PostgreSQL Pricing

Chethan Rao S

Software Engineer at Medflix

The pricing for managed databases will be much higher than self-managed ones. That's something I'm sure about. When it comes to accurate pricing information, I always prefer their pricing tables.

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Kerstin Stefani

Senior Analyst Applications, Projects and Processes at ADVA Optical Networking Israel LTD.

We use the open-source version of PostgreSQL and not the enterprise edition.

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Ahmed-Ramy

CEO at TMentors

The solution is open-source.

While you have to pay for it, for Postgre, you have to pay for consultancy and implementation. There is professional support, however, I'm not aware of the pricing for it right now. IBM maybe provides that kind of support.

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Saman Raf

Software developer at MTNIrancell

It is an open-source platform.

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reviewer1161609

System Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The licensing model is good.

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Ashif Shaikh

Senior Database Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Postgre is open source. It is almost completely free.

The community version of Postgre is basically free.

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reviewer1089354

System/Security Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It is free. In terms of operating costs, it basically needs the same platform on which Oracle runs.

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Ariful Mondal

Global Data Architecture and Data Science Director at FH

It is open-source. If you use it on-premise, it is free. It also has enterprise or commercial versions. If you go for the cloud version, there will be a cost, but it is lower than Oracle or Microsoft.

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Faustine Chisasa

System Administrator at TZ Telecom Ltd.

PostgreSQL is free and open-source, so if capable admins are available then the setup cost can be negligible. We use internal resources, so it was completely free for us. One can choose the available official support too.

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Hardik Parashar

Associate Data Engineer at Digit Insurance

The solution is open-source. We don't need to have a license in order to use it.

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NaveenKumar21

Senior IT Manager at Excelra

The product is a direct service, and it is free to use. There isn't a licensing fee.

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reviewer1442025

Senior Database Administrator Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

It is free. There is no license on it.

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Kaan Çelik

Data Analytics and Business Intelligence Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

The pricing is reasonable. Of course, our economy has been hurt a little due to COVID-19. The pandemic has affected a lot of us. It's been hard for the companies that sell services with a database cost. You really have to choose the lowest-priced options right now. Postgres offers a fair price on the market, currently. That said, it could be less expensive, especially right now.

We definitely plan to continue to use the solution in the future. It's been quite good for us.

That said, I'm not in the financial department and I don't know the exact cost of the solution.

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reviewer1428423

Head of Technical Support at a real estate/law firm with 51-200 employees

The product is free. You don't have to pay a license fee.

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reviewer936300

Director Of Sales Marketing at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

There is an annual license.

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reviewer1644435

IT Systems Administrator at a transportation company with 51-200 employees

It is open source. There is no licensing.

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Dimitris Iracleous

Lead Technical Instructor at codehub

The need for our customers to pay for licences is contingent on their projects and budgets. It varies.

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Maurice Aelion

Senior DBA & IT Consultant at MA Consulting

It could be much cheaper. If you would like to build an application on Amazon today, PostgreSQL is the standard database with Redshift. If you want other databases, you can add them, but PostgreSQL is the basis of everything. It's a question of money, that's it.

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it_user457323

Senior Database Engineer at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I am working with other databases, and not exclusively with PostgreSQL. A lot of other RDBMS require you to pay large amounts of money so I would say that you need to carefully plan your projects according to your needs. If there are specific needs that cannot be met with open-source software I can understand this choice, but otherwise I would always place more trust in the open-source software and its community.

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it_user456468

Senior DB Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

PostgreSQL is a community product and has no owner other than the community itself. There are companies specialized in offering services and add-ons on top of PostgreSQL, but the database software itself is free, open source and licenced through a BSD and MIT derived licence of its own (https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/FAQ#What_is_the_license_of_PostgreSQL.3F).

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it_user457146

Co-Founder, CTO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

PostgreSQL is completely free and fully open-source.

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reviewer1601793

Sr Lead Data & Information Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It's not an expensive solution.

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hugodpereira

Computer engineering student at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

The solution doesn't cost anything to use. It's open-source.

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it_user86943

Senior Developer with 501-1,000 employees

It's free as it's open source.

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it_user234651

Senior Software Engineer, Technical Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The investment was in proper hardware and learning curve to master the database. Charging for expertise to deploy PostgreSQL depends on the expected setup, but in all cases, my choice would be to include a database specialist as early as possible within the development team.

The reason is that pure developers tend to rely on database power, making poorly optimized queries or choosing bad structures that explode later. The data warehouse team then have to clean it up, causing a loss for everyone.

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reviewer1524594

Senior Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

This solution can offer a cheaper choice for customers since it is open-source.

