Pricing
Elastic pricing context
Human-reviewed pricing summary paired with DevTune’s public AI search visibility benchmark.
Elastic offers three deployment pricing models. Elastic Cloud Serverless uses usage-based pricing (pay-as-you-go monthly or prepaid), with no cluster management overhead. Elastic Cloud Hosted is resource-based, starting at $99/month, available on AWS, Azure, GCP, and Alibaba across 60 regions, with four support tiers (Standard, Gold, Platinum, Enterprise) and a 99.95% uptime SLA on Platinum/Enterprise. Self-managed (on-premises or private cloud) uses license-based pricing tied to node count and RAM, with Platinum and Enterprise subscription tiers. A 14-day free trial with no credit card is available for Elastic Cloud. Self-managed Elasticsearch can also be downloaded and run locally for free under open-source licensing.