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On the recordRead 21 Oct 202634 facts
Oracle Cloud Compute
Plans and prices
Always Free Compute
Free
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
Read 21 Oct 2026 · docs.oracle.com
Free Trial
Free
eligible OCI services · credit card usually required · paid resources reclaimed unless account is upgraded
Read 21 Oct 2026 · docs.oracle.com
On the record
- API surface
- Compute documentation lists Core Services, Autoscaling, Oracle Cloud Agent and Work Requests APIs.docs.oracle.com · read 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 · read 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 · read 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 · read 21 Oct 2026
- CLI tooling
- Oracle publishes command-line references for Compute, compute management, autoscaling, the Cloud Agent and work requests.docs.oracle.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Company headquarters and founding
- LinkedIn lists Oracle headquarters in Austin, Texas and a 1977 founding year.linkedin.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- Crunchbase identifies the maker as Oracle Corporation, a public post-IPO company.crunchbase.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Company scale
- Oracle's corporate page reports US$57 billion FY2025 revenue and 141,000 employees.oracle.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Containers
- OCI provides managed Kubernetes, serverless Container Instances, Functions and an Oracle-managed container registry.oracle.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Disaster recovery
- QuickDR can automate cross-region disaster-recovery setup for OCI Compute instances through the console.oracle.com · read 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 · read 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 · read 21 Oct 2026
- GPU compute
- GPU offerings include NVIDIA Blackwell, H200, H100, L40S, A100 and A10 as well as AMD MI300X accelerators.oracle.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Java SDK
- The OCI Java SDK manages OCI resources and is downloadable from GitHub or Maven.docs.oracle.com · read 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 · read 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 · read 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 · read 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 · read 21 Oct 2026
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