Pricing for SQL Server 2008 R2 Editions

The chart below lists prices for all eight SQL Server editions. Prices quoted are the highest price (in U.S. dollars) a U.S. business customer would pay through the Open No Level (NL, formerly called Open Business) volume purchasing program. Also listed is the maximum number of processors and amount of RAM the edition can exploit, as well as the maximum database size it can support.

Workgroup, Standard, and Enterprise editions offer customers a choice between two licensing models. In the server-Client Access License (CAL) model, an organization purchases a server license for each server running SQL Server and a CAL for each client user or device. Workgroup edition has its own CAL, while most other editions use a standard, slightly more expensive, SQL Server CAL. In the per-processor model, the organization typically purchases a license for each physical processor chip residing on the motherboard. (Processor cores in a multicore processor are not counted separately.) Datacenter offers a per-processor model only.