OCI Autonomous Database Calculator
Price Autonomous Database on ECPUs with auto-scaling to three times the base, storage and BYOL licensing.
About OCI Autonomous Database Calculator
Autonomous Database bills ECPU-hours, so the compute line is the base allocation for the whole month plus the extra ECPUs consumed during auto-scaling bursts. Auto-scaling can reach three times the base but is metered only while it is actually in use, which makes a small base with scaling enabled cheaper than provisioning for the peak. Sizing the base to the peak wastes ECPU-hours for the 80% of the month that is quiet, and auto-scaling costs nothing when idle — the trade-off is that a base below the sustained load leaves you permanently scaled. Confirm the ECPU and storage rates, and the BYOL discount your agreement allows, in the Oracle Cloud cost estimator for your region.
Formula
OCI Autonomous Database
monthly = (base ECPUs × steady hours + base × scale multiple × burst hours) × ECPU rate × licence factor + TB × storage rate.
- ECPU
- Elastic CPU, the current Autonomous Database billing unit with a floor of 2
- scale multiple
- Average multiple of the base while scaled, capped at 3×
- licence factor
- BYOL rate expressed as a fraction of the licence-included rate
Worked example
With the default values below, OCI Autonomous Database Calculator returns Monthly Cost of $1,476.72. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.
Inputs used
- Base ECPUsaccepts 2–512 ECPU
- 4 ECPU
- Price per ECPU-houraccepts 0–20 USD/ECPU-hour
- 0.336 USD/ECPU-hour
- Enable auto-scaling
- Yes
- Hours spent above the baseaccepts 0–100 %
- 20 %
- Average multiple of base while scaledaccepts 1–3 ×
- 2.2 ×
- Database storageaccepts 1–384 TB
- 2 TB
- Storage price per TB-monthaccepts 0–2,000 USD/TB-month
- 118.4 USD/TB-month
- Bring your own licence (BYOL)
- No
- BYOL rate as a share of licence-includedaccepts 10–100 %
- 63 %
- Billed hours per monthaccepts 1–744 hours
- 744 hours
Results
- Monthly Cost
- $1,476.72
- ECPU Charge
- $1,239.92
- Storage Charge
- $236.80
- Peak ECPUs Available
- 12 ECPU
- Billed ECPU-Hours
- 3,690
- Effective Price per ECPU-Hour
- 0.3360 USD
- Auto-Scaling Charge
- $239.98
- Annual Cost
- $17,720.65
Step by step
- 1Values used
- 2OCI Autonomous Database
- 3Monthly Cost= 1,476.72
- 4ECPU Charge= 1,239.92
- 5Storage Charge= 236.80
- 6Peak ECPUs Available= 12 ECPU
- 7Billed ECPU-Hours= 3,690
- 8Effective Price per ECPU-Hour= $0.3360
Assumptions and limits
- The result is derived only from the 10 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 Autonomous Database calculated?
monthly = (base ECPUs × steady hours + base × scale multiple × burst hours) × ECPU rate × licence factor + TB × storage rate. Autonomous Database bills ECPU-hours, so the compute line is the base allocation for the whole month plus the extra ECPUs consumed during auto-scaling bursts. Auto-scaling can reach three times the base but is metered only while it is actually in use, which makes a small base with scaling enabled cheaper than provisioning for the peak.
Why does OCI Autonomous Database matter?
Sizing the base to the peak wastes ECPU-hours for the 80% of the month that is quiet, and auto-scaling costs nothing when idle — the trade-off is that a base below the sustained load leaves you permanently scaled. Confirm the ECPU and storage rates, and the BYOL discount your agreement allows, in the Oracle Cloud cost estimator for your region.
What values do I need to enter?
This calculator takes 10 inputs: Base ECPUs, Price per ECPU-hour, Enable auto-scaling, Hours spent above the base, Average multiple of base while scaled, Database storage, Storage price per TB-month, Bring your own licence (BYOL), BYOL rate as a share of licence-included, Billed hours per month. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.
How far can Autonomous Database auto-scale?
Auto-scaling allows the database to use up to three times its base ECPU count, and you are billed only for the ECPU-hours actually consumed above the base. That is why this calculator asks how many hours you spend above the base and what average multiple you reach, rather than assuming the peak runs all month.