Oracle Cloud Free Trial - $300 Credits
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+ 1 New Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) customers receive $300 in free credits valid for 30 days to explore all eligible OCI services, including Generative AI, Compute, Autonomous Database, and networking. After the trial, your account transitions to Always Free tier with 20+ services at no cost and no time limit. Credit card required for most users (identity verification only — you will not be charged unless you manually upgrade). Accelerated onboarding (no credit card) is available for students via Oracle Academy, Oracle CloudWorld attendees, and prospects engaged with Oracle Sales.
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+ 7 1. Go to signup.oraclecloud.com or oracle.com/cloud/free
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+ 8 2. Enter your name, email address, and country
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+ 9 3. Verify your email address via the confirmation link sent to your inbox
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+ 10 4. Set a password for your Oracle Cloud account
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+ 11 5. Choose your home region carefully — Always Free resources (Autonomous DB, Compute) can only be provisioned in your home region. This cannot be changed later
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+ 12 6. Credit card verification — enter a valid credit or debit card. Oracle will not charge your card unless you explicitly upgrade to a paid account
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+ 13 7. Review and accept Oracle Cloud Terms of Service
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+ 14 8. Account is provisioned — you receive $300 in credits immediately
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+ 16 Accelerated onboarding (no credit card):
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+ 17 • Oracle Academy students and educators
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+ 18 • Oracle CloudWorld event attendees
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+ 19 • Prospective customers engaged with Oracle Sales
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+ 20 • These users see a simplified signup flow with fewer verification steps
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+ 22 Important:
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+ 23 • One free trial per person
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+ 24 • The 30-day clock starts at signup, not at first usage
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+ 25 • Credits are in USD (or local currency equivalent in select countries)
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+ 26 • Choose your home region wisely — it determines where Always Free resources live
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+ 32 The credits work across all eligible OCI services during the 30-day window, including:
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+ 34 • Compute — VMs with AMD, Intel, or Arm (Ampere) processors, including GPU shapes
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+ 35 • OCI Generative AI — managed LLM service with Cohere, Meta Llama, and other models
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+ 36 • Autonomous Database — fully managed Oracle database with AI capabilities
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+ 37 • Container Instances & Kubernetes (OKE) — managed container orchestration
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+ 38 • Block Storage, Object Storage, File Storage
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+ 39 • Networking — VCN, Load Balancer, VPN, FastConnect
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+ 40 • Data Science — managed notebooks, model training, and deployment
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+ 41 • AI Services — Vision, Speech, Language, Document Understanding, Anomaly Detection
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+ 49 A fully managed service for integrating large language models via API, SDK, CLI, or the Console playground. Available models include:
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+ 51 ProviderModelsCapabilities
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+ 52 MetaLlama 4 Maverick, Llama 4 Scout, Llama 3.3 (70B), Llama 3.2 90B Vision, Llama 3.2 11B Vision, Llama 3.1 (405B)Chat, code, multimodal, multilingual, tool-calling
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+ 53 CohereCommand A Reasoning, Command A Vision, Command A, Command R/R+Chat, summarization, RAG, enterprise search
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+ 54 GoogleGemini 2.5 Pro, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMultimodal, reasoning, code
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+ 55 OpenAIgpt-oss-120b, gpt-oss-20bGeneral-purpose chat and reasoning
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+ 56 xAIGrok 4, Grok 3 and variantsChat, reasoning
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+ 58 Pricing model: On-demand pay-per-character (prompt + response). Dedicated AI clusters available for hosting or fine-tuning (minimum 744 unit-hours commitment).
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+ 60 Note: Model availability varies by region. Check OCI documentation for your home region's supported models.
