Basic
$9.99 per node / month
$19.98 for a 2-node cluster
Development, staging, and small production workloads.
- CPU
- 1 vCPU
- Memory
- 2 GiB
- Storage
- 10 GB
- Nodes
- 2
Pricing
Rate × nodes. That's the model.
You're billed per data node, per month. Not per gigabyte ingested, not per query, not per seat. Every cluster starts at 2 nodes, so the figures below are what a running cluster actually costs.
Most production clusters
Standard
$99.99 per node / month
$199.98 for a 2-node cluster
The default for production. A terabyte across the cluster.
- CPU
- 4 vCPU
- Memory
- 32 GiB
- Storage
- 500 GB
- Nodes
- 2
Extreme
$199.99 per node / month
$399.98 for a 2-node cluster
Double the node, quadruple the storage, and room to scale out.
- CPU
- 8 vCPU
- Memory
- 64 GiB
- Storage
- 2 TB
- Nodes
- 2–10
Extreme doubles Standard's compute and memory and quadruples its storage, for double the price. It's also the only tier that scales past two nodes, to ten, and every node bills at the same rate, so ten Extreme nodes is ten times one. There is no add-on tariff and no volume tier to negotiate.
Not on your invoice
The things other vendors meter.
Coordinator nodes and Dashboards are part of the cluster, not line items. Ingest is unlimited, and so is reading it back out. There is no per-gigabyte charge for data leaving the cluster. Support is included on every tier rather than sold as a plan.
- Coordinator nodes
- OpenSearch Dashboards
- Ingest volume
- Network egress
- Queries and API calls
- User seats
- Support
Compared
The same logs, four bills.
450 GB of logs a month, about 450 million lines at a kilobyte each, read by five engineers. On a two-node Standard cluster that is a fixed rate. Everywhere else the meter is running on some part of it.
| Feature | ClusterNest Standard × 2 nodes | AWS OpenSearch i4i.xlarge.search × 2 | Datadog Log Management | New Relic Logs, Data Plus |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compute per node | 4 vCPU · 32 GiB | 4 vCPU · 32 GiB | Not yours to pick | Not yours to pick |
| Storage | 1 TB across the cluster | 1.87 TB across the cluster | Priced by volume | Priced by volume |
| Retention | Your policy | Your policy | 15 days at this rate | 90 days on Data Plus |
| Ingest | Not metered | Not metered | $0.10 per GB | $0.60 per GB over 100 GB |
| Making logs searchable | Included | Included | $1.70 per million events | Included |
| Data transfer out | Not billed | $0.09 per GB over 100 GB | Not billed | Not billed |
| Coordinator nodes | Dedicated, included | Billed per node | Not applicable | Not applicable |
| User seats | Unlimited | Unlimited | Not seat-billed | $99 each after the first, five max |
| Support | Included, every tier | Paid support plan | Plan-dependent | Plan-dependent |
| Terraform provider | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Data format | OpenSearch, open source | OpenSearch, open source | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Monthly | $199.98 | $801.54 | $810.00 | $616.00 |
List prices, checked 6 September 2026. Vendors change them; check theirs before you decide anything on ours.
- AWS: i4i.xlarge.search at $0.549 per hour on demand, two data nodes, 730 hours. Dedicated cluster manager nodes and data transfer are on top.
- Datadog: $0.10 per ingested GB, plus $1.70 per million indexed events on an annual commitment, which buys up to 15 days of retention. 30 days is quote-only.
- New Relic: Data Plus at $0.60 per GB beyond the free 100 GB, plus one full platform user at $10 and four more at $99 on the Standard edition.
Trial
Ten days, one Basic cluster, no card.
Verify your email and launch. When the ten days are up you can upgrade to any tier and keep going, or leave it, and nothing is charged. Sign up with Google or GitHub and you're verified already.
Three ways to buy
Self-serve, invoiced, or with our hands on it.
Support
Email, every tier, no upsell.
Write to [email protected] and you reach the people who run the platform. First-response targets apply on Basic exactly as they do on Extreme.
Availability is covered separately by a 99.9% monthly uptime SLA with service credits, and every incident is published on our status page.
| Severity | First response | Cover |
|---|---|---|
| Production cluster down | 1 hour | 24×7 |
| Production degraded | 4 hours | 24×7 |
| Non-production impaired | 12 hours | Business days |
| General guidance | 24 hours | Business days |
All prices are in US dollars and exclude tax. Tax is calculated at checkout based on your location.