Oracle Cloud pricing and limits
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Oracle Cloud pricing at a glance
- Entry paid plan
- No plan fee; compute is pay-as-you-go source ↗
- Pricing model
- Usage-based and billed per second: Compute instances are billed per second of usage, with a one-minute minimum for VMs and a one-hour… source ↗
- What the free plan includes
- Always Free compute: up to two AMD VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro instances, plus the first 1,500 OCPU hours and 9,000 GB hours a month of Arm… source ↗
- When the free offer ends
- Never for the Always Free resources source ↗
- Egress over allowance
- $0.0085 per GB for outbound transfer originating in North America, Europe and UK beyond the first 10,240 GB a month; $0.025 per GB from… source ↗
Oracle Cloud plans and prices
| Resource | Included | Details |
|---|---|---|
| VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro (AMD) | Up to two VM instances | 1/8th of an OCPU, 1 GB memory, up to 50 Mbps internet bandwidth |
| VM.Standard.A1.Flex (Arm, Ampere A1) | First 1,500 OCPU hours and 9,000 GB hours per month | 2 OCPUs and 12 GB of memory in total for Always Free tenancies, as one instance or split across two |
| Block Volume | 200 GB in total | Boot and block volumes combined, plus five volume backups |
| Outbound data transfer | 10 TB per month |
Always Free Resources | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation · read · every row quoted from this page
| Shape series | Per OCPU-hour | Per GB memory-hour |
|---|---|---|
| Standard - A1 (Arm) | $0.01 (first 3,000 a month at $0) | $0.0015 (first 18,000 a month at $0) |
| Standard - A2 (Arm) | $0.014 | $0.002 |
| Standard - E4 (AMD) | $0.025 | $0.0015 |
| Standard - E5 (AMD) | $0.03 | $0.002 |
| Standard - E6 (AMD) | $0.03 | $0.002 |
Oracle Cloud Price List API (cetools products, USD) · read · every row quoted from this page
Who it suits
A VPS that stays free: Always Free covers two AMD micro instances, Arm A1 capacity equal to 2 OCPUs and 12 GB, 200 GB of block storage and 10 TB of outbound transfer a month. Paid compute is billed per second, from $0.01 per Arm OCPU-hour, and egress past 10 TB is $0.0085 per GB in North America and Europe.
Consider something else if…
You need a free server you can rely on: Always Free instances run in your home region only, may be reclaimed when idle, can hit out-of-capacity errors, and get no Oracle Support; signup needs a card. Paid compute has no fixed plans, so a monthly cost has to be worked out from per-OCPU and per-GB rates.
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Oracle Cloud pricing
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Always Free Resources | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation ↗
“All Oracle Cloud Infrastructure accounts (whether free or paid) have a set of resources that are free of charge in the home region of the tenancy, for the life of the account.”
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- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Free Tier | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation ↗
“Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Free Tier includes a free time-limited promotional trial that allows you to explore a wide range of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure products, and a set of Always Free offers that never expire.”
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- Always Free Resources | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation ↗
“All tenancies get up to two Always Free VM instances using the VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro shape, which has an AMD processor. [...] All tenancies get the first 1,500 OCPU hours and 9,000 GB hours per month for free for VM instances using the VM.Standard.A1.Flex shape, which has an Arm processor. For Always Free tenancies, this is equivalent to 2 OCPUs and 12 GB of memory. [...] All tenancies receive a total of 200 GB of Block Volume storage, and five volume backups included in the Always Free resources. These amounts apply to both boot volumes and block volumes combined.”
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- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Free Tier | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation ↗
“For security purposes, most users need a mobile phone number and a credit card to create an account. Your credit card will not be charged unless you upgrade your account.”
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- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Free Tier | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation ↗
“a set of Always Free offers that never expire. [...] The Free Trial provides you with $300 of cloud credits that are valid for up to 30 days. [...] After your trial ends, your account remains active. There is no interruption to the availability of the Always Free Resources you have provisioned.”
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- Oracle Cloud Price List API (cetools products, USD) ↗
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- Per-second billing for Compute instances | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Release Notes ↗
“Compute instances are now billed per second of usage, rather than per hour. This helps you reduce costs when using instances for short amounts of time. Virtual machine (VM) instances have a minimum charge of one minute. Bare metal instances have a minimum charge of one hour.”
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- Oracle Cloud Price List API (cetools products, USD) ↗
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- Oracle Cloud Price List API (cetools products, USD) ↗
“"displayName":"Outbound Data Transfer - Originating in North America, Europe, and UK","metricName":"Gigabyte Outbound Data Transfer Per Month","serviceCategory":"Networking - Virtual Cloud Networks","currencyCodeLocalizations":[{"currencyCode":"USD","prices":[{"model":"PAY_AS_YOU_GO","value":0,"rangeMin":0,"rangeMax":10240},{"model":"PAY_AS_YOU_GO","value":0.0085,"rangeMin":10240”
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Limits
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Always Free Resources | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation ↗
“Outbound Data Transfer As part of your Always Free resources, you get 10 TB per month of outbound data.”
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Deployment
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- Overview of Container Instances | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation ↗
“You can create a container instance with one or more containers by specifying the container images and a few parameters.”
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- Overview of Container Instances | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation ↗
“Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Container Instances is a serverless compute service that enables you to quickly and easily run containers without managing any servers.”
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Infrastructure
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- Overview of Block Volume | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation ↗
“A Block Volume volume can be detached from an instance and moved to a different instance without the loss of data.”
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- Overview of MySQL HeatWave Service | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation ↗
“MySQL HeatWave Service is a fully managed Oracle Cloud Infrastructure native service, developed, managed, and supported by the MySQL team in Oracle.”
