Amazon Lightsail vs. Vultr

Amazon Lightsail

Vultr

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon Lightsail	Score 5.3 out of 10	N/A	Amazon Lightsail is a virtual private server (VPS) designed to present an easy-to-use cloud platform that offers everything needed to build an application or website, plus a cost-effective, monthly plan.	$3.50 per month
Vultr	Score 6.8 out of 10	N/A	Vultr is an independent cloud computing platform on a mission to provide businesses and developers around the world with unrivaled ease of use, price-to-performance, and global reach.	$1 per month

Pricing

Amazon Lightsail

Vultr

Editions & Modules

512 MB Linux: $3.50
per month
1 GB Linux: $5.00
per month
2 GB Linux: $10.00
per month

Block Storage: $1
per month
Cloud Compute: $2.50
per month
Object Storage: $5
per month
Kubernetes Engine: $10
per month
Load Balancers: $10
per month
Managed Databases: $15
per month
Optimized Cloud Compute: $28
per month
Cloud GPU: $90
per month
Bare Metal: $120
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Amazon Lightsail	Vultr
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Pricing is based on specifications chosen in each product category. Bandwidth is also included up to a certain amount per month.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Amazon Lightsail	Vultr
Considered Both Products	Amazon Lightsail PB Pintu Barman Web Developer Chose Amazon Lightsail The only reason to shift from liquid web to Amazon Lightsail is the cost. Amazon Lightsail's cost is very low as compared to liquid web. Incentivized Helpful? AP Arpit Patel Student Chose Amazon Lightsail Amazon Lightsail is ideal for beginners looking for a low-cost VPS to try out new things. It's especially useful if you're at a hackathon and need a quick way to prototype a quick idea. I would never recommend Lightsail for any kind of production work. In terms of uptime, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Lightsail I believe Lightsail has worse support than DigitalOcean and the pay more for better service model is not great as most customers are trying it for the first time. They are both very fast to set up and get started, but we went with AWS Lightsail because we were familiar with … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Amazon Lightsail Linode and Digital Ocean are far more reliable than Amazon Lightsail. I would recommend against hosting any production applications in Lightsail. Even for prototyping, I would also suggest using the VPS provider of your choice for your production application because you can … Incentivized Helpful? Sandesh Singh FrontEnd Development Engineer Chose Amazon Lightsail Amazon Lightsail is a great platform. Before we started using it, we were using AWS EC2 instances as our primary servers after being dissatisfied with other providers. After Amazon Lightsail's introduction, we were able to reduce our operating costs, improve our quality … Incentivized Helpful?	Vultr Isaac Gomez CTO Chose Vultr 4Thought Marketing Automation Services Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Price to performance ratio and ease of managemenated Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Cost of bandwidth and network quality for us is what mattered. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Vultr is cheaper than most providers. Only contabo is cheaper, but they have lower uptime. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Vultr comes in at the lower end of the spectrum in terms of the breadth of the services they provide compared to the larger vendors, but they are consistently demonstrating their commitment to growing their service offering and platform features. We selected Vultr because of … Incentivized Helpful? Stephen Honor Chief Information Officer Chose Vultr Vultr has a greater offering of servers whilst staying reasonably priced compared to some of the larger infrastructure providers. They may not have all the services as some of the other providers but they don't need it when they can do what they do with the services they provide. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr On shared services, such as VPS, I have noticed greater confidence of usability and resource availability with Vultr. Incentivized Helpful? David Collins App developer Chose Vultr Vultr is much cheaper than AWS, and also simpler to set up and use Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr We did extensive performance comparisons and testing and Vultr was not only better priced, but much better on the performance and speed. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr AWS and Azure are too complicated and costly for small businesses like ours. Incentivized Helpful? Ben Brown Enterprise Security Solutions Architect Chose Vultr Vultr has better support and competitive pricing. The network is solid and globally deployed. IP reputation is clean, and security is tight. Ease of use and documentation is really good. User experience has been the best I ever experienced. Low stress, reliable … Incentivized Helpful? MT Mark Tenney CEO/Founder Chose Vultr The performance beats upcloud. The only thing I really liked about upcloud better was the backup offerings. They had more flexible backup plans, but I love the every other night plan on Vultr as well. Incentivized Helpful? Trevor Convirs Business Owner Chose Vultr For someone who has a more technical background, there is no competition. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Server updates are clear and always noticed on the platform which my last company did not have clear. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr CloudCo was not listed. In comparison, the pricing of the competition is in a place where I wouldn't retain any margin for smaller customers, that's why I use Vultr for those. Vultr's self serve interface and UI is much better and more customizable for the general architect. If … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Vultr has been a more cost effective solution in some areas. Compared to AWS EC2, Vultr has been a lot more cost effective for our environment. Vultr has the right vCPU, RAM, and storage for our needs. In the object storage space, Vultr has not been the best fit for our … Incentivized Helpful? HB Hector Burciaga CEO Chose Vultr Vultr offers the same services as all the major cloud providers however Vulr offers a clear pricing modeling with no hidden fees. This has been incisive in deciding which provider to go with. I have never encountered any downtime with their services Technically, Vultr has the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Incredible performance to cost ratio. I absolutely love Vultr for minimizing costs associated with running a one-man operation. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr They are very similar but we are more comfortable with Vultr Incentivized Helpful? BJ Brian Johnson Business Owner Chose Vultr From the perspective of the above, Vultr provides the best balance of cost vs. performance for us. Cloudways stacks a large fee for each VPS you spin up, and this quickly escalates. Linode comes closest (at least when I used it a few years ago) to Vultr, and 3 years ago this … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Vultr is much easier to get started with, less things to configure, a simpler interface. To deploy and manage a server is much easier. I am sure for a production SaaS app there are features in AWS and Azure that are needed, but for dev/test environment, I prefer Vultr. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr It is reliable, stable and very manageable, but, I think, very expensive too Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Vultr is a dream to use after coming from AWS - the products are intuitively named, don't require gaining a certification to use, and have better documentation. Vultr's documentation is a little less comprehensive and organized than google cloud's; however, its pricing and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Much easier to deploy and manged than AWS Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Linode: Similar pricing, changed our business over to Vultr to save credit card fees by using Crypto. Digital Ocean: Fast and reliable, same pricing didn't stay because the payment methods (Similar case to Linode) Hetzner: Good pricing, good reputation, limited locations. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Amazon Lightsail

