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Comparison

Upstash vs Vald

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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★Upstash73
Vald47
Score
vioscaleAI score
Upstash73 / 100medium · 72%
Vald47 / 100low · 35%
Pricing
Free tier
Upstash✓
Vald–
Model
Upstashfreemium
Vald–
Price level
Upstashlow
Vald–
Starting price
Upstash$5
Vald–
Transparent
Upstash✓
Vald–
Integrations
Count
Upstash6
Vald–
Security
Disclosure policy
Upstash✓
Vald–
Gdpr
Upstash✓
Vald–
Hipaa
Upstash✓
Vald–
Scorecard
Upstash–
Vald6.6
Soc2
Upstash✓
Vald–
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Sla pct
Upstash99.99
Vald–
Status page
Upstash✓
Vald✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Upstash–
Vald1
Github stars
Upstash–
Vald1,734
Activity
Commits last 30d
Upstash–
Vald9
Release
Cadence days
Upstash–
Vald47
History
Upstash–
Vald20 items
License
Spdx
Upstash–
ValdApache-2.0
Language
Primary
Upstash–
ValdGo
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Upstash7 items
Vald3 items

Capabilities

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

Deployment
Deployment
UpstashManaged
ValdSelf-hosted
Serverless / consumption pricing
Upstash✓
Vald-
Index
ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat)
UpstashHNSW
ValdNGT
Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)
Upstashcosine
Vald-
Query
Metadata filtering
UpstashPre-filter
Vald-
Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)
Upstash✓
Vald-
Built-in BM25 / lexical
Upstash✓
Vald-
Storage
Quantization
Upstash-
Vald-
On-disk vs in-memory
Upstashpersistent
ValdDisk-backed
Scale
Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)
Upstash✓
Vald-
Horizontal scale
UpstashSharded / distributed
ValdSharded / distributed
Consistency
Consistency
UpstashStrong
Vald-
Licensing
Licence class
UpstashProprietary
Vald-
Classification
Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent
UpstashDedicated DBMS
ValdDedicated DBMS

What each one is

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

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

Vald

Vald is a cloud-native vector search platform running on Kubernetes that uses NGT for efficient nearest-neighbor search. It provides automatic indexing and backups, index replication across distributed agents, and horizontal scaling to handle billions of vectors.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

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 verify ↗

Vald

Pricing not documented yet.

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Upstash✓
Vald–
CLI
Upstash✓
Vald–
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Upstash✓
Vald✓
Self-hosted
Upstash✗
Vald✓

Integrations

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

Upstash

Leader
13 total
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Auth0
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Debezium
  • JDBC
  • FluentBit
  • Drizzle
  • Vercel AI SDK
  • Redis protocol clients
  • Vercel
  • Aiven
Independently observed

Vald

Not documented yet.

Still deciding?

Upstash or Vald: which one depends on you

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Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.