Elastic has been named a Leader in the Everest Group Enterprise Search Products PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2026, with the largest market share among 16 evaluated providers. Key strengths cited include a unified hybrid search pipeline combining BM25 and vector retrieval, ES|QL query abstraction, deployment flexibility for regulated environments, and compliance coverage for SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI-DSS. Recent product momentum includes the Elastic Inference Service (GPU-accelerated inference), DiskBBQ (disk-friendly vector search), Elastic Agent Builder GA, and AWS Agentic AI Specialization. The platform targets enterprise search, RAG pipelines, and agentic AI applications at production scale.