Whether our SaaS product can use Elasticsearch 8.x for free under Elastic License

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Hi Elastic team, we are developing a SaaS application mainly used to provide users with collaboration functions. Currently, we plan to use Elasticsearch to provide the search function in our application. Our specific usage scenarios are as follows:

  • It's a SaaS B2B application for commercial use.
  • Elasticsearch is used for indexing documents and providing search functionalities for the end-user.
  • The source code of Elasticsearch is not modified.
  • Elasticsearch will be deployed on-premise in VMs and containers/pods on hyperscalers (such as AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Additional features of X-Pack (for example, Machine Learning) are not used.
  • The Elasticsearch won't be directly provided to the customer as a managed service, and the customer has no direct access to the Elasticsearch service at all.

We would like to know if we can use the Elasticsearch 8.x version for free under the Elastic License. Could you help answer it? Thanks in advance!

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We cannot answer legal questions here, and neither should you accept legal advice from a random person on an internet forum.

There is a FAQ here:

The FAQ provides an email address you can contact to ask additional clarification questions for your use case.

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Thanks @TimV ! I'll send an email to ask the questions accordingly.