# Qdrant vs Upstash

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Upstash

| Attribute | Qdrant | Upstash |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 55.8 (65% (medium)) | 73.3 (72% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 0 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 35,060 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"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. It is indexed under Vector Databases.","source":"https://qdrant.tech/documentation/cloud-pricing-payments/","question":"What is Qdrant?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Qdrant offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://qdrant.tech/documentation/cloud-pricing-payments/","question":"Is Qdrant free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Qdrant. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://qdrant.tech/documentation/cloud-pricing-payments/","question":"What platforms does Qdrant support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Qdrant can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise, air-gapped and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://qdrant.tech/documentation/cloud-pricing-payments/","question":"Can Qdrant be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 6 integrations for Qdrant, including Slack, Adobe, Hubspot, Arize, Google DeepMind and Qualcomm. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://qdrant.tech","question":"What does Qdrant integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for Qdrant. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Qdrant not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://qdrant.tech","question":"What security certifications does Qdrant have?","confidence":0.48},{"answer":"Yes. Qdrant is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant","question":"Is Qdrant open source?","confidence":0.95}]` | `[{"answer":"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. It is indexed under Key-Value Stores.","source":"https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown","question":"What is Upstash?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Upstash offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $10 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown","question":"Is Upstash free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Upstash supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown","question":"What platforms does Upstash support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Upstash, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown","question":"Can Upstash be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 11 integrations for Upstash, including Cloudflare Workers, Auth0, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Debezium, JDBC and FluentBit, plus 3 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown","question":"What does Upstash integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for Upstash. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Upstash not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://upstash.com/blog/redis-new-pricing","question":"What security certifications does Upstash have?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Upstash is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown","question":"Where is Upstash available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | A database system designed for storing and searching vectors with comprehensive filtering capabilities. It provides production-ready APIs and tools for semantic similarity matching and embedding-based applications. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"ann_index":"HNSW","deployment":"self_hosted","quantization":"scalar","storage_tier":"disk_backed","hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"source_available","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","full_text_bm25":true,"distance_metrics":"dot product","horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed"}` | `{"ann_index":"HNSW","clustering":"replicated","deployment":"managed","serverless":true,"consistency":"strong","persistence":"durable","eviction_ttl":true,"storage_tier":"persistent","transactions":"multi_exec","hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"proprietary","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","wire_protocol":"resp","full_text_bm25":true,"multi_threaded":false,"pubsub_streams":true,"data_structures":"rich_types","distance_metrics":"cosine","horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed","redis_api_compat":"full","metadata_filtering":"pre_filter"}` |
| integrations.count | 4 | 6 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Adobe"},{"name":"Hubspot"},{"name":"Arize"},{"name":"Google DeepMind"},{"name":"Qualcomm"},{"name":"Cohere","native":true,"category":"embeddings","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"AWS","native":true},{"name":"GCP","native":true},{"name":"Azure","native":true},{"name":"LangChain","native":true,"category":"framework"},{"name":"FastEmbed","native":true,"category":"embedding"},{"name":"Google Cloud Storage","native":false,"category":"storage"},{"name":"Azure Blob Storage","native":false,"category":"storage"}]` | `[{"name":"Cloudflare Workers"},{"name":"Auth0"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"Debezium"},{"name":"JDBC"},{"name":"FluentBit"},{"name":"Drizzle","native":true,"category":"orm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Vercel AI SDK","native":false,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Redis protocol clients","native":true,"direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Vercel","native":false},{"name":"Aiven","native":true}]` |
| language.primary | Rust | - |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"usage","summary":"Usage-based pricing billed monthly based on CPU, memory, and disk storage consumption. Free tier available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://qdrant.tech/documentation/cloud-pricing-payments/","retrievedAt":"2026-09-10T21:04:02.653Z","billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free forever","features":["No replication","Single database","Limited throughput"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"30 MB database with no credit card required","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"storage":"30 MB","throughput":"100 ops/sec","connections":"30"}},{"free":false,"name":"Essentials","summary":"$5/month (250 MB) to $216/month (12 GB)","features":["Predefined database sizes (250 MB to 12 GB)","Bandwidth and throughput limits per tier","Optional high availability","Flex tier with reduced throughput"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"fixed","amount":216,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Shared, fixed-price tier with predefined database sizes","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"$200/month minimum + $0.014/hour usage-based billing","features":["Unlimited memory","Dedicated VPC infrastructure","Multiple databases per subscription","Active-Active multi-region writes","Auto-tiering","Private connectivity"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":200,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"hour"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.014,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Dedicated infrastructure with unlimited memory and pay-as-you-go billing","contactSales":false}],"summary":"Free tier (30 MB), Essentials from $5/month, Pro from $200/month","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://upstash.com/blog/redis-cloud-pricing-in-2026-plans-costs-and-real-examples","retrievedAt":"2026-10-06T11:29:25.190Z","startingPrice":{"amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":5,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 18 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.19.2","date":"2026-10-05T14:16:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.19.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.19.1","date":"2026-09-04T07:59:14Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.19.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.19.0","date":"2026-08-05T11:26:05Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.19.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.18.3","date":"2026-07-17T13:18:39Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.18.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.18.2","date":"2026-06-04T06:50:36Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.18.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.18.1","date":"2026-05-22T12:31:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.18.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.18.0","date":"2026-05-11T15:04:38Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.18.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.17.1","date":"2026-03-27T08:37:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.17.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.17.0","date":"2026-02-20T11:11:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.17.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.16.3","date":"2025-12-19T17:45:42Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.16.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.16.2","date":"2025-12-04T11:03:49Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.16.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.16.1","date":"2025-11-25T17:16:19Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.16.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.16.0","date":"2025-11-17T14:32:11Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.16.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.15.5","date":"2025-09-30T12:23:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.15.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.15.4","date":"2025-08-27T11:24:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.15.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.15.3","date":"2025-08-14T16:30:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.15.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.15.2","date":"2025-08-11T18:04:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.15.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.15.1","date":"2025-07-24T10:18:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.15.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.15.0","date":"2025-07-18T13:08:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.15.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/releases/tag/v1.14.1","date":"2025-05-23T13:09:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.14.1"}]` | - |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.99 |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://qdrant.tech/documentation/security/ | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=nixpkgs&package_name=qdrant&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | - |

## Capabilities (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 |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-27T02:16:43.146Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*