Oracle Cloud Compute pricing

The most generous permanent free tier of any major cloud, and egress priced roughly a tenth of AWS. The trade-off is a smaller ecosystem and frequent capacity limits on free Arm instances.

List prices checked

By Oracle · Cloud compute & VPS

Rate card

What Oracle charges, by billing axis.

AxisPriceApplies to
Compute$0.010/vCPU-hrOn-demand, cheapest general-purpose region
Data transfer out$0.0085/GBStandard tier, cheapest common region
Free tierYes4 Arm cores, 24 GB RAM, and 10 TB egress per month, always free

Source: Oracle pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

What it costs per month

Oracle Cloud Compute billed against three workload profiles, using the rates above. Every line shows its arithmetic.

Side project

A personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process.

$8.15/mo

  • 730 vCPU-hours at $0.01/hour$7.30
  • 100 GB at $0.0085/GB$0.85

Growing SaaS

A funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.

$23/mo

  • 1,460 vCPU-hours at $0.01/hour$15
  • 1 TB at $0.0085/GB$8.50

Media-heavy site

A publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.

$92/mo

  • 730 vCPU-hours at $0.01/hour$7.30
  • 10 TB at $0.0085/GB$85

Oracle Cloud Compute vs the alternatives

The closest compute providers on price, with the difference on cloud compute & vps's headline axis.

ServicePer vCPU-hrvs Oracle Cloud ComputeCompare
Linode (Akamai Cloud)$0.00751.3× cheaperHead to head
UpCloud$0.00741.4× cheaperHead to head
Scaleway Instances$0.00601.7× cheaperHead to head
DigitalOcean Droplets$0.00601.7× cheaperHead to head
Hetzner Cloud$0.00521.9× cheaperHead to head
Vultr Cloud Compute$0.00402.5× cheaperHead to head

Questions about pricing

How much does Oracle Cloud Compute cost in 2026?
Oracle Cloud Compute charges usage-based rates with no fixed monthly floor, per Oracle's published pricing page. There is also a free tier: 4 Arm cores, 24 GB RAM, and 10 TB egress per month, always free. The tables above break the rate card down by axis and model it against three concrete workloads.
Does Oracle Cloud Compute have a free tier?
Yes — 4 Arm cores, 24 GB RAM, and 10 TB egress per month, always free. Check whether it is permanent or a trial before you build a budget around it; the two are often presented identically.
What does Oracle Cloud Compute charge for egress?
$0.0085 per GB. Egress is where providers in this category differ most, so it is worth checking against the alternatives before committing.
Are these Oracle Cloud Compute prices current?
They were checked against Oracle's official pricing page and stamped with that date, which is shown at the top of this page and next to every table. Vendors change list prices without notice — the source link is there so you can confirm before you commit.

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