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Oracle Cloud Free Tier
Try Always Free cloud services and get a 30-day trial.
Build, test, and deploy applications on Oracle Cloud—for free.
New Always Free services have been added, including Arm Ampere A1 Compute. For large scale Arm development projects you can apply for OCI Arm Accelerator.
Getting Started with the Oracle Cloud Console
What's included with Oracle Cloud Free Tier? *
Always Free cloud services
Services you can use for an unlimited time.
- Two Oracle Autonomous Databases with powerful tools like Oracle Application Express (APEX) and Oracle SQL Developer
- Two AMD Compute VMs
- Up to 4 instances of Arm Ampere A1 Compute
- Block, Object, and Archive Storage; Load Balancer and data egress; Monitoring and Notifications
30-day free trial
US$300 in free credits.
- Access to a wide range of Oracle Cloud services for 30 days, including Databases, Analytics, Compute, and Container Engine for Kubernetes
- Up to eight instances across all available services
- Up to 5 TB of storage
Oracle Cloud Advantage over Amazon Web Services
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Oracle Cloud Free Tier
Always Free- 2 Autonomous Databases, 20 GB each
- Up to 4 instances of Arm Compute
- 200 GB block volume
- 10 GB object storage
AWS Free Tier
Free for 12 Months- 1 database, 20 GB
- 1 instance of Arm Compute
- 30 GB block volume
- 5 GB object storage
Consistently less expensive than AWS
the cost for outbound bandwidth
better compute price/performance
lower compute costs for HPC
the IOPS for half of the price
How it works
Use your Always Free resources as long as you want with no time constraints—subject only to the capacity limits noted. When your 30-day trial period for the expanded set of services ends, you can continue using Always Free services with no interruption.
Always Free and Free Trial instances can be seamlessly upgraded to paid at any time. Existing Oracle Cloud customers have access to Always Free services automatically—no new sign up required.
Infrastructure
2 AMD based Compute VMs with 1/8 OCPU and 1 GB memory each.
4 Arm-based Ampere A1 cores and 24 GB of memory usable as one VM or up to 4 VMs.
2 Block Volumes Storage, 200 GB total.
10 GB Object Storage.
10 GB Archive Storage.
Resource Manager: managed Terraform.
5 OCI Bastions.
Databases
Your choice of Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing, Autonomous Data Warehouse, Autonomous JSON Database, or APEX Application Development. Two databases total, each with 1 OCPU and 20 GB storage.
NoSQL Database with 133 million reads per month, 133 million writes per month, 25 GB storage per table, up to 3 tables.
Observability and Management
Monitoring: 500 million ingestion datapoints, 1 billion retrieval datapoints.
Application Performance Monitoring: 1000 tracing events per hour.
Logging: 10 GB per month.
Notifications: 1 million sent through https per month, 1000 sent through email per month.
Service Connector Hub: 2 service connectors.
Additional services
Flexible Load Balancer: 1 instance, 10 Mbps.
Flexible Network Load Balancer.
Outbound Data Transfer: 10 TB per month.
What can I try with my Oracle Cloud Free Trial credits?
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
Compute
4,500 hours, 500 GB of storage. High-performance VMs and bare metal servers.
Storage
5 TB storage. Object and block storage to store and access data at scale.
Containers
4,500 hours of compute for managed Kubernetes and 500 GB of storage for highly available Docker registry. Pay only for resources in your secure and isolated cloud partition.
Functions
112 million invocations and 20 million gigabyte memory-seconds of execution time.
Load Balancer
30 days of 4 Gbps Load Balancer. Automatically distribute traffic and deliver scalability and fault tolerance.
FastConnect
1,400 hours. Connect your data center to the cloud with a private network.
Databases
Databases
Autonomous Transaction Processing
3,338 hours, 2 TB of Oracle Exadata storage. Mission-critical transaction processing made effortless; the future of database in the cloud.
