Non-Linear Subscription Pricing

At Continuent, we offer a simple and transparent pricing structure for our industry-leading Tungsten Cluster solution. Whether you're running a small 3-node cluster or scaling to a global enterprise deployment, our pricing is designed to provide exceptional value while meeting your high availability, disaster recovery, and geo-scaling needs.

Tungsten Cluster Subscription Pricing

Continuent offers its Tungsten Clustering solution (for MySQL HA/DR/Geo-Scale) via an annual subscription based on the number of database nodes in the deployment.

up to
$8,000 per node annually

The per-node cost comes down significantly as the deployment size grows. We also have special pricing for smaller startups along with competitive upgrade options for those replacing their existing MySQL HA solutions.

Non-Linear Pricing

Continuent is a commercial solution for open-source databases, yet we want to match the open-source pricing approach and logic as closely as possible.

Continuent's pricing is non-linear. This means that the larger the deployment, the lower the per-node unit pricing is for Tungsten Cluster. Once a customer's deployment has grown large enough, additional nodes become practically free-of-charge.

Generous Discount Options

We offer several discounts to reduce your costs while maximizing the value of your investment.

New Customer Discount

20% off your first subscription.

Multi-Year Discounts

2-Year Commitment

5% discount with annual payments,
7.5% discount with full payment upfront

3-Year Commitment

10% discount with annual payments

Startup and Competitive Discountts

Special pricing is available for startups (less than $10M annual revenue) and customers replacing existing MySQL HA solutions (e.g. Galera or XtraDB Cluster).

Volume Discounts

For larger deployments, the per-node cost decreases as the number of nodes increases.

Additional Benefits

Price-Lock

During the subscription agreement period
Continuent updates its pricing every two years

True-Up Policy

Customers are allowed to add additional Tungsten node subscriptions free-of-charge during the agreed subscription period
The new, total node count will only be used at the next renewal, without any retroactive financial impact

24/7 Support for All Subscriptions

Due to the business-critical 24/7 nature of our customer's operations (SaaS vendors, ecommerce, financial services, gaming companies and telco providers, etc.), Continuent offers only 24/7/365 rapid-response support provided by highly experienced engineers.

Support Cost
20% of the total software cost annually

Our support team consists of experts with 15 to 25 years of experience in MySQL DBA and SaaS site reliability engineering, providing unparalleled expertise. While our support is Tungsten-specific, our deep MySQL knowledge allows us to understand your MySQL environment, identify root causes and recommend solutions to seamlessly address cluster-related issues, complementing and enhancing your existing DBA team.

Best in the Industry

The average response time for urgent support requests is an amazing 3 minutes or less, by far the best within our industry.

Example Pricing

To help you understand how our pricing works, here are a few examples of annual subscription and support costs:

Tungsten Cluster
$8,000 / node
24/7 Support
20% software fee
Total Cost
before discounts
Volume Discount
20-40% discount
3-year Commitment
10% discount
New Customer
20% discount

Small Deployment

Single Cluster

3-Node

$24,000
$4,800
$28,800
-
$25,920
$20,736

2 + Witness

$16,000
$3,200
$19,200
-
$17,280
$13,824

Medium Deployment

5 Clusters

3-Node

$120,000
$24,000
$144,800
$120,000
20% discount
$108,000
$86,400

2 + Witness

$80,000
$16,000
$96,000
$80,000
20% discount
$72,000
$57,600

Large Deployment

20 Clusters

3-Node

$480,000
$96,000
$576,800
$384,000
40% discount
$345,600
$276,000

2 + Witness

$320,000
$64,000
$384,000
$256,000
40% discount
$230,000
$184,000

Corporate Enterprise Deployment

Ask about our flat-rate for large corporate deployments.