Comparison

Upstash vs Valkey

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

Valkey49

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	UpstashLeader	Valkey
vioscaleAI score	73 / 100medium · 72%	49 / 100low · 44%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	freemium	open_source
Price levelpricing.price_level	low	free
Starting pricepricing.starting_price	$5	-
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	✓
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	6	2
Security
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	✓	-
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	✓	-
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	✓	-
Scorecardsecurity.scorecard	-	6.1
Soc2security.soc2	✓	-
Vulnerabilitiessecurity.vulnerabilities	-	Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=helm&package_name=kubeblocks%2Fvalkey-cluster&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	-	27,437
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	-	73
Release
Historyrelease.history	-	20 items
License
Spdxlicense.spdx	-	BSD-3-Clause
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	-	C
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide · Popular in US	Available worldwide
Content
Faqcontent.faq	7 items	5 items

Score

vioscaleAI score

Upstash73 / 100medium · 72%

Valkey49 / 100low · 44%

Pricing

Free tier

Upstash✓

Valkey✓

Model

Upstashfreemium

Valkeyopen_source

Price level

Upstashlow

Valkeyfree

Starting price

Upstash$5

Valkey–

Transparent

Upstash✓

Valkey✓

Integrations

Count

Upstash6

Valkey2

Security

Disclosure policy

Upstash✓

Valkey–

Gdpr

Upstash✓

Valkey–

Hipaa

Upstash✓

Valkey–

Scorecard

Upstash–

Valkey6.1

Soc2

Upstash✓

Valkey–

Vulnerabilities

Upstash–

ValkeyCount: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=helm&package_name=kubeblocks%2Fvalkey-cluster&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0

Reliability

Sla pct

Upstash99.99

Valkey–

Status page

Upstash✓

Valkey–

Adoption

Dependent repos

Upstash–

Valkey0

Github stars

Upstash–

Valkey27,437

Activity

Commits last 30d

Upstash–

Valkey73

Release

History

Upstash–

Valkey20 items

License

Spdx

Upstash–

ValkeyBSD-3-Clause

Language

Primary

Upstash–

ValkeyC

Market

Availability

UpstashAvailable worldwide · Popular in US

ValkeyAvailable worldwide

Content

Faq

Upstash7 items

Valkey5 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for key-value stores. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capability comparison for Key-Value Stores
Capability	Upstash	Valkey
Storage
Storage tier	Persistent	Persistent
Persistence	Fully durable	Snapshot (RDB)
Data structures	Rich types	Rich types
Protocol
Wire protocol	RESP (Redis)	RESP (Redis)
Distribution
Clustering	Replicated	Sharded
Consistency	Strong	-
Ops
Eviction / TTL policies	✓	✓
Multi-threaded	✗	✓
Pub/Sub / streams	✓	✓
Transactions / atomic ops	MULTI-EXEC	-
Deployment
Deployment	Managed	Self-hosted
Licensing
Licence class	Proprietary	Permissive OSS
Compatibility
Redis API compatibility	Full	Full

Storage

Storage tier

UpstashPersistent

ValkeyPersistent

Persistence

UpstashFully durable

ValkeySnapshot (RDB)

Data structures

UpstashRich types

ValkeyRich types

Protocol

Wire protocol

UpstashRESP (Redis)

ValkeyRESP (Redis)

Distribution

Clustering

UpstashReplicated

ValkeySharded

Consistency

UpstashStrong

Valkey-

Ops

Eviction / TTL policies

Upstash✓

Valkey✓

Multi-threaded

Upstash✗

Valkey✓

Pub/Sub / streams

Upstash✓

Valkey✓

Transactions / atomic ops

UpstashMULTI-EXEC

Valkey-

Deployment

UpstashManaged

ValkeySelf-hosted

Licensing

Licence class

UpstashProprietary

ValkeyPermissive OSS

Compatibility

Redis API compatibility

UpstashFull

ValkeyFull

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

Valkey

A data store designed for fast access to cached and real-time data, supporting message queues and other workloads. Available both as an open-source project backed by the Linux Foundation and through managed cloud services from multiple providers.

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 2026-10-06verify ↗

Valkey

Open source

as of 2026-10-15verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	Upstash	Valkey
WebPlatforms	✓	✗
macOSPlatforms	✗	✓
LinuxPlatforms	✗	✓
CLIPlatforms	✓	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✗	✓

Platforms

Web

Upstash✓

Valkey✗

macOS

Upstash✗

Valkey✓

Linux

Upstash✗

Valkey✓

CLI

Upstash✓

Valkey✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Upstash✓

Valkey✓

Self-hosted

Upstash✗

Valkey✓

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

Valkey

3 total

Harbor
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus

Independently observed

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