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Perforce Helix Core pricing
Perforce Helix Core publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the game development tools listed alongside it.
As of 30 August 2026, Perforce Helix Core pricing is free. 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
- Quote
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Perforce Helix Core 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helix Core | On request | 5 | Entry tier |
What the product covers
The full Perforce Helix Core 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
- Exclusive checkout
- Very large depots
- Streams branching
- Proxies and edge servers
- Unreal and Unity integration
- Fine grained permissions
People bring Perforce Helix Core in for a studio where artists and designers version hundreds of gigabytes of uncompressed assets, unreal engine projects that want the engine to talk to source control directly, console development where platform holders and publishers expect an auditable centralised depot, distributed teams with outsourcing partners who need path-level access to part of the project only. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Perforce Helix Core are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Game Development
Too few game 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.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perforce Helix Core (this page) | Free | quote | - | |
| Photon Engine | Free, then $9/month | Per month by peak concurrent users | - | vs Perforce Helix Core |
| Cocos Creator | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Perforce Helix Core |
| GDevelop | Free | free | - | vs Perforce Helix Core |
| GameMaker Studio 2 | Free | freemium | - | vs Perforce Helix Core |
| Cocos2d-x | Free | free | - | vs Perforce Helix Core |
| Bevy | Free | free | - | vs Perforce Helix Core |
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 Perforce Helix Core badges page.
Before you pay for Perforce Helix Core
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: a single tier at On request. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Perforce Helix Core runs on windows, macos, linux, and is published by Perforce Software, Inc. of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The full record is on the Perforce Helix Core review, and the rest of the category is under best game development tools.
Perforce Helix Core pricing questions
- How much does Perforce Helix Core cost?
- Perforce Helix Core publishes a single tier, Helix Core, at On request.
- Does Perforce Helix Core have a free plan?
- Yes, Perforce Helix Core is recorded as quote, so it can be used without paying.
- Which game development tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 game development tools listed alongside Perforce Helix Core have a free tier: Photon Engine, Cocos Creator, GDevelop, GameMaker Studio 2, Cocos2d-x.
- What am I actually paying for with Perforce Helix Core?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a studio where artists and designers version hundreds of gigabytes of uncompressed assets, unreal engine projects that want the engine to talk to source control directly, console development where platform holders and publishers expect an auditable centralised depot.
- Does Perforce Helix Core charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 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 Perforce Helix Core 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 Perforce Helix Core against before paying?
- The closest game development tools in this directory are Photon Engine, Cocos Creator, GDevelop, GameMaker Studio 2. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Perforce Helix Core covering price, platforms and features.