--- title: OCI Reviews meta_title: 'OCI Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 27 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how OCI works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 27 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-07' parent_category: name: Containerization url: https://www.g2.com/categories/containerization --- # OCI Reviews **Vendor:** OCI **Category:** [Container Engine Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/container-engine) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 27 ## About OCI The Open Container Initiative (OCI) is comprised of a diverse set of members that are committed to creating an open industry standard around a container image format and runtime backed by a certification program. ## OCI Reviews ### 1. DevOps Engineer **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Praveen K. | SDE-3, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about OCI?** most of the things will be similar to AWS include naming convention, and the best thing is the oracle database which will give you a complete Apex based GUI **What do you dislike about OCI?** A little complex to set up IAM policy, and for upgrading the DBaaS System, you need to create a new one with complete downtime and endpoint change **Recommendations to others considering OCI:** if you want to use manage Database, then you can close your eye and pick the oracle database, and also if you're going to set your application in the cloud at low cost for that OCI is a good option. **What problems is OCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** to host my application on public cloud and this is cheap in price as cmpared to any other public cloud like AWS/Azure or GCP ### 2. A nice cloud solution alternative to the mainstream **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lucian T. | Cloud DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2021 **What do you like best about OCI?** The OCI infrastructure is a good alternative to the existing mainstream cloud providers. Is not very complicated to be used, there are tons of free learning resources on the Oracle platform and they have also a nice free tier for beginners, and especially you can have for life, 1 Linux VM machine for free within certain limits. You can use a wide variety of interconnected services and perform some additional steps. I like the simplification of the monitoring of the infrastructure, as part of observability. It is a nice feature for new users to have some money to trial and test the features, and even if you pass the credit limits, they will not bill you straight away. **What do you dislike about OCI?** I wished they have a better and modern UI for the new cloud beginners and have a more simplified cloud portfolio and better integrations with third parties tools. In cooperation with other cloud providers, the product catalog is not so big enough to cover all aspects, and for a new cloud beginner it might take some time until **Recommendations to others considering OCI:** OCI is a very good cloud solution alternative, for whoever wants to try out another cloud approach. Even if you are a beginner in cloud technologies, OCI will not bill you without offering explicit consent that you want to continue to use additional resources, otherwise, you can have 1 free Linux machine VM for free for life, within some limits, of course, but for the personal use case, it is more than perfect honestly. **What problems is OCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Usually, the problems which I am resolving with OCI are related to app migration from an on-prem to cloud infrastructure and implementing observability across the infrastructure. The benefits I am realizing by using the OCI, are related to cost-efficient and infrastructure scalability. The OCI I used for the personal and private project inside the organization to assess this cloud provider's value and how could fit into my current skills and projects. ### 3. Cloud provider that's new but lasting **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2021 **What do you like best about OCI?** I got certfied as OCI Foundations Associate. After that I got an opportunity to look into OCI services and they are at par with other providers. Oracle services like the SQL ones are long lasting, I do believe this service will make a mark as well. **What do you dislike about OCI?** As it's a competitively newer service provider, the costs seem on a higher range. However, if they rectify the costs of the services, I see there are many who want to opt for OCI services. **What problems is OCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have deployed websites and worked on different compute services on OCI. It's a smart choice as it provides similar security to the content hosted as other providers who have been in the industry for atleast 2 decades. ### 4. OCI Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kaustav K. | AWS Data Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2021 **What do you like best about OCI?** I generally prefer to use AWS, but in few security aspects, OCI is better than AWS. Like OCI Security Zone, which creates another additional envalop within customer tenancy. Also, few security services come without any additional charges. **What do you dislike about OCI?** Navigation within the UI/Console is sometimes tricky as it is not straightforward. When it comes to multi-tier architecture, that sometimes challenging to build in OCI compare to AWS or Azure. **Recommendations to others considering OCI:** Compare the price with all other vendors before deciding any. It varies with business case and requirement **What problems is OCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are migrating on-premise infrastructure to the cloud. The benefit of migrating the infrastructure to OCI has many advantages. Like, in on-premise, we have to provide an upfront charge for the servers and hardware even we don't use them, and those are not scalable much as well, but in OCI, we have flexibility in payment, and there is no limit on scaling. ### 5. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Review July 2021 **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2021 **What do you like best about OCI?** Very easy to learn. The training on OCI is really very good which helps you up to pick up working on any of the services offered in OCI. Offers a wide range of services and cost aspect is rather simpler compared to other cloud services. **What do you dislike about OCI?