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www.elastic.co · Error tracking and observability
SEPT 2026 audit

Managed Elasticsearch, Kibana and Elastic Observability, hosted or serverless across AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

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Entry paid planElastic Cloud Hosted Standard, cheapest of four subscription tiers: as low as $99 per month for a production config of 120 GB storage across 2 zones. Gold $114, Platinum $131, Enterprise $184 per month on the same config basis. Serverless is metered, no plan fee.
RegionsHosted: 60 regions across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud (also Alibaba Cloud and FedRAMP). Serverless: generally available on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
Free tierNo — The only free offer here is a trial; no ongoing free tier is listed beside the Hosted and Serverless plans.
CategoryError tracking and observability

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 24 criteria comparedSources last checked

Elastic Cloud pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
Elastic Cloud Hosted Standard, cheapest of four subscription tiers: as low as $99 per month for a production config of 120 GB storage… source ↗
Pricing model
Three deployment options priced differently: Hosted is resource-based, Serverless is usage-based — both pay-as-you-go monthly or prepaid… source ↗

First line of each sourced value. The full text is in Elastic Cloud pricing below. How this free offer stacks up: cloud free tiers compared.

01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

Teams that need full-text search and observability on the same underlying engine, or that want the option to self-host later — Elastic's dual identity as a search platform and an observability platform is the actual differentiator against single-purpose competitors.

Consider something else if…

The need is narrowly error tracking or APM — a purpose-built tool is usually simpler to operate than standing up an Elasticsearch cluster for one workload, and Elastic Cloud's per-resource pricing doesn't publish a flat entry price the way single-purpose competitors do.

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Elastic Cloud's own site (elastic.co) self-detects as: hosting — US hosting, Indian hosting, Cloud PaaS, Server Location, Cloud Hosting · CDN — Edge Delivery Network · DNS — Enterprise DNS (category-level via BuiltWith, not a named vendor)

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Elastic Cloud pricing

5 criteria
Free tierNo — The only free offer here is a trial; no ongoing free tier is listed beside the Hosted and Serverless plans.
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  • Elastic Cloud Pricing ↗

    “Elastic Cloud Serverless Zero operational load so that you can build faster Start free trial Elastic Cloud Hosted Deploy and scale on any cloud in minutes with ultimate control Start free trial”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction

Kind of free offerFree trial — The only free offer here is a trial; no ongoing free tier is listed beside the Hosted and Serverless plans.
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  • Elastic Cloud Pricing ↗

    “Elastic Cloud Serverless Zero operational load so that you can build faster Start free trial Elastic Cloud Hosted Deploy and scale on any cloud in minutes with ultimate control Start free trial”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction

Credit card to startNo
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Entry paid planElastic Cloud Hosted Standard, cheapest of four subscription tiers: as low as $99 per month for a production config of 120 GB storage across 2 zones. Gold $114, Platinum $131, Enterprise $184 per month on the same config basis. Serverless is metered, no plan fee.
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Pricing modelThree deployment options priced differently: Hosted is resource-based, Serverless is usage-based — both pay-as-you-go monthly or prepaid — and Self-managed is licensed by node count and RAM.
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  • Elastic Cloud Pricing ↗

    “Pricing Resource based pricing Pay as you go (monthly) or prepaid Usage based pricing Pay as you go (monthly) or prepaid License-based pricing Licensing based on number of nodes and used RAM”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction

Infrastructure

2 criteria
RegionsHosted: 60 regions across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud (also Alibaba Cloud and FedRAMP). Serverless: generally available on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
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  • Elastic Cloud Pricing ↗

    “AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba, FedRamp — 60 regions across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Serverless currently generally available in AWS, GCP, and Azure.”

