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Introducing: A search & relevancy assessment from engineers, not theorists. Learn more

Focus on search relevance—not fixing bugs or downtime

The only managed Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, and SolrCloud platform that provides the support of a search engineering team, but at a fraction of the cost.

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No credit card required

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Expert engineering support

Deploy Bonsai with OpenSearch, Elastic Platinum v8+, ElasticSearch, or Solr

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Trusted by thousands

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Imagine what you could do if you never had to worry about red and yellow response codes

There’s a reason companies at every scale switch to Bonsai for their search engines.

Before Bonsai:

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Poor search performance & latency

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Treading water fixing bugs

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Growing technical debt

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Major downtime

After Bonsai:

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Build innovative search features

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Fast & relevant search results

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On-demand expert support

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Peace of mind

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Fully managed
Elasticsearchfor mission-critical search engines

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Make changes and improvements to search without being afraid to break something or have to rewrite from scratch.

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Performant and reliable search clusters at any scale

Never deal with a yellow or red state again, because we fix it for you. Sleep easy at night knowing your end users enjoy superior search experience. Make changes and improvements to search without being afraid to break something or have to rewrite from scratch.

Save your team hundreds or even thousands of engineering hours.

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Let us handle delicate upgrades for you

You shouldn’t have to waste time on version upgrades, security and patch upgrades, or other upgrades that would otherwise cause breaking changes.

Separate clusters for production, staging, and development ensure zero downtime version upgrades

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Best-in-class search experience for your users

You can trust that your users will receive relevant results, reduced latency, and your search will never face an interruption. Less errors, less lost revenue, less customer support.

Increase search performance by up to 9x

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Instant insights into search performance

Get closer to the actual search experience of end users with analytics to measure how successful searches were. Understand the full picture of how search is performing with direct integrations into your tech stack so you can improve hardware use, search upgrades, and query and index optimizations.

Debug minor search issues in half the time

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Deploy in your own AWS or GCP account

Yep, seriously. We work with you to understand the best instances to deploy on and help you take advantage of preferential billing and Reserved Instances. You pay us to run search; you pay Amazon to run the computers. It’s that simple. Plus, make changes quickly without worrying about slowing down deployments.

Save up to 30% on hardware infrastructure costs

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On-demand support from expert engineers

With over a decade of experience having built one of the first cloud search extensions, there’s nothing we haven’t seen. Instead of reading yet another blog post hoping to answer an urgent question, ask us instead and we’ll get right back to you with a thorough, personalized solution.

Our senior engineers have been working in search for a decade+

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An advisory partner you can trust

With playbooks and best practices tailored to your specific use cases and goals, our advisory solutions equip you to create value from search. You benefit from the lessons we’ve learned from managing hundreds of thousands of clusters for companies across all industries.

Advisory solutions are included at no extra cost with Enterprise plans

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Instant access to our team

With our one-of-a-kind, fully managed service, you’ll have regular, consistent contact with us via multiple channels. When Bonsai is in your corner, it’s like adding a whole team of search experts to your staff — imagine a fractional Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Search Engineer, and Data Scientist at your fingertips.

Search works seamlessly through team turnover (even when the original engineer who set it up leaves)

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Friends don’t let friends run clusters in yellow or red

Unlike the other guys, we take responsibility for every one of your clusters. Our team is constantly monitoring, optimizing, and enhancing your search experience, solving problems before you know they exist.

Neither Elastic Cloud or Amazon OpenSearch Service will proactively fix cluster issues for you

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Secured, encrypted, and compliant

Search highly sensitive data without compromising security or performance. Bonsai partners with Titaniam to provide the industry’s most sophisticated encryption-at-work capabilities. And with the option to deploy to your own cloud, you can meet even the most rigorous compliance standards.

Everyone: SOC-2 + GDPR

Enterprise: FIPS-140-2 + HIPAA + PCI + CCPA

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In-house search expertise at your service

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Search works seamlessly through team turnover, even when the original engineer who set it up leaves.

Scaling search engines since 2009

“Bonsai is top notch at helping your team understand and optimize ES for your workloads and use cases. They even prescribed an update to our cluster configuration that led to a 10x improvement in response times! Hands down one of the best vendors we've worked with.”

— Karan Jain, numero.ai

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“We switched to Bonsai as our ES vendor...and have not had one moment of regret or issue with your excellent service. Both the technical platform and your support team have been a delight to work with. We are very happy customers.”

— Jason Taylor, TextUs

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“We got more value from a discovery call with Bonsai than we did with a paid consultation with Elastic.”

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“No one knows Elasticsearch better than Bonsai. We’ve been able to avoid hiring that expertise in-house because of the support that we’re getting with Bonsai.”

— Nathan Sprout, Head of Product

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Integrate with your tech stack

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How it works

Do it yourself (DIY)

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Deploy a search cluster in seconds

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Pipe in your data (or use dummy data)

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Start querying results

Done with you (DWY)

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Schedule a meeting with one of our search experts

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Consultative discovery call to determine your needs

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Migration assistance

Join tens of thousands of happy customers

You shouldn’t have to waste valuable time and resources on costly maintenance, bugs, 
and downtime. With Bonsai, you can finally focus on what matters most: making meaningful improvements to the search experience of your users.

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No credit card required

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Expert engineering support

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last month’s uptime

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active clusters managed