Cherry Servers vs AWS Lightsail.

vps pricing compared · prices as of 16 Sept 2026

On today's data, Cherry Servers undercuts AWS Lightsail on memory pricing, with a median RAM price of $3.46/GB against $6/GB. The cheapest way in is Cherry Servers at $3.46/mo (Cloud VPS 1 (Gen 2) · 1 vCPU · 1 GB). AWS Lightsail counters with broader reach: 19 locations vs 7.

At 4 GB of RAM the cheaper of the two is Cherry Servers Cloud VPS 4 (Gen 2) at $10.39/mo, against AWS Lightsail at $23.99/mo, checked 16 Sept 2026.

Cherry Serversall plans →

• Cheapest

  Cloud VPS 1 (Gen 2) · 1 vCPU · 1 GB

  1 vCPU · 1 GB · 20 GB SSD

  $3.46/moView at Cherry Servers ↗
• Best value

  Cloud VPS 4 (Gen 2) · 4 vCPU · 4 GB

  4 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB SSD

  $10.39/moView at Cherry Servers ↗

AWS Lightsailall plans →

• Cheapest · best value

  General Purpose 2C · 0.5 GB

  2 vCPU · 512 MB · 20 GB SSD

  $5/moView at AWS Lightsail ↗

compare the two best-value plans side by side →

MetricCherry ServersAWS Lightsail

Plans tracked3412

Cheapest plan$3.46/mo$5/mo

Median $/GB RAM$3.46/GB$6/GB

Avg value score66/10047/100

Locations719

Dedicated-vCPU plans220

NVMe share65%0%

Unmetered bandwidth0% of plans0% of plans

Cheapest plan at each RAM tier

≥ 2 GB RAM

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Cherry Serverswins

Cloud VPS 2 (Gen 2) · 2 vCPU · 2 GB

2 vCPU · 2 GB · 40 GB SSD · $6.92/mo

AWS Lightsail

General Purpose 2C · 2 GB

2 vCPU · 2 GB · 60 GB SSD · $11.99/mo

≥ 4 GB RAM

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Cherry Serverswins

Cloud VPS 4 (Gen 2) · 4 vCPU · 4 GB

4 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB SSD · $10.39/mo

AWS Lightsail

General Purpose 2C · 4 GB

2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB SSD · $23.99/mo

≥ 8 GB RAM

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Cherry Serverswins

Cloud ARM VDS 2 · 2 vCPU · 12 GB

2 vCPU · 12 GB · 50 GB NVMe · $21.92/mo

AWS Lightsail

General Purpose 2C · 8 GB

2 vCPU · 8 GB · 160 GB SSD · $43.99/mo

Top value plans from each

Cherry Servers

• Cloud VPS 4 (Gen 2) · 4 vCPU · 4 GBvalue 85/100$10.39
• Cloud VPS 6 (Gen 2) · 6 vCPU · 6 GBvalue 85/100$15
• Cloud ARM VDS 4 · 4 vCPU · 24 GBvalue 83/100$33.46
• Cloud VPS 1 (Gen 2) · 1 vCPU · 1 GBvalue 82/100$3.46
• Cloud VPS 2 (Gen 2) · 2 vCPU · 2 GBvalue 81/100$6.92

AWS Lightsail

• General Purpose 2C · 0.5 GBvalue 80/100$5
• General Purpose 2C · 1 GBvalue 79/100$6.99
• General Purpose 2C · 2 GBvalue 73/100$11.99
• General Purpose 2C · 4 GBvalue 54/100$23.99
• General Purpose 2C · 8 GBvalue 45/100$43.99

Prices exclude VAT, fetched 16 Sept 2026 from each provider's own API or public price page. Cherry Servers data: Public API · api.cherryservers.com/v1/plans (virtual plans only). AWS Lightsail data: AWS public price list · pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (AmazonLightsail).