# Elastic (ELK Stack) vs Vector

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Elastic (ELK Stack)

| Attribute | Elastic (ELK Stack) | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 64.4 (65% (medium)) | 52 (54% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 18,551 | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | 78,270 | 22,694 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A cloud-based observability and search platform that ingests logs from multiple sources, automatically structures them with AI, and enables full-text search, alerting, dashboards, and machine learning analysis on unstructured data. It is indexed under Log Management Software.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"What is Elastic (ELK Stack)?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Elastic (ELK Stack) offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $99 per month. 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.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"Is Elastic (ELK Stack) free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Elastic (ELK Stack) supports the web 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/cloud-hosted","question":"What platforms does Elastic (ELK Stack) support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Elastic (ELK Stack) can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"Can Elastic (ELK Stack) be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 31 integrations for Elastic (ELK Stack), including OpenAI, Anthropic, Jina AI, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Azure AI, Mistral and Cohere, plus 23 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/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"What does Elastic (ELK Stack) integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed ISO 27001 and GDPR for Elastic (ELK Stack). Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Elastic (ELK Stack) not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/trust/faq","question":"What security certifications does Elastic (ELK Stack) have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Elastic (ELK Stack) is available worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States and the United Kingdom. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"Where is Elastic (ELK Stack) available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"An open-source tool for building end-to-end observability pipelines that collect and transform data from multiple sources, then route it to various downstream systems without vendor lock-in. It is indexed under Log Management Software.","source":"https://vector.dev/","question":"What is Vector?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Vector is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the MPL-2.0 licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://vector.dev/","question":"Is Vector free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Vector supports a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://vector.dev/","question":"What platforms does Vector support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Vector can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://vector.dev/","question":"Can Vector be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 22 integrations for Vector, including Datadog, Prometheus, New Relic, Influx, Elasticsearch, AWS S3, GCP Cloud Storage and Azure Blob, plus 14 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://vector.dev/","question":"What does Vector integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Vector is published under the MPL-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector","question":"Is Vector open source?","confidence":0.95}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Open-source system for collecting logs and application data, indexing them for searchability, and providing interactive dashboards for analysis. Supports both cloud-hosted and self-managed deployments. | An end-to-end data pipeline for collecting, transforming, and routing logs and metrics from any source to any destination, with full programmability and vendor independence. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"both","alerting":true,"log_role":"platform","live_tail":true,"dashboards":true,"query_language":"ES|QL (with native PromQL support)","full_text_search":true,"retention_tiering":true,"structured_parsing":true,"object_store_backed":false}` | `{"hosting":"self","log_role":"platform","live_tail":true,"otel_support":"native","pii_redaction":true,"query_language":"Vector Remap Language (VRL)","structured_parsing":true,"object_store_backed":true}` |
| integrations.count | 6 | 20 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Jina AI"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock"},{"name":"Google Vertex AI"},{"name":"Microsoft Azure AI"},{"name":"Mistral"},{"name":"Cohere"},{"name":"Hugging Face"},{"name":"NVIDIA"},{"name":"IBM watsonx"},{"name":"LlamaIndex"},{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"Vectorize.io"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"xMatters"},{"name":"IBM Resilient"},{"name":"Filebeat"},{"name":"Metricbeat"},{"name":"Heartbeat"},{"name":"Elastic Agent"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Osquery"},{"name":"AWS S3"},{"name":"Red Hat"},{"name":"Unstructured.io"},{"name":"Aryn"},{"name":"Alibaba Cloud"}]` | `[{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"New Relic"},{"name":"Influx"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"AWS S3"},{"name":"GCP Cloud Storage"},{"name":"Azure Blob"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"Syslog"},{"name":"StatsD"},{"name":"M3"},{"name":"VictoriaMetrics"},{"name":"Timescale"},{"name":"Databricks"},{"name":"GreptimeDB"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"HTTP"},{"name":"File"},{"name":"Socket"},{"name":"Stdin"},{"name":"Windows Event Log"},{"name":"AppSignal"},{"name":"Axiom"},{"name":"AWS CloudWatch"},{"name":"AWS Kinesis"},{"name":"Azure Blob Storage"},{"name":"Azure Logs Ingestion"},{"name":"Azure Monitor Logs"},{"name":"ClickHouse"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"dnstap"},{"name":"EventStoreDB"},{"name":"GCP Chronicle"},{"name":"GCP Cloud Monitoring"},{"name":"Heroku Logplex"},{"name":"Humio"},{"name":"InfluxDB"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Mezmo"},{"name":"Sematext"},{"name":"Splunk"},{"name":"Apache Doris"},{"name":"Azure","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Apache Kafka","native":true,"category":"messaging","direction":"bidirectional"}]` |
