Oracle Technology Price List 2026: Key Products, List Prices and How to Navigate It

What the Oracle Technology Price List Is

The Oracle Technology Global Price List (TGPL) is a publicly available document that defines Oracle's published list prices for on-premises technology software products. It is updated periodically — the most recent version available at time of writing carries a March 2025 date — and covers Oracle Database editions, database options and packs, middleware products including WebLogic Server, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Java SE licensing under current metrics.

The price list serves two purposes. First, it establishes the reference point from which Oracle discounts are calculated in commercial negotiations. Oracle's discounts are always expressed as a percentage of the list price in the TGPL. Second, it defines the support fee calculation base — Oracle Premier Support is priced at 22% of the net licence fee (list price minus negotiated discount). Understanding the price list structure is therefore essential both for understanding what you might pay for new licences and for understanding how your ongoing support costs are determined.

The critical caveat that applies to every number in this document: nobody pays Oracle list price. Enterprise customers routinely negotiate discounts of 40 to 70% below list. The list price is Oracle's opening position, and the price list is best understood as the index from which real commercial prices are derived through negotiation, not as an accurate representation of what enterprise customers actually pay.

Key Products and List Prices

The following table summarises key Oracle technology products and their list prices per processor and per Named User Plus (NUP). These prices reflect the publicly available Oracle Technology Global Price List and are consistent with the March 2025 edition.

How Processor Licensing Works

Oracle processor licences are not counted by physical socket. They are counted by applying the Oracle Core Factor Table to the number of cores in the server. This is where the complexity and the hidden cost begins.

The Core Factor Table assigns a core factor between 0.25 and 1.0 to each processor architecture. Intel x86 processors carry a core factor of 0.5, meaning each core counts as 0.5 Oracle processor licences. An Intel server with two sockets and 32 cores per socket (64 total cores) requires 32 Oracle processor licences (64 × 0.5). At Oracle Database Enterprise Edition list price of $47,500 per processor, the unshaded list cost for that server is $1.52 million — before adding options or calculating support.

SPARC-based processors typically carry a lower core factor (0.25 for certain SPARC T-series), which historically made Oracle hardware more cost-effective for Oracle software licensing. Non-Intel, non-SPARC architectures (IBM POWER, AMD) carry various factors — POWER processors historically carried a factor of 1.0, making them the most expensive architecture for Oracle licensing. Always consult the current Core Factor Table before finalising a licensing cost calculation, as Oracle updates it periodically.

The Physical CPU Scope Rule

By default, Oracle software must be licensed for all cores in the physical server where it is installed — even if the software only runs on a subset of those cores. This is Oracle's standard licensing policy for x86 virtual and physical servers. The only exception is Oracle-approved hard partitioning technology (such as Oracle Solaris Zones in capped mode, LPAR, or Hitachi's hard partitioning for certain configurations), which allows customers to license only the cores allocated to the Oracle software partition.

VMware, Hyper-V, and most x86 virtual machine environments are considered soft partitioning and do not limit the licensing scope. This is the most common source of surprise Oracle audit findings: organisations that have deployed Oracle Database on VMware with only a few vCPUs allocated to Oracle discover they are required to licence every physical core in the VMware cluster under Oracle's policy.

Named User Plus Licensing

Named User Plus (NUP) licensing charges per individual authorised to access the Oracle software, regardless of whether they are accessing it concurrently. A Named User Plus is defined as an individual authorised by you to use the Oracle programs, or a device or any other object that stores a connection to the Oracle software.

NUP licensing includes a minimum licence requirement: for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, you must licence at least 25 Named User Plus per processor. For Standard Edition 2, the minimum is 10 per physical server. These minimums make NUP less favourable for high-user environments but more cost-effective for low-user environments where the user count per server is below the minimum threshold at the processor price.

The NUP versus processor choice is a fundamental cost calculation every Oracle customer should perform. For Oracle Database Enterprise Edition at $47,500 per processor: if you have 20 users per processor, the NUP cost is 20 × $950 = $19,000 versus $47,500 per processor — NUP is cheaper. If you have 60 users per processor, NUP costs $57,000 versus $47,500 — processor is cheaper. The break-even point is approximately 50 users per processor for Oracle Database EE.

Support Cost Calculation

Oracle Premier Support is charged at 22% of the net licence fee per year. The net licence fee is the list price minus the negotiated discount. For example, an organisation that negotiates a 50% discount on a $47,500 per processor Oracle Database EE licence has a net licence fee of $23,750 per processor. The annual support charge is 22% of $23,750 = $5,225 per processor per year.

Support fees increase at 8% per year under Oracle's standard support renewal terms. This uplift compounds materially over time. An organisation paying $1 million in Oracle technology support today will pay $2.16 million in ten years if the 8% annual increase is unchallenged. This compounding cost is the primary financial motivation for Oracle support cost reduction strategies including licence rationalisation, third-party support, and Oracle Support Rewards.

The Real Cost: List vs Negotiated vs Actual

Enterprise Oracle customers should understand three distinct price levels. List price is what appears in the Oracle Technology Global Price List — the starting point for all Oracle commercial discussions and the base against which support is calculated. Negotiated licence price is the list price minus your discount. Enterprise customers with volume and strategic leverage typically achieve 40 to 60% discounts for Oracle Database EE and middleware. Customers in Oracle's Q4 window (March to May) with credible cloud migration leverage can achieve 60 to 70% discounts on selected products. Effective annual cost is the negotiated licence price plus annual support (22% of negotiated price per year). Over a 10-year horizon, the cumulative support cost typically exceeds the original licence cost — making support cost management a more financially material decision than licence price.

The price list's role in Oracle negotiations is therefore primarily as the base against which discounts are expressed and against which support is calculated. In Oracle negotiations, the discount percentage and the support uplift cap are the two most financially consequential terms — not the list price itself.

Key Middleware Products and Their Price List Position

Oracle's middleware products follow the same Processor and Named User Plus metric framework as database products, with distinct list prices per product. WebLogic Server is Oracle's primary application server and the most commonly licensed middleware product. The three editions — Standard, Enterprise, and Suite — carry substantially different price points and licensing rules.

WebLogic Standard Edition uses socket-based licensing (count physical CPU sockets, not cores), making it significantly cheaper in core-dense server environments. WebLogic Enterprise Edition and WebLogic Suite use core-based processor licensing with the Core Factor Table applied, making them more expensive in high-core-count environments. The licence metric difference between WebLogic Standard and Enterprise Edition is a common source of licensing decisions: customers who can stay on Standard Edition avoid both the higher licence cost and the core-based counting requirement.

Oracle SOA Suite at $45,000 per processor (the same list price as WebLogic Suite) represents one of Oracle's most expensive middleware products on a per-processor basis. Customers deploying SOA Suite should carefully assess whether they are using the full suite or only components — Oracle's product use rights definitions for SOA Suite are complex and can include permissions to use component products that customers may not realise they are already licensed for.

How to Use the Price List in Your Negotiation

The Oracle Technology Global Price List is a publicly available document. Download it from oracle.com and review it before entering any Oracle licensing conversation. Use it to verify that Oracle's commercial proposals reference the correct list prices, calculate the implied discount Oracle is offering, and identify any products where the list price has changed since your previous contract.

Key negotiation applications include: confirming that all products in Oracle's proposal are correctly identified and priced according to the current price list; calculating the true discount Oracle is offering on each product line; using the price list as the basis for benchmarking Oracle's proposal against market rates; and modelling the support cost impact of the proposed licence configuration over a 5 to 10 year horizon at 8% annual uplift.