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Elastic pricing

Elastic Observability (Elastic Cloud Serverless, Elastic Cloud Hosted, self-managed Elastic Stack). Prices read 2026-10-02, dataset 2026.10.12. Confidence in the estimate: medium.

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At a glance

Deployment
saas, self-hosted, hybrid
Licence
source-available
Categories
observability platform, log management, apm, metrics backend, tracing backend, rum synthetics, profiling, llm observability, siem
Ownership
public
Estimate
Costed from published list prices
Vendor-side sampling
no

What it charges for

Every line item recorded for Elastic. "Not stated" means the vendor's own page gives no number; it is never treated as zero.

Line itemUnitCommitmentList priceSources
Serverless Complete: ingest (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others)gb-ingestedpay-as-you-go monthly or prepaid$0.09e1, e4
Serverless Complete: ingest (metrics)gb-ingestedpay-as-you-go monthly or prepaid$0.023e1, e4
Serverless Complete: retention (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others)gb-retained-monthpay-as-you-go monthly or prepaid$0.019e1, e4
Serverless Complete: retention (metrics)gb-retained-monthpay-as-you-go monthly or prepaid$0.005e1
Serverless Complete: ingest (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 0-1,500 GBgb-ingestedpay-as-you-go monthly$0.5e24
Serverless Complete: ingest (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 1,500-3,000 GBgb-ingestedpay-as-you-go monthly$0.325e24
Serverless Complete: ingest (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 3,000-6,000 GBgb-ingestedpay-as-you-go monthly$0.225e24
Serverless Complete: ingest (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 6,000-15,000 GBgb-ingestedpay-as-you-go monthly$0.15e24
Serverless Complete: ingest (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 15,000-30,000 GBgb-ingestedpay-as-you-go monthly$0.105e24
Serverless Complete: ingest (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 30,000-60,000 GBgb-ingestedpay-as-you-go monthly$0.1e24
Serverless Complete: ingest (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 60,000-150,000 GBgb-ingestedpay-as-you-go monthly$0.095e24
Serverless Complete: ingest (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), above 150,000 GBgb-ingestedpay-as-you-go monthly$0.0925e24
Serverless Complete: retention (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 0-10,000 GBgb-retained-monthpay-as-you-go monthly$0.04e24
Serverless Complete: retention (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 10,000-20,000 GBgb-retained-monthpay-as-you-go monthly$0.032e24
Serverless Complete: retention (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 20,000-50,000 GBgb-retained-monthpay-as-you-go monthly$0.03e24
Serverless Complete: retention (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 50,000-100,000 GBgb-retained-monthpay-as-you-go monthly$0.028e24
Serverless Complete: retention (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 100,000-250,000 GBgb-retained-monthpay-as-you-go monthly$0.026e24
Serverless Complete: retention (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 250,000-1,000,000 GBgb-retained-monthpay-as-you-go monthly$0.022e24
Serverless Complete: retention (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 1,000,000-2,500,000 GBgb-retained-monthpay-as-you-go monthly$0.02e24
