Elasticsearch

What it is for

Elasticsearch is a hosted Kibana Discover desk: you filter Sample Data logs, and Elastic Cloud Hosted Standard is $99/month as low as (footnote: 120 GB storage / 2 zones). Use it when the job is a Discover table you start at a printed $, not when you need a $20 chat seat.

What makes it unique: the cover is Elastic’s official Discover (Kibana Sample Data logs, 1,776 documents, GET /elasticsearch histogram) from the Discover still — not a pricing card. The hits themselves are ops of Discover.

Key features

• Kibana Discover — documents, fields, and a histogram (cover still; Discover). One desk. Cover kibana-hello-field / 1,776 sit here.
• Dashboards — saved charts on the same data view (Discover). A board, not a hit list.
• ES|QL — the query language on Cloud Standard (cloud-hosted pricing). A query, not the histogram.
• Data views / index modes — the logs / metrics / search indices Discover reads (pricing). A view, not a document.
• Alerting — rules on Discover / Elasticsearch (pricing). A page, not a row.

Try ES|QL / Save on the cover are CTAs (not desks). Standard $99/month is the meter. Self-managed Basic is Free and open.

Who it's for

Best fit: search / logs teams who will self-host Basic at $0 — or take Cloud Hosted Standard from $99/month (120 GB / 2 zones) — while they open a first Discover, then Gold $114 only when they need reporting and Watcher.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) from elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted and elastic.co/subscriptions. The marketing elastic.co/pricing hub hid dollars; we quote the hosted page.

• Self-managed Basic — Free and open (subscriptions). You pay the hardware. Platinum / Enterprise self-managed is sales.
• Cloud Hosted Standard — as low as $99/month. Footnote: production config, 120 GB storage / 2 zones. Instance-type usage-based.
• Gold — as low as $114/month. Reporting, Watcher, third-party alerting.
• Platinum — as low as $131/month. ML, CCR, 24/7 support, 99.95% SLA.
• Enterprise — as low as $184/month. Searchable snapshots, Maps Server, SSO, Agent Builder.
• Synthetics (footnote) — browser tests $0.0123 per run (60s increments). Lightweight tests $28.00 per location per month (per stack, up to 1k simultaneous).

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Limitations / costs

• $99 is “as low as” for 120 GB / 2 zones. A hotter profile is usage, not $99 forever.
• A Discover desk, not Typesense’s search API. For that API see Typesense.
• Self-managed Basic is $0 license, not $0 cluster. You still buy disks.

Alternatives

• Typesense — a search engine when you want Typesense Cloud / GPL-3.0, not Kibana Discover.
• Meilisearch — instant search when you want Meilisearch’s public $, not ES|QL.
• Algolia — hosted search when you want Algolia’s public $, not Elastic Cloud $99.

Official tutorial

Written path: Discover plus cloud-hosted pricing. We did not embed an Elastic YouTube — oEmbed author was not verified as official.

Website

https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

Repository

https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is Elastic’s official Kibana Discover still (Sample Data logs + 1,776 hits). Dollars checked on elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted (Standard $99/mo; Gold $114; Platinum $131; Enterprise $184). Self-managed Basic Free and open.

Last verified

2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.