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Oracle Technology Price list – How to calculate pricing

Oracle Technology Price list does not have a how-to guide on how to read it and calculate pricing for on-premise software licenses.

When you read this article, you should have a copy of the Oracle Technology Price list open. 

Remember that Oracle technology pricing may change, so always look at the current price list. This article only covers Oracle technology and does not deal with Oracle Java licensing.

This article should guide you in reading and calculating your Oracle license costs and pricing. It does not replace the Oracle price list. However, Oracle pricing (USD) has not changed for many years.

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Oracle Technology Price List – How to calculate Oracle license price

  • Oracle Database Enterprise Edition – The license price for the processor is $ 47,500
  • Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 – The license price for the processor is $ 17,500
  • Personal Edition – The license price per user is $ 400
  • The Mobile Server License price for the processor is $ 23,000
  • The NoSQL Database Enterprise Edition License price for the processor is $ 10,000
oracle database license cost

Let’s begin by explaining how the Oracle Technology price list works.

Named User Plus

This is the license fee for 1 Named User Plus. Remember that when licensing Oracle software, there are always minimum licensing user requirements to apply.

For example, Standard Edition 2 requires 10 Named User Plus per server, and Database Enterprise Edition is core-based, with 25 per Oracle processor definition. You cannot license Enterprise Edition with seven named users plus; you need 25 as a minimum per “Oracle processor,” which is defined by you calculating the core licensing.

Software Update License & Support

This is the annual maintenance fee that you will pay to Oracle. You notice that the fees are 22% of the license fees.

If you receive discounts on your Oracle license purchase, you will also receive a discount on annual maintenance.

Oracle Processor License—This is the price for one Oracle processor license. Note that Oracle does not calculate one physical processor as one Oracle processor license.

There is a license calculation to establish how many Oracle Processor licenses you get.

The software update license & support field works the same for named user plus.

There is no price list for Oracle ULA; you must purchase licenses after an Oracle license audit. Oracle will claim that the penalty fees are always at the list price + backdated support.

Oracle Database Enterprise Edition Options – Licensing Costs

Oracle Database Enterprise Edition Options - Licensing Costs
oracle database options costs

In-Memory Database Cache and In-Memory Database Cache for Oracle Applications, only the processors on which the Times Ten In-Memory Database component of the In-Memory Database Cache program is installed and/or running must be counted to determine the number of licenses required.

Database Enterprise Management – License costs

Let’s stop here and explain how to read the pricing. The pricing for these products on the Oracle Technology price list works the same as for Oracle Database products.

Example:

Real Application Cluster’s license price is $460 per Named User Plus, and the support fee is $101.20 per user.

If we want to know the cost of 200 x Named User Plus licenses for Real Application Clusters, we multiply 200x by $460, which is $92,000 in license fees.
The support will be calculated as 200 x $ 101.20 = $ 20,240

The list prices for Oracle Real Application Clusters

License fees: $ 92,000
Support fees: $ 20,240

Total fees to be paid to Oracle: $ 112,240  (92000+20240)

For the following programs, Data Masking and Subsetting Pack, only the users of the database servers where masked data or data subsets originate must be licensed

Oracle Integration License Costs & Products

  • Database Gateway for Sybase – The license price for a processor is $ 17,500
  • Database Gateway for SQL Server – The license price for a processor is $ 17,500
  • Database Gateway for Informix – The license price for a processor is $ 17,500
  • Database Gateway for Teradata – The license price for a processor is $ 109,000
  • Database Gateway for DRDA – The license price for a processor is $ 46,000
  • Database Gateway for APPC – The license price for a processor is $ 46,000
  • Database Gateway for WebSphere MQ – The license price for a processor is $ 46,000

All these products are licensed per computer and do not fall under core factor licensing.

oracle database gateway licensing

Computer: is defined as the computer on which the programs are installed. A Computer license allows you to use the licensed program on a single specified computer.

