Elasticsearch vs. OpenSearch

Elasticsearch delivers unmatched ease of use, faster performance, and advanced capabilities that drive efficiency — all while helping you reduce infrastructure costs.

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Unlike OpenSearch, our goal is to reduce your infrastructure costs. Lower compute, storage, and memory costs — you can have it all without sacrificing speed or accuracy. With innovations like searchable snapshots and autoscaling, you get faster search and efficient resource usage, keeping costs low as your data grows.

  • Better, intuitive capabilities

    Elastic makes search and analysis easy with deployment management (AutoOps), built-in machine learning (ML), simplified semantic search, powerful visualizations, AI Assistants, cross-cluster search, and much more.

  • Faster and more powerful

    Elasticsearch is up to 2.4x faster in general search and up to 12x faster for vector search, out of the box. Maximize your search performance while minimizing overhead.

  • More cost-effective

    Elastic cuts costs with searchable snapshots, Elasticsearch logsdb index mode, TSDS, autoscaling, and vector compression (BBQ) — without sacrificing performance.

  • Serverless, for real

    Maximize feature benefits and cost savings compared to OpenSearch. Plus, run Elasticsearch where you want to run it — on Azure, GCP, and/or AWS.

Real customers with real savings

  • "en": "Piggy bank", "cn": "存钱罐", "de": "Sparschwein", "es": "Alcancía", "fr": "Tirelire en forme de cochon", "jp": "ブタの貯金箱", "kr": "돼지 저금통", "pt": "Cofrinho"

    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 to 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.

Elasticsearch: Better than OpenSearch

Richer features, lower costs — available everywhere: Azure, GCP, and/or AWS.

A faster, smarter datastore. Elasticsearch handles more data with less cost.

  • Ease of use

    5B+ downloads and counting

    Use the #1 vector database that's 12x faster than OpenSearch. Seamlessly combine keyword search with embeddings for fast, context-aware results.

     

    Simple deployment management

    With AutoOps, get actionable cost insights, see performance recommendations, and rapidly determine root causes.

     

    Search anywhere with one query

    Search across regions, multi-cloud, and hybrid environments with cross-cluster search. Ensure resilience with cross-cluster replication, and simplify queries using search templates — all built in.

  • Faster and more powerful

    Fast geospatial queries

    Run complex spatial queries directly in Kibana with better performance.

     

    Efficient time series indexing

    Save up to 54.8% in storage with optimized TSDS (time series data stream) indexing.

  • Cost-effective

    Data tiers for smarter data management

    Query data quickly on less expensive storage with searchable snapshots. Plus, with Elasticsearch, all your rules and dashboards work seamlessly with data in different tiers, without code changes.

     

    Reduce log storage footprint and keep full access

    Logsdb index mode lowers storage needs while keeping all your logs searchable.

Elastic Cloud Serverless: Scalable, secure, and effortless

Elastic Cloud Serverless is the best way to maximize feature benefits and cost savings compared to OpenSearch. Plus, run it where you want to run it — on Azure, GCP, and/or AWS.

  • Search AI Lake architecture

    Say goodbye to the complexities of managing infrastructure. Elastic Cloud Serverless, powered by the Search AI Lake architecture, separates storage from compute and indexing from search. This new architecture ensures high performance while autoscaling indexing and search to meet your workload’s demands.

  • Security and control

    Elastic Cloud Serverless offers robust security, including field and document-level access control, while OpenSearch Serverless does not offer this granularity.

  • Pricing model that aligns with your use cases

    Observability and security are based on ingest and retention, with no minimum cost. Search, on the other hand, may start at just $24/month,* offering a low-cost entry point without the overhead of traditional infrastructure.

    *Estimate based on dev environment with 2GB searchable data, 1% ingest utilization (15 minutes per day), 8% search utilization (2 hours per day)

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