About the author
Pete is a Product Manager at Elastic, supporting improvements for the overall search experience. He rides bikes. A lot. Maybe too much.
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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.