# Price concept

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/price-concept/160580>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [December 12, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/price-concept/160580 "2018-12-12T16:06:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![ivan.melnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bc8723/32.png) [@ivan.melnik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ivan.melnik)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/price-concept/160580/1 "2018-12-12T16:06:00Z")

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Hi,

maybe someones can help me to understand the Elastic Price concept.

I'm thinking about to integrate Lostash in my company. So if I want to host server with Loghash by Elastic I need to pay for that, but if I gonna self-host Logstash is free, right?

Thanks a lot!

BG  
Ivan

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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:** [January 9, 2019, 4:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/price-concept/160580/2 "2019-01-09T16:06:04Z")

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