AWS Lightsail

Memory Optimized 2C · 16 GB

Bundle

AWS Lightsail Memory Optimized 2C costs $74/mo for 2 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and 160 GB SSD, cheaper than 42% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.

Price

$74/mo

$0.0995/hour

$4.63 per GB RAM

Cheaper than 42% of tracked offers

Specs vs the whole index

RAM
16 GB> 53% 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

33/100

RAM · 16 GB
16.0
vCPU · 2
3.0
Disk · 160 GB SSD
5.1
Traffic · 5 TB
1.5
25.6 points ÷ $74
0.35 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 0.35 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 $74/mo, Memory Optimized 2C · 16 GB is cheaper than 42% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 16 GB of RAM at $4.63/GB, 15% below the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 33/100 ranks it #272 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 7th 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 16 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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