Is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Load Balancer the best deal?

Always Free Tier · $0/mo

Best in class

Oracle's Always Free Tier Load Balancer at $0/month is genuinely free with no catch on the load balancer itself. However, be aware that real-world deployments will incur hidden costs elsewhere in the OCI stack—storage, compute, and database services all have separate billing dimensions that aren't obvious from the load balancer price alone.

Before you switch

Load balancer is free, but backend compute (Compute instances, OKE clusters) will cost money unless you also use Always Free tier resources
Block Storage performance (VPU) charges apply separately from capacity; verify your I/O tier before committing
Autonomous Database storage and compute are billed independently; a small database can still incur surprise charges
OKE control-plane fee ($0.10/hour, capped $74.40/month) applies on top of worker node costs if you use managed Kubernetes
Archive Storage and Infrequent Access Object Storage have retrieval fees and minimum retention periods; confirm your access patterns match the tier
No competing load-balancer-only plans found at this price point; compare total cost of ownership across your full stack, not just the load balancer

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