# Dashworks vs Elastic Enterprise Search

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Dashworks

| Attribute | Dashworks | Elastic Enterprise Search |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 67.9 (57% (medium)) | 40.2 (73% (medium)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Dashworks is an AI knowledge assistant that searches across your team's apps and documents in real-time to provide instant, verified answers without requiring data indexing. It is indexed under AI Enterprise Search.","source":"https://www.dashworks.ai/pricing","question":"What is Dashworks?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Dashworks is a paid product; published pricing starts at $10 per user per month. It is sold across 3 plans (Team, Business and Enterprise). There is no free tier. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.dashworks.ai/pricing","question":"How much does Dashworks cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Dashworks. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.dashworks.ai/pricing","question":"What platforms does Dashworks support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Dashworks can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.dashworks.ai/pricing","question":"Can Dashworks be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 7 integrations for Dashworks, including GitHub, Slack, Salesforce, Google Drive, Dropbox, Bing and DocuSign. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.dashworks.ai/pricing","question":"What does Dashworks integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for Dashworks. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Dashworks not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.dashworks.ai/security","question":"What security certifications does Dashworks have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Dashworks is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://www.dashworks.ai/pricing","question":"Where is Dashworks available?","confidence":0.5}]` | `[{"answer":"A distributed, full-text and vector search engine that enables organizations to ingest, analyze, and act on data at scale. Available as open source, managed cloud service, or self-hosted with enterprise features for security monitoring, observability, and compliance requirements. It is indexed under AI Enterprise Search.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed","question":"What is Elastic Enterprise Search?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Elastic Enterprise Search offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans are also available: Free, Elastic Cloud (Managed) and Enterprise Self-Managed. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed","question":"Is Elastic Enterprise Search free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Elastic Enterprise Search supports the web, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed","question":"What platforms does Elastic Enterprise Search support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Elastic Enterprise Search can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise, air-gapped and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed","question":"Can Elastic Enterprise Search be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 19 integrations for Elastic Enterprise Search, including Slack, Jira, ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, IBM Resilient, xMatters and Logstash, plus 11 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.elastic.co","question":"What does Elastic Enterprise Search integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed HIPAA and GDPR for Elastic Enterprise Search. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Elastic Enterprise Search not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/legal/trade-compliance","question":"What security certifications does Elastic Enterprise Search have?","confidence":0.7}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Dashworks is an AI knowledge assistant that searches across your team's apps and documents in real-time to provide instant, verified answers without requiring data indexing. | An AI-powered search platform available as a managed cloud service or locally deployable application, combining traditional search with generative AI capabilities for enterprise data discovery and analytics. |
| features.capabilities | `{"soc2_type_ii":true,"pricing_model":"per_employee_seat","deployment_model":"hybrid","generative_ai_answer_synthesis_rag":true,"hipaa_compliance_for_medical_records":true,"multi_lingual_semantic_understanding":true,"source_system_rbac_permissions_mirroring":true,"admin_dashboard_for_search_analytics_and_gaps":true,"personalization_based_on_user_department_context":true}` | `{"pricing_model":"tiered_cloud_consumption","deployment_model":"hybrid","generative_ai_answer_synthesis_rag":true,"bring_your_own_llm_byo_model_support":true,"multi_lingual_semantic_understanding":true,"source_system_rbac_permissions_mirroring":true,"hybrid_dense_and_sparse_lexical_reranking":true,"optical_character_recognition_ocr_for_pdfs":true,"admin_dashboard_for_search_analytics_and_gaps":true,"personalization_based_on_user_department_context":true,"pre_built_native_crawlers_for_100_plus_saas_apps":true}` |
