Is there any way to get the estimate cost of executing a query in MySQL?

In PostgreSQL, EXPLAIN or EXPLAIN ANALYZE will show the estimate cost of executing a query. But EXPLAIN in MySQL doesn't provide this information. How can I get the estimate cost without installation of other tools? I'm using MySQL-5.6.16.

In short

• Run your SELECT ... query

• SHOW STATUS LIKE 'last_query_cost'

• if the answer was 0 rerun the query with

select SQL_NO_CACHE ... and do step 2 above again

StackExchange Database Administrators Q#62029, answer score: 10