Free Tier
Recurring monthly OCI Functions usage allowances.
- Invocations: 2,000,000 function invocations per month
- Memory execution time: 400,000 gigabyte memory-seconds per month
OCI Functions Pricing, Features & Alternatives
Event-driven, container-native functions on managed infrastructure with Fn Project tooling and Docker images.
OCI Functions runs each function from a container image on Oracle Cloud’s managed infrastructure. Fn Project tooling handles the build and deployment workflow. Functions live inside regional OCI applications, which tie their networking to the surrounding Oracle Cloud environment. On-demand function containers are removed after inactivity, while configured provisioned capacity remains allocated.
Best for
Event-driven applications, APIs, automation, data processing, and workloads integrated with Oracle Cloud databases, storage, events, streaming, and identity services.
Watch out for
OCI Functions is closely tied to Oracle Cloud networking, IAM, Container Registry, and regional service availability. Detached and synchronous invocations also have different execution limits.
- Workloads
- APIs
- Backend Services
- Background Workers
- Data Processing
- Scheduled Jobs
- Services
- Functions
- Delivery
- Managed
Development & Execution
Supported platform capabilities, execution environments, development technologies, deployment models, integrations, and triggers.
Runtimes
- Custom Runtime
- .NET Runtime
- JVM
- Node.js
Languages
- C#
- Go
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
- Ruby
Frameworks
- Express.js
- Spring Boot
Capabilities
- Compute Autoscaling
- Scale to Zero
Architecture
- x64
- ARM
Deployment & packaging
- Docker / OCI
- Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Integrations
- GitHub
- Terraform
Triggers
- Scheduled Invocation
- Database Events
- Event Streams
- Publish-Subscribe Topics
- HTTP Requests
- Direct Invocation
- Queue Messages
- Storage Events
Pricing
Published pricing structure, representative costs, and material billing factors.
- Starting Price
- US$0.0000002
- Primary Billing
- Resource based
- Free Tier
- Recurring free allowances
- Commitment
- Pay only for invocations and execution time beyond the monthly free allowances.
OCI Functions Usage
Primary PricingPay-as-you-go rates for invocations and execution time after the monthly free allowances; Oracle publishes the same rates across regions.
| Resource | Billing Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Invocations | per function invocation | US$0.0000002 |
| Memory execution time | per gigabyte memory-second | US$0.00001417 |
Billing Commitment
Pay only for invocations and execution time beyond the monthly free allowances.
Infrastructure & Availability
Where workloads run, how deployment is scoped, and what underlying infrastructure the platform depends on.
OCI Functions is available across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's ordinary commercial OC1 regions. Oracle identifies Functions as part of the common service set and treats Functions applications and functions as regional resources. The current OC1 commercial footprint contains 44 regions. Government, defense, sovereign, dedicated, Alloy, partner, and other non-OC1 realms are separate; Serbia Central belongs to OC20. A tenancy must subscribe to a region before deploying resources there, and account type can further limit subscriptions.
