You are billed for Autonomous Database for Developers usage hourly, on a per instance basis.

Autonomous Database for Developers databases are billed as follows:

• Each instance is billed at a flat rate, per hour.

• An instance cannot be stopped for billing. After an Autonomous Database for Developers instance is created, it is billed until the instance is terminated.

• An Autonomous Database for Developers instance may be stopped and started as required, but this does not affect billing.

• Terminating an Autonomous Database for Developers instance stops the billing for the instance.

See Billing Information: Autonomous Database for Developers for compute and storage billing details.

When you provision an instance you select a workload type based on the workloads you want to run on your database. The pricing is the same for each workload type.

See the Autonomous Database Cloud Price List for up-to-date pricing.

Use the Cloud Cost Estimator to estimate the monthly cost for an Autonomous Database for Developers instance.