--- 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(538) ](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) ![Sam N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sam N.") SN Sam N. Associate Director of Communications Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/5/2021 "Does the job after lots of configuration" 4/5 What do you like best about P4? The functionality of synchronized binary files Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about P4? How much time it takes debugging and configuring for it to work properly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering P4: It's definitely worth it but budget some longer times to make everything work properly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you? We are building a game that uses unreal engine 4 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated 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 Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/3/2021 "Must have for game development" 5/5 What do you like best about P4? Perforce is excellent for handling large binary files. It has a lot of features that help our daily game development work such as reconciling offline work, diffing changes, creating steam depots, locking files unless pushed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about P4? Helix Administration could have APIs exposed to be controlled by other languages like python and javascript Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you? Handing large binary files Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") EF Verified User in Financial Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/10/2021 "Perforce Corporate User" 5/5 What do you like best about P4? Easy to use and integrate with reports and dashboards Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about P4? Billing ease of use is not straightforward Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering P4: Easy to integrate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you? Integration and Release Management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Vidyanshu V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Vidyanshu V.") VV Vidyanshu V. Associate II SQA Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/22/2019 "Ease of use" 4.5/5 What do you like best about P4? Helix core/ Perforce/ P4V is a GUI based VCS which itself is very unique and easy to use once have a good understanding of it. It is very easy to install, configure and use. A very user friendly interface with realtime comparison of the scripts you have in your local workspace and on cloud/ depot. Gives a detailed dashboard where you can see all the changes that have been submitted recently and a version comparison lets you know if your script is the latest or you need to pull a latest version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about P4? Initially understanding this software is a bit confusing, especially for people who has worked on GIT or BitBucket. It doesn't have a bash window where you can send commands to upload your scripts, instead you go through the directory, create a pending checklist, put your files there and then submit. Not used in most of indian IT companies so experience doesn't count, most organization always prefer GIT or BitBucket over helix. Branching concept is almost negated, you get your scripts reviewed and push directly to the Depot. No integration with pycharm or other IDEs available in market so you either have a cloud copy i.e. read only or a local copy of script in your hand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering P4: Take tutorials before using it, as this VCS is a bit confusing initially. Don't ever try to delete anything untill you know how deletion on Helix work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you? Helix core makes it very easy to submit scripts to cloud (VCS), one can easily review their script version and pull a latest revision. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ryan B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ryan B.") RB Ryan B. Partner | Electronics Engineer - Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/29/2019 "Clunky and User-Unfriendly" 1.5/5 What do you like best about P4? Stream Graphs and auto-resolving. Visual representation of the files currently checked out and need resolved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about P4? Pretty much everything else. Merging something from a task stream to a main stream takes 5-6 steps too many. Working with workspaces and streams is a confusing mess. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you? File repo for a GUI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Hardware](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Hardware") UC Verified User in Computer Hardware Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/4/2019 "Great package for revision control " 4/5 What do you like best about P4? The option to see all changes in different gui and command line options Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about P4? It is a centralized system, server is always needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you? Manage and control all our files Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Bruce C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bruce C.") BC Bruce C. Senior Staff Engineer Machinery Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/24/2017 "Functional, robust. " 3/5 What do you like best about P4? Consistent across all business units and developers. It keeps improving in ease of use and performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about P4? It is expensive, and not particularly easy to work with. It does not tie in well to our BOM system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering P4: Now comes with Git compatibility, so one interface is needed. It will handle multiple nested projects well, and is used for all of our documentation needs. It does need a "champion" or administrator willing to put in the time to learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you? Coordinating VCS between 50 software developers, and sharing updates to libraries. The learning curve is small for simple things like checkin and checkout, but branch and merge have to be done carefully. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 8/30/2018 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Computer & Network Security](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer & Network Security") UC Verified User in Computer & Network Security Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/27/2018 "Pretty good version control software" 4/5 What do you like best about P4? It integrates fairly well with MadCap Flare, allowing us to keep a version history of documents that we create so we can roll back if necessary. It is easy to use once you know the layout, and the check-in/check-out system is great for version control. I also like that the desktop client lets you see your full file directory and open files from there in different programs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about P4? By default, you are allowed to check out and make changes to a file that someone else has checked out. If you don't know this and don't have exclusive checkout enabled, it's possible to lose changes that you make Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you? We primarly use Perforce for version control and history. We need to make sure that multiple people have access to the same files, but all changes are tracked and saved and no one loses their changes because two people were editing a file at the same time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite AJ AJ J. Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/7/2017 "scalable enterprise solution for version control" 4/5 What do you like best about P4? User friendly graphical tools like the Revision Graph and file history graphs. Securely manageable single repository as well as large repositories that delivers files quickly to distributed teams. Efficient and effect support. I think using the graphical interface to perforce (p4v) is a more effective way to work with perforce for most users. It makes it much easier to manage multiple workspaces, change lists, branch mappings, merging and most other functions. Time lapse tool is just fantastic I can not live without side-by-side diff tool at a mouse click Command line tools are powerful but needs little more experience, that comes with time. Applying the scripts is making daily work easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about P4? nitial learning is slightly rough when you come from GIT background, as you pick it up, it becomes fun. I watched online videos from basic to advanced level and now I am comfortable using it. Everyday there is something I learn from my coworkers. Setting up Helix server is rigorous at the first go, but if you it once, then next time it is straight forward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering P4: User-friendly scalable easily manageable Good for large distributed teams Merging and branching a piece of cake File history easy to access Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you? fast source code access in agile environments where each branch exists for short time period as we prefer to branch out, implement the functionality and then merge it back to main. We prefer short lived branches and frequent mergers than long waited mergers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Lennart K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Lennart K.") LK Lennart K. Development Process Tools and Techniques Automotive Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/6/2017 "Powerful versioning engine with excellent graphical interface" 4/5 What do you like best about P4? There are excellent graphical tools like the Revision Graph and the Merge Tool included. The possibility to automate and access by scripts using command line and various API's is very useful. There is very good support and knowledge base available. The Swarm add-on to Perfore is exellent for collaboration and reviews but it actually should be even more tightly integrated as part of the basic product rater than an add-on. Perforce is very good at handling large files and large repos efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about P4? The concept of a workspace and checking out files is non-intuitive and confusing to new users who are used to Git. The convienient way of doing Rollback/Backout is good but it is very problematic when it comes to integration records (merges). Server administration and setup gets a bit complicated when you need more advanced features like replication, broker, SSL-support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering P4: You need to take the time to understand the concepts and the features as traditional Perforce differs from Git. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you? Versioning of various types of development artifacts - all types of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ## Questions about P4? 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