Consulting Per Hour Prices

All Percona Consulting work is done on a per-hour basis.
You can also check our Consulting Prepaid Prices or Consulting On-Site Prices.

Standard Rate

Percona's Standard consulting rate is $300 USD per hour. Minimum billing is 15-minutes or $75.

This rate applies to most consulting tasks that are done remotely over the internet when scheduled at least three business days in advance. Percona's consultants will advise you beforehand whenever rates other than Standard would apply to any request.

Premium Rate - No Minimum

Percona's Premium consulting rate is $450 USD per hour. Tasks below have a 15-minute or $112 minimum billing.

This rate applies to:

• MySQL Cluster engine tasks
• Customer requirement to use only a specifically named Percona consultant.
• Work done personally by any of these senior experts, if of an advanced or in-depth nature:
  • Peter Zaitsev, CEO
  • Baron Schwartz, Chief Performance Architect
  • Vadim Tkachenko, CTO

Premium Rate - Two Hour Minimum

Tasks below have a two-hour minimum billing per incident, or $900 ($450 per hour × 2):

• Emergency consulting tasks
• Data recovery tasks, whether done on an emergency basis or not.
• Disruptive scheduling needed to fulfill customer requests, i.e.
  • Very short notice
  • Night, weekend, or holiday working timing at the consultant's location
  • Overbooking, rescheduling, or other complicating factors

On-Call Rate

Percona's On-Call consulting rate is normally $50 per hour. This rate applies when your consultant is required to remain accessible on short notice, at the customer's request, during his normal working hours.

On-call times during your consultant's weekends, late nights, major holidays, etc. may be charged at Standard or even Premium rates, depending on circumstances. We will discuss such situations with you in advance.