Summary
Elastic Inference Service (EIS) token billing appears to be documented more explicitly on the Elasticsearch Serverless billing dimensions page (as Tokens) than on the Observability or Security Serverless billing dimensions pages, which currently focus on Elastic Managed LLMs token charges.
HOWEVER, there is a "shared" EIS section on the pricing table (appears on sec/obs tabs), which means that there is some sort of bug here. https://cloud.elastic.co/cloud-pricing-table?productType=serverless&group=serverless-projects&solution=security&provider=aws®ion=us-east-1
Found while addressing a semi-related bug: #7609 / #7938.
Investigate
Confirm whether EIS/Inference billing works the same way across Elasticsearch, Observability, and Security serverless projects (pricing table, Usage dimension, and product behavior), relationship to + positioning with elastic-managed LLMs
SR: I started this, but I do not understand the relationship between EIS and elastic-managed LLMs, so I'm deferring to experts on dev/ski for positioning.
If consistent across products
Document it a level up — on the Serverless billing dimensions hub — rather than repeating or partially restating it on each project-type page. Keep project pages for offering-specific notes only if needed (including how Managed LLMs relate, if that remains a useful distinction).
Type
Missing information / consistency — investigate first
Summary
Elastic Inference Service (EIS) token billing appears to be documented more explicitly on the Elasticsearch Serverless billing dimensions page (as Tokens) than on the Observability or Security Serverless billing dimensions pages, which currently focus on Elastic Managed LLMs token charges.
HOWEVER, there is a "shared" EIS section on the pricing table (appears on sec/obs tabs), which means that there is some sort of bug here. https://cloud.elastic.co/cloud-pricing-table?productType=serverless&group=serverless-projects&solution=security&provider=aws®ion=us-east-1
Found while addressing a semi-related bug: #7609 / #7938.
Investigate
Confirm whether EIS/Inference billing works the same way across Elasticsearch, Observability, and Security serverless projects (pricing table, Usage dimension, and product behavior), relationship to + positioning with elastic-managed LLMs
SR: I started this, but I do not understand the relationship between EIS and elastic-managed LLMs, so I'm deferring to experts on dev/ski for positioning.
If consistent across products
Document it a level up — on the Serverless billing dimensions hub — rather than repeating or partially restating it on each project-type page. Keep project pages for offering-specific notes only if needed (including how Managed LLMs relate, if that remains a useful distinction).
Type
Missing information / consistency — investigate first