Vultr

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon Lightsail 9.1 Ratings 12% above category average	Vultr 2.7 Ratings 99% below category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	8.90 Ratings	2.80 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	9.00 Ratings	2.40 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	9.30 Ratings	2.60 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	9.00 Ratings	2.70 Ratings
Monitoring tools	8.80 Ratings	2.10 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	8.90 Ratings	2.70 Ratings
Operating system support	9.60 Ratings	2.90 Ratings
Security controls	8.90 Ratings	4.50 Ratings
Automation	9.60 Ratings	2.20 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Amazon Lightsail	Vultr
Small Businesses	DigitalOcean Droplets Score 8.7 out of 10	DigitalOcean Droplets Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.5 out of 10	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.5 out of 10	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.5 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Amazon Lightsail	Vultr
Likelihood to Recommend	9.8 (0 ratings)	2.5 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon Lightsail	Vultr
Likelihood to Recommend	It is best suited for the small applications which do not need much CPU powers to executes tasks and when integration with other AWS services but it is less suited for the applications which need very frequent auto scaling for the performance purpose, as AWS Lightsail did not support system downgrading so not recommend to use in this case. Incentivized PB Pintu Barman Web Developer Read full review	Vultr is well suited for South African based organisations as they have a presence here. It makes dev servers for WordPress more feasible. Having to wait on roundtrips from EU or US slow things down. Ease of setting up new servers, with clear information on what you are getting for what you pay, makes it so easy to spin up just what you need. With a large range of specifications it means you can find that sweet spot of cost vs. performance. BJ Brian Johnson Business Owner Read full review
Pros	Value instances packages Better organized UI Easy billing resulting in higher efficiency Cheaper than competition Better support staff Can adjust for any bills you may have incurred by accident Incentivized Sandesh Singh FrontEnd Development Engineer Read full review	The uptime is perfect . If there are any downtimes it is well informed and its in non - production hours to ensure that the systems are not hit Accessibility and the dashboard is amazing where you have full control over the VPS system. The flexibility of OS on which to create your VPS is also amazing . Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Lack of flexibility in terms of configuration Customer service tiers - have to pay more for better service Usage not shown in obvious place Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	the ability of increasing a specific configuration without the need of upgrading the whole plan, for example i might need to add more memory but i'm satisfied with my current processors and hard disk capacity (or vise versa) Solving the problems of taking an image to the server if the server capacity (hard disk) is bigger than 1TB (which i'm currently facing a big problem because of that) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	We’ve been extremely satisfied with the service for many years. After trying other providers, we’ve found nothing that matches the reliability and performance—so we’re not likely to switch anytime soon. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	My overall experience with Amazon Lightsail is very good, and the online community of Lightsail users is very large and its helps to resolve any kind of issue i faced on my server. I also like the integration of other AWS services with Amazon Lightsail like we can export our Lightsail instance into ec2 server using snapshots. Incentivized PB Pintu Barman Web Developer Read full review	easy to use and configure. great bang for the buck. I need an affordable solution to host in the cloud data from systems installed at our client's site with the ability to drill down and change the configuration remotely. Vultr enabled us to do that in an efficient and affordable way. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Because of the 24 hour turnaround timing with servers I need immediate reply Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	Nothing in particular to share that I did not already discuss Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Amazon Lightsail is ideal for beginners looking for a low-cost VPS to try out new things. It's especially useful if you're at a hackathon and need a quick way to prototype a quick idea. I would never recommend Lightsail for any kind of production work. In terms of uptime, Lightsail has proved unreliable. Occasionally, the instance will simply crash or reboot at random. Without warning, Amazon will perform maintenance on your Lightsail instance. Lightsail's networking is likewise lacking, with no support for IPv6. Incentivized AP Arpit Patel Student Read full review	Vultr has better support and competitive pricing. The network is solid and globally deployed. IP reputation is clean, and security is tight. Ease of use and documentation is really good. User experience has been the best I ever experienced. Low stress, reliable hosting I would recommend to anyone. It helped me easily scale and expand my business. Incentivized Ben Brown Enterprise Security Solutions Architect Read full review
Return on Investment	Hosting a production application on Lightsail will guarantee you a loss Saved lots of time for our prototyping Other VPS providers are better Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Vultr allowed us to have an online presence without breaking the bank Vultr allows us to offer an online access to the business services that we offer our clients beyond the systems installed on premises. We are planning on using Vultr more in the coming months as a standard feature to our Real-Time Energy Monitoring platform Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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