generated: '2026-08-27'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/ (HTTP 200), https://signup.oraclecloud.com/ (HTTP 200),
  https://cloud.oracle.com/ (OCI Console), https://apex.oracle.com/ 
provider: Oracle Platforms
providerId: oracle-platforms
model: free-tier-and-console
model_note: >-
  Oracle does NOT ship a test/live key split. There is no test-mode credential, no sandbox
  host, no test card, no fixture generator and no time simulation — the concepts do not
  apply to an infrastructure control plane where every call provisions a real resource. What
  Oracle offers instead is a permanently free slice of the real platform plus a console, and
  that is recorded here rather than forcing a payments-shaped artifact onto a cloud API.
test_mode: false
test_credentials: none
test_values: none
surfaces:
  - name: Oracle Cloud Free Tier — Always Free Services
    url: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
    signup: https://signup.oraclecloud.com/
    type: free-production-slice
    expires: false
    description: >-
      A set of OCI services usable at no cost with no time limit, on the real API and the
      real hosts. Calls made against Always Free resources exercise the same 1,154-operation
      control plane as a paid tenancy.
  - name: Oracle Cloud Free Tier — 30-day trial credit
    url: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
    type: trial
    credit: US$300
    period_days: 30
    description: >-
      US$300 of credit usable across all OCI services for 30 days. After 30 days the account
      converts to Always Free unless upgraded to Pay As You Go.
  - name: OCI Console
    url: https://cloud.oracle.com/
    type: console
    description: >-
      The browser control plane over the same APIs. This is also where the remote MCP
      server's registration details and Server URL are issued — see mcp/.
  - name: Oracle APEX free workspace
    url: https://apex.oracle.com/
    type: hosted-evaluation
    description: >-
      Oracle hosts free APEX workspaces for evaluating low-code app development and the APEX
      REST services listed in apis.yml. The host returned HTTP 403 to this crawler (edge bot
      challenge), so the workspace surface is recorded from Oracle's documentation rather
      than probed.
    probe_status: 403
safety_note: >-
  The most important sandbox fact for an agent: there is none. Every write operation against
  these APIs acts on real infrastructure and real cost. There is no dry-run parameter
  (see conventions/), Terminate* is irreversible (see conventions/reversibility), and the
  cheapest available rehearsal is a compartment created for the purpose plus IAM policy
  scoped to it.