Oracle Cloud Always Free Compute

Explore this developer service’s ongoing no-cost allowance, restrictions and official documentation before deploying.

INCLUDED FREE ALLOWANCEAlways Free: up to two AMD E2.1.Micro VMs (1/8 OCPU, 1 GB RAM each); Arm Ampere A1: 1.500 OCPU-hours and 9.000 GB-hours/month (equivalent to 2 OCPUs and 12 GB RAM for Always Free tenancies); 200 GB shared boot/block volume storage.

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Plan details

What do these plan and deployment labels mean?

Plan: Ongoing free allowance
Deployment model: Cloud
Credit card: Required
Commercial use: Check provider
Added to directory (UTC): 2026-09-22
Last checked: 2026-10-21

Important restrictions

Compute must run in the home region; capacity may be unavailable and idle instances may be reclaimed. Payment card required for account verification. Boot volumes use the shared 200 GB allowance; paid account overages can incur charges. Verify tenancy-specific A1 limits.

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