Serverless Complete: retention (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), above 2,500,000 GBgb-retained-monthpay-as-you-go monthly$0.0188e24
Serverless Complete: ingest (metrics), 0-1,500 GBgb-ingestedpay-as-you-go monthly$0.125e24
Serverless Complete: ingest (metrics), 1,500-3,000 GBgb-ingestedpay-as-you-go monthly$0.0813e24
Serverless Complete: ingest (metrics), 3,000-6,000 GBgb-ingestedpay-as-you-go monthly$0.0563e24
Serverless Complete: ingest (metrics), 6,000-15,000 GBgb-ingestedpay-as-you-go monthly$0.0375e24
Serverless Complete: ingest (metrics), 15,000-30,000 GBgb-ingestedpay-as-you-go monthly$0.0263e24
Serverless Complete: ingest (metrics), 30,000-60,000 GBgb-ingestedpay-as-you-go monthly$0.025e24
Serverless Complete: ingest (metrics), 60,000-150,000 GBgb-ingestedpay-as-you-go monthly$0.0238e24
Serverless Complete: ingest (metrics), above 150,000 GBgb-ingestedpay-as-you-go monthly$0.0231e24
Serverless Complete: retention (metrics), 0-10,000 GBgb-retained-monthpay-as-you-go monthly$0.01e24
Serverless Complete: retention (metrics), 10,000-20,000 GBgb-retained-monthpay-as-you-go monthly$0.008e24
Serverless Complete: retention (metrics), 20,000-50,000 GBgb-retained-monthpay-as-you-go monthly$0.0075e24
Serverless Complete: retention (metrics), 50,000-100,000 GBgb-retained-monthpay-as-you-go monthly$0.007e24
Serverless Complete: retention (metrics), 100,000-250,000 GBgb-retained-monthpay-as-you-go monthly$0.0065e24
Serverless Complete: retention (metrics), 250,000-1,000,000 GBgb-retained-monthpay-as-you-go monthly$0.0055e24
Serverless Complete: retention (metrics), 1,000,000-2,500,000 GBgb-retained-monthpay-as-you-go monthly$0.005e24
Serverless Complete: retention (metrics), above 2,500,000 GBgb-retained-monthpay-as-you-go monthly$0.0047e24
Serverless Logs Essentials: ingest (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others)gb-ingestedpay-as-you-go monthly or prepaid$0.07e1
Serverless Logs Essentials: ingest (metrics)gb-ingestedpay-as-you-go monthly or prepaid$0.07e1
Serverless Logs Essentials: retention (all data types)gb-retained-monthpay-as-you-go monthly or prepaid$0.017e1
Serverless egresscustomon-demand$0.05e1
Serverless synthetics browser test runtest-run-thousandon-demand$12.3e1
Serverless synthetics lightweight testing locationcustommonthly$28e1, e4
Serverless Elastic Managed LLM: input tokenscustomon-demand$4.5e1
Serverless Elastic Managed LLM: output tokenscustomon-demand$21e1
Serverless cross-project search: retained data in linked projectsgb-retained-monthon-demand$0.0023e1
Serverless Workflows executioncustomon-demand$0.0108e1, e4
Serverless Agent Builder executioncustomon-demand$0.025e1, e4
Serverless support uplift (Gold / Platinum / Enterprise)customwith subscriptionNot statede1
Cloud Hosted Standard (starting)flat-monthpay-as-you-go monthly or prepaid$99e2
Cloud Hosted Gold (starting)flat-monthpay-as-you-go monthly or prepaid$114e2
Cloud Hosted Platinum (starting)flat-monthpay-as-you-go monthly or prepaid$131e18, e2
Cloud Hosted Enterprise (starting)flat-monthpay-as-you-go monthly or prepaid$184e2
Cloud Hosted resource rate (per GB RAM-hour, by region/instance/tier)custompay-as-you-go or prepaidNot statede2, e23
Self-managed Enterprise subscriptioncustomannual subscriptionNot statede16, e3
Self-managed Platinum subscriptionhost-monthannual subscriptionNot statede16, e3

