specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: Elastic Stack (ELK Stack)
providerId: elk-stack
generated: '2026-08-27'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://www.elastic.co/pricing/ (index, HTTP 200),
  https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted (subscription tiers),
  https://www.elastic.co/pricing/serverless-search (usage rates),
  https://www.elastic.co/cloud/cloud-trial-overview (trial). All read
  2026-08-27.
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-08-27'
supersedes: >-
  A generated scaffold dated 2026-05-04 that invented a "Free / 1,000 requests
  per month" tier against https://localhost:9200. Elastic sells nothing of the
  kind. Replaced entirely with the provider's published pricing.
description: >-
  Elastic does not price per API call. There is no request quota, no per-call
  overage and no API-request line item anywhere in its pricing — a fact worth
  stating plainly, because it is the assumption most API catalogs make. Elastic
  charges for the INFRASTRUCTURE the API runs on: a monthly subscription tier
  on Cloud Hosted, metered VCU-hours and GB on Serverless, and node/RAM
  licensing self-managed. The API surface itself is unmetered and identical
  across every tier — what a tier buys is features, support and SLA.
plan_count: 4
pricing_models:
- model: subscription
  product: Elastic Cloud Hosted
  currency: USD
  period: month
  note: >-
    The prices below are the entry monthly figures Elastic advertises for each
    tier. Actual cost scales with the deployment's provisioned resources —
    these are a floor, not the bill.
- model: usage-metered
  product: Elastic Cloud Serverless
  currency: USD
  note: Metered by VCU-hour, GB retained per month and GB egress, plus per-token and per-execution AI rates.
- model: license
  product: Self-managed
  note: Node- and RAM-based licensing. Basic tier is free; Gold/Platinum/Enterprise are commercial.
plans:
- id: elk-stack-standard
  name: Standard
  product: Elastic Cloud Hosted
  type: paid
  price: '99.00'
  currency: USD
  period: month
  price_note: Entry monthly price; scales with provisioned resources.
  includes:
  - Distributed Elasticsearch platform on AWS, Azure and GCP
  - Monitoring and integrations
  - Basic security features
  api_access: full
  support: Web-based, 2 contacts, 3-business-day response target
  sla: null
- id: elk-stack-gold
  name: Gold
  product: Elastic Cloud Hosted
  type: paid
  price: '114.00'
  currency: USD
  period: month
  includes:
  - Everything in Standard
  - Reporting
  - Third-party alerting and Watcher
  - Enterprise Search capabilities
  api_access: full
  support: Phone and web, 6 contacts, 4-hour urgent response
  sla: null
- id: elk-stack-platinum
  name: Platinum
  product: Elastic Cloud Hosted
  type: paid
  price: '131.00'
  currency: USD
  period: month
  includes:
  - Everything in Gold
  - Advanced Elastic Stack security features
  - Machine learning anomaly detection
  api_access: full
  support: 24/7, 1-hour urgent response
  sla: 99.95% uptime
- id: elk-stack-enterprise
  name: Enterprise
  product: Elastic Cloud Hosted
  type: paid
  price: '184.00'
  currency: USD
  period: month
  includes:
  - Everything in Platinum
  - GPU inference with Elastic Inference Service (EIS)
  - AI-powered workflows
  api_access: full
  support: 24/7, 30-minute urgent response
  sla: 99.95% uptime
  contact_sales_only: false
serverless_rates:
  effective: '2024-12-01'
  note: Prices are stated by Elastic as "as low as", i.e. the floor of a range that varies by region and provider.
  compute:
  - metric: ingest VCU-hour
    price: '0.14'
    currency: USD
  - metric: search VCU-hour
    price: '0.09'
    currency: USD
  - metric: machine learning VCU-hour
    price: '0.07'
    currency: USD
  storage:
  - metric: GB retained per month
    price: '0.047'
    currency: USD
  - metric: GB egress per month
    price: '0.05'
    currency: USD
  ai:
  - metric: Elastic Managed LLM, per million input tokens
    price: '4.50'
    currency: USD
  - metric: Elastic Managed LLM, per million output tokens
    price: '21.00'
    currency: USD
  - metric: Elastic Inference Service, per million tokens
    price: '0.08'
    currency: USD
  - metric: Workflows, per execution
    price: '0.0108'
    currency: USD
    free_allowance: 10000 executions
  - metric: Agent Builder, per execution
    price: '0.025'
    currency: USD
    free_allowance: 1000 executions
    note: >-
      This is the meter behind the MCP endpoint. An agent calling Elastic's MCP
      server on Serverless is billed per execution after the first 1,000 — the
      one place in Elastic's pricing where agent traffic has its own line item.
  support_uplift:
    standard: included
    gold: 5% of consumption
    platinum: 10% of consumption
    enterprise: 15% of consumption
free_tier:
  exists: false
  trial:
    days: 14
    credit_card_required: false
    url: https://www.elastic.co/cloud/cloud-trial-overview
    caveat: Not available when signing up through the Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud marketplaces.
  self_managed_free:
    exists: true
    name: Basic
    note: >-
      The self-managed Basic tier is free forever and includes the full REST API
      surface. The genuinely free way to use this API is to run it yourself —
      see sandbox/elk-stack-sandbox.yml for the one-command local stack.
api_request_quota:
  exists: false
  note: >-
    No plan on any product meters API requests. There is no per-call price, no
    monthly request allowance and no request overage. Constraints on API usage
    are resource constraints (cluster size, thread pools, VCUs), not
    contractual quotas. See rate-limits/elk-stack-rate-limits.yml.