Elasticsearch Pricing History and Changes

Manually verified audit trail of all pricing changes, plan updates, and feature additions

May 21, 2026

Plan Added

Free

Elasticsearch added a new "Free (Self-Managed)" plan at $0/mo

Self-managed deploymentCore Elasticsearch & Kibana featuresBasic security (TLS, Role-based access control)

Plan Added

$95/mo

Elasticsearch added a new "Standard (Elastic Cloud)" plan at $95/mo

Fully managed on AWS, GCP, or AzureAutomated backups and snapshotsElastic APM & observability basics

Plan Added

$custom/mo

Elasticsearch added a new "Platinum (Elastic Cloud)" plan

Advanced security (SAML, OIDC, SSO)Document & field-level securityMachine learning & anomaly detection

Plan Added

$custom/mo

Elasticsearch added a new "Enterprise (Elastic Cloud)" plan

Cross-cluster search & replicationAutoscaling capabilitiesAudit logging & compliance tools

Plan Removed

was Free

Elasticsearch removed the "Open Source" plan

Plan Removed

was $95/mo

Elasticsearch removed the "Elastic Cloud" plan

Plan Removed

was $custom/mo

Elasticsearch removed the "Enterprise" plan

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