Elasticsearch vs Upstash Vector
Elasticsearch
elastic.co
Upstash Vector
upstash.comSide by side
| Figure | Elasticsearch | Upstash Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $99/mo | $0.40/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 8 | 4 |
| Spec score · Vector Databases | 8.5 (#4) | 7.9 (#13) |
| Company | Elastic says it builds Search, Observability, and Security solutions on the Elasticsearch foundation. | Upstash describes itself as a data platform for developers and says it is based in California. |
| Headquarters | Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Mountain View, California, United States | California |
| Integrations | Elastic describes 350+ integrations and supports ingestion through Elastic Agent, connectors, APIs, language clients, and Logstash. | The documentation provides integrations for Vercel AI SDK, Flowise, LangChain, Langflow, LlamaIndex, and LlamaParse. |
| Purpose | Elasticsearch is an open source distributed search and analytics engine for speed, scale, and AI applications. | Upstash Vector is a serverless vector database designed for high-performance vector search at scale, including NLP, RAG, recommendation, image recognition, clustering, and classification systems. |
| Support | Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless offer four support tiers depending on subscription tier. | Enterprise features include professional support with a response-time SLA, a dedicated Slack channel, and a dedicated account manager. |
Plans
Elasticsearch
- BasicPriced on request
- Standard$99 a month
- Gold$114 a month
- Platinum$131 a month
- Enterprise$184 a month
- Elastic Cloud HostedPrice not published
- Elastic Cloud ServerlessPrice not published
- Self-managed ElasticsearchPriced on request
Upstash Vector
- FreeFree
- Pay as You Go$0.40 a month
- Fixed$60 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Upstash Vector
Upstash Vector is a serverless cloud vector database for applications that need vector search, including NLP, RAG, recommendations, image recognition, clustering and classification. It uses DiskANN for approximate nearest-neighbor queries and also lists FreshDiskANN as an index type. Developers can use its REST API and SDKs, with first-class Python and TypeScript support and additional SDKs for Go and PHP. Similarity options include Euclidean distance, cosine similarity and dot product. Vectors can carry metadata, and query filters can restrict matches using metadata expressions. Hybrid indexes combine dense semantic search with sparse exact-token search and fuse the results. Documented integrations include Vercel AI SDK, Flowise, LangChain, Langflow, LlamaIndex and LlamaParse. The pricing page lists a default top-k limit of 1,000, up to 48 KB of metadata and 1 MB of data per vector. The Free plan allows 10K daily queries or updates and up to 1 GB of data and metadata. Pay as You Go costs $0.40 a month, billed per 100K requests, with separate storage and bandwidth terms. Region availability varies by plan.