DragonflyDB vs Upstash
On the evidence we track, Upstash leads this comparison with a composite score of 73/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for key-value stores. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
DragonflyDB
A Redis-compatible in-memory database that uses multi-threaded processing to achieve significantly higher performance and lower operating costs compared to traditional alternatives, supporting pub/sub, streams, and advanced data structures.
Upstash
LeaderA cloud platform offering serverless Redis, vector databases, message queues, and workflow orchestration designed for developers building serverless applications, with usage-based and fixed-rate pricing options.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
DragonflyDB
From $8/GB/month (Flex), $2,000+/month (Business). Free trial with $100 credits.
- Flex$8/GB/month, starting at $36/month
- Fully-managed on AWS, GCP, or Azure
- One-click provisioning
- Horizontal + vertical scaling
- Monitoring dashboard
- Dragonfly team support
- BusinessStarting at $2,000/month
- Bring your own cloud
- Auto-scaling
- SSO & MFA
- Custom SLA
- Dedicated support
- EnterpriseContact sales
- Run anywhere
- Custom instance types
- White-glove migrations and tuning
- Advanced security & compliance
- Enterprise SLA & premium support
Upstash
LeaderFree tier (30 MB), Essentials from $5/month, Pro from $200/month
- FreeFree
- No replication
- Single database
- Limited throughput
- Essentials$5/month (250 MB) to $216/month (12 GB)
- Predefined database sizes (250 MB to 12 GB)
- Bandwidth and throughput limits per tier
- Optional high availability
- Flex tier with reduced throughput
- Pro$200/month minimum + $0.014/hour usage-based billing
- Unlimited memory
- Dedicated VPC infrastructure
- Multiple databases per subscription
- Active-Active multi-region writes
- Auto-tiering
- +1 more
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- PostgreSQL
DragonflyDB
- GCP Marketplace
- AWS
- Google Cloud Platform
- Feast
- Airbyte
- AWS Marketplace
- S3
- Grafana
- Prometheus
Upstash
Leader- Cloudflare Workers
- Auth0
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- Debezium
- JDBC
- FluentBit
- Drizzle
- Vercel AI SDK
- Redis protocol clients
- Vercel
- Aiven
DragonflyDB or Upstash: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
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