Liferay Portal In Two Flavors
Liferay Portal Standard Edition Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition

Liferay Portal Standard Edition (SE) is intended for early adopters and gives you the latest release with the newest in features and innovation. Liferay Portal SE is available at no cost and is supported by the community. 

  • The latest features in the latest version
  • Full license to the source code under the business-friendly MIT Open Source license
  • Bug fixes for errors in all versions aggregated to Standard Edition
  • Full community participation and innovation
  • Thorough documentation

Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition (EE) offers the most recent stable version of the product, guaranteeing ongoing long-term support with a combined subscription and support package.

  • Four levels of subscription and support to choose from
  • Access to the source code and binaries of all supported versions 
  • Updates and patches
  • Customer service portal
  • Web-based update repository 
  • Web-based incident tracking
  • Updates alerts
  • Exclusive maintenance releases
  • Software indemnification
  • Thorough documentation

What is the difference between SE and EE?

Liferay Portal Standard Edition (SE) is offered at no cost under the business-friendly MIT Open Source license for use by early adopters and developers in non-critical environments. Liferay Portal SE is community supported and includes the latest in features. 

Liferay Enterprise Edition (EE) will soon be available for download and purchase and will offer a more hardened, stable version of Liferay SE that guarantees ongoing long-term support with a combined subscription and support package. This caters to organizations seeking to build on top of and maintain one stable version of the product over an extended period of time.

The EE release cycle will be less frequent than the SE. However, each enterprise version will be supported for 4 years with bug fixes backported to your version for the life of your subscription.

Liferay's professional services team offers training and consulting on the Enterprise Edition to ensure long-term support and stability for our clients.