Elastic Cloud Hosted vs Firebolt
Elastic Cloud Hosted
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Firebolt
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| Figure | Elastic Cloud Hosted | Firebolt |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · AWS Marketplace Software | 7.8 (#7) | 8.0 (#6) |
| Founded | 2012 | 2019 |
| Integrations | The integrations page lists Elastic Agent, Open Crawler, content connectors, APIs, language clients, and Logstash as ingestion methods. | It integrates with Looker, Tableau, Power BI, Postgres-compatible tools, Go, JDBC, .NET, Node.js, Python, Rust, SQLAlchemy, and REST API clients. |
| Product | Elastic Cloud Hosted is Elastic Stack managed through deployments hosted on a cloud provider and region of the customer's choice. | Firebolt is a high-performance, open-source analytical database for engineers with Postgres-compatible SQL. |
| Security | Hosted deployments include HTTPS communications and encryption at rest, and support IP filters and private connectivity. | Firebolt lists SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 27018, HIPAA support, GDPR alignment, MFA, RBAC, and encryption in transit and at rest. |
| Support | All Hosted subscription levels include support by email or through the Elastic Support Portal; Standard has no response-time SLA, while Gold and Platinum include one. | The pricing page lists audit logs, metrics, and support as managed-service capabilities. |
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In their own words
Elastic Cloud Hosted
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Firebolt
Firebolt is an open-source analytical database for engineers, with Postgres-compatible SQL and options for self-managed or managed deployment. It can run as a single binary on a laptop or scale to a cluster of hundreds of nodes in a customer’s cloud. Firebolt is designed for sub-second query latency and high-concurrency analytics, and supports Apache Iceberg and DuckLake using open storage standards. Deployment choices include a single binary, Helm chart, Kubernetes Operator, and managed service. Firebolt Core is free forever for self-hosted use, with no usage limits; it cannot be used to build a hosted SaaS that competes with Firebolt’s managed service. Managed compute is billed per second, with scale-to-zero, automatic start and stop, and autoscaling. Object storage is pass-through at $0.0264 / GB·mo, and the managed service includes $200 free credits. AI capabilities include query and embedding functions, vector search, an MCP Server, and a preview agent. Self-managed availability includes AWS and GCP, with Azure in preview; the managed service is currently AWS-only.