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Distributed source control management tool for developers

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Mercurial - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Mercurial overview

What is Mercurial?

Mercurial is a distributed source control management tool for software developers. With an easy-to-use interface, various workflows, and optional extensions, it can be used to manage projects of any kind and size. Mercurial allows users to create new projects as well as clone existing projects and push changes. This solution is written in Python and can be downloaded onto Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/LINUX, Solaris 11 Express, and other systems.

Mercurial allows users to create scalable workflows through merging changesets in a repository. The tool provides a history of changesets for individual files as well as repositories. Mercurial workflows may include on-off patch submission, review bookmarks, approval management with auditing and QA, configuration management, and many others.

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Mercurial reviews

Overall rating

3.9

/5

10

Positive reviews

80

%

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend7.5/10
Rating distribution

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Pros
“The main advantage is that it is free and supports any amount of code.”
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Magaly D.

Assistant Business Manager

“Has a GUI tool - "tortoisehg" which is great in branch history visualizations and lots of other useful features.”
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Stas K.

Dev

“Great experience, easy learning curve rock solid performance.”
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Jeff V.

President

Cons
“The branch creation, the up-merge , pull requests, merge and the working directory concept of mercurial is too confusing. The UI is dull and not user-friendly.”
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Ananya N.

Consultant

“Very limited features, very less security tools. It has very less community so no login with mercurial provided on collaboration sites.”

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Who uses Mercurial?

Based on 10 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Computer Software
Information Technology and Services
Computer Games
Hospitality
Others

Use cases

Source Code Management

Mercurial's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Mercurial users:

Version control
Change management
Code Review

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Mercurial pricing

Value for money rating:

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Free

Pricing details
Subscription
Free trial
Free plan
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User opinions about Mercurial price and value

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To see what individual users think of Mercurial's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“The main advantage is that it is free and supports any amount of code.”
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Magaly D.

Assistant Business Manager

“Has a GUI tool - "tortoisehg" which is great in branch history visualizations and lots of other useful features.”
SK

Stas K.

Dev

Mercurial integrations (7)

Mercurial support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Knowledge Base

Training options

Documentation

Mercurial FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does Mercurial offer?

Mercurial has the following pricing plans:
Pricing model: Free, Open Source


Q. Who are the typical users of Mercurial?

Mercurial has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Small Business


Q. What languages does Mercurial support?

Mercurial supports the following languages:
Chinese (Simplified), Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian, Thai, Ukrainian


Q. Does Mercurial offer an API?

No, Mercurial does not have an API available.


Q. What level of support does Mercurial offer?

Mercurial offers the following support options:
Knowledge Base

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