Comparison

Marqo 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.

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Marqo40

★Upstash73

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	Marqo	UpstashLeader
vioscaleAI score	40 / 100low · 30%	73 / 100medium · 72%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	-	✓
Modelpricing.model	quote	freemium
Price levelpricing.price_level	unknown	low
Starting pricepricing.starting_price	-	$5
Transparentpricing.transparent	✗	✓
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	3	6
Security
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	-	✓
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	-	✓
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	-	✓
Soc2security.soc2	-	✓
Reliability
Sla pctreliability.sla_pct	-	99.99
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	✓
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide · HQ US	Available worldwide · Popular in US
Content
Faqcontent.faq	6 items	7 items

Score

vioscaleAI score

Marqo40 / 100low · 30%

Upstash73 / 100medium · 72%

Pricing

Free tier

Marqo–

Upstash✓

Model

Marqoquote

Upstashfreemium

Price level

Marqounknown

Upstashlow

Starting price

Marqo–

Upstash$5

Transparent

Marqo✗

Upstash✓

Integrations

Count

Marqo3

Upstash6

Security

Disclosure policy

Marqo–

Upstash✓

Gdpr

Marqo–

Upstash✓

Hipaa

Marqo–

Upstash✓

Soc2

Marqo–

Upstash✓

Reliability

Sla pct

Marqo–

Upstash99.99

Status page

Marqo✓

Upstash✓

Market

Availability

MarqoAvailable worldwide · HQ US

UpstashAvailable worldwide · Popular in US

Content

Faq

Marqo6 items

Upstash7 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for vector databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capability comparison for Vector Databases
Capability	Marqo	Upstash
Deployment
Deployment	Managed	Managed
Serverless / consumption pricing	✓	✓
Index
ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat)	-	HNSW
Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)	-	cosine
Query
Metadata filtering	-	Pre-filter
Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)	✓	✓
Built-in BM25 / lexical	✓	✓
Storage
Quantization	-	-
On-disk vs in-memory	-	persistent
Scale
Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)	✓	✓
Horizontal scale	Sharded / distributed	Sharded / distributed
Consistency
Consistency	-	Strong
Licensing
Licence class	Proprietary	Proprietary
Classification
Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent	Dedicated DBMS	Dedicated DBMS

Deployment

MarqoManaged

UpstashManaged

Serverless / consumption pricing

Marqo✓

Upstash✓

Index

ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat)

Marqo-

UpstashHNSW

Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)

Marqo-

Upstashcosine

Query

Metadata filtering

Marqo-

UpstashPre-filter

Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)

Marqo✓

Upstash✓

Built-in BM25 / lexical

Marqo✓

Upstash✓

Storage

Quantization

Marqo-

Upstash-

On-disk vs in-memory

Marqo-

Upstashpersistent

Scale

Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)

Marqo✓

Upstash✓

Horizontal scale

MarqoSharded / distributed

UpstashSharded / distributed

Consistency

Marqo-

UpstashStrong

Licensing

Licence class

MarqoProprietary

UpstashProprietary

Classification

Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent

MarqoDedicated DBMS

UpstashDedicated DBMS

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Marqo

An ecommerce search platform using semantic understanding and personalization to help online retailers deliver relevant product results and recommendations based on shopper behavior and intent.

Independently observed

Upstash

Leader

A 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.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Marqo

Quote-based

as of 2026-08-13verify ↗

Upstash

Leader

from $5/moHybridFree tier

Free 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

as of 2026-10-06verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	Marqo	Upstash
WebPlatforms	✓	✓
CLIPlatforms	✗	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✓

Platforms

Web

Marqo✓

Upstash✓

CLI

Marqo✗

Upstash✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Marqo✓

Upstash✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Marqo

3 total

Shopify
Adobe Commerce
Salesforce Commerce Cloud

Independently observed

Upstash

Leader

13 total

Cloudflare Workers
Auth0
MongoDB
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Debezium
JDBC
FluentBit
Drizzle
Vercel AI SDK
Redis protocol clients
Vercel
Aiven

Independently observed

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Marqo or Upstash: which one depends on you

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