Comparison

Upstash vs Weaviate

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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Upstash74
Weaviate63
Score
vioscaleAI score
Upstash74 / 100medium · 73%
Weaviate63 / 100high · 75%
Pricing
Free tier
Upstash
Weaviate
Model
Upstashfreemium
Weaviatefreemium
Price level
Upstashlow
Weaviatelow
Starting price
Upstash$10
Weaviate
Transparent
Upstash
Weaviate
Integrations
Count
Upstash7
Weaviate25
Security
Disclosure policy
Upstash
Weaviate
Gdpr
Upstash
Weaviate
Hipaa
Upstash
Weaviate
Scorecard
Upstash
Weaviate6.7
Soc2
Upstash
Weaviate
Trust center
Reliability
Sla pct
Upstash99.99
Weaviate99.95
Status page
Upstash
Weaviate
Adoption
Dependent repos
Upstash
Weaviate15
Github stars
Upstash
Weaviate16,788
Activity
Commits last 30d
Upstash
Weaviate100
Release
Cadence days
Upstash
Weaviate1
History
Upstash
Weaviate20 items
License
Spdx
Upstash
WeaviateBSD-3-Clause
Language
Primary
Upstash
WeaviateGo
Content
Faq
Upstash7 items
Weaviate7 items

Capabilities

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

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

Weaviate

Weaviate is an open-source vector database that supports hybrid search, metadata filtering, and scalable deployments. It enables developers to build AI applications with semantic search capabilities.

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 $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 verify ↗

Weaviate

HybridFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Upstash
Weaviate
CLI
Upstash
Weaviate
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Upstash
Weaviate
Self-hosted
Upstash
Weaviate

Integrations

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

Upstash

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

Weaviate

Not documented yet.

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