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Payara Platform Enterprise vs. Payara Platform Community

Payara Platform Enterprise

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Software. Security. Stability. Support.

Choose Payara Enterprise if you’re migrating mission critical apps from another application server or you’re planning to run Payara Platform in production.

Payara Server Enterprise – the best application platform for production Jakarta EE apps.

Payara Micro Enterprise – the platform of choice for containerized Jakarta EE and microservices deployments.

Payara Enterprise

Payara Platform Community

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Create. Innovate. Elevate.

Choose Payara Platform Community for development projects, or when innovation is higher priority than security and stability.

Payara Server Community – cloud-native, innovative middleware platform for development projects that supports Jakarta EE applications in any environment: on premise, in the cloud, or hybrid.

Payara Micro Community: lightweight middleware platform of choice for containerized Jakarta EE and microservices deployments in development.

Payara Platform Community

Enterprise vs. Community Support

Included Enterprise Support Benefits

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  • Choice of 24×7, 10×5, or Migration & Project Support provided by Engineers
  • Payara Enterprise Customer Support Portal
  • Private customer knowledge base
  • OpenJDK support
  • Upgrade tooling (Watch demo)
  • Access to optional Payara Accelerator Consultancy services
  • Payara Enterprise Docker Images
  • Access Payara-supported software like connectors and IDE plugins

Payara Enterprise

Community-based Support

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  • Get assistance on Payara Forum
  • Raise bugs on GitHub
  • Tech Blog
  • User guides & datasheets

Payara Platform Community

Product Suitability

Stable and Secure

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  • 10-Year Software Lifecycle
  • Designed for mission critical, production environments
  • Security alerts, fixes & hot fixes for urgent problems
  • Downported patches
  • Full support for ecosystem components (Maven plugins, Cloud Connectors, IDE connectors, etc)
  • New features added after stability confirmed

Payara Enterprise

Innovation

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  • Rapid access to new features
  • Software experimentation
  • Suitable for development projects

Payara Platform Community

Release Schedule

Enterprise Releases

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  • Monthly releases
  • 10-Year Software Lifecycle

Payara Enterprise

Community Releases

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  • Regular & frequent releases
  • Fast access to new features

Payara Platform Community

Enterprise vs. Community

Features & Benefits Comparison

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