| language.primary | Java | Rust |
| license.spdx | - | MPL-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"From $99/month. Free 14-day trial.","features":["Distributed Elasticsearch Platform on AWS, Azure, GCP","Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL)","AutoOps monitoring","Hundreds of out-of-the-box integrations","Discover, dashboards, alerting","Security: detection engine, centralized agent management","Observability: APM, logging, metrics apps","Synthetic monitoring","Limited web support (2 contacts, 3-business day response)"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Foundation plan with Elasticsearch datastore, integrations, monitoring, security basics, and observability.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Gold","summary":"From $114/month. Includes reporting and third-party integrations.","features":["Everything in Standard","Reporting","Third-party alerting actions","Watcher","Enterprise Search","Advanced workflows","Base support (business hours, phone/web, 6 contacts)"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":114,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Standard plan plus reporting, advanced alerting, third-party actions, enterprise search, and business hours support.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Platinum","summary":"From $131/month. ML and advanced security included.","features":["Everything in Gold","Advanced security features","Machine learning: anomaly detection, supervised learning","Cross-cluster replication","Semantic and vector search with ML models (ELSER, e5)","AI-assisted pipelines with Streams","Log categorization, service maps","Service Level Objectives","24/7/365 support (1-hour urgent response, 8 contacts)","99.95% monthly uptime SLA"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":131,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Gold plan plus advanced security, machine learning, cross-cluster replication, and 24/7 support with 1-hour urgent response.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"From $184/month. Full AI suite and advanced automation.","features":["Everything in Platinum","Searchable snapshots in cold/frozen tiers","Elastic Maps Server","Cross-cluster search and ES|QL Data Federation","GPU inference with Elastic Inference Service","Elastic Agent Builder powered by LLM","AI-assisted dashboard creation","Elastic Workflows (automation)","SAML SSO","Inference Service management","Hybrid search and RAG","Semantic reranking","Attack Discovery (agentic investigation)","Premium support (30-minute urgent response, 8 contacts)","99.95% monthly uptime SLA"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":184,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Platinum plan plus advanced AI features, searchable snapshots, GPU inference, workflow automation, SAML SSO, and premium 30-minute support.","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Synthetic Monitoring","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"test_run"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0123,"currency":"USD"},{"kind":"fixed","amount":28,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"From $99/month. Subscription model with free 14-day trial. Usage-based pricing for cloud resources (120 GB storage / 2 zones baseline).","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T11:07:35.066Z","freeTrialDays":14,"startingPrice":{"amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"open_source","summary":"Free and open source (MPL 2.0 license)","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://vector.dev/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T12:14:35.503Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | high | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 41 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.95 | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | 5.6 | 6.2 |
| security.trust_center | https://www.elastic.co/legal/ethics-and-compliance | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":45,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.elasticsearch%3Aelasticsearch&per_page=100","last_12m":2,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=nixpkgs&package_name=vector&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Log Management Software)

| Capability | Elastic (ELK Stack) | Vector |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Pipeline role | End-to-end platform | End-to-end platform |
| **Search** |  |  |
| Full-text log search | ✓ | - |
| Live tail / stream | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Processing** |  |  |
| Structured parsing | ✓ | ✓ |
| PII redaction at ingest | - | ✓ |
| **Ops** |  |  |
| Log-based alerting | ✓ | - |
| Dashboards / visualisation | ✓ | - |
| **Storage** |  |  |
| Retention tiering | ✓ | - |
| Object-store columnar backend | ✗ | ✓ |
| **Interop** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry logs | - | Native |
| Query language | ES|QL (with native PromQL support) | Vector Remap Language (VRL) |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted | Self-hosted only |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:01:28.815Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*