Oracle Cloud Free Tier

Build, test, and deploy applications on Oracle Cloud—for free.

Here is how Oracle Cloud Free Tier works

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    Start with a US$300 cloud credit.*
    You’ll have 30 days to use it to test your applications on all OCI services, in addition to Always Free Services in your Free Tier account.

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    At any time during or after the 30-day period,* switch to a Pay As You Go account. Pay only for services that exceed the monthly free amounts from Always Free Services.

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    If you do nothing after 30 days, you’ll continue to get Always Free Services in your Free Tier account.

Oracle Cloud Free Tier

Get cloud credits and start using Oracle Cloud services.

Services available on Oracle Cloud Free Tier

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    AI and Machine Learning

    Data Science

    Up to 4,700 hours. Build, train, deploy, and manage machine learning models. The platform makes data science collaborative, scalable, and powerful.

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    AI and Machine Learning

    Oracle Digital Assistant

    Up to 51 hours, digital assistants help accomplish tasks through natural language conversations, without having to manage various apps and web sites.

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    AI and Machine Learning

    Language

    Tiered pricing based on use cases. OCI Language is a cloud-based AI service for performing sophisticated text analysis at scale

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    AI and Machine Learning

    Speech

    Tiered Pricing based on use cases. OCI Speech is an AI service that applies automatic speech recognition technology to transform audio-based content to text

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    AI and Machine Learning

    Vision

    Tiered Pricing based on use cases. OCI Vision is an AI service for performing deep-learning-based image analysis at scale.

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    AI and Machine Learning

    Document Understanding

    Tierd Pricing. OCI Document Understanding is an AI service that enables developers to extract text, tables, and other key data from document files through APIs and command line interface tools.

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    Analytics and BI

    Analytics Cloud

    Up to 4,700 hours. The most comprehensive analytics in the cloud.

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    Compute

    Compute

    Up to 4,500 hours, 500 GB of storage. High-performance VMs and bare metal servers.

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    Compute

    Secure Desktops

    OCI Secure Desktops provision Windows or Linux desktops based on a particular shape and image in a customers tenancy. The number of desktops depends on your desktop configuration.

  • Always Free
    Compute

    AMD Compute Instance

    AMD based Compute VMs with 1/8 OCPU and 1 GB memory each

    Always Free
    2 AMD based compute VMs

  • Always Free
    Compute

    Arm Compute Instance

    Arm-based Ampere A1 cores and 24 GB of memory usable as 1 VM or up to 4 VMs

    Always Free
    3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours per month

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    Containers and Functions

    Functions

    Up to 112 million invocations and 20 million gigabyte memory-seconds of execution time

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    Containers and Functions

    Kubernetes

    Up to 4,500 hours of compute for OCI Kubernetes Engine. Up to 500 GB of storage for Docker-based OCI Container Registry.

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    Developer Services

    Java

    Up to 1,700 hours, 400 GB of storage. Fully managed Oracle WebLogic server.

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    Developer Services

    Kubernetes

    Up to 4,500 hours of compute for OCI Kubernetes Engine. Up to 500 GB of storage for Docker-based OCI Container Registry.

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    Developer Services

    Functions

    Up to 112 million invocations and 20 million gigabyte memory-seconds of execution time.

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    Developer Services

    Visual Builder

    4,700 hours. Rapidly create and deploy engaging web and mobile apps directly from the browser using a visual browser-based development environment.

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    Developer Services

    WebLogic Server

    1,000 hours and 400 GB of Oracle WebLogic Server running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

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    Developer Services

    Visual Builder Studio

    4,700 hours of compute for CI/CD. Free 20 GB of storage for Git repositories, issue tracking, agile dashboard, and wikis.

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    Developer Services

    Blockchain Platform

    1,400 OCPU hours of Blockchain Platform Standard Edition (2 OCPUs/50 GB fixed). Easily create a blockchain instance, configure peer nodes and channels, explore samples and the low-code App Builder, and deploy and test smart contracts.

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    Developer Services

    APEX

    Build, integrate, and innovate with the industry-favorite low-code application platform

    Always Free
    Max 1 OCPU per database, Max 20GB Exadata storage per database and 20 simultaneous database sessions. Other limits apply, see documentation for details

  • Always Free
    Developer Services

    APEX

    Build, integrate, and innovate with the industry-favorite low-code application platform

    Always Free
    Up to 744 hours per instance

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    Integration

    Integration

    465 hours. Application integration with adapter connectivity and process automation.

