# Understanding subscriptions **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 1, 2023, 5:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/understanding-subscriptions/335026 "2023-06-01T17:33:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kevingscott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4bbf92/32.png) [@kevingscott](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kevingscott)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2023, 5:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/understanding-subscriptions/335026/1 "2023-06-01T17:33:16Z")
Hello, We are trying to estimate the cost of implementing Elastic and I am confused about how the subscriptions work. Let's say that we purchased the Premium subscription and then deployed a Dev, QA and Production environment into the Azure cloud. Further, assume that we decided to duplicate the deployment in each environment, would we simply pay 3X the cost that the pricing estimator generated? Or could we have different subscription levels in different environments ( assuming that we don't need features from the high levels, just the additional support)? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 12:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/understanding-subscriptions/335026/2 "2023-06-02T00:37:27Z")
Welcome to our community! 😃 You would be best to reach out to one of our sales team as this isn't an area we are well versed in sorry. If you'd like I can ping someone? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 12:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/understanding-subscriptions/335026/3 "2023-06-30T00:37:39Z")
This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.