AWS LightsailCompute Optimized 2C · 4 GB
Bundle
AWS Lightsail Compute Optimized 2C costs $42/mo for 2 vCPU, 4 GB of RAM and 160 GB SSD, cheaper than 58% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$42/mo
$0.0565/hour
$10.50 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 58% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 4 GB> 16% of offers
- vCPU
- 2 shared> 14% of offers
- Disk
- 160 GB SSD> 66% 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
29/100
- RAM · 4 GB
- 4.0
- vCPU · 2
- 3.0
- Disk · 160 GB SSD
- 5.1
- Traffic · 5 TB
- 1.5
- 13.6 points ÷ $42
- 0.32 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 0.32 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 $42/mo, Compute Optimized 2C · 4 GB is cheaper than 58% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 4 GB of RAM at $10.50/GB, 94% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 29/100 ranks it #282 among VPS plans that include a disk, 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.