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- Autoscaling | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation ↗
“Autoscaling lets you automatically adjust the number or the lifecycle state of compute instances in an instance pool. [...] Metric-based autoscaling : An autoscaling action is triggered when a performance metric meets or exceeds a threshold. Schedule-based autoscaling : Autoscaling events take place at the specific times that you schedule.”
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- Regions and Availability Domains | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation ↗
“The following table lists the regions in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure commercial realms: Region Name Region Identifier Region Location Region Key Realm Key Availability Domains Australia East (Sydney) ap-sydney-1 [...] Serbia Central (Jovanovac) eu-jovanovac-1 Jovanovac,Serbia BEG OC20 [...] US West (San Jose) us-sanjose-1 San Jose, CA SJC OC1 1”
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Data
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- Backup Policies | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation ↗
“The bronze policy includes monthly incremental backups, run on the first day of the month. These backups are retained for twelve months. This policy also includes an incremental backup, run yearly during the first part of January. This backup is retained for five years. [...] The gold policy includes daily incremental backups, retained for seven days, along with weekly incremental backups, run on Sunday and retained for four weeks. [...] Custom (user-defined) backup policies include configurable frequency, retention”
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Support
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Support Requests | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation ↗
“Support requests are available to paid accounts only. Customers using only Always Free resources and customers using Free Tier accounts aren't eligible for Oracle Support. If you need support, use Support Chat and Cloud Customer Connect.”
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Compliance
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Learn About Security in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Oracle Help Center ↗
“Infrastructure services are compliant with a wide range of standards and requirements, including FedRAMP, FIPS 140-2, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and SOC 1/2/3.”
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- Kubernetes Engine (OKE) and Kubernetes Concepts | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation ↗
“OKE uses versions of Kubernetes certified as conformant by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). OKE is itself ISO-compliant (ISO-IEC 27001, 27017, 27018).”
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- Learn About Security in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Oracle Help Center ↗
“Infrastructure services are compliant with a wide range of standards and requirements, including FedRAMP, FIPS 140-2, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and SOC 1/2/3.”
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- Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation ↗
“The isolation of the Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud realm from the commercial public cloud realm allows Oracle to restrict support and operations personnel to EU residents [...] Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud offers cloud regions that are located only within the geographic boundaries of the EU.”
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- Learn About Security in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Oracle Help Center ↗
“Infrastructure services are compliant with a wide range of standards and requirements, including FedRAMP, FIPS 140-2, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and SOC 1/2/3.”
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- Overview of Block Volume | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation ↗
“All block volumes and boot volumes are encrypted at-rest by Block Volume.”
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- Overview of Vaults and Key Management | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation ↗
“importing key material to OCI ("Bring Your Own Keys" or BYOK), creating keys in OCI, and storing keys externally ("Hold Your Own Keys" or HYOK) using external key management. Key Management supports FIPS 140-2 Level 3-certified hardware security modules (HSMs) to store and protect your encryption keys. [...] Integrates encryption with other OCI services such as storage, database, and Fusion Applications”
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- Overview of Identity and Access Management | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation ↗
“Access is granted at the group and compartment level, which means you can write a policy that gives a group a specific type of access within a specific compartment, or to the tenancy itself. [...] Your tenancy also automatically has a policy that gives the Administrators group access to all of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API operations and all of the cloud resources in your tenancy.”
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- Networking Overview | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation ↗
“A virtual, private network that you set up in Oracle data centers. It closely resembles a traditional network, with firewall rules and specific types of communication gateways that you can decide to use. A VCN resides in a single Oracle Cloud Infrastructure region”
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- Dedicated Virtual Machine Hosts | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation ↗
“Dedicated virtual machine hosts let you run Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute virtual machine (VM) instances on dedicated servers that are a single tenant and not shared with other customers.”
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Oracle Cloud pricing questions
How much does Oracle Cloud cost?
No plan fee; compute is pay-as-you-go. The lowest published per-OCPU rate is the Arm Ampere A1 shape (VM.Standard.A1.Flex): $0.01 per OCPU-hour plus $0.0015 per GB of memory per hour. The price list prices the first 3,000 OCPU-hours and 18,000 GB-hours a month at $0; Oracle's Always Free docs state 1,500 and 9,000. The price list notes that on Arm shapes an OCPU equates to a vCPU.
How does Oracle Cloud charge?
Usage-based and billed per second: Compute instances are billed per second of usage, with a one-minute minimum for VMs and a one-hour minimum for bare metal.
Per-second billing for Compute instances | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Release Notes · read
Does Oracle Cloud have a free tier?
Yes. Always Free compute: up to two AMD VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro instances, plus the first 1,500 OCPU hours and 9,000 GB hours a month of Arm VM.Standard.A1.Flex (equivalent to 2 OCPUs and 12 GB for Always Free tenancies), with 200 GB of block volume storage shared by boot and data volumes.
Always Free Resources | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation · read
Does the Oracle Cloud free offer expire?
Never for the Always Free resources. The separate Free Trial is $300 of credit valid for up to 30 days; when it ends the account stays active and Always Free resources continue.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Free Tier | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation · read
Do you need a credit card to start on Oracle Cloud?
Yes — Oracle says most users need a card and a mobile number; the card is not charged unless the account is upgraded.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Free Tier | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation · read
What happens if you exceed Oracle Cloud's limits?
Billed per GB: the price list prices the first 10,240 GB of outbound transfer a month at $0 and each GB beyond it at the origin region's rate ($0.0085 from North America, Europe and UK).
How much does Oracle Cloud charge for egress?
$0.0085 per GB for outbound transfer originating in North America, Europe and UK beyond the first 10,240 GB a month; $0.025 per GB from APAC, Japan and South America; $0.05 per GB from Middle East and Africa.
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