Comparison

Qdrant vs Upstash

On the evidence we track, Upstash leads this comparison with a composite score of 74/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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Qdrant56

★Upstash74

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	Qdrant	UpstashLeader
vioscaleAI score	56 / 100medium · 67%	74 / 100medium · 73%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	freemium	freemium
Price levelpricing.price_level	low	low
Starting pricepricing.starting_price	-	$10
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	✓
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	4	7
Security
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	-	✓
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	✓	✓
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	✓	✓
Soc2security.soc2	✓	✓
Trust centersecurity.trust_center	https://qdrant.tech/documentation/security/	-
Vulnerabilitiessecurity.vulnerabilities	Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=nixpkgs&package_name=qdrant&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0	-
Reliability
Sla pctreliability.sla_pct	-	99.99
Status pagereliability.status_page	-	✓
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	0	-
Github starsadoption.github_stars	34,488	-
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	100	-
Release
Cadence daysrelease.cadence_days	18	-
Historyrelease.history	20 items	-
License
Spdxlicense.spdx	Apache-2.0	-
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	Rust	-
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide	Available worldwide · Popular in US
Content
Faqcontent.faq	7 items	7 items

Score

vioscaleAI score

Qdrant56 / 100medium · 67%

Upstash74 / 100medium · 73%

Pricing

Free tier

Qdrant✓

Upstash✓

Model

Qdrantfreemium

Upstashfreemium

Price level

Qdrantlow

Upstashlow

Starting price

Qdrant–

Upstash$10

Transparent

Qdrant✓

Upstash✓

Integrations

Count

Qdrant4

Upstash7

Security

Disclosure policy

Qdrant–

Upstash✓

Gdpr

Qdrant✓

Upstash✓

Hipaa

Qdrant✓

Upstash✓

Soc2

Qdrant✓

Upstash✓

Trust center

Qdranthttps://qdrant.tech/documentation/security/

Upstash–

Vulnerabilities

QdrantCount: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=nixpkgs&package_name=qdrant&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0

Upstash–

Reliability

Sla pct

Qdrant–

Upstash99.99

Status page

Qdrant–

Upstash✓

Adoption

Dependent repos

Qdrant0

Upstash–

Github stars

Qdrant34,488

Upstash–

Activity

Commits last 30d

Qdrant100

Upstash–

Release

Cadence days

Qdrant18

Upstash–

History

Qdrant20 items

Upstash–

License

Spdx

QdrantApache-2.0

Upstash–

Language

Primary

QdrantRust

Upstash–

Market

Availability

QdrantAvailable worldwide

UpstashAvailable worldwide · Popular in US

Content

Faq

Qdrant7 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	Qdrant	Upstash
Deployment
Deployment	Self-hosted	Managed
Serverless / consumption pricing	-	✓
Index
ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat)	HNSW	HNSW
Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)	dot product	cosine
Query
Metadata filtering	-	Pre-filter
Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)	✓	✓
Built-in BM25 / lexical	✓	✓
Storage
Quantization	Scalar	-
On-disk vs in-memory	Disk-backed	persistent
Scale
Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)	✓	✓
Horizontal scale	Sharded / distributed	Sharded / distributed
Consistency
Consistency	-	Strong
Licensing
Licence class	Source-available	Proprietary
Classification
Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent	Dedicated DBMS	Dedicated DBMS

Deployment

QdrantSelf-hosted

UpstashManaged

Serverless / consumption pricing

Qdrant-

Upstash✓

Index

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

QdrantHNSW

UpstashHNSW

Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)

Qdrantdot product

Upstashcosine

Query

Metadata filtering

Qdrant-

UpstashPre-filter

Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)

Qdrant✓

Upstash✓

Built-in BM25 / lexical

Qdrant✓

Upstash✓

Storage

Quantization

QdrantScalar

Upstash-

On-disk vs in-memory

QdrantDisk-backed

Upstashpersistent

Scale

Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)

Qdrant✓

Upstash✓

Horizontal scale

QdrantSharded / distributed

UpstashSharded / distributed

Consistency

Qdrant-

UpstashStrong

Licensing

Licence class

QdrantSource-available

UpstashProprietary

Classification

Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent

QdrantDedicated DBMS

UpstashDedicated DBMS

What each one is

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

Qdrant

A vector database engine that provides fast similarity search over high-dimensional vectors, available in managed cloud, self-hosted open source, and hybrid deployment models for AI applications.

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.

Qdrant

Usage-basedFree tier

Usage-based pricing billed monthly based on CPU, memory, and disk storage consumption. Free tier available.

as of 2026-09-10verify ↗

Upstash

Leader

from $10/moHybridFree tier

Free tier available. Pay-as-you-go from $0 (1 GB storage free), or fixed plans $10–$1,500/month

Pay-as-you-goFree
- 1 GB free storage
- Per-request pricing
- No minimum charge
Fixed plan$10 to $1,500 per month depending on storage and throughput requirements
- Guaranteed capacity
- No per-request overage charges
- Flexible cancellation
EnterpriseContact sales
- Custom capacity and SLAs
- Dedicated support

as of 2026-09-08verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	Qdrant	Upstash
WebPlatforms	✓	✓
CLIPlatforms	✓	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✓	✗
On-premiseDeployment	✓	✗
HybridDeployment	✓	✗

Platforms

Web

Qdrant✓

Upstash✓

CLI

Qdrant✓

Upstash✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Qdrant✓

Upstash✓

Self-hosted

Qdrant✓

Upstash✗

On-premise

Qdrant✓

Upstash✗

Hybrid

Qdrant✓

Upstash✗

Integrations

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

Qdrant

10 total

Slack
Adobe
Hubspot
Arize
Google DeepMind
Qualcomm
Cohere
AWS
GCP
Azure

Independently observed

Upstash

Leader

11 total

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

Independently observed

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