AWS Lightsail

Compute Optimized 4C · 8 GB

Bundle

AWS Lightsail Compute Optimized 4C costs $84/mo for 4 vCPU, 8 GB of RAM and 320 GB SSD, cheaper than 37% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.

Price

$84/mo

$0.1129/hour

$10.50 per GB RAM

Cheaper than 37% of tracked offers

Specs vs the whole index

RAM
8 GB> 31% of offers
vCPU
4 shared> 41% of offers
Disk
320 GB SSD> 81% of offers
Bandwidth
6 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

27/100

RAM · 8 GB
8.0
vCPU · 4
6.0
Disk · 320 GB SSD
10.2
Traffic · 6 TB
1.8
26.0 points ÷ $84
0.31 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 0.31 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

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Where this sits in the market

At $84/mo, Compute Optimized 4C · 8 GB is cheaper than 37% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 8 GB of RAM at $10.50/GB, 94% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 27/100 ranks it #287 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 9th 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 8 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 4 shared vCPU.

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