# Elastic Enterprise Search

> Search and analytics platform designed to power AI applications with contextual data retrieval

- **Canonical URI:** https://www.vioscale.ai/software/elastic-enterprise-search
- **Category:** AI Enterprise Search
- **Homepage:** https://www.elastic.co
- **Also known as:** elastic-enterprise-search
- **Profile claimed by vendor:** no
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-21T11:15:57.035Z

## Vioscale score

**45.3 / 100**, confidence 75% (high). Computed 2026-09-01.

Composite of weighted, independently-sourced signals (no user reviews, no vendor payment).

| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence present |
|---|--:|--:|--:|:--:|
| price_level | 80 | 0.052 | 4.2 | ✓ |
| reliability | 47.5 | 0.073 | 3.5 | ✓ |
| capabilities | 91.6 | 0.04877777777777778 | 4.5 | ✓ |
| integrations | 37.4 | 0.04066666666666666 | 1.5 | ✓ |
| security_posture | 15 | 0.073 | 1.1 | ✓ |
| pricing_transparency | 25 | 0.084 | 2.1 | ✓ |

## Pricing

_As of 2026-08-21, [verify at source](https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed). Independently observed._

Hybrid · Free tier · 14-day trial

> Free open source tier. Managed cloud from $0. Enterprise self-managed pricing available upon request.

| Plan | Price | Free | Commitment |
|---|---|:--:|---|
| Free | Free | ✓ | - |
| Elastic Cloud (Managed) | - | - | - |
| Enterprise Self-Managed | Contact sales | - | - |

### Free

Open source, self-hosted Elasticsearch with community support

- Distributed search and analytics engine
- Basic authentication, RBAC, TLS encryption
- OTel, Logstash, Beats integration
- Lexical and semantic search
- Community forum support

### Elastic Cloud (Managed)

Fully managed deployment on AWS, GCP, or Azure with limited support

- Production-focused support with weekend coverage
- Hosted on major cloud providers
- Cluster analysis and optimization guidance

### Enterprise Self-Managed (Contact sales)

Self-hosted on your infrastructure with advanced security, compliance, and AI capabilities

- 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

## About

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.

_Independently observed._

## Platform & deployment

- **Platforms:** CLI, Web, Linux
- **Deployment:** Cloud / SaaS, Hybrid, On-premise, Air-gapped, Self-hosted

## Integrations (19)

_Independently observed._

- Slack
- Jira
- ServiceNow
- PagerDuty
- Microsoft Teams
- IBM Resilient
- xMatters
- Logstash
- Beats
- OpenTelemetry
- Elastic Connectors
- OpenAI
- NVIDIA
- Alibaba Cloud
- IBM watsonx
- Vectorize.io
- AWS S3
- Splunk
- Webhooks

## Capabilities

_The capabilities that matter for AI Enterprise Search. "-" = undocumented, not absent._

| Capability | Supported |
|---|:--:|
| **Capabilities** | |
| Deployment model | 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 | Tiered cloud consumption |

## Facts

Every value below carries its source and our confidence. Facts are re-crawled on a freshness schedule.

### pricing

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pricing.model | freemium | [link](https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed) | 2026-08-21 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | [link](https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed) | 2026-08-21 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.price_level | low | [link](https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed) | 2026-08-21 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.transparent | no | [link](https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed) | 2026-08-21 | 60% (medium) |

### integrations

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| integrations.count | 19 | [link](https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed) | 2026-08-21 | 60% (medium) |

### market

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | [link](https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed) | 2026-08-21 | 75% (high) |

### reliability

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.95 | [link](https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed) | 2026-08-21 | 60% (medium) |

### security

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| security.fedramp | yes | [link](https://www.elastic.co/legal/trade-compliance) | 2026-08-21 | 75% (high) |
| security.gdpr | yes | [link](https://www.elastic.co/legal/trade-compliance) | 2026-08-21 | 75% (high) |
| security.hipaa | yes | [link](https://www.elastic.co/legal/trade-compliance) | 2026-08-21 | 75% (high) |

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*Source: Vioscale (https://www.vioscale.ai/software/elastic-enterprise-search). Independent, evidence-based software intelligence. Cite the canonical URI.*