RDB Server Products – License Costs

  • RDB Enterprise Edition – The license price for a processor is $ 47,500 (this can be migrated to a normal database ee at no cost)
  • CODASYL DBMS
  • Trace
  • Programmer for RDB
  • CDD/Repository
  • CDD/R Runtime

All the RDB products are licensed as database products, meaning you use Oracle Named User Plus or processor licensing. Pay attention to the user minimums that may apply.

Oracle RDB license cost

Oracle Middleware Licensing and Pricing

  • Toplink and App and Application Development Framework – The license price for the processor is $ 5,800
  • WebLogic Server Standard Edition – The license price for the processor is $ 10,000
  • WebLogic Server Enterprise Edition – The license price for the processor is $ 25,000
  • WebLogic Suite – The license price for the processor is $ 45,000
  • Web Tier – The license price for the processor is $ 5,000
  • Internet Application Server Enterprise Edition – The license price for the processor is $ 35,000
  • GlassFish Server – The license price for the processor is $ 5,000
  • Coherence Standard Edition One – The license price for the processor is $ 800
  • Coherence Enterprise Edition – The license price for the processor is $ 11,500
  • Coherence Grid Edition – The license price for the processor is $ 25,000
  • BPEL Process Manager – The license price for the processor is $ 60,000
  • SOA Suite for Non-Oracle Middleware – The license price for the processor is $ 75,000
  • Unified Business Process management suite for non-Oracle Middleware – The license price for the processor is $ 57,500
  • Stream Analytics – The license price for the processor is $ 60,000
  • Forms and Reports – The license price for the processor is $ 23,000
  • Managed File Transfer – The license price for the processor is $ 30,000
Oracle weblogic license cost

Licensing Oracle Middleware: All these products apply Named User Plus licensing and Oracle processor licensing. Consider that user minimums vary from product to product if you choose user-based licensing.

Verrazzano Enterprise Container Platform

Verrazzano pricing

Verrazzano Container Platform is licensed per processor and is only available as an annual subscription. A perpetual license is not available for purchase.

All processors in the nodes in the Kubernetes clusters where Verrazzano images are pulled must be counted when determining the number of subscriptions required. If any Kubernetes node is a virtual machine, then the number of processors on that node is subject to the guidelines documented in the Oracle Partitioning Policy. When a Kubernetes cluster is used as a dedicated Verrazzano Admin cluster, and no managed workloads are run in that cluster, nodes in that cluster can be excluded from the count of processors that require a subscription.

Verrazzano Enterprise Container Platform Annual Subscription: This is defined as the right to use the specified Program by the applicable license metric and to receive Oracle Software Update License & Support services for the subscription period specified on the ordering document. The subscription is effective upon the effective date of the ordering document unless otherwise stated in Your ordering document. If your order was placed through the Oracle Store, the effective date is when Oracle accepts your order. Oracle Software Update License & Support services are provided under the applicable technical support policies in effect at the time the services are provided. You may renew your subscription at the end of Your subscription, if available, at the current fees for the applicable subscription. If you choose not to renew your subscription, your right to use the program will be terminated. You must de-install all software (including any applications, tools, and binaries) provided. You may be subject to reinstatement fees if You later choose to reactivate Your subscription.

Mobile Suite Technology – License Costs

  • Mobile Suite – The license price for the processor is $ 9,900
  • Mobile Suite Client Runtime – License price per named user plus $ 22,00
Mobile suite pricing

How to license Mobile Suite Technology?  You apply for a Processor license for Mobile Suite, and then the clients are licensed per named user plus. There is also a license applied per application developed. That means there are three different licensing metrics that you need to review before applying for Mobile Suite.

Oracle Mobile Suite Client Runtime and Mobile Application Framework, only the end users of each Developed Application must be counted to determine the number of licenses required, regardless of the choice of the mobile application development tool or framework used to build the Application.

