Base Database Service Pricing

Reduce cloud costs

Base Database Service reduces the cost of running Oracle Database in the cloud with a choice of software and support included or BYOL consumption pricing on flexible virtual machine shapes and cost-effective block storage in OCI and multicloud partner environments.

Base Database Service with ECPU pricing is available for standard x86 shapes in OCI.

For Bring-Your-Own-License (BYOL) details, including eligible Oracle on-premises software licenses and conversion rates (i.e., ratio requirement of software license metric to cloud equivalent metric), refer to Oracle PaaS and IaaS Universal Credits Service Descriptions document (PDF).

Storage billing is measured with the Gigabyte Storage Capacity Per Month metric by calculating the total block volume storage consumed for each calendar month until the block volumes are deleted. At a minimum, users will be charged for 1 minute. For anything beyond 1 minute, usage is tracked per second and prorated based on the number of seconds in a month using the per Gigabyte Storage Capacity Per Month pricing.

Oracle Base Database Service with OCPU pricing is available in OCI for AMD, Intel, and Arm-based VM shapes.

Total per-hour pricing is based on the number of enabled OCPUs per type and shape of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure compute selected, the amount of OCI Block Volume Storage selected (a required selection), and the number of Block Volume Performance Units used with that storage.

*To make it easier to compare pricing across cloud service providers, Oracle web pages show both vCPU (virtual CPUs) prices and OCPU (Oracle CPU) prices for products with compute-based pricing. The products themselves, provisioning in the portal, billing, etc. continue to use OCPU (Oracle CPU) units. OCPUs represent physical CPU cores. Most CPU architectures, including x86, execute two threads per physical core, so 1 OCPU is the equivalent of 2 vCPUs for x86-based compute. The per-hour OCPU rate customers are billed at is therefore twice the vCPU price since they receive two vCPUs of compute power for each OCPU, unless it’s a sub-core instance, such as preemptible instances. Additional details supporting the difference between OCPUs and vCPUs can be accessed here.

** Usage is measured with the Gigabyte Storage Capacity Per Month metric, by calculating the total block volume storage consumed for each calendar month until the block volumes are deleted. At a minimum, users will be charged for 1 minute. For anything beyond 1 minute, usage is tracked per second and prorated based on the number of seconds in a month using the per Gigabyte Storage Capacity Per Month pricing.

*** Usage is measured with the Gigabyte Performance Units Per Month metric, by calculating the total block volume performance consumed for each calendar month until the block volumes are deleted. At a minimum, users will be charged for 1 minute. For anything beyond 1 minute, usage is tracked per second and prorated based on the number of seconds in a month using the per Gigabyte Storage Capacity Per Month pricing.