Redis vs Upstash
No clear leader: Upstash (73.3) and Redis (70.8) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
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.
Redis
A multi-purpose in-memory data platform that functions as a cache, vector database, document store, streaming engine, and message broker, with built-in support for advanced search, transactions, and multi-region replication.
Upstash
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.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Redis
Free open-source software plus three cloud subscription tiers (Essentials, Flex, Pro)
- Essentials-
- Single database
- Index on RAM
- 99.99% uptime
- Flex-
- Tiered RAM and SSD storage
- Adjustable RAM ratio
- 99.99% uptime
- Up to 80% cost savings vs RAM alone
- Pro-
- Unlimited databases
- Unlimited storage
- Unlimited ops/sec
- Active-Active multi-region
- 99.999% uptime
Upstash
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
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
- MySQL
- MongoDB
Redis
- Oracle
- MariaDB
- Percona XtraDB
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Cassandra
- Google Cloud SQL
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
- Python
- Node.js
- Java
- Go
- .NET
- Datadog
- New Relic
- Azure
Upstash
- Cloudflare Workers
- Auth0
- Debezium
- JDBC
- FluentBit
- Drizzle
- Vercel AI SDK
- Redis protocol clients
- Vercel
- Aiven
Redis 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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Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.