| integrations.count | 7 | 13 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Salesforce"},{"name":"Google Drive"},{"name":"Dropbox"},{"name":"Bing"},{"name":"DocuSign"}]` | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"IBM Resilient"},{"name":"xMatters"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Beats"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Elastic Connectors"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"NVIDIA"},{"name":"Alibaba Cloud"},{"name":"IBM watsonx"},{"name":"Vectorize.io"},{"name":"AWS S3"},{"name":"Splunk"},{"name":"Webhooks"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock","native":true,"category":"ai_models"},{"name":"Amazon SageMaker","native":true,"category":"ml_platform"},{"name":"Jina AI","native":true,"category":"ai_models"},{"name":"Cohere","native":true,"category":"ai_models"},{"name":"LangChain","native":true,"category":"ai_framework"},{"name":"Terraform","native":true,"category":"infrastructure_as_code"},{"name":"GitHub Copilot","native":true,"category":"ai_assistant"},{"name":"Elastic Agent","native":true,"category":"monitoring"},{"name":"Elastic APM","native":true,"category":"monitoring"},{"name":"Kubernetes","native":true,"category":"container_orchestration"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Team","summary":"$10/user/mo billed annually, $12/user/mo monthly","features":["Unlimited usage","Core integrations","File uploads","Slackbot","Workflows","Browser extension","Shared topics"],"components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"seat","amount":12,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"seat","amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Business","summary":"$15/user/mo, minimum 10 seats","features":["Everything in Team Plan","Custom bots","Choose between top LLMs","Org-wide integrations","AI customization","Multiple accounts for integrations","Priority support"],"minSeats":10,"components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"seat","amount":15,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Everything in Business Plan","SSO and SCIM","API Access Add-On","Custom data retention","Analytics and insights","HRIS integrations","Prioritized new integration requests"],"contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"API Access"}],"summary":"From $10/user/mo billed annually. 14-day free trial, no credit card required.","currency":"USD","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.dashworks.ai/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-25T21:40:38.415Z","freeTrialDays":14,"startingPrice":{"unit":"seat","amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","features":["Distributed search and analytics engine","Basic authentication, RBAC, TLS encryption","OTel, Logstash, Beats integration","Lexical and semantic search","Community forum support"],"description":"Open source, self-hosted Elasticsearch with community support","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Elastic Cloud (Managed)","features":["Production-focused support with weekend coverage","Hosted on major cloud providers","Cluster analysis and optimization guidance"],"description":"Fully managed deployment on AWS, GCP, or Azure with limited support","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise Self-Managed","features":["24/7 expert support (1-15 minute response SLA)","GDPR, HIPAA, FedRAMP compliance controls","Searchable snapshots for reduced storage costs","AI/ML features: ELSER semantic search, Jina multilingual embeddings, anomaly detection","Elastic Workflows for incident response automation","Field and document-level security","SAML/SSO and audit logging","Elastic Agent Builder for RAG applications","Third-party LLM inference management"],"description":"Self-hosted on your infrastructure with advanced security, compliance, and AI capabilities","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free open source tier. Managed cloud from $0. Enterprise self-managed pricing available upon request.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed","retrievedAt":"2026-08-21T11:04:49.710Z","freeTrialDays":14,"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | no | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":10,"currency":"USD"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.95 |
| security.fedramp | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.trust_center | - | https://www.elastic.co/legal/ethics-and-compliance |

## Capabilities (AI Enterprise Search)

| Capability | Dashworks | Elastic Enterprise Search |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Deployment model | Hybrid | Hybrid |
| Source system RBAC permissions mirroring | ✓ | ✓ |
| Generative AI answer synthesis rag | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hybrid dense and sparse lexical reranking | - | ✓ |
| Pre built native crawlers for 100 plus saas apps | - | ✓ |
| Multi lingual semantic understanding | ✓ | ✓ |
| Personalization based on user department context | ✓ | ✓ |
| Optical character recognition OCR for pdfs | - | ✓ |
| Admin dashboard for search analytics and gaps | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bring your own LLM byo model support | - | ✓ |
| SOC2 type ii | ✓ | - |
| HIPAA compliance for medical records | ✓ | - |
| Pricing model | Per employee seat | Tiered cloud consumption |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:22:17.728Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*