How the estimate is built

The standard deployment is priced by these components (methodology). A quantity is a formula over the workload variables; free allowances are subtracted first, and a tier prices only its own band.

ComponentLine itemQuantityFreeTier
Log and span ingest, 0-1,500 GBServerless Complete: ingest (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 0-1,500 GB · per gb-ingested · pay-as-you-go monthlylog_gb * 1.66 + span_gb0 to 1500
Log and span ingest, 1,500-3,000 GBServerless Complete: ingest (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 1,500-3,000 GB · per gb-ingested · pay-as-you-go monthlylog_gb * 1.66 + span_gb1500 to 3000
Log and span ingest, 3,000-6,000 GBServerless Complete: ingest (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 3,000-6,000 GB · per gb-ingested · pay-as-you-go monthlylog_gb * 1.66 + span_gb3000 to 6000
Log and span ingest, 6,000-15,000 GBServerless Complete: ingest (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 6,000-15,000 GB · per gb-ingested · pay-as-you-go monthlylog_gb * 1.66 + span_gb6000 to 15000
Log and span ingest, 15,000-30,000 GBServerless Complete: ingest (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 15,000-30,000 GB · per gb-ingested · pay-as-you-go monthlylog_gb * 1.66 + span_gb15000 to 30000
Log and span ingest, 30,000-60,000 GBServerless Complete: ingest (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 30,000-60,000 GB · per gb-ingested · pay-as-you-go monthlylog_gb * 1.66 + span_gb30000 to 60000
Log and span ingest, 60,000-150,000 GBServerless Complete: ingest (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 60,000-150,000 GB · per gb-ingested · pay-as-you-go monthlylog_gb * 1.66 + span_gb60000 to 150000
Log and span ingest, above 150,000 GBServerless Complete: ingest (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), above 150,000 GB · per gb-ingested · pay-as-you-go monthlylog_gb * 1.66 + span_gb150000 to no limit
Logs and spans retained 30 days, 0-10,000 GBServerless Complete: retention (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 0-10,000 GB · per gb-retained-month · pay-as-you-go monthlylog_gb * 1.66 + span_gb0 to 10000
Logs and spans retained 30 days, 10,000-20,000 GBServerless Complete: retention (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 10,000-20,000 GB · per gb-retained-month · pay-as-you-go monthlylog_gb * 1.66 + span_gb10000 to 20000
Logs and spans retained 30 days, 20,000-50,000 GBServerless Complete: retention (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 20,000-50,000 GB · per gb-retained-month · pay-as-you-go monthlylog_gb * 1.66 + span_gb20000 to 50000
Logs and spans retained 30 days, 50,000-100,000 GBServerless Complete: retention (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 50,000-100,000 GB · per gb-retained-month · pay-as-you-go monthlylog_gb * 1.66 + span_gb50000 to 100000
Logs and spans retained 30 days, 100,000-250,000 GBServerless Complete: retention (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 100,000-250,000 GB · per gb-retained-month · pay-as-you-go monthlylog_gb * 1.66 + span_gb100000 to 250000
Logs and spans retained 30 days, 250,000-1,000,000 GBServerless Complete: retention (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 250,000-1,000,000 GB · per gb-retained-month · pay-as-you-go monthlylog_gb * 1.66 + span_gb250000 to 1000000
