Elastic Pricing
Every Elastic plan with its monthly and annual price, what it costs for common team sizes, and a calculator to estimate your own monthly cost before you buy.
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Plans and prices
| Plan | Monthly billing | Annual billing (per month) | Per user or flat | Users | Free tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud Hosted Standard | $99/mo | Not listed | Flat | No limit listed | No |
| Cloud Hosted Gold | $114/mo | Not listed | Flat | No limit listed | No |
| Cloud Hosted Platinum | $131/mo | Not listed | Flat | No limit listed | No |
| Cloud Hosted Enterprise | $184/mo | Not listed | Flat | No limit listed | No |
| Self-managed | Free | Free | — | No limit listed | Yes |
| Serverless | Contact sales | Contact sales | — | No limit listed | No |
Prices last updated November 2026.
What Elastic costs by team size
| Team size | 1 user | 5 users | 10 users | 25 users | 50 users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | $99/moCloud Hosted Standard | $99/moCloud Hosted Standard | $99/moCloud Hosted Standard | $99/moCloud Hosted Standard | $99/moCloud Hosted Standard |
The plan that fits each team size, billed monthly, before add-ons and usage charges.
Add-ons
| Add-on | Monthly billing | Annual billing (per month) | Charged |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise support (Serverless)Premium support level, charged as 15% of usage. | Not listed | Not listed | Flat |
| Gold support (Serverless)Base support level, charged as 5% of usage. | Not listed | Not listed | Flat |
| Platinum support (Serverless)Enhanced support level, charged as 10% of usage. | Not listed | Not listed | Flat |
Usage pricing
| Metric | Plan | Included per month | Price after that |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egress | Serverless | None | $0.05 per GB |
| Elastic Inference Service | Serverless | None | $0.08 per million tokens |
| Elastic Managed LLM input tokens | Serverless | None | $4.5 per million tokens |
| Elastic Managed LLM output tokens | Serverless | None | $21 per million tokens |
| Ingest compute | Serverless | None | $0.14 per VCU-hour |
| Machine learning compute | Serverless | None | $0.07 per VCU-hour |
| Search compute | Serverless | None | $0.09 per VCU-hour |
| Storage and retention | Serverless | None | $0.047 per GB per month |
Elastic Pricing Calculator
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Cost breakdown
Estimated from the vendor's published prices, last updated November 2026. Actual costs may vary based on negotiated contracts. How we collect prices
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Elastic pricing FAQs
Yes. Elastic offers a free trial of Elastic Cloud with no commitment, but its pricing pages do not state the trial length.
The Elastic Managed LLM costs 4.50 dollars per million input tokens and 21 dollars per million output tokens. Elastic Inference Service models start at 0.08 dollars per million tokens.
Yes. Elastic can be self-managed, with paid licences priced by node count and RAM. It also runs on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Alibaba Cloud and a FedRAMP environment.
Platinum and Enterprise subscriptions include a 99.95% monthly uptime SLA on both Hosted and Serverless.
Yes, Elastic has a free plan: Self-managed.
Elastic lists 6 plans, including a free plan. The cheapest paid plan is Cloud Hosted Standard, at $99/mo billed monthly.
Elastic costs about $99/mo for 10 users on its Cloud Hosted Standard plan, billed monthly, before add-ons and usage charges.
No. Every Elastic paid plan with a listed price is a flat monthly price, whatever the team size.
Yes. Elastic sells add-ons on top of its plans: Enterprise support (Serverless), Gold support (Serverless) and Platinum support (Serverless). It also charges by usage for Egress, Elastic Inference Service, Elastic Managed LLM input tokens and 5 more, past what the plan includes.