Oracle Cloud

Name: Oracle Cloud
Author: Oracle Corporation

Enterprise cloud computing services

As of 30 August 2026, Oracle Cloud is free to use. Oracle Cloud offers a comprehensive suite of cloud applications and infrastructure services. Softwr lists it under Cloud. Oracle Cloud is made by Oracle Corporation, launched in 2019, available on Linux, Windows, API.

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Overview

What Oracle Cloud does

Oracle Cloud offers a comprehensive suite of cloud applications and infrastructure services. It provides database services, compute, networking, and enterprise applications with strong database capabilities.

What people use it for

Running virtual machines, databases and storage on Oracle's cloud infrastructure
Hosting Oracle Database workloads on infrastructure from the same vendor

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Oracle Cloud.

The free trial gives US$300 of credit that expires when consumed or after 30 days, whichever comes first
The US$300 cloud credit is available only in select countries
Only one Oracle Cloud Free Trial or Always Free account is permitted per person
Accounts left idle for 30 days or more are eligible for suspension or termination as abandoned
Always Free NoSQL Database is restricted to the Phoenix region
Free Tier availability is subject to capacity limits, and the published per-service capacity figures are estimates that assume the entire credit is spent on that one service

Cross-shopped

What people choose instead of Oracle Cloud

Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.

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DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean: The developer cloud
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Grafana Cloud
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Neon
Neon: Serverless Postgres for modern developers
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AWS (Amazon Web Services)
AWS (Amazon Web Services): The leading cloud computing platform

Pricing

What Oracle Cloud costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Always Free

Free

Oracle Autonomous Database
2 compute instances
100 GB storage
40 GB data transfer

Pay-as-You-Go

Free

Flexible pricing
No long-term commitment
Enterprise support
Advanced services

Capabilities

Features

Autonomous Database
Compute Instances
MySQL Database Service
Object Storage
Block Volume
Load Balancers
Virtual Cloud Network
API Gateway
Terraform
Integration with Terraform
Ansible
Integration with Ansible
Kubernetes
Integration with Kubernetes
Docker
Integration with Docker

Behind it

Who makes Oracle Cloud

Company: Oracle Corporation
Based in: Redwood City, CA

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Softwr does not host reviews and shows no star rating for Oracle Cloud, because a rating we did not collect is not ours to publish. What is here is the pricing and platform detail from the vendor’s own pages, limitations we could state concretely, and alternatives a reviewer confirmed people weigh against it. Tell us if any of it is wrong.