AWS Lightsail vs Serverspace

Verdict With 4 GB RAM, AWS Lightsail costs €15.54 a month less than Serverspace over 12 months: €21.39 against €36.93. AWS Lightsail is cheaper at 6 of the 6 sizes both sell.

Bills over 12 months with an IPv4 address and 1 TB of traffic a month, excluding VAT, under the same assumptions for both. Both run servers in United States.

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Both in the list Compare cheapest plans
AWS Lightsailcheaper at 6 of 6 sizes
Serverspacecheaper at 0 of 6 sizes
  • €4.4658% less Cheapest billper month €10.63
  • €6.2327% less Bill per GB of memorymedian €8.52
  • None Extras on top of the price tagmedian per month None
  • €115.93 Extra trafficper extra TB, median Unmetered

Size by size

VPS with shared cores, per month
MemoryAWS LightsailServerspaceCompare
1 GB€6.23Lightsail 1 GB · 2 vCPU · 40 GBTraffic: 2 TB, then €80.26/TB€10.63Cloud server 1 Core · 1 GB · 25 GB SSDTraffic: Unmetered
2 GB€10.69Lightsail 2 GB · 2 vCPU · 60 GBTraffic: 3 TB, then €80.26/TB€15.38Cloud server 1 Core · 2 GB · 50 GB SSDTraffic: Unmetered
4 GB€21.39Lightsail 4 GB · 2 vCPU · 80 GBTraffic: 4 TB, then €80.26/TB€36.93Cloud server 2 Core · 4 GB · 80 GB SSDTraffic: Unmetered
8 GB€39.23Lightsail 8 GB · 2 vCPU · 160 GBTraffic: 5 TB, then €80.26/TB€91.74Cloud server 4 Core · 8 GB · 160 GB SSDTraffic: Unmetered
16 GB€74.91Lightsail 16 GB · 4 vCPU · 320 GBTraffic: 6 TB, then €80.26/TB€124.99Cloud server 4 Core · 16 GB · 240 GB SSDTraffic: Unmetered
32 GB€146.25Lightsail 32 GB · 8 vCPU · 640 GBTraffic: 7 TB, then €80.26/TB€205.06Cloud server 8 Core · 32 GB · 640 GB SSDTraffic: Unmetered

Only sizes both sell, same type on both sides. The score counts this table only; ties count for neither.

Side by side

Green is the better side of a row
AWS LightsailSide by sideServerspace
aws.amazon.comWebsiteserverspace.io
United StatesBased inCyprus
Card, Bank transfer, Direct debitWays to payCard, PayPal
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6.1 · MixedServerDiff Score4.5 · Poor
170Servers tracked8
17Countries1
19Cities1
NoneSetup feeNone
IncludedIPv4 addressIncluded
Not publishedBackupsNot published
0.5–10 TB a monthTraffic includedUnmetered
€80.26–€151.60 per TBExtra trafficUnmetered
2%Bills with extras0%
MonthlyShortest termMonthly
NoIntroductory pricesNo
USDBilled inEUR
23 minutes agoPrices checked20 minutes ago

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