Oracle Database licensing and price list analysis for enterprise buyers
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Oracle Database price list 2026, every line with the support number.

All 22 Database lines from the August 3, 2026 Technology Global Price List, in one table. Set a quantity and a discount and the tool returns net license, first year support on net, and the five year cost that the list price never shows you.

Key Takeaways
  • Enterprise Edition is $47,500 per Processor, Standard Edition 2 is $17,500. Named User Plus is $950 and $350. Neither moved between the April and August 2026 revisions.
  • Support is 22 percent of net, not list. One dollar off the net license is worth about $2.10 across a five year hold, because the discount removes support it never generates.
  • The crossover is 50 users per Processor. Every Database line prices Named User Plus at exactly one fiftieth of the Processor rate, so the metric choice is arithmetic, not opinion.
  • The options outprice the database. Five common options add $64,500 per processor against a $47,500 database.
  • Do not trust a copied PDF. Every text extractor shifts the product labels one row off the figures. The 22 percent rule catches it in one pass.
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Oracle publishes the Technology Global Price List as a PDF and it is the only public anchor for a Database negotiation. The problem is not finding it. The problem is that the list price is not the number you pay, and the number you pay is not the number that decides the bill.

This tool holds the 22 Database lines from the August 3, 2026 revision. Pick a line, set your quantity, set the discount you have been offered, and it returns the net license, the first year support calculated on net, and the five year total.

What does an Oracle Database line actually cost?

The lookup below answers that for a single line. The full table underneath it carries all 22 products on both metrics, with the support figure alongside each one.

Oracle Database price lookup · list of August 3, 2026
List license
Net license
Support, year 1
Five year total
Value of $1 off net

LinePer ProcessorSupport a yearPer Named User PlusSupport a year
Database editions
Standard Edition 2$17,500$3,850$350$77
Enterprise Edition$47,500$10,450$950$209
Personal Editionn/an/a$460$101.20
Mobile Server$23,000$5,060n/an/a
NoSQL Database Enterprise Edition$10,000$2,200$200$44
Enterprise Edition options
Multitenant$17,500$3,850$350$77
Real Application Clusters$23,000$5,060$460$101.20
Real Application Clusters One Node$10,000$2,200$200$44
Active Data Guard$11,500$2,530$230$50.60
Partitioning$11,500$2,530$230$50.60
Real Application Testing$11,500$2,530$230$50.60
Advanced Compression$11,500$2,530$230$50.60
Advanced Security$15,000$3,300$300$66
Label Security$11,500$2,530$230$50.60
Database Vault$11,500$2,530$230$50.60
TimesTen Application Tier Database Cache$23,000$5,060$460$101.20
Database In Memory$23,000$5,060$460$101.20
Database enterprise management
Diagnostics Pack$7,500$1,650$150$33
Tuning Pack$5,000$1,100$100$22
Database Lifecycle Management Pack$12,000$2,640$240$52.80
Data Masking and Subsetting Pack$11,500$2,530$230$50.60
Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Database$7,500$1,650$150$33

Source: Oracle Technology Global Price List, August 3, 2026. Support shown at 22 percent of list for comparison only. On a real contract support runs on net.

What we saw across Oracle Database license reviews in 2024 to 2026

Across roughly 40 Oracle Database estates Fredrik Filipsson reviewed between 2024 and 2026, the position was almost never wrong on the database line itself. It was wrong on the options.

Diagnostics and Tuning packs, switched on by a DBA during a performance incident and never switched off, were the largest single exposure in most of those reviews.

Which metric is cheaper, Processor or Named User Plus?

The 50 user crossover, worked

Every Database line on the list prices Named User Plus at exactly one fiftieth of the Processor rate. Enterprise Edition is $47,500 and $950. Standard Edition 2 is $17,500 and $350. The ratio is not a coincidence and it is not negotiable.

That fixes the crossover at 50 real users per Processor. Below it, Named User Plus is cheaper. Above it, Processor is cheaper. The arithmetic is identical on every line in the table above.

Named User Plus floors you cannot discount away

The floors override the arithmetic. Enterprise Edition carries a minimum of 25 Named User Plus per Processor and Standard Edition 2 carries 10 per server. You license the higher of the floor and your real count, so a 12 user Enterprise Edition estate on two processors still pays for 50 users.

SituationCheaper metricWhy
Under 25 users per Processor on EENamed User Plus, at the floorThe 25 per Processor floor sets the bill, not your headcount
25 to 50 users per ProcessorNamed User PlusReal count sits under the one fiftieth crossover
Over 50 users per ProcessorProcessorPast the crossover the per user price compounds against you
Public or uncountable user populationProcessorNamed User Plus cannot be evidenced, and that is an audit finding

Why does support decide the real bill?

Support runs on net, not list

First year support is 22 percent of the net license fee. The price list prints support against list because it is comparing list to list, and that single detail is the most common misreading of the document.

It matters because it makes the discount compound. A 50 percent discount halves the license and it also halves every support invoice for as long as you hold the license.

What one dollar off net is worth

About $2.10 across a five year hold. You save the dollar on the license, then you save 22 cents of support every year that the dollar would otherwise have generated. Raise the uplift field in the tool above zero and the figure climbs past $2.19.

That multiplier is why license discount is worth more than most of the concessions Oracle will offer instead of it. Cloud credits, extra environments, and training days do not touch the support stream.

Where the common advice on the Oracle price list is wrong

The standard advice is to treat the list price as fiction and negotiate the discount percentage. That is half right, and the missing half costs money. The percentage is the lever, but the list price is what the percentage applies to, and Oracle sets both.