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    Integration

    SOA

    1,700 hours, 400 GB of storage. Build and deploy SOA-based applications.

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    Networking

    Load Balancer

    Up to 30 days of 4 Gbps Load Balancer. Automatically distribute traffic and deliver scalability and fault tolerance.

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    Networking

    FastConnect

    Up to 1,400 hours. Connect your data center to the cloud with a private network.

  • Always Free
    Networking

    Service Connector Hub

    Service Connector Hub is a cloud message bus platform that offers a single pane of glass for describing, executing, and monitoring interactions when moving data between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services.

    Always Free
    2 service connectors

  • Always Free
    Networking

    Load Balancer

    The Load Balancer service allows you to create highly available load balancers within your VCN. All load balancers come with provisioned bandwidth.

    Always Free
    1 instance, 10 Mbps

  • Always Free
    Networking

    Flexible Network Load Balancer

    The Network Load Balancer service provides automated traffic distribution from one entry point to multiple servers in a backend set. Network load balancers ensure that your services remain available by directing traffic only to healthy servers based on Layer 3/Layer 4 (IP protocol) data.

    Always Free
    1 instance

  • Always Free
    Networking

    Outbound Data Transfer

    Outbound Data Transfer

    Always Free
    Up to 10 TB per month

  • Always Free
    Networking

    Virtual Cloud Networks (VCN)

    Software-defined network that you set up in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure data centers in a particular region . A subnet is a subdivision of a VCN.

    Always Free
    2 VCNs, includes IPv4 and IPv6 support

  • Always Free
    Networking

    VCN Flow Logs

    The Networking service offers VCN flow logs that show details about traffic that passes through your VCN. They help you audit traffic and troubleshoot your security lists.

    Always Free
    Up to 10 GB per month shared across OCI Logging services

  • Always Free
    Networking

    Site-to-Site VPN

    Provides a site-to-site IPSec connection between your on-premises network and your virtual cloud network (VCN).

    Always Free
    50 IPSec connections

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    Observability and Management

    Application Performance Monitoring

    Up to 435 hours of 100,000 tracing events per hour, including 20 synthetic monitor executions per hour. A robust implementation of a distributed tracing system as a service. Provides monitoring and alerting, diagnostics, exploration, and analytics.

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    Observability and Management

    Logging

    Up to 6 TB storage. Logging is an intuitive, centralized platform for all types of logs.

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    Observability and Management

    Logging Analytics

    Up to 600 hours, 300 GB of storage. Logging Analytics is a machine learning-based cloud service for log data from on-premises and multicloud environments.

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    Observability and Management

    Service Connector Hub

    2 service connectors. Service Connector Hub helps cloud engineers manage and move data between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services and from OCI to third-party services.

  • Always Free
    Observability and Management

    Monitoring

    Use the Monitoring service to query metrics and manage alarms. Metrics and alarms help monitor the health, capacity, and performance of your cloud resources.

    Always Free
    Up to 500 million ingestion datapoints, 1 billion retrieval datapoints

  • Always Free
    Observability and Management

    Application Performance Monitoring

    Application Performance Monitoring provides a comprehensive set of features to monitor applications and diagnose performance issues.

    Always Free
    Up to 1000 tracing events and 10 Synthetic Monitoring runs per hour

  • Always Free
    Observability and Management

    Logging

    The Logging service provides a highly scalable and fully managed single pane of glass for all the logs in your tenancy.

    Always Free
    Up to 10 GB per month

  • Always Free
    Observability and Management

    Notification

    The Notifications service lets you know when something happens with your resources in OCI. Using alarms, event rules, and service connectors, you can get human-readable messages through supported endpoints, including email and text messages (SMS).

    Always Free
    Up to 1 million sent through https per month, 1000 sent through email per month

  • Always Free
    Observability and Management

    Email Delivery

    The Email Delivery service provides a fast and reliable managed solution for sending secured, high-volume marketing and transactional emails.

    Always Free
    Up to 100 emails sent per day

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    Open Source Databases

    Database with PostgreSQL

    Tiered pricing based on use cases. Oracle's innovative managed PostgreSQL service, OCI Database with PostgreSQL, combines cutting-edge open source technology with the robustness and speed of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

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    Open Source Databases

    Search Service With OpenSearch

    Tiered pricing based on use cases. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Search with OpenSearch is a managed open source service that makes it easy for you to ingest, search, visualize, and analyze your data.

