> afaik the PAYG subscribers are not subject to this lower limit ... In other words, if you want the old provisioning limits for free you just have to put your

> afaik the PAYG subscribers are not subject to this lower limit ... In other words, if you want the old provisioning limits for free you just have to put your credit card info in. Always Free can mean different things: to a tenancy like you're describing, or to resources, where it describes the amount of resources you can use for free before you start getting charged money. https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier... > All Oracle Cloud Infrastructure accounts (whether free or paid) have a set of resources that are free of charge ... These resources display the Always Free-eligible label > All tenancies get a set of Always Free resources in the Compute service ... All tenancies get the first 1,500 OCPU hours and 9,000 GB hours per month for free for VM instances using the VM.Standard.A1.Flex shape. That's for all tenancies, and calculates to 2 OCPUs and 12GB per month. So sure, the provisioning _limits_ go up for PAYG tenancies, but using them certainly ain't free! If you have a 4/24 VM you have to downsize it if you don't want to be charged for it.