The tool's pricing is high and yearly. 

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I rate Oracle Database's pricing a four out of ten. 

There are licensing costs.

Its price is a little bit high in terms of competitiveness. It is a little bit expensive. For any additional features, there are additional costs.

It's CPU-based licensing. The cost is far too high. We're looking into other options to avoid having to pay so much. There are both licensing and support costs you need to consider. 

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.

You buy it when you need it, and then you pay the maintenance. We bought the licenses over 10 years ago. We haven't changed our licenses. We are not buying new licenses, and we are not looking at other devices. So, it is difficult to say whether it is cheap or expensive. There is nothing to compare to.

The additional options, such as a rack, partitioning, diagnostics, or tuning, are expensive.

The solution is very expensive.

We had an annual subscription, but Oracle only recognizes certain VMs. Eventually, we had to migrate to Oracle Linux and allocate a specific number of CPUs to a product to reduce the price.

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.

We pay for an annual license as well as monthly support. 

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.

We pay for licensing on a yearly basis.

It's a bit expensive. We would like it to be a bit cheaper.

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

The product is expensive.

It is quite expensive.

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.

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.

The licensing is on a monthly basis. Improvement in pricing would be nice.

The product is expensive.

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.

We mainly use a special license for ERP systems specifically, instead of a general purpose license. This ERP-focused license is very simple. You just have to use Oracle Database with an ERP system and that's it.

It's been quite a long time since I looked into the price.

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.

I find the pricing to be high. They should work to lower it if possible. 

We pay a yearly licensing and support fee to Oracle. I can't speak to the exact costs, however.

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

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.

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.

I rate the pricing a five out of ten.

Costs can add up when you use Oracle because they monitor everything and there's a fee for that.

Generally, when you buy Oracle Database, and if you're buying it for your own data center on the on-prem side, you have to go by the processor cores and the list price is around $47,500 for the enterprise edition per core.

It is a perpetual license; it is not something that you worry about on monthly basis. That said, they do have options now for the subscription-based model, however, there are more data points to be looked at. They have an offering called the data cloud and customer which is a subscription-based model. They can give you hardware plus some software licenses as well.

When it comes to Oracle and all the licensing policy that they have is very complex, the type of audits that they do is not really something that people welcome. 

The licensing could be cheaper and clearer. It is not clear how it applies to certain options. The licensing of the solution for only several virtual servers is a big issue which should be addressed. 

The license is yearly. 

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 Database is expensive. We also need to buy additional products.

You buy it initially, and then you pay for yearly support if you need support. If you don't need support, you can also use it without the support.

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.

Its cost is astronomical. They charge by the size of the server rather than what you're actually using. It is just a terrible business model.

It has got a ton of features that are great, but you have to pay for them, and we don't want to spend a lot of money.

If you use any of their additional products, you have to pay for those. Almost everything extra is at an additional charge. We also use RAC, and there is an additional charge for that. 

The pricing could be better. It would be nice if they could offer a one-year subscription package or something similar. 

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

It was purchased by our client. It might have been a one-time payment. It doesn't seem to be very expensive.

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.

Because it is a bundled product, we have no choice but to purchase the Oracle Database.

Licensing, as well as support fees, are expensive and should be reduced. 

This is quite an expensive product. It's not cheap.

We pay a yearly licensing fee to Oracle. 

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.

This is an expensive product.

We have a yearly license.

For us as a bank, the price is not too high, but for a small business, it would be an expensive solution.

I believe Oracle has reduced the pricing.

The solution is expensive.

Because we're a non-profit, we have a buffet deal. For the first three years, they won't charge us any license fees for any use. It's all-we-can-eat. After three years, they'll come back and look at the footprint and license us based on that. This is a big deal for non-profits, but Oracle is willing to do it.

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.

The price of Oracle Database could improve, it is expensive and they are paid annually. We are looking for lower pricing and flexible pricing plans, they are very rigid in the price.

I rate the price of Oracle Database a two out of five.

We are on an annual license for the use of this solution.

Since we are in BPN, we utilize group licensing which has the tech support included.

Oracle is very expensive. So if I suggest Oracle to a client, they'll often say it's too costly.

We're fine with the licensing and costs. 

We pay an annual license fee to Oracle. 

It's expensive, that's for sure. Because if any of the other databases are compared, Oracle Database is the only expensive product out there. Open Source products like Cassandra, MongoDB, NoSQL, those are the pretty much the same job. Oracle Database, though, might be the fastest RDBMS database we've seen. That might be the reason that it's expensive. It's also the market leader and they own a large market share.

I believe the solution is quite expensive.

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. 

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. 

Definitely, it's an expensive product.

Because it's dominant in the market for database-related products, the price is a bit expensive compared with others.

They are pricing themselves out of the market.

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.

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

It's one of the more expensive database products. From a business perspective, we try to leverage our whole entire Oracle footprint to drive down the pricing. Instead of your list price that you see on the web for Database, for example, we can work with ourselves from Oracle and we can make a bigger purchase of more products at a reduced rate. We get the Cadillac for the non-Cadillac price.

The product is expensive.

The price of Oracle Database is too expensive.

We might be switching solutions because the price is too high.

It has an annual subscription. It is an Oracle product, so it is a bit expensive, but that's fine. 

Frankly speaking, Oracle Database is very expensive. But it offers a lot of value for the money in terms of scalability, performance, and powerful functionality. We have a yearly subscription.

The licenses could definitely be cheaper. We pay on a yearly basis. 

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.

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

The license is inexpensive. 

I work with clients and they are the ones that have to pay for the license. If they are using it for production purposes, they need to pay. I can't speak to the exact costs.