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    Open Source Databases

    Cache with Redis

    Tiered pricing based on use cases. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Cache with Redis is a comprehensive, managed in-memory caching solution built on the foundation of open source Redis.

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    Oracle Databases

    Autonomous Transaction Processing

    Up to 3,338 hours, 2 TB of Oracle Exadata storage. Mission-critical transaction processing made effortless; the future of database in the cloud.

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    Oracle Databases

    NoSQL Database Cloud Service

    Up to 5.3 billion reads, 5.3 billion writes, 450 GB storage. Dynamically provision your read, write, or storage units. Get up and running in minutes.

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    Oracle Databases

    Database Backup

    Up to 5 TB of Oracle Database backups. A secure, scalable, on-demand storage solution for backing up your Oracle Database to the cloud.

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    Oracle Databases

    Autonomous JSON Database

    A JSON database built for developers, featuring document APIs and ACID transactions

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    Oracle Databases

    HeatWave

    Up to 5,000 hours, 550 GB of storage. The world's most popular open source database. 100% developed, managed, and supported by the MySQL team.

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    Oracle Databases

    Data Safe

    Unlimited cloud targets. One paid target. 1M audit records per target. Oracle Data Safe delivers essential security capabilities for your Oracle Cloud and on-premises databases to help reduce risk and improve security.

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    Oracle Databases

    Autonomous Data Warehouse

    Up to 3,338 hours, 2 TB of Oracle Exadata storage. Get your data warehouse deployed in seconds. Fully managed, preconfigured, and optimized.

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    Oracle Databases

    Oracle Base Database Service

    Up to 1,372 OCPU hours using Oracle Database Enterprise Edition and 100 GB of storage

  • Always Free
    Oracle Databases

    Autonomous Database

    Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing, Autonomous Data Warehouse, Autonomous JSON Database, or APEX Application Development.

    Always Free
    Up to Two databases total

  • Always Free
    Oracle Databases

    NoSQL Database

    NoSQL is a fully managed database cloud service that offers predictable low latency, dynamic scalability, high performance, and reliable data storage for document, key-value, and fixed-schema data.

    Always Free
    Up to 133 million reads per month, 133 million writes per month, 25 GB storage per table, up to 3 tables

  • Always Free
    Oracle Databases

    HeatWave

    Automated and integrated generative AI and machine learning in one cloud service for transactions and lakehouse-scale analytics.

    Always Free
    One standalone HeatWave instance in OCI in your home region, along with up to 50 GB of storage and up to 50 GB of backup storage

  • Always Free
    Others

    Console Dashboards

    The Console Dashboards service allows you to create custom dashboards in the OCI Console to monitor resources, diagnostics, and key metrics for your tenancy.

    Always Free
    Up to 100 dashboards

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    Security

    Identity

    Up to 18,750 consumer users. Add user authentication to your apps.

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    Security

    Certificates

    Certificates is a managed TLS certificate service that allows the creation of up to 5 Certificate authorities (CA) and 150 private TLS certificates for easy deployment and renewal with integrated resources. TLS certificates are required for encrypted communication between computers.

  • Always Free
    Security

    Bastions

    OCI's Bastion service provides restricted and time-limited Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) access to target resources that don't have public endpoints.

    Always Free
    Up to 5 OCI Bastions

  • Always Free
    Security

    Certificates

    The Certificates service provides certificate issuance, storage, and management capabilities, including revocation and automatic renewal.

    Always Free
    Up to 5 Private CA and 150 private TLS certificates

  • Always Free
    Security

    Vault

    OCI Vault is a key management service that stores and manages master encryption keys and secrets for secure access to resources.

    Always Free
    Up to 20 key versions of master encrytion keys protected by a hardware security module (HSM) and 150 Always Free Vault secrets

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    Storage

    Storage

    Up to 7 TB of block volume storage and 11TB of Object storage. Object and block storage to store and access data at scale.

  • Always Free
    Storage

    Block Volume Storage

    Boot and block volume storage

    Always Free
    Up to 2 block volumes, 200 GB total. Plus 5 volume backups.

