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Oracle Cloud Compute
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Free Trial | $300 promotional credits valid up to 30 days · eligible OCI services · credit card usually required · paid resources reclaimed unless account is upgraded | Free |
| Always Free Compute | no charge for life of account in home region · up to two VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro VMs · 1,500 Ampere A1 OCPU-hours/month · 9,000 A1 GB-hours/month · 2 OCPUs and 12 GB memory for Always Free tenancies | Free |
As oracle.com lists them, read 21 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Facts from Oracle Cloud Compute's own pages
- API surface
- Compute documentation lists Core Services, Autoscaling, Oracle Cloud Agent and Work Requests APIs. · docs.oracle.com, 21 Oct 2026
- Audit logging
- OCI Audit records API activity from the Console, SDKs and CLI, with queryable or Object Storage-delivered records. · docs.oracle.com, 21 Oct 2026
- Autoscaling
- Instance pools support metric-based and schedule-based autoscaling for VM and bare-metal standard, dense-I/O and GPU shapes. · docs.oracle.com, 21 Oct 2026
- Bare metal
- Bare-metal instances provide dedicated physical servers without virtualization overhead and scale to as many as 192 cores, 2.3 TB RAM and 1 PB block storage. · oracle.com, 21 Oct 2026
- CLI tooling
- Oracle publishes command-line references for Compute, compute management, autoscaling, the Cloud Agent and work requests. · docs.oracle.com, 21 Oct 2026
- Company headquarters and founding
- LinkedIn lists Oracle headquarters in Austin, Texas and a 1977 founding year. · linkedin.com, 21 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- Crunchbase identifies the maker as Oracle Corporation, a public post-IPO company. · crunchbase.com, 21 Oct 2026
- Company scale
- Oracle's corporate page reports US$57 billion FY2025 revenue and 141,000 employees. · oracle.com, 21 Oct 2026
- Containers
- OCI provides managed Kubernetes, serverless Container Instances, Functions and an Oracle-managed container registry. · oracle.com, 21 Oct 2026
- Disaster recovery
- QuickDR can automate cross-region disaster-recovery setup for OCI Compute instances through the console. · oracle.com, 21 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- Compute docs cover Linux and Windows launches, images, SSH, capacity reservations, preemptible instances, pools, autoscaling, SDKs, CLI and Cloud Shell. · docs.oracle.com, 21 Oct 2026
- Flexible VM shapes
- Flexible VM shapes let customers set OCPUs and memory to fit workloads, with network bandwidth and VNIC capacity scaling with OCPUs. · docs.oracle.com, 21 Oct 2026
- GPU compute
- GPU offerings include NVIDIA Blackwell, H200, H100, L40S, A100 and A10 as well as AMD MI300X accelerators. · oracle.com, 21 Oct 2026
- Java SDK
- The OCI Java SDK manages OCI resources and is downloadable from GitHub or Maven. · docs.oracle.com, 21 Oct 2026
- Limit: documentation and support
- TrustRadius reviewers cite confusing documentation and weak or slow customer support; G2 reviewers describe support response times as poor. · trustradius.com, 21 Oct 2026
- Limit: free-tier reduction
- InfoQ reported that Oracle cut Always Free A1 capacity from 4 OCPUs/24 GB to 2 OCPUs/12 GB effective June 15, 2026, without a public announcement. · infoq.com, 21 Oct 2026
- Limit: integration and migration
- TrustRadius reviewers report third-party integration gaps and difficult legacy migration, while G2 reviewers mention hard initial setup and limited external connectivity. · trustradius.com, 21 Oct 2026
- Limit: pricing complexity
- TrustRadius reviewers describe OCI as expensive for mid-cap companies, and G2 reviewers warn unused resources can create unexpected bills. · trustradius.com, 21 Oct 2026
- Mobile app
- The OCI mobile app displays alerts, resource metrics, limits, billing and usage, and can start, stop, restart or delete resources. · docs.oracle.com, 21 Oct 2026
- Mobile system requirements
- Oracle documents support for Android 8 or later and iOS 11 or later. · docs.oracle.com, 21 Oct 2026
- OCI expansion funding news
- In a February 1, 2026 filing, Oracle announced plans to raise $45–$50 billion during 2026 to expand OCI capacity. · sec.gov, 21 Oct 2026
- Praise: performance and value
- G2 reviewers repeatedly praise OCI Compute as powerful, reliable, configurable, easy to manage and low cost. · g2.com, 21 Oct 2026
- Praise: scalability and security
- TrustRadius synthesis highlights scalable compute and storage, autonomous database services, encryption and a useful free tier. · trustradius.com, 21 Oct 2026
- Rating on G2
- 4.1 out of 5 from 69 reviews · g2.com, 21 Oct 2026
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