AWS vs. Oracle Cloud (OCI): 2026 Pricing & GPU Compute Comparison
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers aggressive price-to-performance advantages over AWS, particularly for custom Flex compute shapes, GPU AI clusters, and uniform worldwide pricing with 10 TB of free monthly egress.
52% Cheaper on Oracle Cloud
Standard on-demand list pricing comparison for general purpose memory and vCPU tiers.
46% Cheaper on Oracle Cloud
PostgreSQL and MySQL database clusters with high availability and automated daily backups.
Oracle Cloud (OCI) Generous Free Pools
OCI includes the first 10 TB of outbound data transfer per month for free across all regions, while AWS charges after the first 100 GB.
Direct Head-to-Head Configuration Shootout
Monthly prices based on 730 hours/month on-demand consumption.
| Workload Profile | AWS SKU & Rate | Oracle Cloud (OCI) SKU & Rate | Cost Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
Custom General Purpose 1 OCPU (2 vCPU) • 8 GB RAM • 100 GB NVMe | t3.large $60.74/mo | VM.Standard.E4.Flex ($0.025/hr) $20.44/mo | Oracle Cloud (OCI) saves 66% |
High Core Compute 4 OCPU (8 vCPU) • 32 GB RAM • 200 GB NVMe | m5.2xlarge $280.32/mo | VM.Standard.E4.Flex ($0.10/hr) $81.76/mo | Oracle Cloud (OCI) saves 71% |
GPU Inference (NVIDIA A10G / L4) 1x GPU • 8 vCPU • 32 GB RAM | g5.2xlarge ($1.212/hr) $884.76/mo | VM.GPU.A10.1 ($1.00/hr) $730.00/mo | Oracle Cloud (OCI) saves 17% |
Managed Relational DB Managed MySQL / PostgreSQL • 100 GB Storage | db.m5.large RDS ($138/mo) $138.00/mo | MySQL HeatWave Base ($68/mo) $68.00/mo | Oracle Cloud (OCI) saves 51% |
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