What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Database?

Pricing depends on the number of licenses required based on the number of active users. Although I cannot directly compare prices with Microsoft SQL, for medium businesses, Oracle and IBM DB2 ( /products/ibm-db2-database-reviews ) pricing are quite similar. I rate Oracle's pricing six out of ten.

Oracle Database is highly-priced. Although it is robust and feature-rich, the pricing can be a concern for some customers, leading them to consider alternative options.

Oracle is more expensive than other solutions. I would rate the pricing as five out of ten.

The tool is expensive. Compared to its stability and eligibility, the tool is expensive, but if I consider the tool's ROI to be better, the tool is affordable with its set of features.

The platform is highly-priced.

The licensing cost is not based on a yearly subscription but rather on the number of devices used annually.

We need to pay an annual subscription for the solution, which is moderately priced.

The product is expensive.

The product is costly. You need to pay for all the product components that you use. You can go for an annual or multi-year subscription model, depending on your requirements.

I rate the pricing a five out of ten.

Cost efficiency with Oracle starts with knowing your needs. Rightsizing the machines is the very first step, and knowing your user and work profile is next. Do the apps really need Enterprise Edition, or is Standard Edition, maybe plus a 3rd party product, sufficient? If EE, which options do you really need? (Diagnostics Pack is a must, IMHO).

In only the rarest cases, an ULA (Unlimited License Agreement) is the best choice: It's a chain you get larked on with support fees. I can only recommend letting an independent (means, paid by you!) expert review your situation before signing any license contracts. That's not special to Oracle - all vendors will tell you what fits them best, not what does you well.

Oracle Partners get fixed discounts for small license amounts. If money sums get bigger (250k+), it's always worth trying to get a project price. If you have an honest partner, they will tell you what they get and what they keep. 

CPU metrics, how to count users, deal with virtualization, how to license Engineered Systems... rules are not easy to understand and should be simpler. 

Outstanding technology has its price, but complexity helps nobody. Oracle tries to satisfy "downward compatibility" of the licenses, to avoid old customers complaining about relaxing rules after they paid the "old" price. 

As I said above: Get help, pay somebody for a day to guide you through the purchase process.

Many of the comments already provided are helpful, but adding that in my experience migrating to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has been a licensing and capacity advantage.

My company has opted for perpetual licensing. We only need to make payments toward the licensing of the product.

It's great product, however, it is a little pricy for the licensing costs.

The price of Oracle Database is too expensive. We might be switching solutions because the price is too high.

My company is an Oracle Gold Partner, so we proved licenses to the customers as well. The license price is listed globally on the Oracle site. It's basically license plus EMC.

There are licensing costs.

The price is relative. Licensing costs differ based on how often you'll use the product. They also provide discounts based on the bandwidth or the use cases you want to run on it.

The license cost of Oracle Database is more expensive, and this could result in some clients moving away from it. When it comes to the licensing for the processor, it becomes more expensive, but it could become cheaper when you know how to use an ODA. When you're using other servers, the licensing becomes more expensive. Additional charges could also come from Oracle technical support, but there is a lot of documentation on the website, and you can also get solutions from the Oracle Community as a workaround.

The licensing and support pricing for Oracle Database is a bit expensive, as it is a top-of-the-line product. We pay for this product yearly.

Oracle Database could make the documentation better around licensing. The way you have to access software from Oracle is difficult. You have to go through the licensing lawyer to understand what your reach is when you subscribe to one unit. I wish the documents were easier to understand for everyone. This is a problem I have always grappled with and it's not changed. Having clarity is even more important now that I'm thinking of having a hybrid setup for the database in the cloud for high availability. The cost of the solution is reasonable. It costs approximately $4,000 with some extra features we have.

I do not have first-hand knowledge of the price of the support. However, I have heard from my seniors or the experienced people who work on the pricing and scaling, the price of Oracle is a bit higher. The reason is Oracle provides enterprise-level applications, only large enterprises can afford Oracle applications or tools.

Oracle Databases license and maintenance prices are too high. The government ministry of finance gives us our budget and this solution is too expensive.

Pricing for Oracle Database is on the high-end side. In addition to the standard licensing and fixed fees for this solution, there's a cost for implementation and additional services. Their licensing policy also needs improvement.

The price of Oracle Database is too expensive and especially for individual environments. The pricing model is not clear, if I want to run it on a virtual environment, I still need to license the whole physical box.

We pay for a yearly licensing subscription. Funds permitting, we have plans to increase usage for Oracle Database in the new year.

We have a license for Oracle Database. You need one in order to use it.

We have a monthly license.

While I'm a fan of Oracle as a solution, I am not a fan of the cost. It is very expensive. For medium to small organizations, the current cost might not be viable as compared to SQL Server, which is much cheaper than Oracle and provides approximately the same functionality that they have. You can choose a core-based license or a user-based license. There are no extra costs above the standard licensing fees. Typically it is a five-year contract that can be paid monthly or yearly.

We have a subscription.

This is quite an expensive product. It's not cheap. We pay a yearly licensing fee to Oracle.

Oracle Database has two different types of licenses. One is the Named User, and the other is the Oracle Processor. So Oracle Named User will cost you about $950 per license, and Oracle Processor will cost you around $47,500 per processor. And on the Named User part, you need a minimum number of users to ensure that you'll buy the minimum number of licenses. So for Enterprise Edition, the minimum requirement is 25 Named Users. And you need to pay to add options and packs. All the options and packs are available at extra cost, but Enterprise Edition includes Spatial and Graph at no extra cost. Starting last year, Oracle offered Spatial and Graph for free with the Enterprise Edition. Then there is Standard Edition, a minimal deployment option. So you can deploy Standard Edition on a server with a maximum of two sockets. That's why Enterprise Edition is typical in most cluster and complex environments.

