MySQL Pricing(2026)
2 plans compared · From $2000 · ★ 4.4/5
All Plans & Pricing
Community
Best for: Free and fully featured for most applications
- ✓ GPL license
- ✓ Full SQL
- ✓ Community support
Enterprise
Best for: Oracle licensing at $2,000-10,000+/year/server
- ✓ Commercial license
- ✓ Oracle support
- ✓ Advanced security
Pricing Analysis
Overview
MySQL Community is free open-source. MySQL Enterprise (Oracle license) runs $2,000-10,000+/year per server. MySQL HeatWave Cloud is pay-per-use at $0.056/OCPU/hour. Most developers should never pay for MySQL - the Community edition has everything needed.
Cost Per User
Which Plan Is Right for You?
Free and fully featured for most applications. The majority of web applications running MySQL use Community edition. WordPress, many frameworks default here.
Oracle licensing at $2,000-10,000+/year/server. Hard to justify unless you need Oracle support contracts or specific Enterprise features. PostgreSQL is the smarter free alternative.
HeatWave Cloud for OLAP+OLTP combined. $0.056/OCPU/hour. Interesting for analytics-on-MySQL workloads but a niche use case. Compare Snowflake pricing for pure analytics.
vs. Category Average
5961% above the databases average
Our Verdict
Community edition is a solid free choice. The Oracle Enterprise licensing is hard to justify vs. PostgreSQL which has more features for free. MySQL HeatWave's analytics-on-OLTP story is interesting but niche.
