Elastic Cloud

Managed Elasticsearch + vector

PaidSearch, vector & RAGelastic.co

What it is

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 it earns a slot

Reach for it when search is the product and you need aggregations, relevance tuning, log analytics and vectors in the same cluster rather than three services.

Know before you commit

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.

Getting started

docker run -p 9200:9200 docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:9.0.0

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Pricing snapshot

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.

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Evaluate Elastic Cloud (https://www.elastic.co/cloud) for this project, then use it only if it fits what we are already building.
Context: Managed Elasticsearch + vector. 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.
Reviewer notes (general, not written for this codebase): Reach for it when search is the product and you need aggregations, relevance tuning, log analytics and vectors in the same cluster rather than three services.
Watch out for: 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.
Pricing: 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.
Setup: docker run -p 9200:9200 docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:9.0.0
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Neighbourhood

How Elastic Cloud sits against the rest of the atlas — swaps, companions and the tools builders actually save alongside it.

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Algolia

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Free tier + paidSearch, vector & RAG

Free: 10K search requests/mo + 50K records. Grow: $0.50 per 1K searches + $0.40 per 1K records (10K searches / 100K records included). Grow Plus $1.75 per 1K searches. Elevate with NeuralSearch is custom.

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Brave Search API

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PaidSearch, vector & RAG

$5/month in free credits applied automatically; no standing free query allowance. Search $5 per 1K requests at 50 QPS. Answers $4 per 1K requests plus $5 per million input/output tokens at 2 QPS. Enterprise custom.

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Chroma

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Embedded vector DB + cloud

Free tier + paidSearch, vector & RAG

OSS free (Apache 2.0). Chroma Cloud Starter: $0/mo base with $5 free credits, then usage. Team $250/mo + usage with $100 credits. Rates: $2.50 per GiB written, $0.33 per GiB-month stored, $0.0075 per TiB queried, $0.09 per GiB returned.

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Cloudflare Vectorize

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Serverless vector DB on Workers

Free tier + paidSearch, vector & RAG

Workers Free: 5M stored vector dimensions, 30M queried dimensions/mo. Workers Paid ($5/mo): 10M stored and 50M queried included, then $0.05 per 100M stored dimensions and $0.01 per million queried dimensions.

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