The price should be lower. We're currently paying for it yearly.

The Oracle Database license is included with our SAP subscription.

We have been paying for an annual enterprise license Oracle Database.

The license fee is paid annually. The fees are another area that can be improved. The pricing should be cheaper.

The licensing costs are on a yearly basis, although I am a technicican and am not involved in this process. This is in someone else's purview.

The price of the solution could be reduced.

The solution is very expensive as they are charging their products in different categories. For example, we have to pay on the application side, on the technology side, and on the licensing. On an enterprise level, if we compare with other solutions, there are a lot of open-source options which would be cheaper.

We have a yearly license, and it could be cheaper.

Right now we are paying per license to Oracle and for whatever additional features we are leveraging. For that we need to pay extra on top of the license. There are a lot of additional costs. That is the reason we are only leveraging for transactional related purposes, so that we do not spend so much on doing the same thing on Oracle. That is the reason we are looking for open source databases now.

Oracle requires you to purchase extra licenses for Oracle Data Guard.

There is a need to pay for a license for the solution. This must be done annually. The license is inexpensive.

We pay an annual license fee to Oracle.

If the solution was less expensive, they would get man more clients. The pricing can be an issue for many.

We pay for licensing on a yearly basis. It's a bit expensive. We would like it to be a bit cheaper.

Oracle needs to offer better pricing.

We have a global license and it is renewed every two years. Seeing as a lot of our applications use Oracle, our team has been able to negotiate a better deal.

It's really expensive, however, that's what makes Oracle a niche player. It's not something every company can have its own. It's for the elite, it's for the prestige. It's for the ones who really do good business.

Depending on the services included, it seems little bit expensive.

The pricing is extremely high. It's one of the reasons our organization is looking for an alternative. They would like to move away from Oracle to lower their costs.

The price is a little high for the solution, especially when you try and configure it in certain ways. We are using the application-specific user license, which is a little inexpensive. We pay approximately $4,900 USD annually. The licensing model is complex, you are charged for many configuration setting used. You could deploy the solution and expect a cheaper rate but you might have deployed the solution with some of the costly features and now have to pay for them.

Oracle is an expensive product.

It is very expensive. Oracle licenses are expensive.

We have bought a license, and it was a one-time cost.

I would rate the Oracle Database an eight out of 10 as a solution.

The support does cost extra, however, it is worth the extra money. It really comes in handy if you run into problems.

It would be a benefit if there were different pricing levels to help different size businesses. The product is a bit expensive compared to other competitors.

The pricing is expensive, which is a major issue. We pay a yearly maintenance fee.

It's not cheap, but sometimes, you get what you pay for. It's expensive.

It's expensive. I would say that it is more expensive than other competing products.

It is expensive.

They are pricing themselves out of the market.

Its price is already low. Oracle has a competitive and cheaper price as compared to others. Oracle Cloud is cheaper than other clouds. The pricing is very competitive for Oracle Cloud to be in the market. Their pricing makes customers interested in using this product even though Oracle doesn't have a local data center at this moment.

It is very expensive. We pay in dollars, so the inflation and conversion cost is also there for us. They charge on a yearly basis for the license.

This is an expensive product.

This solution is definitely geared towards larger enterprises. It's quite expensive.

I am not exactly sure of the precise cost, but I do know that the cost of the product is very expensive compared to some other solutions. Even though we are in a third world country, we do not enjoy any discount for our situation and economy.

When people talk about Oracle, especially Database, most of them mention that Oracle is an expensive product. However, if it's suitable or not or if it really is "expensive" depends on their requirements. Today, Oracle is one of the best choices, regardless of pricing. Even though on paper their pricing looks expensive, everything can be negotiated. Companies may be able to come to an understanding with Oracle at a price point they can accept.

The licensing costs are very high. We feel the solution is price gouging its customers. The solution has a standard license, which is different from an enterprise license. If you need the encryption feature, you need to go up to enterprise licensing which has a whole lot of other features that you may not even be using. Encryption is a top requirement in the industry, however, you're forced to use the enterprise edition if you need to use anything like this. That said, it is always better to go to a standard edition, which has more limited capabilities but can still fit into your product perspective.

Our licensing costs are between $40,000 and $50,000 per year. Those are the costs that cover maintenance and licensing. We have an enterprise edition. We pay extra for features that are only available with this particular tier.

Pricing on the solution is higher. There are less expensive database options on the market.

We're just a customer and we have the licensed product. We are continuously updating the license on an annual basis. It's a standard license, with a worldwide standard licensing cost for Oracle that we are paying. The fees are at about 22%.

I don't deal with the accounting, so I can't speak to the pricing of the solution.

Oracle is expensive, but very good. You get quality for the price you pay.

It is expensive.

The cost of Oracle Database is so high if you compare it to other vendors. Therefore you have to study your solution and know exactly which features you want; this will minimize the cost and licensing price. For that, Oracle provides different types of DB such as EE, SE, SE1, etc. depending on what the clients want.

It's not really good from the pricing point of view.

The price is very expensive for the support.

The main issue where I feel that Oracle still has a problem is with the licensing. Licensing is still expensive and the reason why today most startups use other, cheaper databases. Those other databases are much less sophisticated than Oracle. I hope that in the future, Oracle will reach a level where it can introduce its database with different compliances and different licenses so that companies will be able to use to it and it will be competitive with other databases in the market.