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Oracle may periodically check the validity of your card, resulting in a temporary authorization hold. ... We do not accept debit cards with a PIN or virtual, single-use, or prepaid cards.","country":null},"reliability_note":"free shapes are reclaimed when idle for 7 days, and an account left idle for 30 days or more may be deemed abandoned and become eligible for suspension; the memory part of the idle rule applies to A1 shapes only","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.oracle.com/cloud/networking/pricing/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Outbound Data Transfer - Originating in North America, Europe, and UK - First 10 TB / Month  Free'"},{"url":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yggdrasil-network/public-peers/master/north-america/united-states.md","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"a Yggdrasil operator labels an Oracle Always Free Ashburn node '480Mbps, Metered', so the same 10 TB quota sits behind it"},{"url":"https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the Always Free networking line reads 'Includes one VNIC with one public IP address and up to 50 Mbps network bandwidth via the internet. Traffic to private IPs ... is up to 480 Mbps', so 50 Mbit/s is the documented internet rate for the free shape"},{"url":"https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'a Free Trial with US$300 of free credit ... for up to 30 days' and 'until your US$300 of free credits are consumed or the 30 days has expired, whichever comes first'; 'We do not accept debit cards with a PIN or virtual, single-use, or prepaid cards'"},{"url":"https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'As part of your Always Free resources, you get 10 TB per month of outbound data.'"},{"url":"https://www.oracle.com/cloud/networking/pricing/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Outbound Data Transfer - Originating in North America, Europe, and UK - First 10 TB / Month | Free' with the same first-10-TB line for APAC/Japan/South America and for Middle East/Africa, and 'Inbound Data Transfer | Free'"},{"url":"https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Network/Concepts/securityrules.htm","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"a security rule carries an IP protocol and, 'For TCP or UDP, you can specify ... a single destination port number, or a range', so udp:51820 is expressible; 'Without security rules, no traffic is allowed in and out of VNICs in the VCN', so the rule is required rather than optional"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"The census wrote that the 50 Mbps free-shape rate makes the quota reachable only if traffic is shaped. 50 Mbit/s sustained is 540 GB/day, so the quota binds first and the rate never has to be shaped against. Two regions double both numbers, which still leaves the quota binding. Trial credit, read 2026-10-23: the Free Trial carries 'US$300 of free credit ... for up to 30 days' and 'until your US$300 of free credits are consumed or the 30 days has expired, whichever comes first', but at 1 TiB a month nothing is charged against it because the Always Free 10 TB a month outbound allowance is already ten times that figure, so the 30-day expiry costs nothing and the credit is the least relevant number in the offer. 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