Comparison

Upstash vs Weaviate

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
Weaviate63
Score
vioscaleAI score
Upstash73 / 100medium · 72%
Weaviate63 / 100medium · 73%
Pricing
Free tier
Upstash✓
Weaviate✓
Model
Upstashfreemium
Weaviatefreemium
Price level
Upstashlow
Weaviatelow
Starting price
Upstash$5
Weaviate–
Transparent
Upstash✓
Weaviate✗
Integrations
Count
Upstash6
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–
Weaviate16,862
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
WeaviateTunable
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

A vector database that enables semantic search by storing both objects and vectors, with built-in support for combining vector similarity search with traditional keyword search, retrieval-augmented generation, and reranking 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 $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 ↗

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

Weaviate

Not documented yet.

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