Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
Dec 16, 2025
The experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was nominal, and with the right guidance, it could have saved a few more bucks. We can say that if we are charging around 0.75 cents per hour for a virtual machine on AWS, then in the Red Hat JBoss orchestrator, charges have seen significant improvement at around 0.58 cents.
DevOps Cloud Engineer at Atos IT Solutions and Services
Real User
Top 10
Jul 17, 2025
My advice is to carefully review the licensing options before setting up JBoss. While using the free version WildFly, most companies go for the paid Red Hat JBoss version, which comes with extra features and support. The setup itself isn’t expensive, but getting it right often involves extra costs for team training, automation setup and performance tuning. For could environments loke OpenShift or Kubernetes it is important to make sure your licensing covers that so you don’t run into surprises later. It’s smart to plan ahead and look beyond the software cost your return on investment will likely come from less downtime, smoother deployments and better scalability.
Director of Product at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
MSP
Top 5
Feb 7, 2025
JBoss is the cheaper option out of the three when compared to WebSphere and WebLogic. Though I haven't done a detailed price comparison, the licensing fee is cheaper, and due to its flexibility, the maintenance is easier and cheaper.
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Enterprise Archiect/ IBM & Redhat Business Development at Cancom
Real User
Dec 12, 2023
Licensing costs are always debatable. While there are free, open-source alternatives like Java EE and WildFly, they lack the support and reliability of a paid, certified product like JBoss. With JBoss, you get the peace of mind of premium support and avoid potential issues in production environments.
Licensing is flexible. It comes in a subscription model, so it doesn't actually lock to a specific server. That's one of the good things. Licensing costs vary from company to company. It depends on the requirements and size. Definitely, it is better than the proprietary cost. Everything is included under the license. there are extra fees.
Application Server Manager at Centro Nacional de Registros
Real User
Dec 21, 2021
We pay to license on a yearly basis. We were spending something like $12,000 in the first year. This year it's something close to $16,000. We don't have additional fees or anything like that. It's a standard subscription.
I'm not sure of the exact pricing, however, my sense is that it's expensive as the client no longer wants to pay for it and would like to move away from it or onto the cloud.
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The experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was nominal, and with the right guidance, it could have saved a few more bucks. We can say that if we are charging around 0.75 cents per hour for a virtual machine on AWS, then in the Red Hat JBoss orchestrator, charges have seen significant improvement at around 0.58 cents.
My advice is to carefully review the licensing options before setting up JBoss. While using the free version WildFly, most companies go for the paid Red Hat JBoss version, which comes with extra features and support. The setup itself isn’t expensive, but getting it right often involves extra costs for team training, automation setup and performance tuning. For could environments loke OpenShift or Kubernetes it is important to make sure your licensing covers that so you don’t run into surprises later. It’s smart to plan ahead and look beyond the software cost your return on investment will likely come from less downtime, smoother deployments and better scalability.
JBoss is the cheaper option out of the three when compared to WebSphere and WebLogic. Though I haven't done a detailed price comparison, the licensing fee is cheaper, and due to its flexibility, the maintenance is easier and cheaper.
The price is somewhat high for an enterprise, however, it depends on organizational negotiations. Additionally, Red Hat support can be costly.
It might be yearly. I am not sure.
I rate the product price as eight on a scale, where one means it is a very cheap solution, and ten points mean that it is a very expensive tool.
The pricing of JBoss is more reasonable than that of WebLogic.
We pay a yearly subscription fee. There are no additional costs associated with the product.
Licensing costs are always debatable. While there are free, open-source alternatives like Java EE and WildFly, they lack the support and reliability of a paid, certified product like JBoss. With JBoss, you get the peace of mind of premium support and avoid potential issues in production environments.
We didn't pay for a license because we used the JBoss community edition, which is free.
JBoss is an expensive solution. Customers need to pay for a yearly license for JBoss.
JBoss is open-source and free. There is no licensing cost. The solution is free to use.
It is an open-source solution.
Since the solution is freeware, our customers don't need to pay any licensing fees. The only element that requires payment is RHEL.
The solution is cost-efficient compared to other products. Pricing is rated an eight out of ten.
Licensing is flexible. It comes in a subscription model, so it doesn't actually lock to a specific server. That's one of the good things. Licensing costs vary from company to company. It depends on the requirements and size. Definitely, it is better than the proprietary cost. Everything is included under the license. there are extra fees.
We pay to license on a yearly basis. We were spending something like $12,000 in the first year. This year it's something close to $16,000. We don't have additional fees or anything like that. It's a standard subscription.
This price of JBoss is cheaper than similar solutions like Oracle WebLogic. We pay for a maintenance license, but it is not expensive.
I'm not sure of the exact pricing, however, my sense is that it's expensive as the client no longer wants to pay for it and would like to move away from it or onto the cloud.