Oracle Cloud Compute
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Oracle Cloud Compute, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Oracle Cloud Compute's own pricing page, checked 21 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| 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 · no charge for life of account in home region |
| Free Trial | Free | eligible OCI services · credit card usually required · paid resources reclaimed unless account is upgraded · $300 promotional credits valid up to 30 days |
The facts
Each one read from Oracle Cloud Compute's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API surface
- Compute documentation lists Core Services, Autoscaling, Oracle Cloud Agent and Work Requests APIs.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Audit logging
- OCI Audit records API activity from the Console, SDKs and CLI, with queryable or Object Storage-delivered records.checked 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.checked 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.checked 21 Oct 2026
- CLI tooling
- Oracle publishes command-line references for Compute, compute management, autoscaling, the Cloud Agent and work requests.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Containers
- OCI provides managed Kubernetes, serverless Container Instances, Functions and an Oracle-managed container registry.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Disaster recovery
- QuickDR can automate cross-region disaster-recovery setup for OCI Compute instances through the console.checked 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.checked 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.checked 21 Oct 2026
- GPU compute
- GPU offerings include NVIDIA Blackwell, H200, H100, L40S, A100 and A10 as well as AMD MI300X accelerators.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Java SDK
- The OCI Java SDK manages OCI resources and is downloadable from GitHub or Maven.checked 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.checked 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.checked 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.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Mobile system requirements
- Oracle documents support for Android 8 or later and iOS 11 or later.checked 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.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Praise: performance and value
- G2 reviewers repeatedly praise OCI Compute as powerful, reliable, configurable, easy to manage and low cost.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Praise: scalability and security
- TrustRadius synthesis highlights scalable compute and storage, autonomous database services, encryption and a useful free tier.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Rating on G2
- 4.1 out of 5 from 69 reviewschecked 21 Oct 2026
The company
- Company headquarters and founding
- LinkedIn lists Oracle headquarters in Austin, Texas and a 1977 founding year.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- Crunchbase identifies the maker as Oracle Corporation, a public post-IPO company.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Company scale
- Oracle's corporate page reports US$57 billion FY2025 revenue and 141,000 employees.checked 21 Oct 2026
Money
- 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.checked 21 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Mobile app
- The OCI mobile app displays alerts, resource metrics, limits, billing and usage, and can start, stop, restart or delete resources.checked 21 Oct 2026
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