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Oracle Cloud pricing
Oracle Cloud publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Usage-based
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
Oracle Cloud plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Always Free | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Pay-as-You-Go | Free | 4 | +$0/month, 4 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Always Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers oracle autonomous database, 2 compute instances, 100 gb storage, 40 gb data transfer.
Pay-as-You-Go
FreeOver Always Free, this tier adds:
- Flexible pricing
- No long-term commitment
- Enterprise support
- Advanced services
Where Oracle Cloud stops being free
Always Free, Free
- Oracle Autonomous Database
- 2 compute instances
- 100 GB storage
- 40 GB data transfer
No paid tier on record
Oracle Cloud lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Oracle Cloud feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Autonomous Database
- Compute Instances
- MySQL Database Service
- Object Storage
- Block Volume
- Load Balancers
- Virtual Cloud Network
- API Gateway
Integrations
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Kubernetes
- Docker
Security
- SOC2
- ISO27001
- HIPAA
- PCI-DSS
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
- Hybrid deployment
Platform
- Linux support
- Windows support
- Api support
- Cli support
People bring Oracle Cloud in for running virtual machines, databases and storage on oracle's cloud infrastructure, hosting oracle database workloads on infrastructure from the same vendor. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Oracle Cloud are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Oracle Cloud
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and Free, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Oracle Cloud runs on linux, windows, api, cli, and is published by Oracle Corporation of Redwood City, CA. The full record is on the Oracle Cloud review.
Oracle Cloud pricing questions
- How much does Oracle Cloud cost?
- Oracle Cloud publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Always Free up to Free for Pay-as-You-Go. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Oracle Cloud have a free plan?
- Yes. The Always Free tier costs nothing and covers oracle autonomous database, 2 compute instances, 100 gb storage.
- What is the difference between Always Free and Pay-as-You-Go on Oracle Cloud?
- Pay-as-You-Go costs Free against Free, and adds flexible pricing, no long-term commitment, enterprise support, advanced services.
- What am I actually paying for with Oracle Cloud?
- The record lists 22 features across 5 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for running virtual machines, databases and storage on oracle's cloud infrastructure, hosting oracle database workloads on infrastructure from the same vendor.
- Does Oracle Cloud charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Oracle Cloud prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Oracle Cloud against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Oracle Cloud to make a useful price comparison.