--- title: P4 Reviews meta\_title: 'P4 Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 95 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how P4 works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.2 review\_count: 95 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Source Code Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/source-code-management --- # P4 Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by P4 but has limited features. Are you part of the P4 team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Perforce P4 is an industry-standard version control platform built for teams working with large, complex codebases and digital assets. Designed to handle scale where other tools hit limits, P4 helps teams accelerate production, eliminate file sharing chaos, and keep every version tracked and recoverable. Whether your team is distributed or moving fast toward release, P4 makes it easy to collaborate efficiently and stay in control—no matter the size or complexity of your projects. P4 is trusted by the world’s most innovative brands, including Pixar, NVIDIA, Scania, EA, Ubisoft, and VMware. * * * Seller [Perforce](https://www.g2.com/sellers/perforce) Discussions [P4 Community](https://www.g2.com/products/p4/discuss) Languages Supported English Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Kara Howson Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by P4. ### P4 Free Free Trial 5 Users With One-Time Purchase ### P4 Cloud $39.00 1 Users Per Month [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/p4/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Azure DevOps Server](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Azure DevOps Server") Azure DevOps Server 4.2/5(200) ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-devops-server/reviews) [ ![Bitbucket](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bitbucket") Bitbucket 4.4/5(1,018) ](https://www.g2.com/products/bitbucket/reviews) [ ![Git](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Git") Git 4.7/5(539) ](https://www.g2.com/products/git/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/p4/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 95 real user reviews. Implementation Time 1 month Perceived Cost $$$$$ Typical contract price $0k - $0k [Sign in to view](/login) Per Month [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) SR Sadaf R. Senior Design Engineer Semiconductors Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/29/2023 "Helix Core" 5/5 What do you like best about P4? Easy to track changelists and file history. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about P4? Managing multiples workspaces is very difficulty. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you? Heliz Core makes easy to track changelists and file history. We can identify the code changes snap very easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic PB Paul B. Sys admin Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/26/2022 "Great product, especially with Swarm" 5/5 What do you like best about P4? The upgrade service cost next to nothing and the upgrade to latest version, with Swarm added, is much more stable than my previous version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about P4? I could not be more happy with how the upgrade was run so professionally and with all questions answered as we went along. The gentleman that helped me was superb. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering P4: Great product, at least give it a test drive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you? Stability and addition of Swarm. Great products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 8/29/2022 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Vincent B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Vincent B.") VB Vincent B. Principal Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/24/2022 "P4V" 5/5 What do you like best about P4? Nothing special, I am just used to it and I find it pretty easy to use now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about P4? When he fails to rename/move and when it freezes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you? Not typing p4 commamd Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: G2 invite ![Faraji B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Faraji B.") FB Faraji B. IT Administrastor/Junior Visual Effects Artist Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/3/2021 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "The Best Version Control software available" 5/5 What do you like best about P4? I love the interface! It's extremely simple to find what you are looking for and use it to complete tasks and the ability to easily track assets makes it one of the best products available for version control on the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about P4? Not a fan of how licenses are limited based on purchasing (given 6 for a standard license - others MUST be purchased in groups of 5 and not individually). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you? The benefits are being able to use the software thru its UI and not having to write lines of code to submit continually, check out, or modify assets. It makes working on projects with users who are not familiar with the software easier based on the ease of the UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Colleen C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Colleen C.") CC Colleen C. Director of US Support Operations Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/3/2021 "Perforce Helix has transformed our development team" 5/5 What do you like best about P4? The ability to have multiple versions of source stored at one time has helped us accurately keep track of our releases. Functionality which allows more than one developer to have the code checked out and still update all versions properly has eliminated the issues we had with bugs or incompatible code getting released to the field. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about P4? We found that because of the resources required, it was most efficient to have the developers run their own development environment locally instead of on the network. We had to work out how to do periodic backups of their PCs to ensure that we didn't lose any code before check-ins were done. Once we got this worked out, we were able to ensure that all of their work was retained. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you? We code in COBOL, and our biggest challenge was having incompatible code released to the field... and not being able to have more than one developer working on a single program. Both of these issues have been resolved with Perforce Helix. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Daniel H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Daniel H.") DH Daniel H. Chief Executive Officer and Lead Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/12/2021 "Good standard enterprise-level version control" 3.5/5 What do you like best about P4? P4 Helix Core is a battle-tested solution that supports large file systems. All of the standard and advanced features are here including branching, merging, diffing, file locking and more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about P4? GUI Client is too basic and won't detect local file changes automatically. This makes missing file checkins or misunderstandings about latest version vs. local version very confusing, especially for non-engineers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you? Complete and reliable file version control solution for our software project that supports small and large teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/10/2021 "Helix Core for Audio Visual" 3.5/5 What do you like best about P4? Robust archive and versioning solution that is scalable with our business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about P4? Lack of a defined workflow for streams cost us time to develop and is difficult to train and onboard our specific use of the Helix Core software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you? Code starage time is greatly reduced ad it is now part of a Unfied workflow. We now have confidence that we have a backup of the deployed version of our code and configuration for every system we deploy. Searching for files is lightning fast compared to just using a network shared drive. This is also totally scalable as our team of coders grow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Kaylee B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kaylee B.") KB Kaylee B. Junior Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/5/2021 "Really amazing server tool" 5/5 What do you like best about P4? The ease of use and support documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about P4? It's a little glitchy when dealing with large amounts of files Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering P4: Do it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you? We needed a large server for worldwide use and this is perfect Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Animation](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Animation") AA Verified User in Animation Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/12/2021 "Easy Initial setup" 4/5 What do you like best about P4? The initial setup is relatively easy and you'll be up and running in minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about P4? For artists, it's a little bit difficult to get their heads around how it works. It also requires some more complicated steps to set up additional (sometimes necessary) features. It would be great if there was a floating license option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you? Unreal integration and version control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering") UM Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/12/2021 "Couldn't do it without Helix Core" 4/5 What do you like best about P4? The easy and quick access to files is most helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about P4? It needs to be debugged occasionally. We have ran across minor glitching Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering P4: The product was great for team use. A multi-user interface helps make our integration process faster. HC provides good access to cloud-based files. HC has an excellent support team. Available when you need it. Help with fixing bugs. The price is semi fair, but maintenance costs are a bit high. The cost is per license (per person). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you? The benefits are that we can have multiple users, especially with cloud supported integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ## Questions about P4? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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