AWS vs OCI: Pricing Comparison (2026)
Updated Apr 6, 2026AWSOCI
Overall Winner
OCI
AWS Wins
4
OCI Wins
6
Ties
1
Pricing Analysis
Oracle Cloud wins 6 of 11 price comparisons, averaging 61% lower prices in categories where it leads.
Prices range from $0.000004/hr to $3.80/hr across comparable tiers.
- ●Oracle Cloud leads in EC2 (3/3 tiers, avg 66% difference)
- ●Oracle Cloud leads in S3 (1/2 tiers, avg 93% difference)
- ●Oracle Cloud leads in RDS (2/3 tiers, avg 61% difference)
- ●AWS leads in ELB (2/2 tiers, avg 43% difference)
Choose Oracle Cloud
Best for EC2 workloads
Choose AWS
Best for EKS workloads
Side-by-Side Pricing
Comparing AWS and OCI across 11 equivalent tiers. On-demand hourly rates are shown in USD for the default region.
Sort by:
Family:
| Category | AWS AWS | OCI OCI | Diff | Cheapest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
EC2 - Accelerated Computing - 16 vCPU, 122 GB RAM | $1.1400/hr g3.4xlarge ($832.20/mo) | $0.6000/hr VM.Optimized3.Flex.8 ($438.00/mo) | +47.4% | OCI |
EC2 - Accelerated Computing - 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM | $0.5260/hr g4dn.xlarge ($383.98/mo) | $0.0920/hr VM.Standard.E5.Flex.2 ($67.16/mo) | +82.5% | OCI |
EC2 - General Purpose - 2 vCPU, 17.1 GB RAM | $0.2450/hr m2.xlarge ($178.85/mo) | $0.0750/hr VM.Optimized3.Flex.1 ($54.75/mo) | +69.4% | OCI |
S3 - AmazonS3 - S3-API-Tier8 | $0.0000/hr Requests-Tier8 ($0.02/mo) | $0.0000/hr B91633 ($0.00/mo) | +88.1% | Tie |
S3 - Storage - Storage | $0.0010/hr TimedStorage-INT-DAA-ByteHrs ($0.72/mo) | $0.0000/hr B93000 ($0.01/mo) | +98.6% | OCI |
RDS - Database Instance - db.t3.small | $0.0720/hr db.t3.small ($52.56/mo) | $0.0807/hr B95703 ($58.91/mo) | +10.8% | AWS |
RDS - Database Instance - db.r6i.2xlarge | $1.5080/hr db.r6i.2xlarge ($1,100.84/mo) | $0.3864/hr B99595 ($282.07/mo) | +74.4% | OCI |
RDS - Database Instance - db.x2iedn.xlarge | $3.8040/hr db.x2iedn.xlarge ($2,776.92/mo) | $0.0928/hr B99596 ($67.74/mo) | +97.6% | OCI |
EKS - Compute - Compute | $0.0823/hr EKS-Auto:i4i.2xlarge-management-hours ($60.09/mo) | $0.1000/hr B96545 ($73.00/mo) | +17.7% | AWS |
ELB - Load Balancer-Application - Load Balancer-Application | $0.0050/hr TS-LoadBalancerUsage ($3.65/mo) | $0.0113/hr B93030 ($8.25/mo) | +55.8% | AWS |
ELB - Load Balancer - Load Balancer | $0.0080/hr DataProcessing-Bytes ($5.84/mo) | $0.0113/hr B96485 ($8.25/mo) | +29.2% | AWS |
When to Choose AWS AWS
- ✓RDS - Database Instance - db.t3.small - saves $6.35/mo (10.8% cheaper)
- ✓EKS - Compute - Compute - saves $12.92/mo (17.7% cheaper)
- ✓ELB - Load Balancer-Application - Load Balancer-Application - saves $4.60/mo (55.8% cheaper)
- ✓ELB - Load Balancer - Load Balancer - saves $2.41/mo (29.2% cheaper)
When to Choose OCI OCI
- ✓EC2 - Accelerated Computing - 16 vCPU, 122 GB RAM - saves $394.20/mo (47.4% cheaper)
- ✓EC2 - Accelerated Computing - 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM - saves $316.82/mo (82.5% cheaper)
- ✓EC2 - General Purpose - 2 vCPU, 17.1 GB RAM - saves $124.10/mo (69.4% cheaper)
- ✓S3 - Storage - Storage - saves $0.73/mo (98.6% cheaper)
- ✓RDS - Database Instance - db.r6i.2xlarge - saves $818.77/mo (74.4% cheaper)
- ✓RDS - Database Instance - db.x2iedn.xlarge - saves $2,709.18/mo (97.6% cheaper)
Monthly Cost Examples
EC2 - Accelerated Computing - 16 vCPU, 122 GB RAM
AWS g3.4xlarge$832.20/mo
OCI VM.Optimized3.Flex.8$438.00/mo
RDS - Database Instance - db.t3.small
AWS db.t3.small$52.56/mo
OCI B95703$58.91/mo
ELB - Load Balancer - Load Balancer
AWS DataProcessing-Bytes$5.84/mo
OCI B96485$8.25/mo
Related Comparisons
AWS EC2 vs Azure Virtual Machines Pricing
Compare AWS EC2 and Azure Virtual Machines pricing side by side
AWS EC2 vs DO Droplets Pricing
Compare AWS EC2 and DO Droplets pricing side by side
AWS EC2 vs GCP Compute Engine Pricing
Compare AWS EC2 and GCP Compute Engine pricing side by side
AWS vs Azure
Overall pricing comparison
AWS vs GCP
Overall pricing comparison
AWS vs DO
Overall pricing comparison
AWS vs Hetzner
Overall pricing comparison
AWS vs Linode
Overall pricing comparison
AWS vs Vultr
Overall pricing comparison