How Much Do SQL Server Licenses Cost?

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So I’m being a little bit of an SEO whore in this post because it took way to many google searches to get this data.

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SQL Server 2019 Enterprise Edition—Core Licensing Only–$27, 495/4 cores, $13, 747.50 per additional 2 core packs.

SQL Server 2019 Standard Edition—Core licensing–$7171/4 cores, $3585.50 per additional 2 core packs,

SQL Server 2019 Standard Server plus CAL Licensing-– $898/server (CALs are $170/named user)

I also updated the versions here, but the price hasn’t changed for 2019, and remember you get a lot of cool enterprise features in standard edition.

You should also buy software assurance which costs 23% of your spend, per year.

3 thoughts on “How Much Do SQL Server Licenses Cost?”

  2. Nabil

    Thanks so much for posting this, one question please, if i have web application, i have to pay for one CAL for (user ==login) using for application, or i have to pay CALs for all application users?
    Thanks for replying

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    1. jdanton1

      No, you have to pay CALs for all users of your application, hence core based pricing (or cloud DBs) being the better solution for web facing apps.

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