What would Oracle’s per-employee Java subscription cost you?
Since January 2023, Oracle prices Java SE per employee— your whole headcount, including contractors, whether or not they touch Java. Enter your numbers to see the subscription at Oracle’s published list tiers, and how it compares to the retired per-processor model.
Your headcount
Oracle’s metric counts your whole organization — not Java users, not installations.
Oracle's employee definition includes these — the category most estimates miss.
If you licensed the legacy Java SE Subscription per processor, enter the count to compare.
The number follows your headcount — the leverage follows your installs
You can’t reconcile a per-employee price down — but whether you owe it at all turns on where Oracle JDK is actually installed. Estates that map their real Java dependency often find most of it already runs (or can run) on OpenJDK builds that need no Oracle subscription.
Got an email from Oracle about Java?
Oracle has stepped up Java license outreach — often a “soft audit” email citing download records from your company’s network. The figure implied by that outreach is an opening assertion, not a settled fact: downloads are not deployments, and the right first move is mapping where Oracle JDK actually runs before anyone sizes a subscription. Read: what a Java audit letter means and what to do first or start from the Oracle licensing playbook.
How this is calculated
The estimate multiplies your counted population (employees plus contractors, consultants, and agents supporting internal operations — Oracle’s stated employee definition) by the matching tier of Oracle’s published Java SE Universal Subscription price list (January 2023): $15 per employee per month below 1,000 employees, stepping down to $5.25 at 40,000–49,999. Above 49,999 Oracle quotes directly. The legacy comparison uses the retired Java SE Subscription server rate of $25 per processor per month. These are list rates as published by Oracle; negotiated pricing, term discounts, and Oracle’s current price list can differ. This is an indicative estimate, not a quote — confirm current pricing with Oracle or your reseller.
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