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Elastic Inference Service

Model API

by Elastic

Hosted inference endpoint that runs Elastic-managed LLMs, the ELSER sparse-embedding model and third-party embedding models for ingest, search and chat without provisioning ML nodes in a customer's own Elasticsearch deployment.

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Billed per million tokens for every model on the service, on top of the Elastic Cloud subscription it is reached from. No marketing page exists — the docs name it and state the billing unit, admitted under the docs-plus-price ruling of 2026-09-04.

What it does

• Model inference
• Model hosting
• Vector search

How it compares

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Pricing

Official documentation · 4 Sep 2026

"All models on EIS incur a charge per million tokens … EIS is billed per million tokens used". A rate card per model is not printed on this page.

Description

Official documentation · 4 Sep 2026

Docs: EIS lets you "use machine learning models for ingest, search, and chat independently of your Elasticsearch infrastructure"; lists Elastic Managed LLMs, ELSER on EIS and jina-embeddings-v3.

Sold within

Official documentation · 29 Sep 2026

The docs call it "a global service on Elastic Cloud", metered separately from ML-node VCUs: "All models on EIS incur a charge per million tokens."

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