Contabo vs AWS Lightsail.

vps pricing compared · prices as of 16 Sept 2026 · Contabo as of 6 Sept 2026

On today's data, Contabo undercuts AWS Lightsail on memory pricing, with a median RAM price of $1.19/GB against $6/GB. The cheapest way in is AWS Lightsail at $5/mo (General Purpose 2C · 0.5 GB). AWS Lightsail counters with broader reach: 19 locations vs 9.

At 4 GB of RAM the cheaper of the two is Contabo Cloud VPS 4 at $6.35/mo, against AWS Lightsail at $23.99/mo, checked 16 Sept 2026.

Contaboall plans →

• Cheapest · best value

  Cloud VPS 4 · 4 vCPU · 8 GB

  4 vCPU · 8 GB · 100 GB SSD

  $6.35/mochecked 10 days agoView at Contabo ↗

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 →

MetricContaboAWS Lightsail

Plans tracked1112

Cheapest plan$6.35/mo$5/mo

Median $/GB RAM$1.19/GB$6/GB

Avg value score92/10047/100

Locations919

Dedicated-vCPU plans00

NVMe share55%0%

Unmetered bandwidth100% of plans0% of plans

One-click stacks (of 10 tracked)52

Cheapest plan at each RAM tier

≥ 2 GB RAM

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Contabowins

Cloud VPS 4 · 4 vCPU · 8 GB

4 vCPU · 8 GB · 100 GB SSD · $6.35/mo checked 10 days ago

AWS Lightsail

General Purpose 2C · 2 GB

2 vCPU · 2 GB · 60 GB SSD · $11.99/mo

≥ 4 GB RAM

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Contabowins

Cloud VPS 4 · 4 vCPU · 8 GB

4 vCPU · 8 GB · 100 GB SSD · $6.35/mo checked 10 days ago

AWS Lightsail

General Purpose 2C · 4 GB

2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB SSD · $23.99/mo

≥ 8 GB RAM

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Contabowins

Cloud VPS 4 · 4 vCPU · 8 GB

4 vCPU · 8 GB · 100 GB SSD · $6.35/mo checked 10 days ago

AWS Lightsail

General Purpose 2C · 8 GB

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

Top value plans from each

Contabo

• Cloud VPS 4 · 4 vCPU · 8 GBvalue 99/100$6.35
• Cloud VPS 6 · 6 vCPU · 12 GBvalue 99/100$8.65
• Cloud VPS 8 · 8 vCPU · 24 GBvalue 99/100$16.15
• Cloud VPS 12 · 12 vCPU · 48 GBvalue 98/100$28.85
• Cloud VPS 16 · 16 vCPU · 64 GBvalue 97/100$42.69

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. Contabo data: Live web — server-rendered plan cards on contabo.com/en/vps/ + /en/vps-performance/. AWS Lightsail data: AWS public price list · pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (AmazonLightsail).