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MySQL pricing
MySQL publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
MySQL plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Edition | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Standard Edition | $2000/year | 4 | +$2000/year, 4 more features |
| Enterprise Edition | $5000/year | 4 | +$3000/year, 4 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Community Edition
FreeThe entry tier. It covers open source license, full sql support, innodb storage engine, community support.
Standard Edition
$2000/yearOver Community Edition, this tier adds:
- Commercial license
- Oracle Premier Support
- MySQL Enterprise backup
- Query analyzer
Enterprise Edition
$5000/yearOver Standard Edition, this tier adds:
- Advanced security
- MySQL Enterprise Monitor
- High Availability
- Enterprise backup
Where MySQL stops being free
Community Edition, Free
- Open source license
- Full SQL support
- InnoDB storage engine
- Community support
Standard Edition, $2000/year
The first thing you pay for:
- Commercial license
- Oracle Premier Support
- MySQL Enterprise backup
- Query analyzer
What the product covers
The full MySQL feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- ACID compliance
- SQL support
- Multi-version concurrency control
- Replication
- Partitioning
- Stored procedures
- Triggers
- Views
Integrations
- PHP
- Python
- Java
- Node.js
- WordPress
- Drupal
- phpMyAdmin
- MySQL Workbench
Security
- SSL encryption
- User authentication
- Access control
- Audit logging
Deployment
- On-premise deployment
- Cloud deployment
- Containerized deployment
Platform
- Windows support
- Macos support
- Linux support
- Unix support
Localization
- SQL language support
People bring MySQL in for web application backend, e-commerce platforms, content management systems, data warehousing, business applications. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to MySQL are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for MySQL
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and $5000/year, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
MySQL runs on windows, macos, linux, unix, and is published by Oracle Corporation of Austin, TX. The full record is on the MySQL review.
MySQL pricing questions
- How much does MySQL cost?
- MySQL publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Community Edition up to $5000/year for Enterprise Edition. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does MySQL have a free plan?
- Yes. The Community Edition tier costs nothing and covers open source license, full sql support, innodb storage engine. Paying starts at $2000/year for Standard Edition.
- What is the difference between Community Edition and Standard Edition on MySQL?
- Standard Edition costs $2000/year against Free, and adds commercial license, oracle premier support, mysql enterprise backup, query analyzer.
- Is the Enterprise Edition plan on MySQL worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is advanced security, mysql enterprise monitor, high availability, enterprise backup. It costs $5000/year against $2000/year for Standard Edition. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- What am I actually paying for with MySQL?
- The record lists 28 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for web application backend, e-commerce platforms, content management systems.
- Does MySQL charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these MySQL prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare MySQL against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to MySQL to make a useful price comparison.