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  == Neo4j Enterprise Commercial Pricing
  
  Information copied from GSA SCHEDULE.
  
  
  
  
negative.code: This post gives you an idea of just how expensive Neo4j Enterprise really is and what you get for all that money.  
  
  Finding Neo4j Enterprise commercial prices is extremely difficult. 
  Neo4j Inc keeps this information under close guard, and is only released under the 'guidance' of a sales person. 
  
  To understand why, you have to understand a few things about Neo4j Enterprise.
  
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  Neo4j Enterprise is available under a dual license commercial or open source license.
  
  You can choose pay for a yearly commercial subscription, or use it for free.  If you purchase a commercial subscription you get something called a 'commercial license'.  If you don't have a commercial license, then the license simply defaults to the standard open source AGPLv3 license. 
  
  You heard me right!
  
  There is no catch, the open source licensed Neo4j Enterprise server is the same physical core software as the commercially licensed version, the license is just different. 
  
  You can use Neo4j Enterprise under it's open source license in any environment , including production, and yes you CAN use it in closed source projects!   
  
  My next post will address the AGPL mis-information that is floating around on this subject. 
  
  The US Federal government is already using Neo4j Enterprise with it's open source license in a closed source projects.  
  
  The commercial license is actually more restrictive for most use-cases so what are you really paying for when you get a Neo4j Enterprise commercial subscription? 
  
  Well, you are basically paying for production email and phone support for Neo4j.   
  
  More specifically, if the reseller you purchase a commercial package from can't answer a support request, Neo4j Inc can help the reseller.  
  
  Keep in mind that this production support is only for Neo4j,
  not the other technologies in your stack.   
  
  Many graph projects have many components in their stack not just Neo4j. For example many projects use elasticsearch, apache kafka, custom client side UIs, micro services, etc.  It makes no sense to purchase production support for Neo4j but leave everything else unsupported. Yes many people don't think about this until it's too late!
  
  Buying support just for Neo4j would be like having a custom car built only getting a warrantee for your water pump! If your transmission fails - good luck!
  
  
  Are you starting to understand why you need a slick sales person to help give you some 'guidance' ?   
  
  
  
  