Price OCI Archive Storage with the 90-day minimum retention, restore fees and the saving against Standard.
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.
OCI Archive Storage
monthly = GB × archive rate + GB × archive rate × (90 − retention days) ÷ 30 + restored GB × restore price.
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.
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.
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.