1. Infrastructure and Platform Services (IaaS/PaaS) Billing Guide
  2. Previous Billing Models

Previous Billing Models

Previously, Oracle Cloud offered the following types of subscriptions for Oracle Infrastructure and Platform Cloud Services (Oracle IaaS/PaaS):

  • Universal Credits, Monthly Flex: Uses a payment model wherein you are billed in advance for the committed amount based on the payment terms of your contract.

  • Nonmetered Subscriptions: Uses a subscription payment model, wherein a set number of resources is bought.

  • Metered Services: Uses prepaid payment model, wherein a specified amount is committed for purchase.

The above subscriptions and their payment methods are still used in some circumstances:

  • For accounts created before the availability of Universal Credits

  • For some specific Oracle Cloud offerings

  • For Oracle Infrastructure Cloud Services (IaaS) on Cloud at Customer

Universal Credits, Monthly Flex

  • You commit to a monthly credit pool of funds.

  • You are billed in advance for the committed amount based on the payment terms of your contract.

  • The subscription term is minimum 1 year. The 12-month period begins on the day that you receive your welcome or activation email, unless otherwise specified in the agreement.

  • Your monthly commitment must be at least 1000 USD or equivalent in local currency and you can use all the eligible Oracle Infrastructure and Platform Cloud (Oracle IaaS/PaaS) services.

  • Based on your monthly commitment and subscription duration, the service pricing may be discounted.

  • Credits from your monthly commitment are metered based on your usage and billed per the service rate card. Any usage above the monthly commitment is incurred as overage and billed monthly in arrears, per the rate card.

  • The monthly committed amount or credits must be used within the monthly commit period. Any unused amount or credits within that period are forfeited.

  • Any services used after the entire amount is consumed are charged based on either the list price or the rate card price, whichever is lower. See Oracle Universal Credit Pricing.

Nonmetered Subscriptions

  • The subscription term is 1 to 3 years, based on your selection during service ordering through Oracle Store or an Oracle Sales representative.

  • You agree to purchase a specific unit of a service, for example, 500 hosted named users.

  • You're charged for service regardless of whether any services are consumed, for example, even if only 1 hosted named user is set up, you're charged for 500 hosted named users if that's the original agreement.

  • You can manage your user quota and have overages in service usage. Quota management allows you to set a specific overage ceiling amount. When this amount is reached, your services are stopped. During service ordering, by default, overages are allowed. Services will be continued after the prepaid amount has been consumed, but you're charged at the list price.

  • You can exceed your subscription capacity by 2 times the purchased number of resources if your service allows it. This is referred to as Bursting. You’ll be billed per your usage.

Metered Services, Prepaid

  • You make an upfront commitment for the amount you’ll spend for the services. For example, you commit to 10,000$ for Storage service for 12 months.

  • The subscription period is minimum 1 year.

  • Your usage is tracked and any unused services or resources are forfeited.

  • Usage after your subscription period ends is charged in arrears per the Pay As You Go model.