Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Secret Management vs R4

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Secret Management plans

• OCI Secret ManagementFree

R4 plans

• Usage-based pricing—

Pick Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Secret Management if…

This service suits application and cloud teams that need centrally managed credentials instead of embedding them in source code or configuration files. It may also fit teams using automatic rotation or multi-region secret replication.

Pick R4 if…

R4 suits teams managing secrets and licenses for people and agent runtimes, especially those seeking local secret decryption and audit-ready events. Its documentation also points to programmatic use through a machine API, SDK, and CLI.