# Elastic Observability pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** Quote-only — no self-serve price published.
**Domain:** elastic.co
**Free tier:** No · 14-day free trial
**Compliance:** HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
**Integrations:** OpenTelemetry (EDOT), Prometheus, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Logstash, Beats, Grafana, Jaeger
**Best for:** Organizations already using Elasticsearch or Elastic SIEM wanting unified observability; Teams with extreme query performance and storage efficiency requirements; Regulated industries needing FedRAMP High, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and SOC 2 in one platform

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Serverless Observability — Logs Essentials | Quote-only | — | custom | Usage-based, no fixed monthly floor. Ingest: as low as $0.07/GB. Retention: as low as $0.017/GB/month. Egress: 50 GB free then $0.05/GB. Prices effective November 1, 2025. | elastic.co |
| Serverless Observability — Complete | Quote-only | — | custom | Usage-based, no fixed monthly floor. Ingest: as low as $0.09/GB. Retention: as low as $0.019/GB/month. Egress: 50 GB free then $0.05/GB. Adds APM, profiling, synthetic monitoring, and full observability features beyond Logs Essentials. Prices effective November 1, 2025. | elastic.co |
| Hosted / Self-Managed | Quote-only | — | custom | Resource-based pricing for Elastic Cloud Hosted or license-based for self-managed deployments. Prices vary by instance size, region, and commitment. Contact sales or use Elastic's cloud pricing calculator. | elastic.co |

**Key features:** 30x faster queries than Prometheus/Grafana and 2.5x less storage via columnar architecture; OpenTelemetry-first ingestion (EDOT) with native PromQL support for Prometheus compatibility; AI-native autonomous investigation agents for root cause surfacing and remediation; Unified logs, metrics, traces, and digital experience monitoring in one schema-agnostic platform; FedRAMP High and PCI DSS Level 1 — among the broadest compliance coverage in the APM space.

**Plan limits:** No free tier; 14-day free trial on Elastic Cloud; Serverless: no minimum spend; egress free up to 50 GB/month then $0.05/GB; Serverless ingest from $0.07/GB (Logs Essentials) or $0.09/GB (Complete); 450+ one-click integrations available across all deployment models.

Sources: 2 · Last verified 2026-06-14
Provenance: Elastic main pricing page https://www.elastic.co/pricing/ fetched 2026-06-14 — returned deployment model overview without specific tier prices. Serverless Observability pricing page https://www.elastic.co/pricing/serverless-observability fetched 2026-06-14 provided ingestion/retention rates. Elastic uses fully usage-based serverless pricing or resource-based hosted pricing; no flat self-serve tiers with fixed USD amounts. HIPAA status could not be confirmed from public pages fetched; set to null.
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