Estimation purposes only

This tool is not validated by Elastic Product, Marketing, or Competitive Intelligence for accuracy. List rates reconciled as of August 2026 against the Elastic Cloud Serverless and Cloud Hosted pricing tables plus ad hoc field feedback (e.g. Serverless estimator alignment). See also Serverless Observability pricing (TSDS metrics effective July 1, 2026). Other vendor rates and unit conversions are approximate. Confirm all figures with official pricing, contracts, and measured usage before customer-facing quotes.

Elastic Serverless (design in this tool)

  • 1-day hot · Streams → S3: Observability Complete ingest + 1-day hot retention at published floors; Streams moves aged data to S3 (object storage ~$0.023/GB-mo proxy). The retention slider sets total keep time (hot + S3).
  • Metrics (TSDS): published floors July 1, 2026: $0.023/GB ingest, $0.005/GB-month retained (hot window); logs, traces, and security use full Complete rates for ingest/hot.
  • Logs: metered ingest uses ~1.66× raw GB (enriched size per Elastic estimator).
  • Streams ingest shaping is always on: per-signal drop, aggregate, and downsample — adjust in Configuration.

Elastic Cloud Hosted — ECH (design in this tool)

  • $0.05/GB ingest/compute (Observability list proxy, same as ECH logs/APM) plus 1-day hot · ILM → blob (writable frozen) for the configured retention window (hot RAM-hour + ILM writable-frozen blob).
  • Applies to metrics, logs, traces, and security variable backbone — not the legacy “flat Complete retention months only” workbook model.
  • Full-fidelity ingest on ECH; Streams sampling is not applied to ECH rows (Serverless-only shaping).
  • List rates from elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted / cloud pricing table (data hot, snapshot storage, transfer).
  • Cluster minimums ($200 metrics, etc.) still apply where modeled.

Schemaless data blocks: Observability is schemaless at ingest — Streams uses AI to identify patterns, so there is no custom-metric SKU; the billable path is ingested GB/TiB (plus retention), not per-series metric packs. One block can carry mixed OTLP. Open the Data Blocks tab for illustrative $/TiB-month at 1, 50, 100, and 500 TiB/mo grounded in Serverless Observability pricing Complete floors ($0.09/GB ingest · $0.019/GB-mo retention for logs/traces; TSDS metrics $0.023 / $0.005) plus Streams → S3 object storage. Per-tab comparisons may still apply signal-specific metering for vendor parity (TSDS 25%, logs 1.66×, etc.).

Not included: Datadog/Splunk/etc. use approximate public list pricing; Grafana Cloud Metrics uses Pro billable series (samples/sec × 60 DPM ÷ 1 included DPM, $6.50/$5.90/$5.50 per 1k after 10k included) — not per million datapoints. Elastic is GB volume; Grafana/Datadog are unique-series meters, so high cardinality can favor Elastic and fat/low-cardinality samples can favor them. Operational FTE is optional. Excludes synthetics, LLM observability, Agent Builder, support ECUs, Cross-project Search mounted-GB charges, Adaptive Metrics, and negotiated discounts.

Elastic Serverless estimator

Observability Complete — logs, metrics, and traces. Same rates as cloud.elastic.co/pricing/serverless (marketing floors · volume tiers). Unofficial — confirm before customer quotes.

Pricing mode

Prefer Volume tiers for quotes that should track the public Cloud estimator. Published floors are marketing “as low as” rates at high volume.

Logs

Metrics

Traces

Observability Complete · monthly
$8,068
$96,818 / year

Mode: Cloud volume tiers. Illustrative — not a quote.

Observability Complete · line items

LineIngest / moStoredRateSubtotal
Logs
Raw × 1.66 metering → 29537.6 GB/mo billable · 1.2 mo retention
30 TB35 TB$0.1621/GB ingest (tiered avg)$5,972
Metrics (TSDS)
TSDS = 25% of Complete ingest + retention tier table · 12 mo retention
365 GB4.4 TB$0.1250/GB ingest (TSDS 25% of Complete tier table)$89
Traces
208,333 TPM × 100% @ 500 B/span · 3 mo retention
4.2 TB13 TB$0.3574/GB ingest (tiered avg)$2,006
Total$8,068
Sources: Observability Serverless pricing · Cloud volume tiers. Not a quote — confirm with measured usage and the official Cloud estimator.

Pricing is based on publicly available list rates as of August 2026 (AWS us-east-1 Serverless and Cloud Hosted pricing tables). Observability Serverless Complete rates per elastic.co/pricing/serverless-observability. Internal estimates only — not validated by Elastic Product, Marketing, or Competitive Intelligence. Confirm with official pricing and customer usage before external quotes.