Elastic free tier includes The Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch, Kibana, ingest and basic security — self-managed at no cost on… Not verified — our last read, on 2026-09-18, found a change we could not reconcile. Compare with 24 alternatives in Monitoring.

Elastic Free Tier 2026

Source states a free price: The page we cite for Elastic states in words that it is free, which confirms the price — the limits stated here come from our own record rather than from that page.

Subtypes in Monitoring: log_management — ingests, stores and queries log lines; the line is the stored unit and retention is a priced dimension; metrics_backend — stores time-indexed measurements and serves queries over them; dashboards and alerting are built on top rather than sold as the product. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.elastic.co/pricing/self-managed, where it says: “optimized storage of metrics” How we use this.

Limits, pricing history, and 24 alternatives. Catalogue date August 2026. Last updated 2026-09-18.

Elastic's free tier offers The Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch, Kibana, ingest and basic security — self-managed at no cost on the Free and Open… When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-18, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot confirm these terms and are not rating this offer today.

One of 59 Monitoring services we track. See our full Monitoring Free Tier Comparison
Tier
Free OSS
Category
Pricing Page
Catalogue date
2026-08-27
Last read
2026-09-18
The day we last read the vendor's page. Our last read of it, on 2026-09-18, found the page different from the terms we hold. We hold no confirmation of the terms we publish — the 2026-08-27 beside this date is not one we can source to a read that confirmed them.

Free Tier Details

The Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch, Kibana, ingest and basic security — self-managed at no cost on the Free and Open tier under the Elastic License and SSPL, with community support. Platinum (existing customers only) and Enterprise are custom-priced and add machine learning, cross-cluster replication, searchable snapshots and 24/7 support. Elastic Cloud Serverless and Hosted are billed separately by usage or resources.

When You'll Outgrow Elastic's Free Tier

Pricing Change History (0 recorded)

No recorded pricing changes for Elastic — but when we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-18, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot tell you that nothing changed. Treat the empty history as a statement about our records, not about this vendor's pricing.

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Alternatives in Monitoring

How Elastic compares against every one of the 24 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.

Service Free Tier Stability
Elastic Free OSS unrated
netdata.cloud Free stable
Sematext Basic (Free) stable
Axiom Personal stable
360 Monitoring Lite stable
inspector.dev Free source unconfirmed
Grafana Free OSS stable
syagent.com Free stable
AppSignal Free stable
Jaeger Free OSS source unconfirmed
bleemeo.com Free unrated
Prometheus Free OSS source unconfirmed
Sentry Developer stable
Grafana Cloud Free stable
BetterStack Free stable
SigNoz Free OSS stable
Hyperping Free caution
New Relic Free stable
Datadog Free stable
Google Cloud Monitoring Always Free unrated
skylight.io Free source unconfirmed
Xitoring.com Free risky
Simple Observability Free stable
fivenines.io Free risky
Middleware.io Free stable

Left out of this list: UptimeRobot (shares no subtype with this product), Pulsetic (shares no subtype with this product), Healthchecks.io (shares no subtype with this product), StatusCake (shares no subtype with this product), PagerDuty (shares no subtype with this product), Cronitor (shares no subtype with this product), Uptimia (shares no subtype with this product), OnlineOrNot (shares no subtype with this product), incident.io (shares no subtype with this product), StatusPile (shares no subtype with this product), assertible.com (shares no subtype with this product), Core Web Vitals History (none of this category's subtypes apply), deadmanssnitch.com (shares no subtype with this product), downtimemonkey.com (shares no subtype with this product), economize.cloud (none of this category's subtypes apply), incidenthub.cloud (shares no subtype with this product), linkok.com (none of this category's subtypes apply), loader.io (none of this category's subtypes apply), MonitorMonk (shares no subtype with this product), OntarioNet.ca CN Test (none of this category's subtypes apply), pagecrawl.io (shares no subtype with this product), pagertree.com (shares no subtype with this product), phare.io (shares no subtype with this product), pingbreak.com (shares no subtype with this product), Pingmeter.com (shares no subtype with this product), pingpong.one (shares no subtype with this product), robusta.dev (none of this category's subtypes apply), Servervana (shares no subtype with this product), sitesure.net (shares no subtype with this product), statusgator.com (shares no subtype with this product), SweetUptime (shares no subtype with this product), UptimeObserver.com (shares no subtype with this product), uptimetoolbox.com (shares no subtype with this product), Wachete (shares no subtype with this product). Each is still listed in Monitoring, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.

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Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The list above is every one of the 24 entries in that order, not a prefix of it. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
date
2026-09-20
query_key
alternatives:Monitoring:Elastic
seed
e978a664970437ce00dabf002ca1098f465f1899cc01ff30836277602b777d60
tie_count
20

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Elastic free?
We cannot confirm that today. When we last read the page we cite for Elastic, on 2026-09-18, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish for it. Our stored record says Elastic offers a free tier: Free OSS. The Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch, Kibana, ingest and basic security — self-managed at no cost on the Free and Open tier under the Elastic License and SSPL, with community support. Platinum (existing ... We have not confirmed these terms against the source we cite, so treat them as unverified.
What is Elastic's free tier?
We cannot confirm that today. When we last read the page we cite for Elastic, on 2026-09-18, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish for it. Our stored record calls Elastic's free tier "Free OSS". The Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch, Kibana, ingest and basic security — self-managed at no cost on the Free and Open tier under the Elastic License and SSPL, with community support. Platinum (existing customers only) and Enterprise are custom-priced and add machine learning, cross-cluster replication, searchable snapshots and 24/7 support. Elastic Cloud Serverless and Hosted are billed separately by usage or resources. We have not confirmed these terms against the source we cite, so treat them as unverified.
Is Elastic's free tier reliable?
When we last read the page we cite for Elastic, on 2026-09-18, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish for it.
Is Elastic's free tier good for production?
Elastic's free tier is usable for prototyping and development. When we last read the page we cite for Elastic, on 2026-09-18, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish for it.
What changed in Elastic's pricing?
When we last read the page we cite for Elastic, on 2026-09-18, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish for it. We publish no change we refused to record, so we cannot tell you that nothing changed.
What are the best free alternatives to Elastic?
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 24 free alternatives to Elastic in Monitoring, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 20 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 4 are demoted with the reason named. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
When will I outgrow Elastic's free tier?
When your usage exceeds the free tier limits, you'll need to upgrade. When you outgrow the free tier, evaluate paid plans against alternatives — sometimes a competitor's free tier covers what you need.
What category is Elastic in?
Elastic is categorized under Monitoring on AgentDeals. We list 24 other Monitoring services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.

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