The Community Edition is forever. It is licensed under the GPLv2 with Classpath Exception , the same license used by OpenJDK. Cost: $0.
| If you are... | Recommended GraalVM | Reason | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | Community Edition | Fully free, open-source, all features needed for learning. | | A startup with budget constraints | Community Edition | No hidden costs, scales to production. | | An enterprise requiring Oracle support | Oracle GraalVM (paid) | Compliance, support, and top performance. | | A company running on OCI | Oracle GraalVM (free on OCI) | Best performance at no extra cost. | | A company running on AWS/Azure/GCP | Community Edition | Avoid unexpected Oracle licensing fees. | is graalvm free
