# Does match\_only\_text data type really requires a license on Elastic Cloud?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-match-only-text-data-type-really-requires-a-license-on-elastic-cloud/364301>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 3, 2024, 12:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-match-only-text-data-type-really-requires-a-license-on-elastic-cloud/364301 "2024-08-03T12:56:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![leandrojmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leandrojmp/32/107231_2.png) [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2024, 12:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-match-only-text-data-type-really-requires-a-license-on-elastic-cloud/364301/1 "2024-08-03T12:56:35Z")

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Hello,

I'm planning on doing some tests using Elastic cloud and to make it cheaper I would use the _Standard_ tier, I was then checking the difference between the tiers and in the subscription page it says that `match_only_text` is not available for the _Standard_ tier.

 ![Screenshot from 2024-08-03 09-48-41](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/6/d66a140adaa4542140cbad27f195600d0b74f24e.png)

Which is weird for 2 big reasons:

- It is available for self-managed deployments with the Basic free license.
- A lot of ECS fields uses the `match_only_text` type, if it requires a license then you would not even be able to use Elastic Agent integrations on the _Standard_ tier.

For the self-managed deployment this is how it looks like:

 ![Screenshot from 2024-08-03 09-48-26](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/7/d7080664a24d8254f233fe4037b043dad2480036.png)

I'm assuming this is an error, but would like more clarification.

If it indeed requires a license in the Cloud, how does it even work as Elastic Agent will generate fields with this mappings?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2024, 1:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-match-only-text-data-type-really-requires-a-license-on-elastic-cloud/364301/2 "2024-08-03T13:09:46Z")

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Thanks for reporting @leandrojmp. Much appreciated.

I'm going to check internally and will come back to you.