

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.

Or a whole server

At 16 GB a dedicated server is worth a look: the cores, disks and port are all yours, not shared. One with 8 to 15 cores starts at $65 a month over the first year, setup fee included. 119 servers from 6 providers. every server with 8 to 15 cores

Models it can run

The largest two per family that fit 16 GB with room to spare, on its 8 shared vCPU at 4-bit. How we work this out

Qwen3 14B, about 2.1–4.3 tok/s DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B, about 2.1–4.3 tok/s Phi-4 14B, about 2.2–4.3 tok/s Mistral Nemo 12B, about 2.6–5.2 tok/s Gemma 3 12B, about 2.6–5.2 tok/s Qwen3 8B, about 3.9–7.7 tok/s DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen3 8B, about 3.9–7.7 tok/s Llama 3.1 8B, about 3.9–7.9 tok/s

Similar plans

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Frequently asked

How much does AWS Lightsail Compute Optimized 8C cost?: $168 a month excl. VAT, which is $10.50 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on AWS Lightsail's own site.
What do you get with AWS Lightsail Compute Optimized 8C?: 8 shared vCPU, 16 GB of RAM, 640 GB SSD of disk and 7 TB of traffic a month.
Where does AWS Lightsail Compute Optimized 8C run?: In 19 locations: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Dublin, IE, Europe (Spain), Frankfurt, DE, Jakarta, ID, London, GB, Montreal, CA, and more.
How does AWS Lightsail Compute Optimized 8C compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 12% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 100% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 21/100 on hardware per dollar, #306 of the 374 plans that include a disk.