To clarify a bit more, however, you should contact sales
There are 2 Basic Categories
Self-Managed and Hosted (Elastic Cloud)
- Self Managed has 3 varieties
- Self-Managed Nodes - License Based on Node Count
- Node count based on Master Nodes, Data Nodes, Machine Learning Nodes CCR / CCS Nodes (No ingest, kibana , Logstash etc etc
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise ECE (Orchestration but not K8s)
- License Based on Total RAM of ALL Components
- Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes ECK (Orchestration on K8s)
- License Based on Total RAM of ALL Components
- Self-Managed Nodes - License Based on Node Count
Elastic Cloud Pricing based on capacity
Please See here for Features Per License Level (Note some slight differences between Self Managed and Elastic Cloud)
I will add for small clusters, Elastic Cloud is often less expensive than Self Managed.
We do not provide Self Managed Pricing on the Forum, contact sales