# Plati­num license

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plati-num-license/345213>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 17, 2023, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plati-num-license/345213 "2023-10-17T13:23:19Z")\
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@Manal_A

To clarify a bit more, however, you should [contact sales](https://www.elastic.co/contact?baymax=rtp&rogue=eswt-1165-b#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

**[Elastic Cloud Pricing](https://www.elastic.co/pricing/) based on capacity**

Please See [here](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions) 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](https://www.elastic.co/contact?baymax=rtp&rogue=eswt-1165-b#sales)

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