A partial termination shows it. Drop a third of the estate and the repricing clause can leave the support bill untouched, because support was never anchored to the licenses you kept. Buyers who negotiated hard on percentage and ignored that clause funded the same support stream on a smaller estate.

Which options quietly cost the most?

Options are licensed on the same processor count as the database underneath them. That is what makes them expensive: every core you add multiplies the whole stack, not just the database line.

  • Multitenant, $17,500 per Processor. Required past three pluggable databases, and that three PDB allowance is among the most commonly breached limits on the list.
  • Real Application Clusters, $23,000 per Processor. Priced above Standard Edition 2 itself, and above every option except In Memory.
  • Partitioning, $11,500 per Processor. Cheap per unit and near universal in practice, which is why it so rarely appears in a baseline.
  • Diagnostics Pack $7,500 and Tuning Pack $5,000. The two lines a DBA can enable from a console without a purchase order.

Stack those five onto one Enterprise Edition processor and the options total $64,500 against a $47,500 database. The database is the minority of the bill.

ONE ENTERPRISE EDITION PROCESSOR, AT LIST Database, Enterprise Edition $47,500 Five common Enterprise Edition options $64,500 Multitenant $17,500 · Real Application Clusters $23,000 · Partitioning $11,500 Diagnostics Pack $7,500 · Tuning Pack $5,000 Bars to scale. The options total 136 percent of the database line.
On a fully optioned Enterprise Edition processor the database is the smaller half of the bill. Each option carries the same processor count as the database beneath it, so every core added multiplies the whole stack, not just the $47,500 line. List price, Technology Global Price List of August 3, 2026.
8 in 10
Estates running an option that was never licensed
1 in 3
Where Diagnostics or Tuning was the largest exposure
1 in 5
Paying Named User Plus past the 50 user crossover

Source: Redress Compliance advisory engagement file, 2024 to 2026. Oracle Database license reviews only.

Reading the PDF without misreading a row

Oracle lays the price list out in multiple columns, and every text extractor shifts the product labels one row away from the figures. Copy it into a spreadsheet unchecked and Enterprise Edition inherits the Standard Edition 2 price, understating the database by $30,000 per processor.

The check takes one pass. If the printed support figure is not exactly 22 percent of the license figure on the same row, that row is misaligned. Every one of the 22 rows above was validated that way before it was published here.

What to do next

  1. Count your real processors and your real users per database, then apply the floors before you compare metrics.
  2. List every option and pack that is enabled, not every one you bought. The gap between those two lists is your exposure.
  3. Model the five year total, not the license, using the tool above with the discount you have actually been offered.
  4. Price every concession against the support stream. Anything that does not reduce net license does not reduce support.
  5. Read the repricing clause before you agree any partial drop, because that clause decides whether a reduction ever reaches the invoice.
  6. Get the position independently reviewed before you respond to Oracle in writing.

Primary sources for the figures on this page: the Oracle price lists index, the Oracle pricing and licensing page, and the Oracle Database Licensing Information User Manual. For the clauses behind the list, see the Oracle price list explained and how to read and cite the PDF.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Oracle Database Enterprise Edition cost in 2026?

Enterprise Edition is $47,500 per Processor or $950 per Named User Plus on the August 3, 2026 Technology Global Price List, with first year support at 22 percent of the net license fee. Those two figures did not move between the April and the August 2026 revisions. What moves is the discount, and that is where the whole negotiation sits.

How much is Oracle Standard Edition 2?

Standard Edition 2 is $17,500 per Processor or $350 per Named User Plus, exactly one third of the Enterprise Edition Processor rate. SE2 also carries hard technical limits, a 2 socket server maximum and a 16 thread cap per database, so it is not a drop in substitute for EE on a large estate.

Is Oracle support calculated on list price or on what I actually pay?

On what you pay. Support runs at 22 percent of the net license fee, not the list price, which is why a discount point is worth far more than its face value. The price list prints support against list only because it is comparing list to list.

Which is cheaper, Processor or Named User Plus?

Named User Plus is cheaper below 50 real users per Processor and Processor is cheaper above it, because every Database line prices NUP at one fiftieth of the Processor rate. The floors override that: 25 NUP per Processor on Enterprise Edition, 10 per server on SE2. You license the higher of floor and real count.

Do the Enterprise Edition options cost more than the database?

Frequently, yes. Stack Multitenant, Real Application Clusters, Partitioning, and the Diagnostics and Tuning packs onto one Enterprise Edition processor and the options add $64,500 against a $47,500 database. Options are licensed on the same processor count as the database underneath them, so every core you add multiplies the whole stack.

Why do the numbers in a copied Oracle price list PDF come out wrong?

Because the PDF is a multi column layout, and every text extractor shifts the product labels one row away from the figures. Copy it into a spreadsheet and Enterprise Edition inherits the Standard Edition 2 price. The catch is the 22 percent rule: if printed support is not exactly 22 percent of the license, the row is misaligned.

How often does Oracle change the Technology Price List?

Two to three revisions a year, and the core Database line rates rarely move. Enterprise Edition has held at $47,500 per Processor across the recent revisions. The changes that matter are usually to metric definitions, option packaging, and cloud equivalence, not to the headline rate.

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$47,500
EE Per Processor
22%
Support On Net
50
User Crossover
$2.10
Value Of $1 Off Net
22
Database Lines

Buyers negotiate the discount and sign the support clause. Only one of those two decides what the estate costs in year five.

Fredrik Filipsson
Co Founder & Group CEO · ex Oracle, IBM, SAP
Advisory · Oracle

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