Oracle GoldenGate and Data Integrator – License Costs

Oracle GoldenGate and Data Integrator - License Costs
  • Data Integrator Enterprise Edition – The license price for the processor is $ 30,000
  • Data Integrator for Big Data – The license price for the processor is $ 3,000
  • Enterprise Metadata Management – The license price for the processor is $ 150,000
  • Enterprise Data Quality Profiling for Data Integration – The license price for the processor is $ 100,000
  • Enterprise Data Quality for Audit and Dashboard Integration – The license price for the processor is $ 50,000
  • Enterprise Data Quality for Real-Time Processing for Data Integration – The license price for the processor is $ 100,000
  • Enterprise Data for Batch Processing for Data Integration – The license price for the processor is $ 100,000
  • Enterprise Data for Address Verification Server for Data Integration – The license price for the processor is $ 63,300
  • Data Integration Suite – The license price for the processor is $ 70,000
  • GoldenGate – The license price for the processor is $ 17,500
  • GoldenGate for non-Oracle Database – The license price for a processor is $ 17,500
  • GoldenGate for MainFrame – The license price for a processor is $ 100,000
  • GoldenGate for Veridata – The license price for the processor is $ 30,000
  • GoldenGate for Teradata Replication Services – The license price for the processor is $ 17,500
  • GoldenGate for Big Data – The license price for the processor is $ 20,000
  • GoldenGate for Foundation Suite – The license price for a processor is $ 7,500
Oracle Goldengate license cost

How do you license Goldengate and Oracle Data Integration?

You apply either named user plus or processor licensing. You must review the Oracle technology price list to understand which license models are available for each product. If there is no price for one license metric, you can safely assume no license metric is available for this product. For example, Data Integrator for Big Data is only available as a processor license.

Oracle GoldenGate, only (a) the users of the Oracle database from which you capture data and (b) the users of the Oracle database where you will apply the data must be counted to determine the number of licenses required

Oracle GoldenGate, only (a) the processors running the Oracle database from which you capture data and (b) the processors running the Oracle database where you will apply the data must be counted to determine the number of licenses required.

How to license Oracle Goldengate for non-Oracle Database

  • Oracle GoldenGate for Non-Oracle Database, only (a) the users of the Non-Oracle database from which you capture data and (b) the users of the Non-Oracle database where you will apply the data must be counted to determine the number of licenses required
  • Oracle GoldenGate for Non-Oracle Database, only (a) the processors running the Non-Oracle database from which you capture data and (b) the processors running the Non-Oracle database where you will apply the data must be counted to determine the number of licenses required.

How to license GoldenGate for Mainframe

  • Oracle GoldenGate for Mainframe, only (a) the users of the database from which you capture data and (b) the users of the database where you will apply the data must be counted to determine the number of licenses required

Oracle GoldenGate for Teradata Replication Services, only (a) the users of the database from which you capture data and (b) the users of the database where you will apply the data must be counted to determine the number of licenses required

Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data requires counting only the users of the source Oracle or non-Oracle database(s) or NoSQL repositories from which you capture data to determine the number of licenses required. For any messaging systems from which you capture, every queue/topic is counted as a user. In the instance of multiple source databases, NoSQL repositories, or messaging systems, all users for all sources must be counted.

For Data Integrator Enterprise Edition, Data Integrator Enterprise Edition for Oracle Applications, and Application Adapters for Data Integration, the users running or accessing the data transformation processes must be counted to determine the number of licenses required.

Data Integrator Enterprise Edition, Data Integrator Enterprise Edition for Oracle Applications, Data Integrator for Oracle Business Intelligence, Data Integrator for Big Data, and Application Adapters for Data Integration, only the processor(s) where the data transformation processes are executed must be counted to determine the number of licenses required.

How much do Goldengate and Data Integrator Cost?

