OCI Object Storage Calculator
Price OCI Object Storage across Standard and Infrequent Access with requests, the 31-day minimum and free 10 TB egress.
About OCI Object Storage Calculator
Storage is the sum of each tier's GB-month charge, but Infrequent Access carries a 31-day minimum: an object deleted on day 20 is still billed for the remaining 11 days, which this model prices as a shortfall line. Egress is metered only above the free allowance, so a workload that ships less than 10 TB a month pays nothing at all for outbound transfer. The free 10 TB of egress and the flat per-GB rate above it are a genuine OCI differentiator, and the 31-day minimum is the one rule that quietly makes Infrequent Access more expensive than Standard for short-lived data. Confirm every per-GB rate in the Oracle Cloud cost estimator for your region.
Formula
OCI Object Storage
monthly = Standard GB × Standard rate + IA GB × IA rate + IA rate × (31 − lifetime days) ÷ 31 × IA GB + requests ÷ 10,000 × request price + max(0, egress GB − free GB) × egress rate.
- 31-day minimum
- Infrequent Access bills a minimum of 31 days per object
- free GB
- The first 10 TB of monthly egress, charged at nothing
- request price
- Charged per 10,000 API operations, not per request
Worked example
With the default values below, OCI Object Storage Calculator returns Monthly Cost of $176.08. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.
Inputs used
- Data in Standardaccepts 0–10,000,000 GB
- 5,000 GB
- Data in Infrequent Accessaccepts 0–10,000,000 GB
- 2,000 GB
- Standard price per GB-monthaccepts 0–5 USD/GB-month
- 0.0255 USD/GB-month
- Infrequent Access price per GB-monthaccepts 0–5 USD/GB-month
- 0.01 USD/GB-month
- Average lifetime of Infrequent Access objectsaccepts 1–3,650 days
- 20 days
- Requests per monthaccepts 0–100,000 millions
- 12 millions
- Price per 10,000 requestsaccepts 0–1 USD
- 0.0034 USD
- Outbound data transferaccepts 0–10,000 TB/month
- 12 TB/month
- Free egress allowanceaccepts 0–100 TB/month
- 10 TB/month
- Egress price per GB above the allowanceaccepts 0–1 USD/GB
- 0.0085 USD/GB
Results
- Monthly Cost
- $176.08
- Storage Charge
- $147.50
- 31-Day Minimum Shortfall
- $7.10
- Request Charge
- $4.08
- Egress Charge
- $17.41
- Billable Egress
- 2,048 GB
- Egress Covered by the Free Allowance
- 10,240 GB
- Total Data Stored
- 7 TiB
Step by step
- 1Values used
- 2OCI Object Storage
- 3Monthly Cost= 176.08
- 4Storage Charge= 147.50
- 531-Day Minimum Shortfall= 7.10
- 6Request Charge= 4.08
- 7Egress Charge= 17.41
- 8Billable Egress= 2,048 GB
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 or compounding frequency into account.
- Figures are rounded for display to 2 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 Object Storage calculated?
monthly = Standard GB × Standard rate + IA GB × IA rate + IA rate × (31 − lifetime days) ÷ 31 × IA GB + requests ÷ 10,000 × request price + max(0, egress GB − free GB) × egress rate. Storage is the sum of each tier's GB-month charge, but Infrequent Access carries a 31-day minimum: an object deleted on day 20 is still billed for the remaining 11 days, which this model prices as a shortfall line. Egress is metered only above the free allowance, so a workload that ships less than 10 TB a month pays nothing at all for outbound transfer.
Why does OCI Object Storage matter?
The free 10 TB of egress and the flat per-GB rate above it are a genuine OCI differentiator, and the 31-day minimum is the one rule that quietly makes Infrequent Access more expensive than Standard for short-lived data. Confirm every per-GB rate in the Oracle Cloud cost estimator for your region.
What values do I need to enter?
This calculator takes 10 inputs: Data in Standard, Data in Infrequent Access, Standard price per GB-month, Infrequent Access price per GB-month, Average lifetime of Infrequent Access objects, Requests per month, Price per 10,000 requests, Outbound data transfer, Free egress allowance, Egress price per GB above the allowance. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.