# Licensing of watcher
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/licensing-of-watcher/140655
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [July 19, 2018, 6:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/licensing-of-watcher/140655 "2018-07-19T06:17:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Akram1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Akram1)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2018, 6:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/licensing-of-watcher/140655/1 "2018-07-19T06:17:13Z")
Hi,
I need to use watcher. In licensing I am not able to figure out how much it will cost me to use watcher. can anyone help me out that Is there any free version of watcher available. if not, then how much it will cost me to use its license. Thanks
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2018, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/licensing-of-watcher/140655/2 "2018-07-19T07:22:29Z")
Hey,
you can check out our [subscriptions page](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions) for some more information. You need a gold subscription to be able to use watcher and can request more info via a contact form.
In addition, watcher is already enabled by default on [elastic cloud](https://www.elastic.co/cloud/elasticsearch-service), so that might be an option as well.
--Alex
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2018, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/licensing-of-watcher/140655/3 "2018-08-16T07:22:33Z")
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