Oracle Cloud Always Free
genuinely $0 forever — if you win the capacity lottery and your agent stays busy enough not to be reclaimed.
the only real $0 answer for a 24/7 hermes, carrying the two asterisks nobody quotes: capacity is scarce, and oracle stops instances it decides are idle.
start with the correction, because the whole internet has this wrong: oracle's own docs put the always-free ampere allowance at the equivalent of 2 ocpus and 12 gb of memory — not the '4 ocpu / 24 gb' figure repeated in nearly every guide. that's still comfortably more than hermes needs, and it costs nothing, indefinitely, with no paid upgrade required.
the first asterisk is getting one. always-free arm capacity is chronically oversubscribed, 'out of host capacity' errors are common enough that oracle's own guidance is to retry or wait, and the free allowance is locked to the home region you pick at signup — choose it carefully.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- hermes agent hosting
- pricing
- $0
- website
- oracle.com
the only real $0 answer for a 24/7 hermes, carrying the two asterisks nobody quotes: capacity is scarce, and oracle stops instances it decides are idle.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.