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Elasticsearch

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Spec sheet

Purpose
Elasticsearch is an open source distributed search and analytics engine for speed, scale, and AI applications.Read 30 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Deployment
It can run on premises, in the cloud, across clouds, or as a managed serverless service.Read 30 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Integrations
Elastic describes 350+ integrations and supports ingestion through Elastic Agent, connectors, APIs, language clients, and Logstash.Read 30 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Support
Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless offer four support tiers depending on subscription tier.Read 30 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Headquarters
Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Mountain View, California, United StatesRead 28 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Founded
2012Read 28 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Company
Elastic says it builds Search, Observability, and Security solutions on the Elasticsearch foundation.Read 30 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Analytics
Its analytics engine aggregates and transforms high-cardinality data in real time.Read 30 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Cloud providers
Elastic lists native cloud integrations for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.Read 30 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Data types
It stores structured, unstructured, and vector data in real time.Read 30 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Geospatial
It supports geo-distance, polygons, and hexagonal spatial analytics.Read 30 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Search
It supports full-text, semantic, and hybrid search with filters, ranking, and reranking.Read 30 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Security and compliance
Elastic's Trust Center lists ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018, SOC 2, SOC 3, TISAX, and HIPAA among its compliance standards.Read 30 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Self-managed pricing
Self-managed pricing is license-based on the number of nodes and RAM used.Read 30 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Uptime SLA
Elastic lists a 99.95% monthly uptime SLA for Platinum and Enterprise subscription tiers on Hosted and Serverless.Read 30 Sep 2026 · elastic.co

Plans and prices

Basic Priced on request Self-managed Elasticsearch and Kibana · Search and analytics capabilities · Vector search · Security features Read 19 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Standard $99 a month As low as 2 support contacts · 3-business-day target response time Read 19 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Gold $114 a month As low as 6 support contacts Read 19 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Platinum $131 a month As low as 8 support contacts · 99.95% monthly uptime SLA Read 19 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Enterprise $184 a month As low as Everything in Platinum · Searchable snapshots in cold and frozen tiers · Elastic Maps Server · Cross-cluster search with ES|QL · GPU inference with Elastic Inference Service Read 19 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Elastic Cloud Hosted Price not published Pay as you go (monthly) or prepaid; resource-based pricing Managed hosting · AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba, and FedRAMP · 60 regions across AWS, Azure, and GCP Read 30 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Elastic Cloud Serverless Price not published Pay as you go (monthly) or prepaid; usage-based pricing Fully managed · Generally available on AWS, GCP, and Azure · Automatically scales with search and indexing load Read 30 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Self-managed Elasticsearch Priced on request License-based pricing; based on number of nodes and used RAM Deploy anywhere: on-premises or private/public cloud · Customer manages infrastructure Read 30 Sep 2026 · elastic.co

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