AWS Lightsail pricing

Amazon's flat-rate answer to DigitalOcean, bundling generous transfer into a fixed monthly price. Overage reverts to standard EC2 egress rates, which is where it stops being cheap.

List prices checked

By Amazon Web Services · Cloud compute & VPS

Rate card

What Amazon Web Services charges, by billing axis.

AxisPriceApplies to
Entry plan$5.00/moCheapest paid plan or typical entry configuration
Data transfer out$0.090/GB2 TB included, then metered
Free tierYesThree months free on the smallest plan

Source: Amazon Web Services pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

What it costs per month

AWS Lightsail billed against three workload profiles, using the rates above. Every line shows its arithmetic.

Side project

A personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process.

$5.00/mo

  • 1 × entry plan at $5/month (this provider sells flat-rate plans, not vCPU-hours)$5.00
  • 100 GB used, 2 TB included, 0 GB billable at $0.09/GB$0

Growing SaaS

A funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.

$10/mo

  • 2 × entry plan at $5/month (this provider sells flat-rate plans, not vCPU-hours)$10
  • 1 TB used, 2 TB included, 0 GB billable at $0.09/GB$0

Media-heavy site

A publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.

$725/mo

  • 1 × entry plan at $5/month (this provider sells flat-rate plans, not vCPU-hours)$5.00
  • 10 TB used, 2 TB included, 8 TB billable at $0.09/GB$720

AWS Lightsail vs the alternatives

The closest compute providers on price, with the difference on cloud compute & vps's headline axis.

ServicePer vCPU-hrvs AWS LightsailCompare
Contabo VPS——Head to head
OVHcloud VPS——Head to head
IONOS Cloud Servers——Head to head
Azure Virtual Machines$0.052—Head to head
Google Compute Engine$0.048—Head to head
AWS EC2$0.042—Head to head

Questions about pricing

How much does AWS Lightsail cost in 2026?
AWS Lightsail charges $5.00 per month for the entry plan, per Amazon Web Services's published pricing page. There is also a free tier: Three months free on the smallest plan. The tables above break the rate card down by axis and model it against three concrete workloads.
Does AWS Lightsail have a free tier?
Yes — Three months free on the smallest plan. Check whether it is permanent or a trial before you build a budget around it; the two are often presented identically.
What does AWS Lightsail charge for egress?
$0.090 per GB, after 2 TB included in the plan. Egress is where providers in this category differ most, so it is worth checking against the alternatives before committing.
Are these AWS Lightsail prices current?
They were checked against Amazon Web Services's official pricing page and stamped with that date, which is shown at the top of this page and next to every table. Vendors change list prices without notice — the source link is there so you can confirm before you commit.

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