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Karel Van Der Walt

Data Architect at ACPAS Loan Management Software

It is free, but if you need support, you can go for the commercial version called EnterpriseDB. They provide paid support, and they can even do hosting for you if you want standby and support.

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it_user383829

Founder and Business Intelligence Consultant at Know Solutions

My advice is to always begin with the free licenses, and if you see that your tool is becoming a strategic solution, you can look into obtaining professional licenses.

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Daniel Alejandro Zuleta Zahr

Developer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

PostgreSQL is free, so great ROI!

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it_user130935

President with 51-200 employees

Being open source this is not really applicable.

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Andrew Aguda

Projects Manager at Emery Investments

The licensing is fine. It is not a paid database license.

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Liliana Rodríguez

Analista Funcional Líder at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

I recommend everyone to get into the PostgreSQL world, with no licensing costs. PostgreSQL uses a flexible and business-friendly license because it does not restrict the use of PostgreSQL with commercial and proprietary applications. Those who choose PostgreSQL forget the dependency on a provider, the price of the licenses and the changes in the license conditions.

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it_user457224

Partner - PostgreSQL support manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees

There is no pricing/licensing at all. Of course, there are many companies offering PostgreSQL support at different costs and some specialized in several languages/countries.

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Florent ADODO

IT Assistant at Hotel 2 Fevrier

We do not pay for licensing.

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it_user493518

Director of Operations / Senior Software Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Pricing/licensing is the reason we went with PostgreSQL. As a startup, every dollar counts and PostgreSQL has enabled to us to have an enterprise solution at a fraction of the cost of Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.

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it_user457197

Senior PostgreSQL Database Adminstrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Obviously pricing and licensing is non-existent, but the costs need to include the expense of in-house expertise, either employees or consultants.

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it_user434985

Sr. Database Architect at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

PostgreSQL is truly open source database system so the licensing cost is zero. If you are migrating from any commercial database system, you are saving licensing and recurring support costs.

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it_user254172

Senior Consultant / Manager Technical Operations at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

The core product is free but you have to pay for third-party utilities / plugins and support.

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it_user271512

Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The pricing of the database is open-source and our investment in the product is based on training.

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reviewer1734405

Head Channel and Capacity at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

We are using the free version of PostgreSQL.

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it_user268557

Chief Data Officer at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

It's free as it's open source.

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it_user252288

Software architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

There are no license fees for getting PostgreSQL and we don't yet have experience with paid support such as from EnterpriseDB, but we never needed it.

Your first investment is only in people working with PostgreSQL, and it is the same as with Microsoft SQL Server, but less than with Oracle. Hardware costs are lower for PostgreSQL and Oracle but those are not significant.

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it_user298746

NOC Manager with 51-200 employees

PostgreSQL is free to use.

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it_user241635

DevOps Engineer at a transportation company with 51-200 employees

PostgreSQL license is a fair enough for small to medium size business solutions.

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it_user184266

Database Expert at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We didn't have any setup costs because it is free.

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Sundaresan Subramanyan

Founder and Managing Director at Analytic Brains Technologies Private Limited

This is an open-source solution and there is no need to pay for a license.

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it_user308454

Sysadmin at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It's open source code, so you get it for free and need to contribute to debugging errors and improving the code.

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it_user457314

Sr. Oracle and PostgreSQL DBA at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use the open source versions of PostgreSQL so there is no expense for licensing.

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it_user348702

DWH Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

PostgreSQL is a long-lasting investment for people who like computers and don’t want to spent much money for database layer implementation.

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KopanoRamaphoi

Consultant at Rpc Data

The solution requires a license.

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reviewer1353249

Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

I'm not sure what the licensing costs for the solution are.

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it_user389811

Co-Founder, Technical Manager, Consultant at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees

PostgreSQL is free and open source.

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it_user219786

Founding Partner at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

PostgreSQL is free software. The only cost of setup was a few developer hours, and with it being stable, we don't have any day-to-day costs.

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it_user312354

Software Architect and Senior Technology Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

My only cost is for the server that PostgreSQL is hosted on.

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it_user439254

Expert Web Developer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

As far as I know, there are no problems with the license for free use.

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it_user89940

Database Expert with 201-500 employees

Basically zero for both. The product is released under the BSD license and, apart from my salary, my employer have no extra costs on using PostgreSQL View full review »

it_user183585

BI Expert at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

It's free as it's open source.

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it_user677721

Information Technology Technician at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Use backup software that integrates with the solution.

We selected "DB Protection for PostgreSQL", which has some nice features to perform block level incremental forever using IBM Spectrum Protect.

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