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Elasticsearch (Elastic Cloud) by Elastic

Managed Elasticsearch for full-text, vector and hybrid search over indexed documents.

Vector databases Official MCP server Open source

Price
Free (open source)
you pay only for the compute it runs on
Free tier
Open source
SDK downloads
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npm @elastic/elasticsearch · PyPI elasticsearch
Status
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Pricing

Free tier—
Cheapest paid plan—
Usage priceServerless: Ingest as low as $0.14 per VCU per hour; Search as low as $0.09 per VCU per hour; Storage as low as $0.047 per GB retained per month
Good to knowFree trial available, no ongoing free tier. The standalone MCP server is deprecated in favor of the Agent Builder MCP endpoint (Elastic 9.2.0+ and Serverless).

From the official pricing page, checked Oct 10, 2026. Prices change: confirm before you buy.

Use it from an agent

MCP serverOfficial: https://github.com/elastic/mcp-server-elasticsearch
npmnpm install @elastic/elasticsearch
PyPIpip install elasticsearch

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