OCI Archive Storage Calculator
Price OCI Archive Storage with the 90-day minimum retention, restore fees and the saving against Standard.
About OCI Archive Storage Calculator
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
Worked example
With the default values below, OCI Archive Storage Calculator returns Monthly Cost of $272.75. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.
Inputs used
- Data in Archiveaccepts 0–10,000,000 GB
- 50,000 GB
- Archive price per GB-monthaccepts 0–5 USD/GB-month
- 0.0026 USD/GB-month
- Standard price per GB-monthaccepts 0–5 USD/GB-month
- 0.0255 USD/GB-month
- Average retention before deletionaccepts 1–3,650 days
- 60 days
- Data restored per monthaccepts 0–1,000,000 GB
- 500 GB
- Restore price per GBaccepts 0–5 USD/GB
- 0.0255 USD/GB
Results
- 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
- 0.0055 USD/GB-month
- Retention Verdict
- Deleted before the 90-day minimum — the remaining days are billed anyway
Step by step
- 1Values used
- 2OCI Archive Storage
- 3Monthly Cost= 272.75
- 4Archive Storage Charge= 130.00
- 590-Day Minimum Shortfall= 130.00
- 6Restore Charge= 12.75
- 7Saving vs Standard= 1,002.25
- 8Saving= 78.6
Assumptions and limits
- The result is derived only from the 6 inputs listed above. Anything not among them is not part of the calculation.
- In particular, this calculator does not take inflation, tax, fees or charges or compounding frequency into account.
- Figures are rounded for display to 4 decimal places, so totals built from several rounded parts can differ slightly from the unrounded arithmetic.
How these calculators are built and tested is described on the Methodology page. If a figure looks wrong, please report it.
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.