OCI Archive Storage Calculator
Price OCI Archive Storage with the 90-day minimum retention, restore fees and the saving against Standard.
Inputs
Used only for the comparison line.
Archive bills a minimum of 90 days per object.
A restore promotes the object back to Standard before you can read it.
Monthly Cost
$272.75
Archive Storage Charge
$130.00
90-Day Minimum Shortfall
$130.00
Restore Charge
$12.75
Saving vs Standard
$1,002.25
Saving
78.6%
Effective Price per GB
0.0055USD/GB-month
Retention Verdict
Deleted before the 90-day minimum — the remaining days are billed anyway
Step by step
Values used
Data in Archive = 50,000 GB; Archive price per GB-month = 0.0026 USD/GB-month; Standard price per GB-month = 0.0255 USD/GB-month; Average retention before deletion = 60 days; Data restored per month = 500 GB; Restore price per GB = 0.0255 USD/GB
OCI Archive Storage
monthly = GB × archive rate + GB × archive rate × (90 − retention days) ÷ 30 + restored GB × restore price.
Monthly Cost
= 272.75
Archive Storage Charge
= 130.00
90-Day Minimum Shortfall
= 130.00
Restore Charge
= 12.75
Saving vs Standard
= 1,002.25
Saving
= 78.6
How it works
Archive is roughly a tenth of the Standard per-GB price, but every object carries a 90-day minimum, so deleting after 60 days still incurs the missing 30 days as an extra month of storage. Data is not readable in place either: you issue a restore, wait about an hour for the first byte, and pay a per-GB restore fee on top of the storage line. Archive only wins when data is genuinely cold and long-lived — restore fees plus the 90-day minimum can make it dearer than Standard for anything you read back regularly, and the hour of restore latency rules it out for anything on a recovery path. Confirm the archive, restore and Standard rates in the Oracle Cloud cost estimator for your region.
Formula
OCI Archive Storage
monthly = GB × archive rate + GB × archive rate × (90 − retention days) ÷ 30 + restored GB × restore price.
- 90-day minimum
- Archive bills every object for at least 90 days
- restore price
- Per-GB charge to promote data back to Standard before reading it
- archive rate
- Per-GB-month price of the Archive tier
Frequently Asked Questions
How is OCI Archive Storage calculated?
monthly = GB × archive rate + GB × archive rate × (90 − retention days) ÷ 30 + restored GB × restore price. Archive is roughly a tenth of the Standard per-GB price, but every object carries a 90-day minimum, so deleting after 60 days still incurs the missing 30 days as an extra month of storage. Data is not readable in place either: you issue a restore, wait about an hour for the first byte, and pay a per-GB restore fee on top of the storage line.
Why does OCI Archive Storage matter?
Archive only wins when data is genuinely cold and long-lived — restore fees plus the 90-day minimum can make it dearer than Standard for anything you read back regularly, and the hour of restore latency rules it out for anything on a recovery path. Confirm the archive, restore and Standard rates in the Oracle Cloud cost estimator for your region.
What values do I need to enter?
This calculator takes 6 inputs: Data in Archive, Archive price per GB-month, Standard price per GB-month, Average retention before deletion, Data restored per month, Restore price per GB. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.