Elastic Cloud pricing and rate limits
Cost at your volume
| Tier | Monthly cost | Breakdown |
|---|---|---|
| Ingest VCUunlisted | $14 / mo | no monthly fee listed, priced by usage only; base $0 + Compute hours overage $14 + GB stored (per month): unpriced + GB transferred: unpriced (excludes unpriced usage) |
| Search VCUunlisted | $9 / mo | no monthly fee listed, priced by usage only; base $0 + Compute hours overage $9 + GB stored (per month): unpriced + GB transferred: unpriced (excludes unpriced usage) |
| Machine Learning VCUunlisted | $7 / mo | no monthly fee listed, priced by usage only; base $0 + Compute hours overage $7 + GB stored (per month): unpriced + GB transferred: unpriced (excludes unpriced usage) |
| Storage & Retentionunlisted | $0.47 / mo cheapest | no monthly fee listed, priced by usage only; base $0 + Compute hours: unpriced + GB stored (per month) overage $0.47 + GB transferred: unpriced (excludes unpriced usage) |
| Egressunlisted | $2.50 / mo | no monthly fee listed, priced by usage only; base $0 + Compute hours: unpriced + GB stored (per month): unpriced + GB transferred overage $2.50 (excludes unpriced usage) |
Cheapest: Storage & Retention at $0.47/mo.
Example volumes you can edit; not vendor data. Costs use the shared Overage cost function, identical to the API and MCP. Usage the vendor does not price is excluded, never guessed. Optional add-ons are not included in these totals. Overage marked pay-as-you-go applies only if you enable it; otherwise the allowance is a hard cap.
Tiers
| Item | Ingest VCU | Search VCU | Machine Learning VCU | Storage & Retention | Egress |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base price | |||||
| Price | unlistedno monthly fee listed; priced by usage only | unlistedno monthly fee listed; priced by usage only | unlistedno monthly fee listed; priced by usage only | unlistedno monthly fee listed; priced by usage only | unlistedno monthly fee listed; priced by usage only |
| Overage rates | |||||
| Compute hours | $0.14 per 1 |Ingest*Per VCU per hour|As low as $0.14|source$0.14 / compute hour | $0.09 per 1 |Search*Per VCU per hour|As low as $0.09|source$0.09 / compute hour | $0.07 per 1 |Machine LearningPer VCU per hour|As low as $0.07|source$0.07 / compute hour | unlisted | unlisted |
| GB stored (per month) | unlisted | unlisted | unlisted | $0.047 per 1 |Storage & RetentionPer GB retained per month|As low as $0.047|source$0.047 / GB | unlisted |
| GB transferred | unlisted | unlisted | unlisted | unlisted | $0.05 per 1 |EgressPer GB transferred per month *Vector profiles receive 50 GB free|As low as $0.05|source$0.05 / GB |
Prices in USD, per the vendor's billing period. Hover or focus a number for the line it came from, with a link to the stored snapshot. "unlisted" means the vendor does not publish it; we never fill the gap.
Rate limits
No rate limits recorded for this service: unlisted.
Change timeline
No changes recorded.
Tracking began 2026-10-24; no change has been detected since.
Sources
| URL | Kind | Last captured | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|
| www.elastic.co/pricing/serverless-search | pricing | 2026-10-24 | snap_elastic-cloud-pricing-0_20261024T025145Z |
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