What is included in the OCI free tier?

OCI offers 12 always-free services and 0 services free for 12 months. New accounts also receive $300 in credits for 30 days + Always Free tier.

Does OCI free tier expire?

Always-free services never expire and remain free within their usage limits. The $300 credit expires after 30 days + Always Free tier.

OCI$300 credit

Complete list of Oracle Cloud free tier services. Plus $300 in free credits for 30 days + Always Free tier.

Always Free

Free for 12 Months

No Free Tier

Service	Offering	Free Limit
OCI Compute (AMD)	VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro	2 instances (1/8 OCPU, 1 GB RAM each)
OCI Compute (ARM)	Ampere A1 Flex	4 OCPU + 24 GB RAM total
Object Storage	Standard + IA + Archive	20 GB, 50K API requests/mo
Block Volume	Boot + block storage	200 GB total, 5 backups
Autonomous Database	Transaction/JSON/APEX	2 instances, 1 OCPU + 20 GB each
MySQL HeatWave	Standalone DB node	1 node, 50 GB data + 50 GB backup
Load Balancer	Flexible LB + Network LB	1 each, 10 Mbps
Outbound Data Transfer	Egress	10 TB/mo
Vault	Key management + secrets	20 HSM keys, 150 secrets
Monitoring	Metrics ingestion + retrieval	500M ingest + 1B retrieval points
Logging	Log aggregation	10 GB/mo
Email Delivery	Transactional email	3,000 emails/mo