---
title: Elasticsearch Vector Database billing dimensions
description: Learn how costs for Elasticsearch Vector Database Serverless projects are calculated across storage, search, ingest, and infrastructure.
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7961/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/vector-database-billing-dimensions
products:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless
  - Elasticsearch Vector Database Serverless
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available
---

# Elasticsearch Vector Database billing dimensions
Elasticsearch Vector Database projects on Elastic Cloud Serverless are priced based on consumption across storage, search, ingest, and infrastructure.
Your monthly bill is calculated based on these components:
- **Storage** — Measured by the total amount of data stored in your project, in GB.
- **Search** — Measured by reserved search capacity for your stored data. Capacity is controlled by your project's [Search Power](/elastic/docs-content/pull/7961/deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud/project-settings#elasticsearch-manage-project-search-power-settings) setting and scales with how much data you store.
- **Ingest** — Measured by the volume of data you ingest into your project over the course of a month, in GB.
- **Infrastructure fee** — Measured by the number of hours your project is running.

For current rates, refer to the [Cloud Pricing Table](https://cloud.elastic.co/cloud-pricing-table?productType=serverless) or the [Elastic Cloud Serverless pricing](https://www.elastic.co/pricing/serverless) pages.

## Storage

You are charged per GB of data stored in the project. Storage charges apply for as long as the data remains in the project.

## Search

Search charges cover the search capacity reserved for your stored data. All stored data is searchable by default, which means it actively contributes to Search charges.
[Search Power](/elastic/docs-content/pull/7961/deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud/project-settings#elasticsearch-manage-project-search-power-settings) determines how much capacity is reserved. At Search Power **100**, enough capacity is reserved so that 100% of your project data remains available for low-latency search. Higher Search Power values reserve more capacity in proportion to that baseline: for example, **200** reserves about twice as much as **100**.
Increasing Search Power reserves more capacity and raises search charges. Running more queries does not increase search charges. For current rates, refer to the [Cloud Pricing Table](https://cloud.elastic.co/cloud-pricing-table?productType=serverless).

## Ingest

Ingest charges are based on the volume of data written to your project, measured in GB for the billing period. This uses the same definition of billable ingested bytes as other Serverless offerings.

## Infrastructure

You are billed an hourly infrastructure fee for every hour that your project is running.

## Managing Vector Database costs

Vector Database costs follow your storage footprint, search resource allocation, ingest volume, and the hours your project is available. To balance performance with spend, adjust the controls described in this section.

### Search Power setting

[Search Power](/elastic/docs-content/pull/7961/deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud/project-settings#elasticsearch-manage-project-search-power-settings) reserves search capacity for your project. Start at the default of **100**, measure latency and throughput for your workload, then increase Search Power if you need more capacity. You increase Search Power in increments of 100. Higher Search Power increases search charges in proportion to the setting and your stored data volume. You can increase Search Power up to **1900**.
For high availability, you can increase Search Power to **200**. That setting reserves enough capacity for two full copies of your project data to remain available for low-latency search.

## Related billing dimensions

Shared Serverless add-ons such as [data out](/elastic/docs-content/pull/7961/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/serverless-project-billing-dimensions#general-serverless-billing-data-out) and [support](/elastic/docs-content/pull/7961/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/serverless-project-billing-dimensions#general-serverless-billing-support) may also appear on your bill. See [Serverless project billing dimensions](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7961/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/serverless-project-billing-dimensions).
If you use cross-project search, additional charges may apply when the feature becomes generally available. For how those charges are calculated, refer to [ cross-project search Billing](/elastic/docs-content/pull/7961/deploy-manage/cross-project-search-config#cps-billing).