Elasticsearch Cluster
Indicative from-price range
Indicative from-price range for self-hosting Elasticsearch Cluster on 3 servers: about $72 to $337 per month (USD), as of 2026-10-19, for the reference workload (Data nodes: 3; Dedicated master nodes: 3; Primary indexed data (GB): 50). From-price by provider, each the cheapest server in that provider's own shortlist: $72 on DigitalOcean (basic-2vcpu-4gb, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, fra1); $192 on OVHcloud (rise-1, 6 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, eu-west); $199 on Hetzner (AX41, 6 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-central); $413 on Amazon Web Services (i7i.large, 2 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, us-east-1); $528 on Google Cloud (c4a-standard-4-lssd, 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, us-central1); $1,278 on Servers.com (el-01, 16 vCPU, 192 GB RAM, eu-west); $1,524 on Microsoft Azure (L8s_v4, 8 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eastus).
Reference workload
- Data nodes: 3
- Dedicated master nodes: 3
- Primary indexed data (GB): 50
Methodology
This range is generated automatically from public provider price lists. It has not been reviewed by a person, it is not a quote, and it may differ from the total the calculator chooses for your own workload with its AI step. Method: the calculator's offer shortlist for the reference workload (the same ranking it builds before the AI step, up to 12 offers across providers; 12 here) is priced at its monthly list price in USD. The low end is the cheapest of the per-provider from-prices below and the high end is the median server of the combined shortlist, each multiplied by 3, the smallest baseline topology (dedicated-master-plus-data). The from-price for each provider applies the same method to that provider's own shortlist (the calculator's ranking restricted to that provider), so it is the cheapest server that ranking offers there, not a recommendation. Prices are taken from the price snapshot dated 2026-10-19; prices quoted in EUR are converted with the ECB reference rate dated 2026-10-19. Servers with fewer than 2 vCPU or less than 4 GB RAM are not priced. Only server rental list prices for the product's own servers are counted: dependencies, licences, support, traffic charges, taxes and setup fees are not included.
Price sources
- Amazon Web Services: https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/current/us-east-1/index.json
- DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets
- Google Cloud: https://cloudbilling.googleapis.com/v1/services/6F81-5844-456A/skus
- Hetzner: https://www.hetzner.com/_resources/app/data/app/live_data_en_EUR.json
- Microsoft Azure: https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices
- OVHcloud: https://eu.api.ovh.com/1.0/order/catalog/public/eco?ovhSubsidiary=FR
- Servers.com: https://www.servers.com/products/scalable-bare-metal
Size Elasticsearch Cluster for your own workloadMarkdown versionFor AI agents (llms.txt)
Elasticsearch is a distributed search and analytics engine built on Apache Lucene that indexes JSON documents for full-text search, structured queries, and aggregations at scale. It typically runs as a cluster of nodes that shard and replicate indices for throughput and resilience.
Baseline topologies
| Topology | Minimum nodes | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| dedicated-master-plus-data | 3 | master, data |
What drives the cost
- Data nodes
- Nodes that store shards and handle indexing and search traffic.
- Dedicated master nodes
- Control-plane nodes that manage cluster state and elections.
- Primary indexed data (GB)
- Current primary index volume before replicas and planned growth headroom.
Where it runs
bare_metal, dedicated, cloud_vm
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