A newbie who is VERY confused of the new free tier limits and PAYG

Hello, I just changed my oracle cloud account to PAYG to make an A1 instance, and while I was looking up some stuff, I found out about the new free tier limits (2 ocpu/12 ram, half the cpu time, etc), and does this affect me as well? 'Cause I can't seem to find any straight up info about this and I don't want to be charged