Universal Credits Model vs. Subscription Model

There are differences in how Oracle Integration features and capabilities are experienced when using the Universal Credits consumption model and the Subscription consumption model.

The following table describes the key experience differences between these two models.

Area	Universal Credits	Subscription (Integration for Oracle SaaS)
Administration	You can create additional identity domains as needed. This enables you to manage users and resources across multiple domains based on your requirements.	User administration is governed by IAM/identity domain configuration associated with your Oracle SaaS service and your available OCI/IAM entitlements. Besides the Free identity domain type, additional domain options depend on your Universal Credits subscription. There are different types of identity domains that might be available to you. See Feature Availability for Identity Domain Types. Different identity domains have different rate limits, which may impact Oracle Integration. See Rate Limits for all Identity Domain Types.
OCI service actions	You can provision OCI services at any time. If you provision an OCI service that has a service action in Oracle Integration, any integration in Oracle Integration can interact with the service by calling the service action. Oracle Integration MCP server exposes integrations as tools. You can run agentic AI either using OCI Generative AI (if you have access to OCI Generative AI) or by configuring an external Generative AI provider using API keys.	You can interact with an OCI service by calling its service action if you have access to Universal Credits. Your contract with Oracle determines whether you can access these services. Oracle Integration MCP server exposes integrations as tools. You can run agentic AI by configuring an external Generative AI provider using API keys.
Extended monitoring capabilities	If you provision an OCI service that can receive activity stream data from Oracle Integration, you can send the activity stream data to the service.	Accessing OCI logs and metrics through OCI Observability (Oracle Cloud console) typically requires you to have access to OCI and appropriate billing/entitlements (using Universal Credits) for logging/monitoring storage and data ingestion. A tenancy could be subscription-based and use Universal Credits. For example, if you're using a subscription-based model and want to take advantage of certain features that require Universal Credits, you can create a child tenancy (subtenancy) that uses Universal Credits. See Tenancy Management and Child Tenancy Management. You can add Universal Credits into a SaaS tenancy and have all your workload in one tenancy. See Unified OCI Tenancy.

Area

Universal Credits

Subscription (Integration for Oracle SaaS)

Administration

You can create additional identity domains as needed. This enables you to manage users and resources across multiple domains based on your requirements.

User administration is governed by IAM/identity domain configuration associated with your Oracle SaaS service and your available OCI/IAM entitlements. Besides the Free identity domain type, additional domain options depend on your Universal Credits subscription. There are different types of identity domains that might be available to you. See Feature Availability for Identity Domain Types.

Different identity domains have different rate limits, which may impact Oracle Integration. See Rate Limits for all Identity Domain Types.

OCI service actions

You can provision OCI services at any time. If you provision an OCI service that has a service action in Oracle Integration, any integration in Oracle Integration can interact with the service by calling the service action.

Oracle Integration MCP server exposes integrations as tools. You can run agentic AI either using OCI Generative AI (if you have access to OCI Generative AI) or by configuring an external Generative AI provider using API keys.

You can interact with an OCI service by calling its service action if you have access to Universal Credits. Your contract with Oracle determines whether you can access these services.

Oracle Integration MCP server exposes integrations as tools. You can run agentic AI by configuring an external Generative AI provider using API keys.

Extended monitoring capabilities

If you provision an OCI service that can receive activity stream data from Oracle Integration, you can send the activity stream data to the service.

Accessing OCI logs and metrics through OCI Observability (Oracle Cloud console) typically requires you to have access to OCI and appropriate billing/entitlements (using Universal Credits) for logging/monitoring storage and data ingestion.

A tenancy could be subscription-based and use Universal Credits. For example, if you're using a subscription-based model and want to take advantage of certain features that require Universal Credits, you can create a child tenancy (subtenancy) that uses Universal Credits. See Tenancy Management and Child Tenancy Management.

You can add Universal Credits into a SaaS tenancy and have all your workload in one tenancy. See Unified OCI Tenancy.