  • GoldenGate processor license is currently $ 17,500 per processor (core factor calculation required), and Data Integrator for Enterprise Edition is almost twice the price $ 30,000

Weblogic Suite Options Licensing and Pricing

  • BPEL Process Manager Option – The license price for the processor is $ 23,000
  • Service Bus – The license price for the processor is $ 23,000
  • SOA Suite for Oracle Middleware – The license price for the processor is $ 57,500
  • Unified Business Process Management Suite – The license price for the processor is $ 57,500
  • WebLogic Coherence Grid Edition Option – The license price for the processor is $ 10,000
Oracle soa suite pricing

Caution: It is important to note that if you use any of these options, let’s say SOA Suite, you must also license and purchase WebLogic Suite. This is a license pre-requisite.

How to license and price WebLogic Suite options

These options also require you to license WebLogic Suite. These are add-on options for the base license, which is WebLogic Suite.

They apply Named User Plus licensing and processor licensing the same way as the application server products do. Remember that there are always user minimums to review when calculating Oracle licensing costs.

When purchasing and licensing these options products, you must also match the license metric and quantity for WebLogic Suite.

WebLogic Server Enterprise Edition and WebLogic Suite Options

  • WebLogic Server Multitenant – The license price for the processor is $ 20,000
  • WebLogic Server Continuous Availability – The license price for the processor is $ 20,000
oracle middleware options

How do you license these products? These products can be licensed as an add-on to WebLogic Server Enterprise Edition and WebLogic Suite. They are available both on named user plus and processor-licensed metrics. Most companies choose named user plus for test and development environments and license production with processor-based licensing. Remember the Oracle licensing user minimums to apply and that the license metric and quantity must match the core product, either WLS EE or WLS Suite.

SOA Suite for Oracle Middleware options – License costs

  • Integration Continuous Availability – The license price for the processor is $ 25,000
  • Real-Time Integration Business Insight – The license price for the processor is $ 25,000
oracle middleware options

Licenses available for these products are named user plus and processor license. Remember that you must also license Oracle WebLogic Suite + SOA Suite to be correctly licensed for these products.

Application Server Enterprise Management – License costs

  • WebLogic Server Management Pack Enterprise Edition – The license price for the processor is $ 12,000
  • SOA Management Pack Enterprise Edition – The license price for the processor is $ 25,000
  • Management Pack for Oracle Coherence – The license price for the processor is $ 3,500
  • Management Pack for Oracle GoldenGate – The license price for the processor is $ 3,500
  • Management pack for Oracle Data Integrator – License price for the processor is $ 6,900
oracle middleware management pack

How do you license these products? These are management options for Oracle Middleware products, and they are mainly used from Oracle Enterprise Manager. They are licensed per named user plus or processor license. Currently, WebLogic Server Management Pack EE is priced at $12,00 per processor license. You need to consider the Oracle core factor table and licensing user minimums.

FAQs

What about Oracle Virtualbox Pricing?

Can we buy more BEA licenses?

No, but you can read how you can license BEA with Weblogic.

What about Oracle ULA Pricing?

There is no price list for Oracle ULA—they can cost anywhere from $1 m to $50 m.

What is Oracle Pool of Funds Pricing?

Oracle Pool of Funds discounts usually are 75-90%

How much do Oracle Universal Cloud Credits cost?

This depends on how you use Oracle UCCs.

How much does Oracle Cloud ERP cost?

Oracle ERP Cloud Pricing—Oracle ERP Cloud Licensing Guide Oracle ERP Cloud is priced based on licensing commitments over 3-5 years.

How much does Oracle Cloud at Customer cost

There are different sizes to Oracle Cloud at Customer; which size you choose determines the price.

How much do MySQL licenses cost?

MySQL prices depends on the size of the server and which edition.

Identity Management Products?

Oracle Identity Management Products are licensed per this guide.

How much does Oracle Exalogic cost?

There are different sizes of Oracle Exalogic.

How much does Oracle Exadata cost?

It depends on the size of the Exadata.

How much does Oracle Exalytics cost?

Oracle BI machine comes in different sizes.

How is Oracle Database Appliance priced?

Oracle’s low-cost engineered system is priced per our guide.

