# Standalone license model

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/standalone-license-model/198550>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 8, 2019, 10:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/standalone-license-model/198550 "2019-09-08T10:51:39Z")\
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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:** [September 8, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/standalone-license-model/198550/2 "2019-09-08T14:23:00Z")

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In general for the commercial features and support Elasticsearch requires / counts licenses for Production Self Managed instances

Master Eligible Nodes  
Data Nodes  
Machine Learning Nodes

Licenses not counted / required  
Kibana  
Logstash  
Coordinating Node Only  
Ingest Node Only  
APM Server

So in your case 3

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