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Elastic pricing

Elastic sells Elasticsearch, a search and analytics engine, plus observability and security products, with a pay-per-use Serverless cloud option.

AI search enginesPriced per minuteSelf-serve + sales
Visit ElasticPrices checked Oct 29, 2026

How much does Elastic cost?

Usage price from $0.14/minute
Free plan
Not stated
Free trial
Free trial available, no credit card required (length not stated)
Usage price
$0.14/minute
Enterprise
Contact sales
Read from www.elastic.co/pricing/serverless-search/ on Oct 29, 2026. Price changed? Tell usSee the line each price came from

In your favor

  • Free trial. Free trial available, no credit card required (length not stated)

Watch out for

  • Going over the Workflows allowance costs $0.01 per execution. Included: 10000 executions.

How you buy and get started

Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Start free trial, Contact sales, Try for free
Sign up
Self-serve free trial signup
"Start a free trial now, no credit card required."
Setup
Not stated
When sales steps in
Not stated
Support
Support included at limited level on Standard; Gold 5%, Platinum 10%, Enterprise 15% of charge
"Limited support is included with a Standard subscription; all other support pricing is based on the percentage of your consumption."

What Elastic does

Elastic provides Elasticsearch for vector and hybrid search, AI agents (Agent Builder, Workflows), logs and security analytics, deployable on Elastic Cloud Serverless, Cloud Hosted, or self-managed. Elasticsearch Serverless is priced by usage: VCU hours, storage, egress, tokens and executions.

Good for
Development and engineering teams building search, RAG and AI agent applications, and teams needing log, observability and security analytics at scale.
Channels
Elastic Cloud Serverless, Elastic Cloud Hosted, Self-managed download, Cloud marketplaces (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
Main product
Elasticsearch (Elastic Cloud Serverless)
Also includes
Vector and hybrid search, reranking, GPU inference, Elastic Agent Builder, Workflows, Elastic Inference Service, Cross-project search, Elastic Managed LLM for AI Playground, Agent Builder and AI Assistant
Connects to
AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Logstash, Connector clients
Public API
Yes
MCP server
Not stated
  • Cited AI answersNot stated
  • Connectors to work appsWe recommend sending data directly from your application or using [Connector clients]
  • Permission-aware resultsNot stated
  • Live web searchNot stated
  • Agents and workflowsCreate and interact with AI agents that understand your data to improve accuracy and performance, and take act
  • Search API accessVector and hybrid search, reranking, and GPU inference in one API.
  • SSO and SOC 2Not stated
  • No training on your dataNot stated

The same 8 checks appear on every tool in AI search engines. Each tick quotes the vendor's own site.

Security and your data

QuestionTheir answerWhere it says so
Trains AI on your data?Not stated
HIPAA (signs a BAA)Not stated
SOC 2Not stated
GDPRNot stated
CCPANot stated
PCINot stated
ISO 27001Not stated
Single sign-onNot stated
Trust centerTrust center linked"[Trust center](/trust)"pricing

Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.

Every plan

PlanMonthlyBilled yearlyIncludedOver the allowanceWhere it says so
Ingest (Serverless)per VCU per hour $0.14per minute – – – "Ingest\* Per VCU per hour As low as $0.14"
Search (Serverless)per VCU per hour $0.09per minute – – – "Search\* Per VCU per hour As low as $0.09"
Machine Learning (Serverless)per VCU per hour $0.07per minute – – – "Machine Learning Per VCU per hour As low as $0.07"
Storage & Retention (Serverless)per GB retained per month $0.05per minute – – – "Storage & Retention Per GB retained per month As low as $0.047"
Egress (Serverless)per GB transferred $0.05per minute – – – "Egress Per GB transferred per month As low as $0.05"
Elastic Inference Serviceper million tokens $0.08per minute – – – "Elastic Inference Service** Per million tokens As low as $0.08"
Workflowsper execution $0.01per execution – 10000 executions $0.01/execution "Workflows Per execution 10,000 executions free, then as low as $0.0108"
Agent Builderper execution $0.03per execution – 1000 executions $0.03/execution "Agent Builder Per execution 1,000 executions free, then as low as $0.025"
Elastic Managed LLM input tokensper million input tokens $4.50per minute – – – "$4.50 Per million input tokens"
Elastic Managed LLM output tokensper million output tokens $21per minute – – – "$21 Per million output tokens"

Fine print

Billing increment
Compute billed per VCU per hour
"Per VCU per hour"
Billed beyond usage
Not stated
Contract
Not stated
Refunds
Not stated
Auto renew
Not stated
Price change notice
Not stated

"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.

About the company

Legal name
elasticsearch B.V.
Customers
"75% of the Fortune 100 choose Elastic"
their claim

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Questions

Is Elastic free?

There's no free plan. Free trial: Free trial available, no credit card required (length not stated).