How much does AWS Lightsail Compute Optimized 4C cost?

$84 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 4C?

4 shared vCPU, 8 GB of RAM, 320 GB SSD of disk and 6 TB of traffic a month.

Where does AWS Lightsail Compute Optimized 4C 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 4C compare with other VPS plans?

It is cheaper than 37% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 100% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 25/100 on hardware per dollar, #293 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

AWS Lightsail Compute Optimized 4C.

Prices checked 31 Oct

AWS Lightsail Compute Optimized 4C costs $84 a month for 4 vCPU, 8 GB of RAM and 320 GB SSD, cheaper than 37% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

Bundleshared vCPU

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Price

AWS Lightsail

$84/mo

$10.50 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 37% of the 527 plans we track.

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Value

25/100

hardware per dollar

It ranks #293 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

Bundleshared vCPU

Compare withvs Linode Premium 8GB or any plan

What you get

RAM: 8 GBmore than 31% of plans
vCPU: 4 sharedmore than 40% of plans
Disk: 320 GB SSDmore than 80% of plans
Traffic: 6 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 25/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.31 points for each dollar, against a typical 0.44 across the 527 plans we track.

RAM, 8 GB: 8.0
vCPU, 4: 6.0
Disk, 320 GB SSD: 10.2
Traffic, 6 TB: 1.8
26.0 points for $84: 0.31 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.

Models it can run

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

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B, about 2.1–4.2 tok/s Gemma 3 4B, about 3.7–7.4 tok/s Qwen3 4B, about 3.9–7.9 tok/s Phi-4-mini 3.8B, about 4.1–8.2 tok/s Llama 3.2 3B, about 4.9–9.9 tok/s Llama 3.2 1B, about 13–26 tok/s Gemma 3 1B, about 16–32 tok/s

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Frequently asked

How much does AWS Lightsail Compute Optimized 4C cost?: $84 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 4C?: 4 shared vCPU, 8 GB of RAM, 320 GB SSD of disk and 6 TB of traffic a month.
Where does AWS Lightsail Compute Optimized 4C 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 4C compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 37% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 100% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 25/100 on hardware per dollar, #293 of the 374 plans that include a disk.