  • Always Free
    Storage

    Object Storage-Standard

    Unstructured storage - standard

    Always Free
    Up to 20GB total for standard, infrequent and archive

  • Always Free
    Storage

    Object Storage-Infrequent Access

    Unstructured storage - infrequent access

    Always Free
    Up to 20GB total for standard, infrequent and archive

  • Always Free
    Storage

    Archive Storage

    Unstructured storage - archive

    Always Free
    Up to 20GB total for standard, infrequent and archive

  • Always Free
    Storage

    Object Storage

    Object Storage API requests

    Always Free
    Up to 50,000 Object Storage API requests per month

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    • What is Oracle Cloud Free Tier?

      Oracle Cloud Free Tier allows you to sign up for an Oracle Cloud account which provides a number of Always Free services and a Free Trial with US$300 of free credit to use on all eligible Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services for up to 30 days. The Always Free services are available for an unlimited period of time. The Free Trial services may be used until your US$300 of free credits are consumed or the 30 days has expired, whichever comes first.

    • What are Always Free Services?

      Always Free services are part of Oracle Cloud Free Tier. Always Free services are available for an unlimited time. Some limitations apply. As new Always Free services become available, you will automatically be able to use those as well.

      The following services are available as Always Free:

      • HeatWave
      • AMD-based Compute
      • Arm-based Ampere A1 Compute
      • Block Volume
      • Object Storage
      • Archive Storage
      • Flexible Load Balancer
      • Flexible Network Load Balancer
      • Site-to-Site VPN
      • Autonomous Data Warehouse
      • Autonomous Transaction Processing
      • Autonomous JSON Database
      • NoSQL Database (Phoenix Region only)
      • APEX Application Development
      • Resource Manager (Terraform)
      • Monitoring
      • Notifications
      • Logging
      • Application Performance Monitoring
      • Service Connector Hub
      • Vault
      • Bastions
      • Security Advisor
      • Virtual Cloud Networks
      • Site-to-Site VPN
      • Content Management Starter Edition
      • Email Delivery
    • Is Oracle Cloud Free Tier available in all countries?

      Oracle Cloud Free Tier is currently available in all regions where commercial Oracle Cloud Infrastructure service is available. See the data regions page for detailed service availability. ** If your first-choice data region isn’t available, please select an adjacent region. If you are unable to find the country or territory you require, please contact Oracle Sales or Cloud Support using the Chat link in the menu bar. The Oracle Sales team can help you sign up for Oracle Cloud Free Tier.

    • Who is eligible for Oracle Cloud Free Tier?

      One Oracle Cloud Free Trial or Always Free account is permitted per person. Please note:

      • Creating or attempting to create multiple free accounts is prohibited.
      • All contact and billing information provided must be accurate, valid, and used with consent for the duration of the account.
      • Failure to comply with these requirements may result in the suspension or termination of your account.
    • Why do I need to provide credit or debit card information when I sign up for Oracle Cloud Free Tier?

      To provide free Oracle Cloud accounts to our valued customers, we need to ensure that you are who you say you are. We use your contact information and credit/debit card information for account setup and identity verification. Oracle may periodically check the validity of your card, resulting in a temporary “authorization” hold. These holds are removed by your bank, typically within three to five days, and do not result in actual charges to your account.

    • What payment methods does Oracle accept?

      We accept credit cards and debit cards that function like credit cards. We do not accept debit cards with a PIN or virtual, single-use, or prepaid cards.

    • What is the advantage of moving to Pay As You Go accounts after the trial?

      You have access to customer support to open tickets and troubleshoot account issues. Pay As You Go accounts are subject to different capacity limits than Always Free accounts. As you move from development and testing to production scenarios, you may need to use resources outside of Always Free limits. You will have access to the latest portfolio of OCI services, such as artificial intelligence, and you only pay for what you use.

    • How do I know how much I am going be charged for Pay As You Go services?

      You will only be charged for services that you use that exceeds Always Free. You can find information about costs in the Oracle Cloud Price List and the Oracle cloud cost estimator.

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*Free Tier is generally available in regions where commercial Oracle Cloud Infrastructure service is available See the data regions page for detailed service availability (Exact regions available for Free Tier may differ during signup process). The US$300 cloud credit is available in select countries and valid for up to 30 days. Cloud credits consumption can be subject to discounted rates during the 30-day promotional period.

** Availability to Free Tier is subject to capacity limits. The capacity limits listed under each service are only estimates and reflect the maximum capacity you can get if you consume your entire credit on one service during the promotional period. The maximum capacity per service you get can be less if you consume multiple services. The list of services and capacity estimates are subject to change. Your credit balance is available to you in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console.