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.

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.

Which web development tools can I use without paying?

8 of the 8 web development tools listed alongside MySQL have a free tier: Wix, Chakra UI, Rollup, Turbopack, Radix UI.

What am I actually paying for with MySQL?

The record lists 28 features across 6 areas: other, 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?

The closest web development tools in this directory are Wix, Chakra UI, Rollup, Turbopack. Each has a side-by-side comparison with MySQL covering price, platforms and features.

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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.

As of 30 August 2026, MySQL pricing is free across 3 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.

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.

MySQL pricing tiers
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

Free

The entry tier. It covers open source license, full sql support, innodb storage engine, community support.

Standard Edition

$2000/year

Over Community Edition, this tier adds:

Commercial license
Oracle Premier Support
MySQL Enterprise backup
Query analyzer

Enterprise Edition

$5000/year

Over 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.

Other

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.

How that compares in Web Development

Too few web development tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

MySQL entry price against other Web Development tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
MySQL (this page)	Free	freemium	-
Wix	Free, then $17/month	Per site per month	-	vs MySQL
Chakra UI	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs MySQL
Rollup	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs MySQL
Turbopack	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs MySQL
Radix UI	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs MySQL
shadcn/ui	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs MySQL

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the MySQL badges page.

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, and the rest of the category is under best web development tools.

MySQL pricing on the vendor's own site

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.
Which web development tools can I use without paying?: 8 of the 8 web development tools listed alongside MySQL have a free tier: Wix, Chakra UI, Rollup, Turbopack, Radix UI.
What am I actually paying for with MySQL?: The record lists 28 features across 6 areas: other, 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?: The closest web development tools in this directory are Wix, Chakra UI, Rollup, Turbopack. Each has a side-by-side comparison with MySQL covering price, platforms and features.