Logs and spans retained 30 days, 1,000,000-2,500,000 GBServerless Complete: retention (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), 1,000,000-2,500,000 GB · per gb-retained-month · pay-as-you-go monthlylog_gb * 1.66 + span_gb1000000 to 2500000
Logs and spans retained 30 days, above 2,500,000 GBServerless Complete: retention (logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, others), above 2,500,000 GB · per gb-retained-month · pay-as-you-go monthlylog_gb * 1.66 + span_gb2500000 to no limit
Metrics ingest, 0-1,500 GBServerless Complete: ingest (metrics), 0-1,500 GB · per gb-ingested · pay-as-you-go monthlymetric_samples_million * 0.10 to 1500
Metrics ingest, 1,500-3,000 GBServerless Complete: ingest (metrics), 1,500-3,000 GB · per gb-ingested · pay-as-you-go monthlymetric_samples_million * 0.11500 to 3000
Metrics ingest, 3,000-6,000 GBServerless Complete: ingest (metrics), 3,000-6,000 GB · per gb-ingested · pay-as-you-go monthlymetric_samples_million * 0.13000 to 6000
Metrics ingest, 6,000-15,000 GBServerless Complete: ingest (metrics), 6,000-15,000 GB · per gb-ingested · pay-as-you-go monthlymetric_samples_million * 0.16000 to 15000
Metrics ingest, 15,000-30,000 GBServerless Complete: ingest (metrics), 15,000-30,000 GB · per gb-ingested · pay-as-you-go monthlymetric_samples_million * 0.115000 to 30000
Metrics ingest, 30,000-60,000 GBServerless Complete: ingest (metrics), 30,000-60,000 GB · per gb-ingested · pay-as-you-go monthlymetric_samples_million * 0.130000 to 60000
Metrics ingest, 60,000-150,000 GBServerless Complete: ingest (metrics), 60,000-150,000 GB · per gb-ingested · pay-as-you-go monthlymetric_samples_million * 0.160000 to 150000
Metrics ingest, above 150,000 GBServerless Complete: ingest (metrics), above 150,000 GB · per gb-ingested · pay-as-you-go monthlymetric_samples_million * 0.1150000 to no limit
Metrics retained 13 months, 0-10,000 GBServerless Complete: retention (metrics), 0-10,000 GB · per gb-retained-month · pay-as-you-go monthlymetric_samples_million * 0.1 * 130 to 10000
Metrics retained 13 months, 10,000-20,000 GBServerless Complete: retention (metrics), 10,000-20,000 GB · per gb-retained-month · pay-as-you-go monthlymetric_samples_million * 0.1 * 1310000 to 20000
Metrics retained 13 months, 20,000-50,000 GBServerless Complete: retention (metrics), 20,000-50,000 GB · per gb-retained-month · pay-as-you-go monthlymetric_samples_million * 0.1 * 1320000 to 50000
Metrics retained 13 months, 50,000-100,000 GBServerless Complete: retention (metrics), 50,000-100,000 GB · per gb-retained-month · pay-as-you-go monthlymetric_samples_million * 0.1 * 1350000 to 100000
Metrics retained 13 months, 100,000-250,000 GBServerless Complete: retention (metrics), 100,000-250,000 GB · per gb-retained-month · pay-as-you-go monthlymetric_samples_million * 0.1 * 13100000 to 250000
Metrics retained 13 months, 250,000-1,000,000 GBServerless Complete: retention (metrics), 250,000-1,000,000 GB · per gb-retained-month · pay-as-you-go monthlymetric_samples_million * 0.1 * 13250000 to 1000000
Metrics retained 13 months, 1,000,000-2,500,000 GBServerless Complete: retention (metrics), 1,000,000-2,500,000 GB · per gb-retained-month · pay-as-you-go monthlymetric_samples_million * 0.1 * 131000000 to 2500000
Metrics retained 13 months, above 2,500,000 GBServerless Complete: retention (metrics), above 2,500,000 GB · per gb-retained-month · pay-as-you-go monthlymetric_samples_million * 0.1 * 132500000 to no limit

