# Entreprise Elastic license

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/entreprise-elastic-license/341665>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 25, 2023, 8:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/entreprise-elastic-license/341665 "2023-08-25T08:38:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Manal\_A](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/manal_a/32/123992_2.png) [@Manal\_A](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Manal_A)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 8:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/entreprise-elastic-license/341665/1 "2023-08-25T08:38:21Z")

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Does the enterprise license of Elastic depend on the basic system resource configuration or on the scalability ?

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**Author:** ![carly.richmond](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/carly.richmond/32/104935_2.png) [@carly.richmond](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carly.richmond)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 9:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/entreprise-elastic-license/341665/2 "2023-08-25T09:11:14Z")

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Hi @Manal_A,

Do you mean the pricing or the number of licences that you need? Are you using cloud or a self-managed install?

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**Author:** ![AJ\_Stack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@AJ\_Stack](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AJ_Stack)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/entreprise-elastic-license/341665/3 "2023-08-25T09:18:18Z")

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From my knowledge, it depends on the scalability. Per se, the enterprise license is designed to allow you to scale your Elasticsearch cluster as your needs grow.

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**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 2:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/entreprise-elastic-license/341665/4 "2023-08-25T14:34:32Z")

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Hi @AJ_Stack

For Elastic Cloud (hosted) you can sign up and only pay for the resources you use... Say monthly.. of course you can purchase a longer term contract for consumption if you like.

For Self managed in general based on the resource you need but must be purchased at an annual level.

For more information you will need to contact sales at

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 2:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/entreprise-elastic-license/341665/5 "2023-09-22T14:34:36Z")

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