Which is cheaper, GCP or OCI?

OCI is cheaper in 8 of 13 comparable categories, with an average price difference of 30.7%.

How do GCP and OCI compare for general purpose workloads?

For general purpose workloads: GCP: $195.67/mo, OCI: $134.32/mo. OCI is cheaper.

GCP vs OCI: Pricing Comparison (2026)

Updated Apr 6, 2026GCPOCI

Overall Winner

OCI

GCP Wins

OCI Wins

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Pricing Analysis

Oracle Cloud wins 8 of 13 price comparisons, averaging 30.7% lower prices in categories where it leads.

Prices range from $0.000004/hr to $2.70/hr across comparable tiers.

●Oracle Cloud leads in Compute Engine (3/3 tiers, avg 49% difference)
●Oracle Cloud leads in Cloud SQL (2/3 tiers, avg 28% difference)
●Oracle Cloud leads in Cloud Load Balancing (3/3 tiers, avg 41% difference)

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Best for Compute Engine workloads

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Best for Cloud SQL workloads

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Best for Cloud Load Balancing workloads

Side-by-Side Pricing

Comparing GCP and OCI across 13 equivalent tiers. On-demand hourly rates are shown in USD for the default region.

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Category	GCP GCP	OCI OCI	Diff	Cheapest
Compute Engine - Accelerated Computing - 24 vCPU, 170 GB RAM	$1.4790/hr a2-highgpu-2g ($1,079.64/mo)	$0.4560/hr VM.Standard.A1.Flex.24 ($332.88/mo)	+69.2%	OCI
Compute Engine - General Purpose - 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM	$0.2680/hr e2-standard-8 ($195.67/mo)	$0.1840/hr VM.Standard.E5.Flex.4 ($134.32/mo)	+31.4%	OCI
Compute Engine - General Purpose - 64 vCPU, 256 GB RAM	$2.7037/hr n2d-standard-64 ($1,973.73/mo)	$1.4720/hr VM.Standard.E5.Flex.32 ($1,074.56/mo)	+45.6%	OCI
Cloud Storage - StandardOps - Region Standard Tagging Class A Operations	$0.0000/hr 3B8A-1E0C-8D5B ($0.00/mo)	$0.0000/hr B91633 ($0.00/mo)	+28.8%	Tie
Cloud Storage - Ops - Multi-Region Autoclass HNS Standard Class A Operations	$0.0000/hr 1D2A-4BAF-8939 ($0.01/mo)	$0.0000/hr B93000 ($0.01/mo)	+5.1%	Tie
Cloud Storage - ColdlineOps - Multi-Region Coldline Tagging Class A Operations	$0.0000/hr 4058-495A-6582 ($0.03/mo)	$0.0000/hr B91628 ($0.03/mo)	+12.7%	Tie
Cloud SQL - SQLGen2InstancesCPU - Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL: Regional - vCPU	$0.0826/hr 0152-2835-C929 ($60.30/mo)	$0.0807/hr B95703 ($58.91/mo)	+2.3%	OCI
Cloud SQL - InterregionEgress - Network Inter Region Data Transfer Out from Americas to Johannesburg	$0.1200/hr 0771-E66D-08EA ($87.60/mo)	$0.0928/hr B99596 ($67.74/mo)	+22.7%	OCI
Cloud SQL - SSD - Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL: Zonal - Enterprise Plus Data Cache Storage	$0.1600/hr 08CF-6062-E7B1 ($116.80/mo)	$0.3864/hr B99595 ($282.07/mo)	+58.6%	GCP
GKE - Kubernetes - Zonal Kubernetes Clusters	$0.1000/hr 6B92-A835-08AB ($73.00/mo)	$0.1000/hr B96545 ($73.00/mo)	0.0%	Tie
Cloud Load Balancing - VmState - VM state: suspended RAM	$0.0002/hr 0292-2DAA-87AE ($0.17/mo)	$0.0001/hr B93031 ($0.07/mo)	+57.1%	OCI
Cloud Load Balancing - RedHat - Licensing Fee for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 on VM with up to 8 VCPU	$0.0144/hr 00FD-1480-5509 ($10.51/mo)	$0.0113/hr B93030 ($8.25/mo)	+21.5%	OCI
Cloud Load Balancing - SUSE12 - Licensing Fee for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 on f1-micro	$0.0200/hr 07CF-8F4E-F367 ($14.60/mo)	$0.0113/hr B96485 ($8.25/mo)	+43.5%	OCI

When to Choose GCP GCP

✓Cloud SQL - SSD - Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL: Zonal - Enterprise Plus Data Cache Storage - saves $165.27/mo (58.6% cheaper)

When to Choose OCI OCI

✓Compute Engine - Accelerated Computing - 24 vCPU, 170 GB RAM - saves $746.79/mo (69.2% cheaper)
✓Compute Engine - General Purpose - 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM - saves $61.32/mo (31.4% cheaper)
✓Compute Engine - General Purpose - 64 vCPU, 256 GB RAM - saves $899.14/mo (45.6% cheaper)
✓Cloud SQL - SQLGen2InstancesCPU - Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL: Regional - vCPU - saves $1.39/mo (2.3% cheaper)
✓Cloud SQL - InterregionEgress - Network Inter Region Data Transfer Out from Americas to Johannesburg - saves $19.86/mo (22.7% cheaper)
✓Cloud Load Balancing - VmState - VM state: suspended RAM - saves $0.07/mo (57.1% cheaper)
✓Cloud Load Balancing - RedHat - Licensing Fee for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 on VM with up to 8 VCPU - saves $2.26/mo (21.5% cheaper)
✓Cloud Load Balancing - SUSE12 - Licensing Fee for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 on f1-micro - saves $6.35/mo (43.5% cheaper)