Example monthly bills

The same four illustrative workloads as the calculator, at list price. "At least" means a price the vendor does not state is left out of the total.

WorkloadPer monthNoteCalculator
Starter$63.11Open Starter in the calculator→
Small$571Open Small in the calculator→
Medium$4,718Open Medium in the calculator→
Large$27,931Open Large in the calculator→

Capabilities

What Elastic offers, by the definitions in the dataset. Add-on means a separately priced product.

CapabilityLevelSources
Ai assistant nl query
Natural-language query or chat assistant
Partiale1, e12, e3
Ai root cause
AI-assisted root-cause analysis or investigation agent
Partiale3, e6
Alerting
Alert rules with routing/notification
Yese1, e3
Anomaly detection
Statistical/ML anomaly detection on telemetry
Partiale1, e2, e3
Byoc
Vendor-managed in the customer's cloud account
Noe18
Continuous profiling
Continuous profiling
Partiale3, e9
Data reduction
Drop, aggregate, dedupe, or convert logs-to-metrics before billing
Partiale4
Ebpf autoinstrumentation
Zero-code instrumentation via eBPF
Partiale9
Federated search
Query data in place (object storage, other tools) without ingesting
Partiale1, e2
Fedramp
FedRAMP authorized (state level in note)
Yese13
Hipaa
HIPAA-eligible (BAA available)
Yese14
Incident response
Native on-call/incident workflow
Partiale1
Llm observability
LLM/agent tracing, token and cost tracking, evaluations
Yese10
Logs
Log management
Yese1
Mcp server
Exposes an MCP server for agents
Yese11
Metrics
Metrics
Yese6
Multi destination routing
Route one stream to several third-party destinations
Partiale20
Open format archive
Archive in an open format (Parquet, JSON, OTLP) in customer object storage
Noe19
Otel collector distro
Ships or supports its own OpenTelemetry Collector distribution
Yese20
Otel semconv native
UI and features key off OTel semantic conventions rather than vendor fields
Partiale22, e7
Otlp ingest
Accepts OTLP (gRPC or HTTP) natively, without a proprietary agent in the path
Yese20, e7
Pipeline processing
Parse, enrich, transform in flight before storage
Yese1, e3
Prometheus remote write
Accepts Prometheus remote_write
Yese21, e6
Promql
Query with PromQL (or a compatible dialect)
Partiale21, e6
Proprietary agent required
Full functionality needs the vendor's own agent (yes = lock-in signal)
Noe20, e7
Rbac
Role-based access control
Yese3
Rehydration
Re-ingest archived data for search on demand
Partiale19, e2
Rum
Real-user monitoring (browser/mobile)
Yese1
Saas
Vendor-hosted SaaS
Yese18
Sampling tail
Tail-based trace sampling
Yese3, e8
Security siem
SIEM or security analytics
Add-one18
Self hosted
Customer can run it on its own infrastructure
Yese3
Service map
Auto-discovered service/topology map
Partiale3
Slo management
First-class SLO/error-budget objects
Partiale1, e3
Sql query
SQL as a query language
Partiale6
Sso saml
SSO via SAML/OIDC
Partiale2
Synthetics
Synthetic monitoring
Yese1, e4
Tiered storage
Hot/warm/cold or archive tiers priced differently
Yese19, e2
Traces
Distributed tracing
Yese1

Sources

Every page cited above, with the date it was read. Third-party pages are marked; a price stated only by a third party is shown as not stated.

IdKindPageRead
e1vendor-pricingElastic Observability Serverless pricing2026-10-02
e10vendor-docsLLM and agentic AI observability2026-10-02
e11vendor-docsElastic Agent Builder MCP server2026-10-02
e12vendor-docsElastic AI Assistant for Observability and Search2026-10-02
e13vendor-marketingElastic Cloud Hosted achieves FedRAMP High authorization2026-10-02
e14vendor-docsElastic Trust Center2026-10-02
e16third-partyElastic licensing (ERU = 64 GB RAM)2026-10-02
e18vendor-pricingElastic pricing overview2026-10-02
e19vendor-docsData tiers (hot/warm/cold/frozen)2026-10-02
e2vendor-pricingElastic Cloud Hosted pricing2026-10-02
e20vendor-docsElastic OpenTelemetry reference architecture2026-10-02
e21vendor-marketingQuery Prometheus metrics in Elasticsearch with native PromQL2026-10-02
e22vendor-docsOpenTelemetry limitations in Elastic APM2026-10-02
e23third-partyElastic Cloud pricing 2026: resource tiers vs serverless per-GB2026-10-02
e24vendor-pricingElastic Cloud price feed behind the Serverless pricing calculator (graduated tiers per region)2026-10-10
e3vendor-pricingElastic self-managed pricing and tiers2026-10-02
e4vendor-docsElastic Observability Serverless billing dimensions2026-10-02
e6vendor-marketingElastic adds native Prometheus and PromQL support (2026)2026-10-02
e7vendor-marketingElastic's Managed OTLP Endpoint2026-10-02
e8vendor-docsTail-based sampling2026-10-02
e9vendor-docsUniversal Profiling2026-10-02

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