Elastic Observability pricing guide details
Pricing snapshot
Elastic offers Elastic Observability through Serverless and Elastic Cloud Hosted. Serverless uses usage-based pricing; Hosted uses resource-based pricing with monthly or prepaid payment. Self-managed deployments use license-based pricing based on nodes and RAM.
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| Hosted subscription | Published starting price | Observability details |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | As low as $99 per month | Apps for APM, logging, and metrics; centralized ingest and agent management; managed Synthetic Monitoring access. |
| Gold | As low as $114 per month | Everything in Standard, plus Base Support with business-hours phone and web support. |
| Platinum | As low as $131 per month | Streams parsing, log categorization, service maps, tail-based sampling, SLOs, APM correlations, ML rules, Enhanced Support, and a 99.95% monthly uptime SLA. |
| Enterprise | As low as $184 per month | Searchable snapshots for log, metrics, and APM data; Elastic AI Assistant for observability guidance; Premium Support; 99.95% monthly uptime SLA. |
Choosing a deployment and tier
Choose Serverless when ingest and retained-data meters suit the workload and managed scaling is the priority. Choose Hosted when hardware configuration and cluster-sizing control matter. For Hosted, Platinum is the relevant entry point when its listed ML, SLO, tail-sampling, and SLA capabilities are required; Enterprise adds searchable snapshots and observability-focused AI guidance.
Observability coverage and data collection
Elastic Observability covers log analytics, infrastructure monitoring, APM and distributed tracing, digital experience monitoring, AI SRE, LLM observability, OpenTelemetry collection, and metrics monitoring. It is OpenTelemetry-first: EDOT provides production-ready collection, while Prometheus remote write and PromQL are supported in Kibana. Elastic lists 550+ one-click integrations across clouds, CI/CD, databases, and more.
For logs and trace data, Logsdb index mode uses smart sorting by host.name and @timestamp to improve compression; synthetic _source reconstructs fields on demand. Elastic also describes metrics storage improvements from doc value skippers, Synthetic ID, and seq_no trimming, citing a 6.6x improvement since one year earlier.
Serverless cost model
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| Serverless project | Ingest | Retention | Egress |
|---|---|---|---|
| Logs Essentials | Logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, and other telemetry: as low as $0.07 per GB ingested. Metrics: as low as $0.07 per GB ingested. | Logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, and other telemetry: as low as $0.017 per GB retained per month. Metrics: as low as $0.017 per GB retained per month. | 50 GB free, then $0.05 per GB transferred per month. |
| Complete | Logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, and other telemetry: as low as $0.09 per GB ingested. Metrics: as low as $0.023 per GB ingested. | Logs, traces, synthetics, RUM, and other telemetry: $0.019 per GB retained per month. Metrics: $0.005 per GB retained per month. | 50 GB free, then $0.05 per GB transferred per month. |
Serverless cost drivers are GB ingested, GB retained per month, and egress after the 50 GB allowance. Metrics use distinct ingest and retention rates; other telemetry is priced similarly to logs and traces.
Optional Serverless charges
- Browser tests cost $0.0123 per test run and are available only with Observability Complete projects.
- Lightweight testing locations cost $28.00 per location per month and are available only with Observability Complete projects.
- Elastic Managed LLM costs $4.50 per million input tokens and $21 per million output tokens; it is available only with Observability Complete projects.
- Workflows include 10,000 free executions, then cost as low as $0.0108 per execution; this add-on is available only with Observability Complete projects.
- Agent Builder includes 10,000 free executions, then costs as low as $0.025 per execution; this add-on is available only with Observability Complete projects.
- Serverless Standard support is included; Gold, Platinum, and Enterprise support cost 5%, 10%, and 15% of consumption respectively.
Buying take
Treat Hosted starting prices as entry points for a production configuration based on 120 GB storage across two zones; instance-type usage is the stated pricing basis. For Serverless, estimate from measured ingest, retention, transfer, and any Complete-only add-on usage before selecting the project level.