AWS Lightsail vs Scaleway.

vps pricing compared · prices as of 16 Sept 2026

On today's data, Scaleway undercuts AWS Lightsail on memory pricing, with a median RAM price of $5.97/GB against $6/GB. The cheapest way in is Scaleway at $0.51/mo (STARDUST1-S). AWS Lightsail counters with broader reach: 19 locations vs 4.

At 4 GB of RAM the cheaper of the two is Scaleway DEV1-M at $17.01/mo, against AWS Lightsail at $23.99/mo, checked 16 Sept 2026.

AWS Lightsailall plans →

• Cheapest · best value

  General Purpose 2C · 0.5 GB

  2 vCPU · 512 MB · 20 GB SSD

  $5/moView at AWS Lightsail ↗

Scalewayall plans →

• Cheapest · best value

  STARDUST1-S

  1 vCPU · 1 GB · 10 GB SSD

  $0.51/moView at Scaleway ↗

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MetricAWS LightsailScaleway

Plans tracked1259

Cheapest plan$5/mo$0.51/mo

Median $/GB RAM$6/GB$5.97/GB

Avg value score47/10026/100

Locations194

Dedicated-vCPU plans024

NVMe share0%0%

Unmetered bandwidth0% of plans100% of plans

One-click stacks (of 10 tracked)23

Cheapest plan at each RAM tier

≥ 2 GB RAM

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AWS Lightsail

General Purpose 2C · 2 GB

2 vCPU · 2 GB · 60 GB SSD · $11.99/mo

Scalewaywins

DEV1-S

2 vCPU · 2 GB · 20 GB SSD · $7.56/mo

≥ 4 GB RAM

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AWS Lightsail

General Purpose 2C · 4 GB

2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB SSD · $23.99/mo

Scalewaywins

DEV1-M

3 vCPU · 4 GB · 40 GB SSD · $17.01/mo

≥ 8 GB RAM

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AWS Lightsail

General Purpose 2C · 8 GB

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

Scalewaywins

BASIC2-A2C-8G

2 vCPU · 8 GB · no disk · $29.07/mo

Top value plans from each

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

Scaleway

• STARDUST1-Svalue 100/100$0.51
• DEV1-Svalue 84/100$7.56
• DEV1-Mvalue 77/100$17.01
• PLAY2-PICOvalue 66/100$12.02
• DEV1-Lvalue 66/100$36.08

Prices exclude VAT, fetched 16 Sept 2026 from each provider's own API or public price page. AWS Lightsail data: AWS public price list · pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (AmazonLightsail). Scaleway data: Public API · api.scaleway.com/instance/v1/zones/{zone}/products/servers.