Elastic pricing

Elastic Cloud makes it easy to launch and scale Search, Observability, and Security, with flexible hosted and serverless options. Compare solutions and deployment to find the right fit.

Elastic Cloud: Hosted vs. serverless

The flexibility to choose between control and simplicity

Hosted
Serverless
Self-managed
Operations
Full visibility and control over HW configuration, clusters size, node count, and versions
Fully managed, just bring your data. Elastic manages all HW configuration, clusters size, node count, and versions.
Full control over deployment location, HW setup and configuration, orchestration, clusters size, node count, and versions
Scalability
Custom control over cluster capacity
Automatically scales up and down based on search and indexing load to optimize performance
Custom control over cluster capacity, storage-based autoscaling available in ECE and ECK
Pricing
Resource based pricing
Pay as you go (monthly) or prepaid
Usage based pricing
Pay as you go (monthly) or prepaid
License based pricing Licensing based on number of nodes and used RAM
Cloud and regions
AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba, FedRamp 60 regions across AWS, Azure, and GCP
Currently generally available in AWS, GCP, and Azure (see a list of supported regions)
Deploy anywhere: on-prem or in private or public cloud
Capabilities
All solutions and platform capabilities
Most solution and platform capabilities
Notable upcoming features: traffic filtering, cross project search, and bring your own key
See a detailed roadmap of upcoming features
All solutions and platform capabilities
Support
Four support tiers, depending on the Elastic Cloud subscription tier
Four support tiers, depending on the Elastic Cloud subscription tier
Two subscription tiers (Platinum and Enterprise) with identical support SLA
Operations
Scalability
Pricing
Cloud and regions
Capabilities
Support
Hosted
Serverless
Self-managed
Full visibility and control over HW configuration, clusters size, node count, and versions
Fully managed, just bring your data. Elastic manages all HW configuration, clusters size, node count, and versions.
Full control over deployment location, HW setup and configuration, orchestration, clusters size, node count, and versions
Custom control over cluster capacity
Automatically scales up and down based on search and indexing load to optimize performance
Custom control over cluster capacity, storage-based autoscaling available in ECE and ECK
Resource based pricing
Pay as you go (monthly) or prepaid
Usage based pricing
Pay as you go (monthly) or prepaid
License based pricing Licensing based on number of nodes and used RAM
AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba, FedRamp 60 regions across AWS, Azure, and GCP
Currently generally available in AWS, GCP, and Azure (see a list of supported regions)
Deploy anywhere: on-prem or in private or public cloud
All solutions and platform capabilities
Most solution and platform capabilities
Notable upcoming features: traffic filtering, cross project search, and bring your own key
See a detailed roadmap of upcoming features
All solutions and platform capabilities
Four support tiers, depending on the Elastic Cloud subscription tier
Four support tiers, depending on the Elastic Cloud subscription tier
Two subscription tiers (Platinum and Enterprise) with identical support SLA

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Elastic Cloud, your way

Consolidate your cloud bill and make the most of your existing cloud spending commitments. Explore the regions we support for flexible, global coverage.

AWS Marketplace

Elastic on AWS gives you the ability to run prebuilt SaaS solutions for search, observability, and security.

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Azure Marketplace

Elastic on Microsoft Azure gives you the ability to deploy Elasticsearch directly within the Azure portal.

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Google Marketplace

Elastic on Google Cloud enables you to integrate with GKE and BigQuery for scalable search, logging, and analytics.

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