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+ 64 ServiceDescription
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+ 65 OCI VisionImage classification, object detection, OCR
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+ 66 OCI SpeechSpeech-to-text transcription
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+ 67 OCI LanguageSentiment analysis, entity recognition, translation
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+ 68 OCI Document UnderstandingExtract text and structure from documents
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+ 69 OCI Anomaly DetectionTime-series anomaly detection
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+ 70 OCI Data ScienceManaged JupyterLab notebooks, model training/deployment
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+ 71 Agent HubBuild and deploy AI agents with RAG pipelines
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+ 77 After the 30-day trial, these services remain free forever with no credit card charges:
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+ 81 ResourceAlways Free Limit
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+ 82 AMD Compute VMs2 VMs, each 1/8 OCPU + 1 GB RAM
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+ 83 Arm Ampere A1 Compute4 OCPUs + 24 GB RAM total (flexible: 1 large VM or up to 4 smaller VMs)
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+ 84 Boot Volume Storage200 GB total
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+ 85 Block Volume Storage200 GB total
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+ 89 ResourceAlways Free Limit
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+ 90 Autonomous Database2 databases, 1 OCPU + 20 GB storage each
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+ 94 ResourceAlways Free Limit
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+ 95 Outbound Data Transfer10 TB/month
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+ 96 Object Storage20 GB
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+ 97 Load Balancer1 instance (10 Mbps)
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+ 98 VCN, Subnets, Security ListsIncluded
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+ 99 Monitoring & Notifications500M ingestion datapoints, 1M notification delivery
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+ 100 Logging10 GB/month
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+ 101 Vault20 key versions, up to 150 secrets
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+ 103 The Arm Ampere A1 offering (4 OCPUs + 24 GB RAM) is notably more generous than comparable free tiers from AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
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+ 109 1. If you do nothing: Your account stays active. Always Free resources continue running without interruption. Paid (non-free-tier) resources enter a 30-day grace period — you can still use them but cannot create new paid resources. After the grace period, paid resources are reclaimed (deleted)
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+ 110 2. If you upgrade to Pay As You Go: You keep Always Free resources at no cost. You pay only for usage beyond free tier limits. No minimums, no prepayment. All service restrictions are lifted. Upgrade is irreversible (no downgrade option)
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+ 111 3. Always Free services continue regardless of whether you upgrade
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+ 112 4. Support: Free Tier accounts cannot open support tickets. Upgrading to Pay As You Go unlocks Oracle Support access
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+ 118 • Home region selection is permanent — research which region has the services you need (especially for Generative AI model availability) before signing up
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+ 119 • Arm Ampere A1 VMs are the best value — 4 OCPUs and 24 GB RAM for free is exceptional. Use these for hosting side projects, dev environments, or lightweight production workloads
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+ 120 • Set up budget alerts if you upgrade to Pay As You Go — OCI has no automatic spending caps
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+ 121 • Delete non-free resources before your trial ends if you don't plan to upgrade, to avoid the grace period countdown
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+ 122 • Oracle Academy is the easiest path for students to bypass credit card verification — check if your institution participates
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+ 123 • Trial extensions are possible — contact Oracle Sales via the Upgrade page in the Console. Sales reps can extend trials or issue additional credits on a case-by-case basis
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+ 124 • Always Free availability is capacity-limited — popular regions may have limited Always Free Compute capacity. If you can't create an Always Free VM, try again later or consider a less popular region
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+ 125 • OCI CLI and Terraform are fully supported on Free Tier for infrastructure-as-code workflows
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+ 126 • 10 TB/month outbound transfer is far more generous than other cloud providers' free tiers
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+ 130 Sources:
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+ 131 • Oracle Cloud Free Tier
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+ 132 • Oracle Cloud Free Tier FAQ
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+ 133 • OCI Free Tier Documentation
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+ 134 • Always Free Resources
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+ 135 • What Happens When the Promotion Expires
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+ 136 • OCI Generative AI Service
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+ 137 • OCI Generative AI Pricing
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+ 138 • OCI AI Services
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+ 139 • Pretrained Foundational Models in OCI Generative AI
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