Container Instances Pricing

OCI Container Instances offers cost-effective pricing based on actual infrastructure usage. Container instances are billed at the same rate as OCI Compute instances for the selected shape, with no extra fees. Charges are applied for partial OCPU and memory hours, billed by the second with a one-minute minimum. Each instance includes 15 GB of ephemeral storage at no extra cost. Plus, you get a bonus of 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours of Free Tier usage with the Ampere A1 Flex shape.

Cost Estimator

Container Instances*

Product
Unit price
Unit
Compute – Ampere A1 – OCPU

OCPU per hour
Compute – Ampere A1 – Memory

Gigabyte per hour
Compute - Standard - E4 - OCPU

OCPU per hour
Compute - Standard - E4 - Memory

Gigabyte per hour
Compute - Standard - E3 - OCPU

OCPU per hour
Compute - Standard - E3 - Memory

Gigabyte per hour
*Notes:
  • 1 OCPU on x86 CPU Architecture (AMD) = 2 vCPUs
  • 1 OCPU on Arm CPU Architecture (Ampere) = 1 vCPU
  • The minimum unit of provisioning starts from 1 OCPU on both x86 (AMD) and Arm (Ampere) processors.
  • Each tenancy gets the first 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours per month for free to create Ampere A1 Compute instances. This free-tier usage is shared across Bare Metal, Virtual Machine, and Container Instances.