Elastic Observability Serverless vs Splunk Observability Cloud

See how their public offers line up before you choose your own position. Prices stay in the currency, billing schedule, and charged unit each vendor publishes.

Elastic Observability Serverless

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USD · US · source: www.elastic.co

Plan	Pricing	Charged by	Offer type
Logs Essentials	USD 0.07 monthly As low as $0.07 per GB ingested	Usage · per GB ingested	Standalone · Usage based
Complete Highlighted	USD 0.09 monthly As low as $0.09 per GB of logs and traces ingested	Usage · per GB of logs or traces ingested	Standalone · Usage based

Splunk Observability Cloud

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USD · US · source: www.splunk.com

Plan	Pricing	Charged by	Offer type
Infrastructure	USD 15 / month with annual commitment Starts at $15/host/month billed annually	Unit · per host per month, billed annually	Standalone · Starting at
App & Infrastructure Highlighted	USD 60 / month with annual commitment Starts at $60/host/month billed annually	Unit · per host per month, billed annually	Standalone · Starting at
End-to-End	USD 75 / month with annual commitment Starts at $75/host/month billed annually	Unit · per host per month, billed annually	Standalone · Starting at

What each plan includes

Feature names follow each vendor’s own pricing page, so verify the wording before treating them as exact equivalents.

Elastic Observability Serverless

Logs Essentials

Plan card Ad hoc log analysis: Included
Plan card Dashboards and integrations: Included
Plan card Retention: From $0.017/GB-month

Included

Complete

Plan card Logs, metrics, traces, and synthetics: Included
Plan card Service-level objectives: Included
Plan card Metrics ingest: $0.023/GB

Included

Splunk Observability Cloud

Infrastructure

Plan card Infrastructure monitoring: Included
Plan card Log Observer Connect: Included
Plan card Synthetic uptime monitoring: Included

App & Infrastructure

Plan card Application performance monitoring: Included
Plan card Infrastructure monitoring: Included
Plan card AlwaysOn profiling: Included

End-to-End

Plan card Database monitoring: Included
Plan card Application and infrastructure monitoring: Included
Plan card Secure Application: Included

How their prices changed

Each dated row shows the public prices observed when that vendor’s pricing page changed.

Elastic Observability Serverless

August 27, 2026 Source
- Logs Essentials: USD 0.07 monthly
- Complete: USD 0.09 monthly

Splunk Observability Cloud

August 27, 2026 Source
- Infrastructure: USD 15 / month with annual commitment
- App & Infrastructure: USD 60 / month with annual commitment
- End-to-End: USD 75 / month with annual commitment