OpenSearch Pricing & Free Plan Limits
Complete pricing breakdown for OpenSearch including all plans, hidden costs, and limitations.
Pricing score: 62/100
Is OpenSearch free?
Yes — the Self-hosted (open source) plan costs nothing. Paid plans start at $733.65/month (Amazon OpenSearch Service (provisioned, example 3x r6g.xlarge data nodes)).
The free plan includes
- Apache 2.0 license
- Security plugin
- Dashboards
- k-NN vector search
- Index State Management
Free plan limits
- Users: Unlimited
- Storage: Limited only by your hardware
- No managed upgrades, no automatic snapshots, no support SLA, you handle scaling and recovery
Watch out: Servers, storage, backups and engineer time to run it; shard and heap tuning is on you
Plans & Pricing
- Apache 2.0 license
- Security plugin
- Dashboards
- k-NN vector search
- Index State Management
User limit: Unlimited
Storage: Limited only by your hardware
- Auto scaling compute
- No cluster sizing
Storage: Storage billed per GB-month (about $0.02 in AWS example)
- Managed upgrades
- Multi-AZ
- Automated snapshots kept 14 days
- UltraWarm tier option
Storage: EBS billed separately (about $0.122-0.135 per GB-month in the AWS example)
Pricing Issues Reported by Users
Amazon OpenSearch Service gets expensive
AWS pricing example: three r6g.xlarge data nodes plus three dedicated manager nodes already cost over $1,000 a month before storage. Extended Support fees, data transfer and Serverless OCUs add on top.
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