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Kibana pricing
Kibana publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the software tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open-source
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Kibana plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where Kibana stops being free
Free, Free
- Data visualization
- Dashboard creation
- Log discovery
No paid tier on record
Kibana lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Kibana feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Data visualization
- Dashboard creation
- Log discovery
- Alerting
Integrations
- API
- Webhooks
- REST
Platform
- Web support
- Api support
People bring Kibana in for querying and visualising data held in elasticsearch, dashboards over log and metric data, anomaly detection with machine learning jobs, geospatial analysis on indexed location data, alerting on query thresholds. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Kibana are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Kibana
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Kibana runs on web, api, and is published by Elastic of United States. The full record is on the Kibana review.
Kibana pricing questions
- How much does Kibana cost?
- Kibana publishes a single tier, Free, at Free.
- Does Kibana have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers data visualization, dashboard creation, log discovery.
- What am I actually paying for with Kibana?
- The record lists 9 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for querying and visualising data held in elasticsearch, dashboards over log and metric data, anomaly detection with machine learning jobs.
- Does Kibana charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Kibana prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Kibana against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Kibana to make a useful price comparison.