Which is cheaper, OCI or Vultr?

OCI is cheaper in 7 of 8 comparable categories, with an average price difference of 44.9%.

How do OCI and Vultr compare for general purpose workloads?

Both providers offer competitive pricing for general purpose workloads.

Updated Apr 4, 2026OCIVultr

Overall Winner

OCI

OCI Wins

Vultr Wins

Ties

Oracle Cloud wins 7 of 8 price comparisons, averaging 44.9% lower prices in categories where it leads.

Prices range from $0.0113/hr to $1.97/hr across comparable tiers.

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Best for OCI Compute workloads

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Best for Autonomous Database workloads

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Best for OKE workloads

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Best for Load Balancer workloads

Comparing OCI and Vultr across 8 equivalent tiers. On-demand hourly rates are shown in USD for the default region.

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Category	OCI OCI	Vultr Vultr	Diff	Cheapest
OCI Compute - Standard - AMD E4 - 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM	$0.0370/hr VM.Standard.E4.Flex.1 ($27.01/mo)	$0.0822/hr voc-g-2c-8gb-50s-amd ($60.01/mo)	+55.0%	OCI
OCI Compute - Standard - AMD E5 - 32 vCPU, 128 GB RAM	$0.7360/hr VM.Standard.E5.Flex.16 ($537.28/mo)	$0.9600/hr vx1-g-32c-128g ($700.80/mo)	+23.3%	OCI
OCI Compute - Optimized - X9 - 32 vCPU, 224 GB RAM	$1.2000/hr VM.Optimized3.Flex.16 ($876.00/mo)	$1.7534/hr voc-m-32c-256gb-1600s-amd ($1,279.98/mo)	+31.6%	OCI
Autonomous Database - Data Warehouse - Autonomous Lakehouse - ECPU -BYOL	$0.0807/hr B95703 ($58.91/mo)	$0.1233/hr vultr-db-occ-1c4g ($90.01/mo)	+34.5%	OCI
Autonomous Database - Data Warehouse - Globally Distributed Autonomous Lakehouse - Dedicated - BYOL	$0.0928/hr B99596 ($67.74/mo)	$0.3288/hr vultr-db-hp-6c16g ($240.02/mo)	+71.8%	OCI
Autonomous Database - Data Warehouse - Globally Distributed Autonomous Lakehouse - Dedicated	$0.3864/hr B99595 ($282.07/mo)	$1.9726/hr vultr-db-occ-16c64g ($1,440.00/mo)	+80.4%	OCI
OKE - Kubernetes - Enhanced Cluster	$0.1000/hr B96545 ($73.00/mo)	$0.0548/hr vultr-vke-ha ($40.00/mo)	+45.2%	Vultr
Load Balancer - Load Balancer - LB Base	$0.0113/hr B93030 ($8.25/mo)	$0.0137/hr vultr-lb-standard ($10.00/mo)	+17.5%	OCI

✓OCI Compute - Standard - AMD E4 - 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM - saves $33.00/mo (55% cheaper)
✓OCI Compute - Standard - AMD E5 - 32 vCPU, 128 GB RAM - saves $163.52/mo (23.3% cheaper)
✓OCI Compute - Optimized - X9 - 32 vCPU, 224 GB RAM - saves $403.98/mo (31.6% cheaper)
✓Autonomous Database - Data Warehouse - Autonomous Lakehouse - ECPU -BYOL - saves $31.10/mo (34.5% cheaper)
✓Autonomous Database - Data Warehouse - Globally Distributed Autonomous Lakehouse - Dedicated - BYOL - saves $172.28/mo (71.8% cheaper)
✓Autonomous Database - Data Warehouse - Globally Distributed Autonomous Lakehouse - Dedicated - saves $1,157.93/mo (80.4% cheaper)
✓Load Balancer - Load Balancer - LB Base - saves $1.75/mo (17.5% cheaper)