Ampere A1 Compute Pricing
Compute - Virtual Machine Instances
Product |
Comparison Price ( /vCPU)* |
Unit Price |
Unit |
| Compute – Ampere A1 – OCPU | OCPU per hour | ||
| Compute – Ampere A1 – Memory | Gigabyte per hour |
Compute - Bare Metal Instances
Product |
Comparison Price ( /vCPU)* |
Unit Price |
Unit |
| Compute – Ampere A1 – OCPU | OCPU per hour | ||
| Compute – Ampere A1 – Memory | Gigabyte per hour |
1 OCPU on Arm CPU Architecture (Ampere) = 1 vCPU
The first 3K OCPU-hrs and the first 18K GB-hrs each month is free for Ampere A1 shape.
*To make it easier to compare pricing across cloud service providers, Oracle web pages show both vCPU (virtual CPUs) prices and OCPU (Oracle CPU) prices for products with compute-based pricing. The products themselves, provisioning in the portal, billing, etc. continue to use OCPU (Oracle CPU) units. OCPUs represent physical CPU cores. Most CPU architectures, including x86, execute two threads per physical core, so 1 OCPU is the equivalent of 2 vCPUs for x86-based compute. The per-hour OCPU rate customers are billed at is therefore twice the vCPU price since they receive two vCPUs of compute power for each OCPU, unless it’s a sub-core instance such as preemptible instances. Additional details supporting the difference between OCPU vs. vCPU can be accessed here.