AWS RDS: Rankings

Top 10 by price and efficiency · on-demand

Cheapest on-demand

Lowest hourly price across all instance sizes.

#	Instance	vCPU	RAM	Hourly	Monthly est.
1	db.t4g.micro	2	1GB	$0.0160	$11.68
2	db.t2.micro	1	1GB	$0.0170	$12.41
3	db.t3.micro	2	1GB	$0.0170	$12.41
4	db.t1.micro	1	0.613GB	$0.0250	$18.25
5	db.t4g.small	2	2GB	$0.0320	$23.36
6	db.t2.small	1	2GB	$0.0340	$24.82
7	db.t3.small	2	2GB	$0.0340	$24.82
8	db.m1.small	1	1.7GB	$0.0550	$40.15
9	db.t4g.medium	2	4GB	$0.0650	$47.45
10	db.t2.medium	2	4GB	$0.0680	$49.64

Best price per vCPU

Most compute per dollar. Good for CPU-bound workloads.

#	Instance	vCPU	RAM	$/vCPU/hr	Hourly
1	db.t4g.micro	2	1GB	$0.0080	$0.0160
2	db.t3.micro	2	1GB	$0.0085	$0.0170
3	db.t4g.small	2	2GB	$0.0160	$0.0320
4	db.t2.micro	1	1GB	$0.0170	$0.0170
5	db.t3.small	2	2GB	$0.0170	$0.0340
6	db.t1.micro	1	0.613GB	$0.0250	$0.0250
7	db.t4g.medium	2	4GB	$0.0325	$0.0650
8	db.t2.small	1	2GB	$0.0340	$0.0340
9	db.t2.medium	2	4GB	$0.0340	$0.0680
10	db.t3.medium	2	4GB	$0.0340	$0.0680

Best price per GB RAM

Most memory per dollar. Good for memory-intensive workloads.

#	Instance	vCPU	RAM	$/GB/hr	Hourly
1	db.x2g.large	2	32GB	$0.0102	$0.3260
2	db.x2g.xlarge	4	64GB	$0.0102	$0.6520
3	db.x2g.2xlarge	8	128GB	$0.0102	$1.3040
4	db.x2g.4xlarge	16	256GB	$0.0102	$2.6080
5	db.x2g.8xlarge	32	512GB	$0.0102	$5.2160
6	db.x2g.12xlarge	48	768GB	$0.0102	$7.8240
7	db.x2g.16xlarge	64	1024GB	$0.0102	$10.4320
8	db.r6g.2xlarge	8	64GB	$0.0134	$0.8590
9	db.r6g.4xlarge	16	128GB	$0.0134	$1.7180
10	db.r6g.12xlarge	48	384GB	$0.0134	$5.1550