Elastic Cloud Serverless pricing and packaging

With serverless, we now have pricing and packaging that is distinct and designed specifically for our three solutions:

• Security: $0.17–$0.60 per GB ingested, $0.018–$0.040 per GB/month for Search AI Lake

• Observability: $0.15–$0.50 per GB ingested, $0.02–$0.040 per GB/month for Search AI Lake

• Elasticsearch: $0.14 per ingest Virtual Compute Unit (VCU), $0.09 per Search VCU, $0.047 per GB/month for Retention

We also offer different packages along with a few supplemental add-ons, giving you flexibility to tailor pricing to meet your needs. For example:

• Security Analytics Essentials provides traditional SIEM for $0.17–$0.50^* per GB ingested, $0.018–$0.036^* per GB/month for Search AI Lake.

• Security Analytics Complete extends SIEM to an AI-driven security analytics platform for $0.20–$0.60^* per GB ingested, $0.020–$.040^* per GB/month for Search AI Lake.

• Endpoint Protection is also available as an add-on for $1.25 per endpoint (when purchased with Essentials) or $1.50 per endpoint (when purchased with Complete).

^*Volume tiered pricing is now available and applied automatically based on consumption. For example, pricing for Security Analytics Essentials starts at $0.50 per GB ingested but can go as low as $0.17 per GB ingested at the highest volume tier. Additional details can be found on each solution pricing page linked above.

When we chose to introduce three new offerings as part of Elastic Cloud Serverless, we wanted to deliver dedicated experiences in the product as well as in the pricing model. Unlike our approach with Elastic Cloud Hosted pricing, which is based on provisioned capacity of a specific Cloud instance type, serverless is priced based on metrics that are aligned with the solution domain, making it simpler and easier to forecast usage.

• Simplicity: For Security and Observability, this means pricing is based on the amount of data ingested and the size of the data retained in the Search AI Lake. For any optional add-ons you choose, these will also have simple pricing metrics. Details can be found here for Security and here for Observability.

• Simplicity plus configurability: For Elasticsearch, pricing is based on Virtual Compute Units (VCUs). Think of VCUs as a vertical slice of a virtual host with 1GB of RAM and associated local disk and vCPU. You are charged for each VCU consumed for Ingest, Search, and Machine Learning. For the data stored in the Search AI Lake, there is a GB/month charge. The number of VCUs is automatically adjusted based on your workload, with changes in ingestion or searches affecting the number of Ingest or Search VCUs you use. Additional details can be found here for Elasticsearch.

At Elastic, we make it easy to purchase Elastic Cloud — either directly from us or via the AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure Marketplaces. Both options use our Cloud consumption model, which is billed monthly for pay-as-you-go customers or allows you to pre-purchase Elastic Consumption Units (ECUs) at a discount. If you are a current Elastic Cloud customer using our prepaid consumption model, and you have an ECU balance, you can use those ECUs for any Elastic Cloud offering — Hosted and/or Serverless. Any future ECU purchases can also be used for our Cloud Hosted and/or Serverless models. If you are a Cloud monthly customer, you can choose a hosted deployment or serverless project, which will all accumulate toward your bill.

With serverless, you can now choose one of our four support tiers for your entire Elastic Cloud organization. Unlike Elastic Self-Managed and Elastic Cloud Hosted, you can choose the features you use in Elastic Cloud Serverless on a per-project basis. So your Elastic Cloud organization can be at the highest support tier (Premium), but you can have one or more Elastic Security Serverless projects that use the Essentials product tier. Similarly, your Elastic Cloud organization can be set to the Basic support tier, but you have one or more of your Elastic Security Serverless projects use the Complete product tier. Note that the support tier you select must be the same across your entire cloud organization.

With our Elastic Cloud Serverless pricing and packaging, we have simplified getting started and growing with Elastic so you can focus on results. Our solution packaging closely matches how you use Elastic. The Elastic Cloud Serverless pricing dimensions are simple, intuitive, and easy to forecast usage. We are also maintaining and even increasing the flexibility that Elastic is known for, allowing you to keep using the same customer-friendly consumption models for your serverless consumption.