DigitalOcean vs AWS Lightsail.

vps pricing compared · prices as of 16 Sept 2026

On today's data, AWS Lightsail undercuts DigitalOcean on memory pricing, with a median RAM price of $6/GB against $8/GB. The cheapest way in is DigitalOcean at $4/mo (Basic Regular 1C · 0.5 GB · 10 GB). AWS Lightsail counters with broader reach: 19 locations vs 10.

At 4 GB of RAM the cheaper of the two is AWS Lightsail General Purpose 2C at $23.99/mo, against DigitalOcean at $24/mo, checked 16 Sept 2026.

DigitalOceanall plans →

• Cheapest · best value

  Basic Regular 1C · 0.5 GB · 10 GB

  1 vCPU · 512 MB · 10 GB SSD

  $4/moView at DigitalOcean ↗

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 →

MetricDigitalOceanAWS Lightsail

Plans tracked7012

Cheapest plan$4/mo$5/mo

Median $/GB RAM$8/GB$6/GB

Avg value score27/10047/100

Locations1019

Dedicated-vCPU plans390

NVMe share69%0%

Unmetered bandwidth0% of plans0% of plans

One-click stacks (of 10 tracked)92

Cheapest plan at each RAM tier

≥ 2 GB RAM

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DigitalOcean

Basic Regular 1C · 2 GB · 50 GB

1 vCPU · 2 GB · 50 GB SSD · $12/mo

AWS Lightsailwins

General Purpose 2C · 2 GB

2 vCPU · 2 GB · 60 GB SSD · $11.99/mo

≥ 4 GB RAM

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DigitalOcean

Basic Regular 2C · 4 GB · 80 GB

2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB SSD · $24/mo

AWS Lightsailwins

General Purpose 2C · 4 GB

2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB SSD · $23.99/mo

≥ 8 GB RAM

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DigitalOceanwins

Basic Premium AMD 2C · 8 GB · 100 GB

2 vCPU · 8 GB · 100 GB NVMe · $42/mo

AWS Lightsail

General Purpose 2C · 8 GB

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

Top value plans from each

DigitalOcean

• Basic Regular 1C · 0.5 GB · 10 GBvalue 72/100$4
• Basic Regular 1C · 1 GB · 25 GBvalue 71/100$6
• Basic Premium Intel 1C · 1 GB · 25 GBvalue 67/100$7
• Basic Premium AMD 1C · 1 GB · 25 GBvalue 67/100$7
• Basic Premium Intel 1C · 1 GB · 35 GBvalue 64/100$8

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. DigitalOcean data: Public pricing page · digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets (embedded plan JSON). AWS Lightsail data: AWS public price list · pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (AmazonLightsail).