Elasticsearch pricing
8 plans read from elastic.co
BasicPriced 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 as2 support contacts · 3-business-day target response time Read 19 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Gold$114 a month As low as6 support contacts Read 19 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Platinum$131 a month As low as8 support contacts · 99.95% monthly uptime SLA Read 19 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Enterprise$184 a month As low asEverything 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 HostedPrice not published Pay as you go (monthly) or prepaid; resource-based pricingManaged hosting · AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba, and FedRAMP · 60 regions across AWS, Azure, and GCP Read 30 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Elastic Cloud ServerlessPrice not published Pay as you go (monthly) or prepaid; usage-based pricingFully managed · Generally available on AWS, GCP, and Azure · Automatically scales with search and indexing load Read 30 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
Self-managed ElasticsearchPriced on request License-based pricing; based on number of nodes and used RAMDeploy anywhere: on-premises or private/public cloud · Customer manages infrastructure Read 30 Sep 2026 · elastic.co
In short
- Elasticsearch has a free plan (Basic).
- A free trial is offered.
- Paid plans published: 4, from $99 a month.
- 2 plans are priced on request (Basic, Self-managed Elasticsearch).
What the alternatives costAll alternatives →
| Tool | From | Free plan | Free trial |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chroma | $250/mo | Yes | Yes |
| Pinecone | $20/mo | Yes | Yes |
| Vespa | — | Yes | Yes |
| EmergentDB | $2/mo | Yes | No |
| Epsilla | $29/mo | Yes | No |
| Milvus | — | Yes | No |
| Cloudflare Vectorize | — | Yes | No |
| Qdrant | — | Yes | No |