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.

It is very expensive. Oracle licenses are expensive.

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

The price is very expensive for the support.

Compared to something like Microsoft SQL Server, it's quite a bit pricier. Oracle Database is the better product, but you definitely pay for that advantage.

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

The cost is very high. All the customers that I know are planning to move to an open-source database for this reason.

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

It could be cheaper. We pay for the license on a yearly basis.

Licensing is on a yearly basis.

There is a license required for this solution and it is a little expensive.

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.

Be prepared to pay for consulting services, and do not underestimate the time required to find and hire good quality database administrators. Also, carefully evaluate your sizing and performance requirements, involving if you can, both the application vendor and Oracle consultants.

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.

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 subscription.

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

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.

License cost for Oracle Database and other products seems to be on the higher side, but even then, more than half of the market is captured by Oracle.

Licensing costs are currently very competitive as Oracle looks to establish a market presence for BDD. Organizations that are not seeing tremendous return value on their Hadoop investment or are struggling with accessibility should take advantage of the early pricing options.

The Oracle Database licensing price could be less expensive. We pay annually for the use of the solution.

There are no licensing costs because the solution for me is open source. 

We don't really use the solution too much in the company and therefore don't have a license. We test it for customers. I can't speak to the licensing process or costs. 

Our customers sometimes complain about the price of the license, as it is very high for them.

Bargain with the sales representative for good discounts - particularly if you buy several licences at once. But beware when buying multiple licenses together you get them on a single CSI, which may give trouble in future if you need to cancel one license out of the total, as that in principle means cancelling all licences and renegotiating so you may get new prices with less discount on the yearly support fees for the licences you have left. Research all the things that actually is possible with the basic licence so you get your value-for-money and only pay for options if you really need them.

You're always going to find some product that's cheaper. Oracle is never cheap. You're always going to find some product that is, in certain configurations, faster.

Oracle Database is expensive.

There is a license required to use Oracle Database.

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

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

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

It's expensive.

It is expensive.

Not in my scope.

High DB consolidation ratio leads to reduced license costs, regardless of the Enterprise Edition and Oracle multitenant option license. In addition, running costs should be considered.

There is a lot administrative work, even if there is only one DB, such as backup, tuning, monitoring and patching. DB Integration with MTA contributes to reducing operating costs.

Its licensing is yearly. It is expensive, and it should be cheaper.

The Oracle licensing model is quite difficult. You have to pay for everything.

The Oracle license is quite expensive, and we pay on a yearly basis.

It is expensive.

Oracle needs to reduce the licensing cost as it's getting more expensive.

The license fee is paid annually.

The fees are another area that can be improved. The pricing should be cheaper.

Oracle needs to offer better pricing.

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

Everything is good but pricing-wise, it's still struggling with that. It's very difficult to justify their costs sometimes in the board room.

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.

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

Oracle is an expensive product.

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%.

Oracle's licensing is kind of a con. It's the expense of it depending on all of the features that you want. That would be the main consideration I think as a company when they're looking at different database vendors. Plus, just what I mentioned, the stability and the security aspects of it.

The price of Oracle Database is high and could be reduced.

The price of Oracle Database is quite high compared to other solutions. It has a lot of options, such as security for partitioning and real application clusters. These options are not for free. Once you want to use it, you have to pay extra.

The pricing model could be better.

When using this solution, there are no additional costs.

We do not have to pay for a license in order to be able to use the product.

Use licensing with caution, read the fine print. :) ?This is an important point and usually it's not skipped by the companies paying for the license. Nonetheless, Oracle supports your applications and database only if Oracle has certified the ?hardware and software that the companies have used to build and deploy their applications and databases on; which basically means that you have to use industry-standard hardware and software.

It is possible that your hardware is not supported or has been desupported for a specific version of the Oracle product, so just remember to read the fine print before you deploy your applications.

If you look at the price point with it and how they structure the licensing, it is definitely going to be one of the more expensive ones. You do get everything with it because they throw everything in with the kitchen sink. If they could pare down the solution, then you could just choose the pieces that you want and maybe pricing might be a little bit more along the lines of what customers could use. It is definitely on the more expensive side.

I think it's very expensive when compared to the others. Depending on the size of the company, smaller ones will not choose Oracle because they can get fixed solutions or less expensive solutions. If I were Oracle, I would create a solution that would serve these small companies for a better price, maybe with a lot less options, but not as expensive as some other options.

For long term investment, it is the best option. Initially, its cost is higher, but its running cost is less than other competitors.

I understand that Oracle is very expensive compared to other databases.

The Oracle Database license is included with our SAP subscription.

I am using the trial version.

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

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. 

It is expensive. 

The license cost needs to be optimized. The licensing cost is very high compared to other RDBMS. 

"We're not rich enough to buy cheap things." - English proverb.

The price of the solution could be reduced.

The price of the solution could improve.

It is on the higher side, so it’s better for big enterprises. However, small and medium business can explore cheaper versions of the same product, which doesn’t offer all benefits of the enterprise version, but it will still be good enough compared to almost any other database solution.

I would advise that you carefully evaluate the compatibility of the software solution with Oracle Standard Editions which are way less expensive. Also, take a look to the new Standard Edition licensing model (called Standard Edition 2).

Licensing is expensive and then there is a support fee which is another 20% of the cost price. 

The solution is more expensive than the SQL server. If a company needs a less expensive option, it shouldn't necessarily choose Oracle.

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

It's very expensive. You pay a premium price for a premium product.

We have a monthly license.

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

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

The price of the solution is expensive compared to other database solutions. We are on an annual subscription.

Our customers buy licenses from Oracle directly.