Autonomous JSON Database
A JSON database built for developers, featuring document APIs and ACID transactions.
Autonomous Data Warehouse
3,338 hours, 2 TB of Oracle Exadata storage. Get your data warehouse deployed in seconds. Fully managed, preconfigured, and optimized.
NoSQL Database Cloud
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.
MySQL Database Service
5,000 hours, 550 GB of storage. The world's most popular open source database. 100% developed, managed, and supported by the MySQL team.
Database
3,338 hours, 600 GB of storage. The most complete, integrated, and secure database for any deployment.
Database Backup
5 TB of Oracle Database backups. A secure, scalable, on-demand storage solution for backing up your Oracle Database to the cloud.
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.
Application Development
Application Development
Java
1,700 hours, 400 GB of storage. Fully managed Oracle WebLogic server.
Containers
4,500 hours of compute for managed Kubernetes and 500 GB of storage for highly available Docker registry. Pay only for resources in your secure and isolated cloud partition.
Functions
112 million invocations and 20 million gigabyte memory-seconds of execution time.
Digital Assistant
230,000 requests. Build a simple FAQ chatbot or a sophisticated digital assistant for ERP, HCM, CX, etc., and for popular conversational interfaces like Facebook Messenger or Amazon Alexa.
Mobile Hub
110,000 requests. Develop mobile apps and chatbots with Oracle as the back end.
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.
WebLogic Server
1,000 hours and 400 GB of Oracle WebLogic Server running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
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.
Analytics
Analytics
Analytics Cloud
4,700 hours. The most comprehensive analytics in the cloud.
Data Science
4,700 hours. Build, train, deploy, and manage machine learning models. The platform makes data science collaborative, scalable, and powerful.
Content and Experience
Content and Experience
Content and Experience Cloud
5,000 assets, 100 GB of outbound data and 100 GB of storage. Cloud-based content hub to drive omnichannel content management.
WebCenter Portal
1,100 hours, 700 GB of storage. Secure enterprise portals in the cloud.
Observability and Management
Observability and Management
Application Performance Monitoring
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.
Logging
6 TB storage. Logging is an intuitive, centralized platform for all types of logs.
Logging Analytics
600 hours, 300 GB of storage. Logging Analytics is a machine learning-based cloud service for log data from on-premises and multicloud environments.
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.
Security
Security
Identity
18,750 consumer users. Add user authentication to your apps.
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.
Integration
Integration
Integration
465 hours. Application integration with adapter connectivity and process automation.
SOA
1,700 hours, 400 GB of storage. Build and deploy SOA-based applications.
Frequently Asked Questions
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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.
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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:
- AMD-based Compute
- Arm-based Ampere A1 Compute
- Block Volume
- Object Storage
- Archive Storage
- Flexible Load Balancer
- Flexible Network Load Balancer
- VPN Connect
- Outbound Data Transfer
- Autonomous Data Warehouse
- Autonomous Transaction Processing
- Autonomous JSON Database
- NoSQL Database
- APEX Application Development
- Resource Manager (Terraform)
- Monitoring
- Notifications
- Logging
- Application Performance Monitoring
- Service Connector Hub
- Vault
- Bastions
- Security Zones
- Security Advisor
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Who is eligible for Oracle Cloud Free Tier?
Anyone who has previously not signed up for Oracle Cloud Free Tier or Free Trial is eligible.
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Is Oracle Cloud Free Tier available in all countries?
Yes, Oracle Cloud Free Tier is currently available worldwide. See the data regions page for detailed service availability. 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.
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How do I sign up for the Oracle Cloud Free Tier?
You can sign up on the Oracle Cloud Free Tier sign up page.
* Free Tier is available worldwide. See the data regions page for detailed service availability. US$300 free credits available in select countries and valid for up to 30 days. Oracle Cloud credits are consumed at discounted rates during the 30-day promotional period. The capacity limits listed under each service are only estimates and reflect the maximum capacity you can get if you consume your entire credits 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.