Aiven Developer Tier for OpenSearch
Aiven is the platform for OpenSearch development. Spin up an always-on, single-node OpenSearch service for prototyping, internal tools, and dev/staging environments, and upgrade when you're ready to go live for as little as $40/month with our new Developer tier.
Service benefits
What's included in your developer tier Aiven for OpenSearch?
A fully managed, single-node OpenSearch service — perfect for building and prototyping AI-search, log analytics, and ML workloads.
1 CPU
4 GB RAM
30 GB storage
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
1-day backups
99.99% availability SLA
Aiven and third-party integrations
Version and plan upgrade in one click
Full OpenSearch plugin ecosystem
Our enterprise OpenSearch®, at its lowest ever price
Get the search, observability, and reliability of OpenSearch as a service trusted by our enterprise customers, scaled for your prototyping needs.
Build real search and observability features
Build expertise using the same managed OpenSearch implementation trusted by Fortune 500 companies - for $40/month. Full-text, semantic, hybrid, and vector search included.
Validate ideas instantly, not eventually
Skip approvals and resource provisioning. Test architectural decisions, indexing strategies and dashboards on a reliable, always-on cluster from day one.
Ship your next prototype today
Deploy a dependable, low-latency hosted OpenSearch service for side projects and internal tools - no infrastructure overhead, no commitments.
Enterprise-grade infrastructure
Get the stability, security, and automation our largest customers rely on: RBAC, encryption on disk and in network, daily backups, and a 99.99% SLA.
Ready to build?
Get started in three steps
Sign up or sign in
New to Aiven? Create an account with $300 in free credits - no credit card required to start your trial. Already have an account? Sign in and skip to the next step.
Create your Developer tier OpenSearch service
Pick the Developer plan in the Aiven Console. Provisions in under two minutes on DigitalOcean. After your trial, services run on your active payment method at $40/month.
Connect & start building
Index your first document and run a real-time query in minutes. See the OpenSearch quickstart in the docs.
FAQ
The Developer tier for Aiven for OpenSearch is a fully managed, single-node OpenSearch service at $40/month. It's designed for prototypes, personal projects, internal tools, dev/staging environments, and learning - anywhere you need a real, always-on OpenSearch instance without paying production prices.
$40/month, all-inclusive. That covers 1 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 30 GB storage, up to 50 connections, networking, daily backups, RBAC, and email support — no separate data-transfer or egress bills.
- 1 dedicated VM with 2 vCPU and 4 GB RAM
- 30 GB of storage
- Up to 50 connections
- Data encryption on disk and in network
- Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Aiven and third-party service integrations (Apache Kafka, Datadog, and Prometheus, among others)
- Daily backups (1 day retention)
- 99.99% availability SLA
- Seamless upgrade to other plans
- Performance graphs and one-click version upgrades
- Email support, best-effort same or next business day
Free is for proving Aiven works — spin it up, ingest data, run a query. Startup is for production workloads at small scale, with multi-cloud choice, unlimited connections, service forks, and longer backup retention. Developer is for everything in between: an always-on service you can leave running, plug into a real app, and depend on.
Yes. Seamless upgrade and downgrade to Startup and higher tiers is included. Aiven handles the transition behind the scenes, so your data, connection strings, and configurations move with you.
The Developer tier for OpenSearch runs on DigitalOcean. If you need AWS, GCP, Azure, OVH, or UpCloud, upgrade to Startup or higher.
Yes — at rest (on disk) and in transit (TLS/SSL). Enterprise-grade encryption is standard across all Aiven plans, including the Developer tier.
Yes. You get the full OpenSearch plugin ecosystem — k-NN, Index Management, anomaly detection, Learning to Rank, alerting, OpenSearch Dashboards, security analytics, and more. See the full plugin list in the docs.
Aiven's Developer tier is a more cost-effective option than other managed OpenSearch services for comparable specs. You get 100% open-source OpenSearch, no vendor lock-in, predictable all-inclusive pricing (networking included), and a 99.99% SLA from day one.
Ready to build?
Create your Aiven for OpenSearch® Developer tier service
Set up your managed OpenSearch service for $40/month. Use the Aiven Console, API, CLI, or Terraform to get started.