    Read 2026-09-11 · official pricing · Report a correction

Uptime SLA99.95% monthly, for the Platinum and Enterprise subscription tiers, on both Hosted and Serverless. Not applicable to self-managed, where the customer operates the infrastructure.
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Observability

4 criteria
Retention windowNo fixed window on Serverless: retention is priced per GB retained per month, as low as $0.017 (Logs Essentials) or $0.019 (Complete), and $0.005 for metrics.
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Self-hostableSupported
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  • Elastic Subscriptions ↗

    “Elastic self-managed subscriptions The Elastic Stack - Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Integrations - powers a variety of use cases. And we have flexible plans to help you get the most out of your on-prem subscriptions. [...] Available under the Elastic License. Select features are also available under SSPL or Apache License 2.0.”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official site · Report a correction

Ingest price per GBAs low as $0.07 per GB ingested (logs, traces, RUM) on Serverless Observability Logs Essentials; as low as $0.09 on Observability Complete, with metrics at $0.023.
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Query priceNo separate query meter on Serverless Observability: billing is ingest plus retention only, with egress 50 GB free then $0.05 per GB.
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Vector

2 criteria
Hybrid search (vector + keyword)Supported — combines vector similarity scores with BM25F text-relevance scores in a single hybrid query.
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  • Elastic: What is vector search? ↗

    “To further optimize, combine vector similarities with BM25F scores, known as hybrid scoring. This allows you to have images ranked by vector similarity while implementing BM25F, which can provide better rankings for text.”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official site · Report a correction

Metadata filteringSupported — vector search results can be filtered by metadata while preserving approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search speed.
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Support

1 criteria
Support on entry paid planFour support tiers, keyed to the Elastic Cloud subscription tier rather than bought separately. Platinum and Enterprise share an identical support SLA.
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  • Elastic Cloud Pricing ↗

    “four support tiers, depending on the elastic cloud subscription tier two subscription tiers (platinum and enterprise) with identical support sla”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction

Compliance

10 criteria
SOC 2SOC 2 Type 2 audit by Coalfire covers Elasticsearch Service and support subscriptions; report available on request via the Trust Center.
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ISO 27001Information Security Program certified on ISO 27001, including ISO 27017 and ISO 27018.
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HIPAAHIPAA business associate agreements available on all Elastic Cloud subscription tiers on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
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GDPR / data residencyOperates in compliance with GDPR principles; customers can request a Data Processing Addendum through a support case.
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PCI DSSPCI DSS listed among the certifications in the Elastic Trust Center, alongside SOC 2, ISO 27001 and FedRAMP.
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Encryption at restCluster data is encrypted at rest by default; TLS between Elasticsearch nodes and from the internet.
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Customer-managed keysSupported on Elastic Cloud Hosted via your cloud provider KMS, but only at the Enterprise subscription level; the key cannot yet be changed or removed once set.
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Role-based access controlPredefined cloud resource roles (Admin, Editor, Viewer, billing admin) for Hosted and Serverless; custom roles can be created on Serverless projects.
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Private networking / VPCAWS PrivateLink and Azure Private Link for Hosted and Serverless; GCP Private Service Connect for Hosted only. IP filtering can be combined with private connections.
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Dedicated infrastructureElasticsearch nodes run in isolated containers under least privilege; containers have no means of communicating with containers from another cluster. Scope: container-level isolation between customer clusters; no dedicated-hardware option is offered on this page.
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  • Elastic Cloud Security | Elastic ↗

    “Elasticsearch nodes run in isolated containers, configured according to the principle of least privilege, and with restrictions on system calls and allowed root operations. [...] Containers have no means of setting up communication with containers from another cluster.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

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Elastic Cloud pricing questions

How much does Elastic Cloud cost?

Elastic Cloud Hosted Standard, cheapest of four subscription tiers: as low as $99 per month for a production config of 120 GB storage across 2 zones. Gold $114, Platinum $131, Enterprise $184 per month on the same config basis. Serverless is metered, no plan fee.

Elastic Cloud Hosted pricing | Elastic · read

How does Elastic Cloud charge?

Three deployment options priced differently: Hosted is resource-based, Serverless is usage-based — both pay-as-you-go monthly or prepaid — and Self-managed is licensed by node count and RAM.

Elastic Cloud Pricing · read

Does Elastic Cloud have a free tier?

No free tier; the free offer is a free trial — the only free offer here is a trial; no ongoing free tier is listed beside the hosted and serverless plans..

Elastic Cloud Pricing · read

Do you need a credit card to start on Elastic Cloud?

No.

Elastic — The Search AI Company | Elastic · read

What uptime does Elastic Cloud guarantee?

99.95% monthly, for the Platinum and Enterprise subscription tiers, on both Hosted and Serverless. Not applicable to self-managed, where the customer operates the infrastructure.

Elastic Cloud Pricing · read

Can you self-host Elastic Cloud?

Yes.

Elastic Subscriptions · read

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