Nova Cloud
vs
Oracle Cloud
What's good about each
- Per-second billing with no contracts or minimum spend
- Owned-and-operated datacenters in Western Canada
- Reserved 1, 3, and 6 month terms for additional discounts
- 5 Gb/s network bandwidth with all ports available
- 10 TB of free egress each month
- Same compute and storage prices in every region
- Flexible shapes with CPU and memory sized separately
- Oracle Database inside AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
- Always Free tier with Arm VMs and databases
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Nova Cloud | Oracle Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | -- Not listed | $3.33 /mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex, 12.5% burstable) | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $44.64 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex) | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $89.28 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex) | |
| Block storage | -- Not listed | $4.25 /mo 100 GB (Balanced) | |
| Object storage | -- Not listed | $26.49 /mo 1 TB | |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $119.65 /mo 2 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (PostgreSQL.VM.Standard.E5.Flex) | |
| Redis | -- Not listed | $27.94 /mo 2 GB RAM (OCI Cache, Valkey) | |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | Free Network Load Balancer | |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $31.57 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | |
| Egress allowance | -- Not listed | 10 TB / mo | |
| Egress | -- Not listed | $8.50 /TB $0.0085 / GB (North America, Europe) |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
Nova Cloud offers 2 GPU models, while Oracle Cloud offers 15. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Nova Cloud | Oracle Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
RTX PRO 6000
20 configs · 1 config
|
$1.56 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | $4.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | 65% cheaper on Nova Cloud |
|
RTX 5090
20 configs
|
$0.53 /GPU/hr Reserved (6 mo) | -- | Nova Cloud only |
|
H100
1 config
|
-- | $10.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
|
B300
1 config
|
-- | $15.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
|
B200
1 config
|
-- | $14.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
|
H200
1 config
|
-- | $10.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
|
A100
2 configs
|
-- | $3.05 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
|
GB200
1 config
|
-- | $16.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
MI355X
1 config
|
-- | $8.60 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
|
MI300X
1 config
|
-- | $6.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
Nova Cloud bills on-demand, spot and reserved (1, 3 or 6 months); Oracle Cloud bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Nova Cloud | Oracle Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | -- | Yes |
| ISO 27001 | -- | Yes |
| HIPAA | -- | Yes |
| GDPR | -- | Yes |
| PCI DSS | -- | Yes |
| FedRAMP | -- | High, US Government Cloud |
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
| Fact | Nova Cloud | Oracle Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2018 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | Canada | USA |
| Locations | 1 | 45 |
| Example customers | -- | Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia |
| Website | nova-cloud.ai | www.oracle.com |
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Our data for Nova Cloud was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Oracle Cloud on Oct. 1, 2026.