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Sander Philipse

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Elasticsearch Serverless pricing demystified: VCUs and ECUs explained
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December 19, 2025

Elasticsearch Serverless pricing demystified: VCUs and ECUs explained

Learn how Elasticsearch Serverless pricing works for Elastic’s fully-managed deployment offering. We explain VCUs (Search, Ingest, ML) and ECUs, detailing how consumption is based on actual allocated resources, workload complexity, and Search Power.

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By: Sander Philipse and Pete Galeotti

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