Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Purchasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat listens to its customers. We have used your valuable feedback to improve our subscription offerings and make them more relevant to your needs. Below you will find our updated subscription portfolio that gives you more choice for tailoring a Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription to your specific use case and budget.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server is sold on a per-socket-pair basis. This means the following prices are for every two populated sockets in the server. For example a 2-socket server with up to 1 guest and Premium support would cost $1,299/year, while a 4-socket server would cost twice that or $2,598.

1 year 3 year
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Self-support (up to 1 guest)
$349/socket-pair $995/socket-pair
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Standard (up to 1 guest)
$799/socket-pair $2,277/socket-pair
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Premium (up to 1 guest)
$1,299/socket-pair $3,702/socket-pair
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Standard (up to 4 guests)
$1,199/socket-pair $3,417/socket-pair
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Premium (up to 4 guests)
$1,949/socket-pair $5,555/socket-pair
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Standard (unlimited guests)
$1,999/socket-pair $5,697/socket-pair
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Premium (unlimited guests)
$3,249/socket-pair $9,260/socket-pair
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z®
Standard
$15,000/IFL $42,750/IFL
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z®
Premium
$18,000/IFL $51,300/IFL
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM POWER®
Standard
$2,700/socket-pair $7,695/socket-pair
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM POWER®
Premium
$4,300/socket-pair $12,255/socket-pair
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Compute Node
Self-support
$79/socket-pair $225/socket-pair
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Head Node (1)
Standard (up to 1 guest)
$1,598/socket-pair $4,554/socket-pair
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Head Node (1)
Premium (up to 1 guest)
$2,598/socket-pair $7,404/socket-pair
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP applications
Premium (unlimited guests)
$3,249/socket-pair $9,260/socket-pair

1 Head node support level is inherited by all the compute nodes in the high-performance cluster.

Add-On Functionality

Optional functionality can be added to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server subscription. The following prices are in addition to the price of the underlying Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server subscription. The Add-On inherits the support of the underlying Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server subscription.

1 year 3 year
High Availability $399/socket-pair $1,137/socket-pair
Load Balancer $199/socket-pair $567/socket-pair
Resilient Storage $799/socket-pair $2,277/socket-pair
Scalable File System $199/socket-pair (1)
$29/socket-pair (2)
$567/socket-pair (1)
$83/socket-pair (2)
High Performance Network $199/socket-pair $567/socket-pair
Smart Management $192 (3)
$288 (4)
$576 (5)
$547 (3)
$821 (4)
$1,642 (5)

1 If attached to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server subscription or a Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Head Node
2 If attached to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Compute Nodes subscription
3 If attached to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (up to 1 guest) subscription
4 If attached to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (up to 4 guests) subscription
5 If attached to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (unlimited guests) subscription

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Client Computing

1 year 3 year
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Self-support
$49/machine $140/machine
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Self-support
$179/machine $510/machine
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Standard
$299/machine $852/machine

Production Support Service Level Agreement

  Self-support¹ Standard Premium
Hours of coverage N/A Standard business hours Standard business hours (24x7 for Severity 1 and 2)
Support channel None Web and phone Web and phone
Number of cases N/A Unlimited Unlimited
Response times Initial and ongoing response Initial and ongoing response Initial response Ongoing response
Severity 1 N/A 1 business hour 1 hour 1 hour or as agreed
Severity 2 N/A 4 business hours 2 hours 4 hours or as agreed
Severity 3 N/A 1 business day 4 business hours 8 business hours or as agreed
Severity 4 N/A 2 business day 8 business hours 2 business days or as agreed

1 Basic support is no longer available. If you still have a Basic contract, your SLA remains at 2 business days for web support until its expiration date.