It's super confusing. There are several ways to get it. I think it's free if you run stuff in the Oracle Cloud. And the pricing on Oracle Cloud is actually quit

It's super confusing. There are several ways to get it. I think it's free if you run stuff in the Oracle Cloud. And the pricing on Oracle Cloud is actually quite good. But the price list is here, it seems: https://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/price-lists/java-se-subscription-pricelist-5028356.pdf https://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/price-lists/java... So price can vary between $25/processor/month and $12.50/month with further discounts available if you negotiate, probably. But ... this has to be rounded up to whatever the physical processor has, then multiplied by some "core factor" which can actually reduce the number of cores you need to buy from the physical number. Which can be found here: https://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/contracts/processor-core-factor-table-070634.pdf https://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/contracts/processor-core... For Intel and AMD chips, the factor is 0.5 - so the actual prices are just half of those numbers! The rules about virtualization are kinda weird especially because Oracle Cloud presumably is virtualized itself. Presumably it's because if your jobs can "flex" at will then it becomes impossible to say how many cores you're actually using. Like, what do you do, integrate the area under the curve of second-by-second CPU usage or something? That would be very complicated. If they say, OK, your workload can use up to 100 cores then you pay for 100 cores, it's very simple. All you have to agree on with them is how many cores the maximum amount is. I can't imagine it would matter if the physical underlying hardware changes as long as the workload can only run on one machine at once. Otherwise it'd be impossible to run any Oracle product in any cloud at all, but people do it!