Amazon OpenSearch vs. Elasticsearch

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Real customers with real savings

  • A Brazilian bank moved off AWS OpenSearch and implemented Elastic Observability to monitor the entire customer journey, reducing cloud log storage costs by 58%.

  • A US real estate marketing technology startup migrated its applications from AWS OpenSearch to Elastic on GCP for a lower-cost and more up-to-date architecture — cutting its monthly search bill by 42.5%.

  • An online wholesale platform moved off OpenSearch due to lack of performance and support as well as its high costs. After moving to Elastic, the company cited 53% cost savings and excellent performance.

AI moves fast — your search should too

  • Get lightning-fast results with Elasticsearch, even on your toughest queries and largest datasets.

  • Unified Elastic Inference Service

    Simplify your architecture by integrating with your favorite vector, large language model (LLM), and reranking providers through a single endpoint.

  • Efficient BBQ and hybrid retrieval

    Scalably combine lexical and vector search with Better Binary Quantization (BBQ) to achieve 32x RAM savings. Ground your AI applications in high-precision, hybrid results while reducing memory requirements by ~95%.

Lower your TCO by up to 50%

  • Pay only for what you use

    Our serverless pricing automatically adjusts to your workload, ensuring cost efficiency as you scale.

  • Reduce storage costs

    Customers have reduced cloud log storage costs by 58% by moving to Elastic.

  • No hidden fees

    Get more value without the markup often associated with managed competitors.

More than 50% of the Fortune 500 use Elastic

Search-powered solutions

Adopt ready-to-use solutions for your search, observability, and security needs.

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    Build applications using flexible tools, robust APIs, and the trusted power of Elasticsearch. Use prebuilt search solutions for enterprise needs like workplace search, application search, and customer support.

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    Observability

    Apply search and visualization to logs, metrics, APM traces, and uptime statistics for unified end-to-end visibility into your technology ecosystem.

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    Security

    Address your security needs for SIEM, SOAR, threat intelligence, XDR, endpoint security, and cloud security, so your analysts can use the power of search and visualization to prevent, detect, and respond to threats.

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Customers love us, and so does the market

  • Leader in the Forrester Wave: Cognitive Search Platforms, Q4 2025

    Elastic is named a Leader, receiving the highest possible scores in the strategy and market presence categories. We believe this validates our ability to help you build AI-powered search applications that deliver relevant results instantly.

  • Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms

    For the fourth consecutive year, Elastic has been recognized as a Leader. We are positioned furthest for "Completeness of Vision," confirming our commitment to unifying logs, metrics, and traces into a single, actionable view for your entire stack.

  • Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Knowledge Discovery 2025

    Elastic's ability to surface hidden insights from unstructured data has earned us a Leader position. See why organizations trust us to transform their information into intelligence with superior vector search and RAG capabilities.

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