# Self-managed Elastic/OpenSearch: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 1 judge label across 1 category by 1 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/self-managed-elastic-opensearch

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Log management](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/operations/log-management/index.md) | 0% | 75 | 100% | 1 |

## And against it

- "Self-managed Elastic/OpenSearch, if you don't have people to operate it. The license may look attractive, but you're taking on the infrastructure" (GPT-6 Luna, Logs)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Self-managed Elastic/OpenSearch, from 1 of the 1 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- datadoghq.com: 1
- elastic.co: 1
- grafana.com: 1
- help.splunk.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://datadoghq.com/pricing: 1
- https://elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/elastic-observability-billing-dimensions: 1
- https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/logs: 1
- https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-cloud-platform/get-started/service-terms-and-policies/10.6/information-about-the-service/splunk-cloud-platform-service-details: 1

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.