# AWS Lightsail: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 5 judge labels across 1 category by 4 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/aws-lightsail

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Cloud hosting](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/cloud/cloud-hosting/index.md) | 0% | 17 | 0% | 5 |

## What the models said for it

- "Lightsail offers fixed-rate instances starting around $3.50–$5/month with an easy migration path to full AWS services" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, Cloud hosting)
- "a good choice if you may later move deeper into AWS" (GPT-6 Luna, Cloud hosting)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named AWS Lightsail, from 9 of the 12 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- aws.amazon.com: 3 (its own site)
- cloud.google.com: 3
- digitalocean.com: 3
- github.com: 2
- hetzner.com: 2
- hostingadvice.com: 2
- linkedin.com: 2
- scalahosting.com: 2
- zdnet.com: 2
- accio.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing: 3
- https://cloud.google.com/run/pricing: 2
- https://digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets: 2
- https://scalahosting.com/blog/best-cloud-hosting-for-small-businesses: 2
- https://accio.com/biz-cheap/inexpensive-cloud: 1
- https://allaboutcookies.org/cheap-cloud-hosting-services: 1
- https://atlantic.net/cloud-platform/best-cloud-hosting-providers-small-businesses: 1
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-named-a-leader-in-the-forrester-wave-public-cloud-platforms-2024: 1

## In its own words

What AWS Lightsail's own pages state, read 2026-09-28. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: Build applications and websites fast with low-cost, pre-configured cloud resources (https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail)
- For: Simple web apps; Websites; Dev/test environments; Small business apps (https://aws.amazon.com/compare/ec2-and-lightsail)
- Price stated: low, predictable prices (https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail)
- Starting price: 3.50 (https://aws.amazon.com/compare/ec2-and-lightsail)
- Free plan or trial: Try Lightsail for free (https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail)
- Hosting: 東京リージョン

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.