Important Oracle licensing definitions

Application User: is defined as an individual authorized by you to use the applicable licensed application programs that are installed on a single server or multiple servers regardless of whether the individual is actively using the programs at any given time. Suppose you license the Oracle Self-Service Work Request option with Oracle Enterprise Asset Management. In that case, you are required to maintain licenses for the equivalent number of Application Users licensed, and you are granted unlimited access to initiate work requests, view work request status, and view scheduled completion date for your entire employee population. Applications Users licensed for Oracle Order Management are allowed to manually enter orders directly into the programs but any orders entered electronically from other sources must be licensed separately. For Oracle Sourcing, Oracle iSupplier Portal, and Oracle Services Procurement programs, use by your external suppliers is included with your application user licenses.

Named User Plus: is defined as an individual authorized by you to use the programs which are installed on a single server or multiple servers, regardless of whether the individual is actively using the programs at any given time. A non human operated device will be counted as a named user plus in addition to all individuals authorized to use the programs, if such devices can access the programs. If multiplexing hardware or software (e.g., a TP monitor or a web server product) is used, this number must be measured at the multiplexing front end. Automated batching of data from computer to computer is permitted. You are responsible for ensuring that the named user plus per processor minimums are maintained for the programs contained in the user minimum table in the licensing rules section; the minimums table provides for the minimum number of named users plus required and all actual users must be licensed.

For the purposes of the following programs: Configuration Management Pack for Applications, System Monitoring Plug-in for Non Oracle Databases, System Monitoring Plug-in for Non Oracle Middleware, Management Pack for Non-Oracle Middleware, Management Pack for WebCenter Suite, only the users of the program that is being managed/monitored are counted for the purpose of determining the number of licenses required

Processor: shall be defined as all processors where the Oracle programs are installed and/or running. Programs licensed on a processor basis may be accessed by your internal users (including agents and contractors) and by your third party users. The number of required licenses shall be determined by multiplying the total number of cores of the processor by a core processor licensing factor specified on the Oracle Processor Core Factor Table which can be accessed at http://oracle.com/contracts. All cores on all multicore chips for each licensed program are to be aggregated before multiplying by the appropriate core processor licensing factor and all fractions of a number are to be rounded up to the next whole number. When licensing Oracle programs with Standard Edition One, Standard Edition 2 or Standard Edition in the product name (with the exception of WebCenter Enterprise Capture Standard Edition, Java SE Support, Java SE Advanced, and Java SE Suite), a processor is counted equivalent to an occupied socket; however, in the case of multi-chip modules, each chip in the multi-chip module is counted as one occupied socket.

For example, a multicore chip based server with an Oracle Processor Core Factor of 0.25 installed and/or running the program (other than Standard Edition One programs or Standard Edition programs) on 6 cores would require 2 processor licenses (6 multiplied by a core processor licensing factor of .25 equals 1.50, which is then rounded up to the next whole number, which is 2). As another example, a multicore server for a hardware platform not specified in the Oracle Processor Core Factor Table installed and/or running the program on 10 cores would require 10 processor licenses (10 multiplied by a core processor licensing factor of 1.0 for ‘All other multicore chips’ equals 10)

For the following programs: Configuration Management Pack for Applications, System Monitoring Plug-in for Non-Oracle Databases, System Monitoring Plug-in for Non-Oracle Middleware, Management Pack for Non-Oracle Middleware, and Management Pack for WebCenter Suite, only the processors on which the program being managed/monitored is running are counted to determine the number of licenses required.

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  • Fredrik Filipsson brings two decades of Oracle license management experience, including a nine-year tenure at Oracle and 11 years in Oracle license consulting. His expertise extends across leading IT corporations like IBM, enriching his profile with a broad spectrum of software and cloud projects. Filipsson's proficiency encompasses IBM, SAP, Microsoft, and Salesforce platforms, alongside significant involvement in Microsoft Copilot and AI initiatives, improving organizational efficiency.

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