P4 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

Name: P4
Rating: 4.5 (31 reviews)

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Overview
Pricing and Plans
Features
User Reviews

Overview

4.5

(31)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About P4

Perforce P4 (formerly Helix Core) is a version control solution that enables businesses to monitor and manage changes across videos, binary files, IPs, codes and other digital assets via a unified portal. The application helps development teams to collaborate on multiple projects and share files with members.

P4 allows enterprises to facilitate secure access to documents and resources through multifactor authentication. Teams can also run thousands of transactions, send files to remote servers and add/update version history and information about assets in a centralized repository.

P4 pricing details are available upon request and support is provided via phone, email and other online measures.

P4 Screenshots

P4 Pricing and Plans

Starting price: Pricing available upon request

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

Pricing available upon request

No plan information available

P4 Features

Popular features found in Product Data Management
Access Controls/Permissions
Bills of Material
Catalog Management
Content Management
Data Import/Export
Data Synchronization
Document Management
Multi-Channel Management
Product Lifecycle Management
Search/Filter
Third-Party Integrations
More features of P4
2D Drawing
3D Games
Authentication
Collaboration Tools
Continuous Deployment
Continuous Integration
Data Storage Management
Graphical User Interface
IT Asset Management
Reporting & Statistics
Software Development
Source Control
Version Control
Web App Development

P4 User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

58%

35%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.9

Value for money

4.2

Customer support

4.2

Functionality

4.4

Verified

Reviewer

Semiconductors

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2022

Good version control system for code collaboration etc.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Helps to organize and mange project database and share it with others. Ease of use and also UI version makes it more easy to use.

Cons:

crashes at time and also has issues connecting to server at times.

Nazifa Z.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2025

Made more work like very handy.

Helix helped me to find the profiles I need to work on our company whole system basically works on helix. it means the requirements of our company to work on efficiently. It helps to work efficiently under accompany regulations. It helps to manage create and prioritize tasks accordingly overall I’m very satisfied with the app.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Very easy to navigate and understand even for beginners with zero training It’s back in the strong and efficient Faster compared to other similar software

Cons:

Sometimes it is very slow and a lot of bugs They can make it better and more user They can provide more online training videos on how to use it German concepts, which are unclear and training would make it much more easier and efficient to use

Michael F.

Computer Software

10000+ employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2017

Easy to download and easy to work with.

Ease of use.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

All files are arranged neatly and in order for easier access. I find the information on all files to be up to date and time stamped according to when they were last edited.

Cons:

I had to manually set up my own workspace folder. Again once this was set up correctly the features seen in the depot folder are available in my workspace.

Dave S.

Verified reviewer

Computer & Network Security

Self-Employed

Used other for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2017

i don't think i would trade this software for anything

it keeps track of everything. i find the labelling feature particularly useful, so you can retrieve all the files (exactly) that went into a particular release.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

i have used other CM systems before Helix. this product has all the features of the others, works on more platforms, and is easier to use.

Cons:

sometimes administration can be a little counter-intuitive. there are certain administrative tasks the force you to go from screen to screen to screen to find what you are looking for. also, the upgrade process requires too many manual steps (at least it used to, perhaps that has changed).

Steve N.

Verified reviewer

Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2022

Good software but not easy to setup

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The GUI use is well done. You don't have to use a third party software to connect to this server and start using source control.

Cons:

We had somme weird behavior while using this code source control. Probably cause by us but it was desapointing.

srinivasa u.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2017

it was awesome and very user friendly

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

it was so good very user friendly, especially features like label and conflicts tracking. checkin and checkout features are awesome..

JAMES A.

Insurance

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2017

I have grown accustomed to this software.

Peace of mind for source control. Being able to roll back changes.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like the Eclipse plugin. Branch history display is fairly intuitive. Merging tool works pretty well.

Cons:

Sometimes something will go wrong with a check-in and your files will get locked. Eclipse requires restart to reconnect to eclipse plugin. Eclipse perforce client does not remember my password. With the upgraded perforce Helix client some of my changelists are now indicating different colors (blue and black) and have become difficult to resolve. The eclipse plugin does not recognize added files.

Liang C.

Computer Hardware

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2017

Build and Manage Complex Software Across Its Entire Lifecycle

It helps me manage all digital content'even large files'in a single repository, and delivers files quickly to large, distributed teams.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's amazing to use Helix Visual Client (P4V) on different OS platform with similar user experience, really like perforce's strong notion of a changelist.

Cons:

It would be expensive for small & medium scale project. If the data infrastructure is loosely bonded (there is off-line time), svn rocks. You can do a lot even if the server would not be reachable. Perforce essentially requires an always-available server connection.

Verified

Reviewer

Real Estate

11-50 employees

Used daily for free trial

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

Easy to use website

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to set up a free trial and start using. Website is very detailed to navigate and throughly explains the product.

Cons:

Not very useful for real estate which is the field we're in at this time. Product seems great but not for us.

Verified

Reviewer

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2018

A great version control product

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We use P4V( helix visual client) in our organisation for version control. Easy to compare files between current and previous versions. Integrating, labeling,creating changelists is easy. UI is user friendly.

Cons:

Sometimes i get unwanted/extra characters in my files while merging. Also it is very expensive comparatively.

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