--- description: Discover the benefits and disadvantages of Percona Server. Learn the software price, see the description, and read the most helpful reviews for UK business users. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: Percona Server Pricing, Cost & Reviews - Capterra UK 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Database Software](/directory/18/database-management/software) > [Percona Server](/software/133993/percona-server) # Percona Server Canonical: https://www.capterra.co.uk/software/133993/percona-server Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.co.uk/software/133993/percona-server?page=2) > Percona Server for MySQL is a free, fully-compatible, enhanced, open-source drop-in replacement for MySQL. > > Verdict: Rated **4.8/5** by 26 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses Percona Server? DBA, SysAdmin, DevOps, Developers ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.8/5** | 26 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Percona - **Founded**: 2006 ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: Per Feature (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: The product is available for free. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - Backup and Recovery - Data Replication - Multiple Programming Languages Supported ## Support Options - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Database Software](https://www.capterra.co.uk/directory/18/database-management/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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Additionally the integrations for additional monitoring with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) has been extremely useful when attempting to evaluate overall health of my MySQL cluster. > > **Cons**: I don't actually have any cons per se. Percona Server is a drop in replacement for traditional MySQL which makes migrations easy. > > I've utilized Percona Server with Percona's support for a number of years now. Both have been amazing to work with especially when it comes to tuning MySQL, Percona is a great resource to utilize. ----- ### "High Performance and Availability with Percona Server for MySQL" — 5.0/5 > **Douglas** | *12 October 2020* | Marketing & Advertising | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Performance Stability Additional Variables for in-depth monitoring Easy migration path to Percona XtraDB Cluster Community Support Return on Investment: Percona Server for MySQL is open source with no hidden licensing costs which gives us huge savings on the high number of instances that are required on premise and in the cloud. > > **Cons**: No option for a distributed database yet in order to scale writes, but Percona Server for MySQL has exceptional performance when using sharding. > > Percona Server for MySQL is being used across our whole organization. We are running 50+ primary instances in our data center with DR replica's running on compute instances inside GCP in 2 different regions. Percona Server for MySQL solves our need for well-tested and stable MySQL instances with Percona doing additional testing to the upstream releases which gives that added level of stability that we need for the massive volumes of processing as well as the required performance in sharded instances. ----- ### "Free MySQL Enterprise" — 5.0/5 > **Francisco Miguel** | *8 October 2020* | Health, Wellness & Fitness | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Percona Server for MySQL includes enterprise grade features like: - Encryption - Audit - Data Masking - AD/LDAP authentication - Physical backups > > **Cons**: New version take some time to come out, so you will always be one version behind Oracle. Not the best thing if you need to comply with security patches. For this you would need to complete this with Percona Support services, where they can help you with critical security backports if needed. > > MySQL is a great product but when you use it in professionally you notice that some enterprise features are missing from the community version. Percona Server for MySQL includes all the enterprise features you could need by free, while being the same MySQL version you can find with the original vendor. This is a huge advantage, a true 100% drop-in replacement that has enterprise grade capabilities for no cost. If you are not using it, you should\! Opinions expressed here are my own and not the opinions of my employer. ----- ### "Percona Server for MySQL can beat old SQL servers." — 4.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *14 October 2020* | Financial Services | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10 > > **Pros**: MYSQL server acts as root of the organization and it should be best comprising of various features like scalability, deployement, logging and compatibilty. Percona product provides all these factors in best form so that MYSQL server delivers extremely high-performance and reliability to more of the enterprises that drive businesses online. Personal experience, i have heard alot about percona server from my colleagues too and its worth trying because of its awesome features. > > **Cons**: In my opinion pricing can be the issue in percona server as it sounds lil bit expensive for me and will be getting charged if server is in use or not. ----- ### "Review for Percona Server" — 5.0/5 > **Anshika** | *3 February 2022* | Computer Hardware | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: It is very easy to use and fully compatible. It enhances the performances and most important is its in the field of open source. There is no hidden cost of licensing. It gives us huge amount of savings on numerous perfoperformances. > > **Cons**: In somewhat what i donot like is pricing I think its might be little bit expensive. > > Very Satisfying product ----- Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.co.uk/software/133993/percona-server?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.co.uk/software/133993/percona-server) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | ----- ## Structured Data