Available worldwide · Popular in: US
What is Elasticsearch?
A search and analytics platform that ingests, stores, and searches structured, unstructured, and vector data in real time. Supports full-text search, vector search, observability analytics, and security event analysis through a unified REST API and query language.
Elasticsearch pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $99/month. Free 14-day trial available.
Standard
Entry-level plan with distributed Elasticsearch across cloud providers, API access, monitoring, security alerts, and observability basics.
- Distributed Elasticsearch across AWS, Azure, GCP
- ES|QL query language and APIs
- Default monitoring and AutoOps
- Alerting with detection engine
- Malware prevention
- Cloud security posture management
- APM, logging, metrics
- Synthetic monitoring (limited)
- Universal Profiling
- LLM observability
- Limited support (3-business day response)
Gold
Includes Standard features plus reporting, enterprise search, advanced security, and base support with business hours availability.
- All Standard features
- Reporting
- Third-party alerting actions
- Watcher
- Multi-stack monitoring
- Enterprise Search
- External detection notifications
- Base support (business hours, 1-day response for high)
Platinum
Includes Gold features plus machine learning, advanced security, vector search with ML models, semantic reranking, and 24/7 support.
- All Gold features
- Machine learning (anomaly detection, supervised learning)
- Vector search with ELSER and e5 models
- Cross-cluster replication
- Log categorization
- Service maps, tail-based sampling
- APM correlations
- ML-powered SIEM rules
- Enhanced support (24/7, 1-hour urgent response)
- 99.95% uptime SLA
Enterprise
Includes Platinum features plus searchable snapshots, GPU inference, AI-driven workflows, agent building, data federation, and premium support.
- All Platinum features
- Searchable snapshots in cold/frozen tiers
- Elastic Maps Server
- Cross-cluster search with ES|QL
- ES|QL Data Federation (query S3 directly)
- GPU inference with Elastic Inference Service
- Elastic Agent Builder with LLM
- AI-powered dashboard creation
- Elastic Workflows (automation)
- SAML SSO
- AI Playground for RAG
- Inference Service Management
- Semantic reranking with ML models
- Learn-to-Rank personalization
- Storage optimization (DiskBBQ)
- Attack Discovery with agentic investigation
- Premium support (30-minute urgent response)
- Cloud workload protection
Add-ons
- Synthetic Monitoring - Browser Tests$0.01 per test run
- Synthetic Monitoring - Lightweight Tests$28/mo
What Elasticsearch does
The capabilities that matter for search engines, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Index engine
- Lucene
- Query DSL (JSON / SQL / params / GraphQL)
- ES|QL
- Faceting & filtering
- Yes
- Geo search
- ✓
- Typo tolerance / fuzzy
- Built-in
- Relevance tuning
- Learning-to-rank
- Vector / hybrid search
- Dense + lexical fusion
- Distributed / horizontal scale
- Sharded
- Multi-tenancy (indexes / collections / tenants)
- ✓
- Real-time indexing
- Near-real-time
- Log / analytics workload
- ✓
- Licence class
- Source-available (SSPL / Elastic)
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- macOS
- Web
- Linux
- Windows
- Cloud / SaaS
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Integrations (36)
Independently observed- OpenAI⇄•
- Amazon Bedrock⇄•
- Azure OpenAI Service⇄•
- NVIDIA⇄•
- GitHub Copilot⇄•
- Anthropic⇄
- Okta←•
- Auth0←•
- AWS S3⇄•
- Kubernetes⇄•
- Terraform→•
- Slack
- Jira
- ServiceNow
- PagerDuty
- Microsoft Teams
- IBM Resilient
- xMatters
- GitHub
- Jina AI
- NVIDIA AI
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- AWS Bedrock
- Sarvam AI
- Google ADK
- LlamaParse
- Mistral
- Elastic Agent
- Beats
- Logstash
- Filebeat
- Metricbeat
- Heartbeat
- Webhooks
- S3
Security & compliance
Known vulnerabilities: 45 (2 in the last 12 months), max severity HIGH sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality
Elasticsearch FAQ
Common questions about Elasticsearch, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Elasticsearch?
A search and analytics platform that ingests, stores, and searches structured, unstructured, and vector data in real time. Supports full-text search, vector search, observability analytics, and security event analysis through a unified REST API and query language. It is indexed under Search Engines.
How much does Elasticsearch cost?
Elasticsearch is a paid product; published pricing starts at $99 per month. It is sold across 4 plans (Standard, Gold, Platinum 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.
What platforms does Elasticsearch support?
Elasticsearch supports the web, Windows, macOS, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Can Elasticsearch be self-hosted?
Yes. Elasticsearch can be deployed cloud / SaaS, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
What does Elasticsearch integrate with?
We have confirmed 32 integrations for Elasticsearch, including Slack, Jira, ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, IBM Resilient, xMatters and GitHub, plus 24 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
What security certifications does Elasticsearch have?
We have independently confirmed GDPR for Elasticsearch. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Elasticsearch not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Where is Elasticsearch available?
Elasticsearch is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.
Elasticsearch alternatives
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Compare Elasticsearch
Side by side against other search engines, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Elasticsearch, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 87 | 0.10 | 8.5 | ✓ |
| Development activity | 63 | 0.14 | 8.5 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 98 | 0.07 | 6.6 | ✓ |
| Stars | 92 | 0.05 | 4.3 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 75 | 0.05 | 4.1 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 73 | 0.05 | 4.0 | ✓ |
| Dependent projects | 71 | 0.05 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| Security score | 64 | 0.05 | 3.5 | ✓ |
| Price level | 25 | 0.04 | 1.0 | ✓ |
| Release cadence | 0 | 0.08 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 5 | 0.12 | 0.0 | - |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | - |
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All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 100 | mediumsource · 2026-09-07 · 65% |
Adoption
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 7 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 64% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Hosting: both · Faceting: yes · Query dsl: ES|QL · Data model: document · Deployment: self_hosted · Geo search: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-07 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 350 | mediumsource · 2026-09-07 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Java | highsource · 2026-09-07 · 90% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-09-07 · 75% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| History | 20 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-07 · 70% |
Reliability
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Scorecard | 6.4 | highsource · 2026-09-07 · 90% |
| 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 | highsource · 2026-08-26 · 90% |
| Gdpr | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-07 · 75% |
| Trust center | https://www.elastic.co/trust/ai-data-faq | mediumsource · 2026-09-07 · 60% |
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