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  "slug": "elastic-cloud",
  "name": "Elastic Cloud",
  "url": "https://www.elastic.co/cloud",
  "cat": "search",
  "group": "back",
  "tagline": "Managed Elasticsearch + vector",
  "price": "14-day free trial. Cloud Hosted from $99/mo Standard (120GB storage, 2 zones); Gold $114, Platinum $131, Enterprise $184. Serverless from $0.047 per GB retained/mo, $0.09 per search VCU-hour, $0.14 per ingest VCU-hour.",
  "tier": "paid",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "The managed version of Elasticsearch, covering BM25 keyword search, dense and sparse vector search and its own ELSER learned-sparse model in one engine. Serverless bills by GB retained plus VCU-hours; Cloud Hosted bills provisioned resources across four support tiers. Elasticsearch itself is self-hostable.",
  "why": "Reach for it when search <b>is</b> the product and you need aggregations, relevance tuning, log analytics and vectors in the same cluster rather than three services.",
  "warn": "Overkill and overpriced for a docs site or blog — the $99/mo floor buys machinery most apps never touch, and self-hosting a cluster is a real ops job.",
  "install": "docker run -p 9200:9200 docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:9.0.0",
  "category": {
    "key": "search",
    "name": "Search, vector & RAG",
    "desc": "Keyword search, vector stores, and web-search APIs for agents — three different things.",
    "group": "back",
    "groupName": "Give it a backend"
  },
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    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": null,
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T17:12:38.21+00:00"
  },
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}