Execution
- Single Region
- Multi Region
Deployment scope
- Regional
Infrastructure providers
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Available regions (44)
| Location | Region ID |
|---|---|
North America
6 regions
| |
| Canada Southeast (Montreal) Commercial OC1 region. | ca-montreal-1 |
| Canada Southeast (Toronto) Commercial OC1 region. | ca-toronto-1 |
| US East (Ashburn) Commercial OC1 region. | us-ashburn-1 |
| US Midwest (Chicago) Commercial OC1 region. | us-chicago-1 |
| US West (Phoenix) Commercial OC1 region. | us-phoenix-1 |
| US West (San Jose) Commercial OC1 region. | us-sanjose-1 |
Latin America
7 regions
| |
| Brazil East (Sao Paulo) Commercial OC1 region. | sa-saopaulo-1 |
| Brazil Southeast (Vinhedo) Commercial OC1 region. | sa-vinhedo-1 |
| Chile Central (Santiago) Commercial OC1 region. | sa-santiago-1 |
| Chile West (Valparaiso) Commercial OC1 region. | sa-valparaiso-1 |
| Colombia Central (Bogota) Commercial OC1 region. | sa-bogota-1 |
| Mexico Central (Queretaro) Commercial OC1 region. | mx-queretaro-1 |
| Mexico Northeast (Monterrey) Commercial OC1 region. | mx-monterrey-1 |
Europe
12 regions
| |
| France Central (Paris) Commercial OC1 region. | eu-paris-1 |
| France South (Marseille) Commercial OC1 region. | eu-marseille-1 |
| Germany Central (Frankfurt) Commercial OC1 region. | eu-frankfurt-1 |
| Italy Northwest (Milan) Commercial OC1 region. | eu-milan-1 |
| Italy North (Turin) Commercial OC1 region. | eu-turin-1 |
| Netherlands Northwest (Amsterdam) Commercial OC1 region. | eu-amsterdam-1 |
| Spain Central (Madrid) Commercial OC1 region. | eu-madrid-1 |
| Spain Central (Madrid 3) Commercial OC1 region distinct from eu-madrid-1. | eu-madrid-3 |
| Sweden Central (Stockholm) Commercial OC1 region. | eu-stockholm-1 |
| Switzerland North (Zurich) Commercial OC1 region. | eu-zurich-1 |
| UK South (London) Commercial OC1 region. | uk-london-1 |
| UK West (Newport) Commercial OC1 region; Oracle's region identifier retains Cardiff. | uk-cardiff-1 |
Asia Pacific
12 regions
| |
| Australia East (Sydney) Commercial OC1 region. | ap-sydney-1 |
| Australia Southeast (Melbourne) Commercial OC1 region. | ap-melbourne-1 |
| India South (Hyderabad) Commercial OC1 region. | ap-hyderabad-1 |
| India West (Mumbai) Commercial OC1 region. | ap-mumbai-1 |
| Indonesia North (Batam) Commercial OC1 region. | ap-batam-1 |
| Japan Central (Osaka) Commercial OC1 region. | ap-osaka-1 |
| Japan East (Tokyo) Commercial OC1 region. | ap-tokyo-1 |
| Malaysia West 2 (Kulai) Commercial OC1 region. | ap-kulai-2 |
| Singapore (Singapore) Commercial OC1 region. | ap-singapore-1 |
| Singapore West (Singapore) Commercial OC1 region distinct from ap-singapore-1. | ap-singapore-2 |
| South Korea Central (Seoul) Commercial OC1 region. | ap-seoul-1 |
| South Korea North (Chuncheon) Commercial OC1 region. | ap-chuncheon-1 |
Middle East & Africa
7 regions
| |
| Israel Central (Jerusalem) Commercial OC1 region. | il-jerusalem-1 |
| Morocco West (Casablanca) Commercial OC1 region. | af-casablanca-1 |
| Saudi Arabia Central (Riyadh) Commercial OC1 region. | me-riyadh-1 |
| Saudi Arabia West (Jeddah) Commercial OC1 region. | me-jeddah-1 |
| South Africa Central (Johannesburg) Commercial OC1 region. | af-johannesburg-1 |
| UAE Central (Abu Dhabi) Commercial OC1 region. | me-abudhabi-1 |
| UAE East (Dubai) Commercial OC1 region. | me-dubai-1 |
Availability reviewed · Availability source
Resource & Execution Limits
Memory
128-3,072 MB
Per function
Execution time
30-300 seconds
Synchronous invocation
Request payload
6 MB
Per invocation
Response payload
6 MB
Per invocation
Security & Compliance
Security Controls
- Access Control
- OCI IAM policies and compartments Function management, invocation, and dependent resources
- Code Signing
- Signed function images with invocation-time verification Customer-enabled policy; up to five functions per protected application
- Private Networking
- Private subnet and OCI service-gateway access Customer VCN configuration
- Network Isolation
- Zero Trust Packet Routing and network security policies Customer configuration; ZPR and NSG rules both apply
- Audit Logging
- OCI Audit API events Tenancy control plane; function logs separately enabled
FAQ
Is Oracle Cloud Functions free?
Yes, within OCI Functions recurring monthly allowances. OCI Functions includes 2 million invocations and 400,000 GB-seconds of memory execution time per month.