** Less number of services compared to other cloud services. Also inbuilt connectors are lesser in number. **Recommendations to others considering OCI:** OCI offers many wide range of services but lesser compared to AWS or Azure. But has a very simpler pricing model in terms of outbound traffic etc. Constantly offering more cloud regions. And also offers few distinct features like in Compute it provides Bare metal compute resources. Overall highly recommend it. **What problems is OCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were using OCI to host an ERP application that was natively built on oracle. No issues faced connecting to this application from other cloud platforms. Initially faced latency issues which were resolved eventually. ### 6. It's really easy to create/maintain OCI user and admin can track the orders from them. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2021 **What do you like best about OCI?** 1) Creating customized URL for customers so that they can directly access our webshop without any login delay. 2) Using single URL anyone from customer side by the products. 3) Also only allow categories and prices will be visible to customers so that mean you give discounts to specific customers. **What do you dislike about OCI?** 1) Sometime customers IT guys fail to put the correct URL in system and that causes the issues. 2) Sometime customers are not allowed to buy specific products or they are not allowed to checkout so this case sellers IT Team needs to take swift action. **What problems is OCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1) Inorder to create OCI user we need correct account number and business contact details from customer. 2) Product category, product classifications eg - UNSPSC or eClass, Currency type etc. we need these information handy before creating the OCI user. ### 7. OCI is great for SaaS, oracle databases and ERP applications **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2021 **What do you like best about OCI?** Managed services like data guard. Object storage and file storage is super easy to configure and also cheaper yet best at performance. Separate dashboards for SLA management. Works well with Oracle's SaaS. **What do you dislike about OCI?** Less number of regions available. UI is not that user friendly. Object stoarge should have multiple classes and multiple replicas. Should add more managed services. LB lags lot of functionalities **Recommendations to others considering OCI:** Highly recommended to use oracle databases and ERP systems on oracle. Also if the volume of data is huge the affordable cloud is OCI **What problems is OCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Migrating some of the legacy applications to OCI helped in terms of both capex and opex. It helped a lot in autoscaling the infra, templates are really useful. Some of the apps are running on containers and we are optimizing them further. ### 8. OCI DBA **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** prashant k. | S, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2021 **What do you like best about OCI?** The new services and gen2 OCI is useful and lot of good service avaiable **What do you dislike about OCI?** The period for free account should be at least 1 year as compared to 30 days. Other cloud vendors ae givingmore time for hand on labs as compared to Oracle **What problems is OCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lot of Infrastructure expenses can be reduced and Avaiablity has improved ### 9. OCI would be recommended in many ways especially Enterprise class customers it is very well known. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** naresh k. | Principal Solution Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2021 **What do you like best about OCI?** Explain its features and Sustainable technology **What do you dislike about OCI?** LImitations Sometimes like Browsing experience **Recommendations to others considering OCI:** OCI would be recommended in many ways especially all customers it is very well known. **What problems is OCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Analytics Cloud, Performance challenges gets fixed in OCI, rather than any other cloud ### 10. Working in OCI **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2021 **What do you like best about OCI?** Woking on cutting edge technologies. Fast growth Bright future First of a kind World class Better price **What do you dislike about OCI?** Hectic Release management process Think Big Long term vision **What problems is OCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Worked on AI and ML area which helps customer to levearge state of the art models directly into applications without AI and ML background. ### 11. OCI IS GREAT! Use it **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2021 **What do you like best about OCI?** OCI is use to use, competitive in terms of features and services available. **What do you dislike about OCI?** Oracle doesn't provide long term free tier like AWS **What problems is OCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are running middleware on OCI and also using OIC for various integrations for ERP. ### 12. oci cloud **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Alternative Medicine | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2021 **What do you like best about OCI?** ease of subscription and support provided **What do you dislike about OCI?** it is nice to use no dislikes as of now! **What problems is OCI solving and how is that benefiting you?** platoform for hosting apps and storage ## OCI Discussions - [What is included in Oracle OCI?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-included-in-oracle-oci) - [What is Oracle OCI used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-oracle-oci-used-for) - [How good is the OCI cloud provider with Terraform integration?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-good-is-the-oci-cloud-provider-with-terraform-integration) - 1 upvote - [NA](https://www.g2.com/discussions/na-026dd27b-217a-414e-811d-b9ca732a86b3) - 1 upvote - [buying improvements](https://www.g2.com/discussions/buying-improvements) - 1 upvote - [View OCI pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/oci/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-13+16%3A06%3A20+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=fdd1682c-ad87-4935-ae66-377eada72d23&secure%5Btoken%5D=ee88d4692da728c93b7a8e0aeb41419ae1162a90de70c60698f2cd27146f7e6d&format=llm_user) ## OCI Features **Application Support** - Deployment - Interface support - Processor support - Application Support **System Capability** - Self Healing High Availability - Orchestration - Scalability **Security** - Automatic Security Updates - Security updates ## Top OCI Alternatives - [Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (933 reviews) - [Docker](https://www.g2.com/products/docker-inc-docker/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (293 reviews) - [Ubuntu](https://www.g2.com/products/ubuntu/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (2,347 reviews)