What is DragonflyDB?
Redis-compatible in-memory data store using thread-per-core architecture for higher throughput and better memory efficiency, delivering up to 25x more QPS and 30% better memory utilization than competing solutions.
DragonflyDB pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $8/GB/month (Flex), $2,000+/month (Business). Free trial with $100 credits.
Flex
Fully-managed Dragonfly service for teams that prefer a simple, self-serve solution
- Fully-managed on AWS, GCP, or Azure
- One-click provisioning
- Horizontal + vertical scaling
- Monitoring dashboard
- Dragonfly team support
Business
Fully-managed Dragonfly service for teams that require advanced security, compliance, and support
- Bring your own cloud
- Auto-scaling
- SSO & MFA
- Custom SLA
- Dedicated support
Enterprise
Contact salesFully-managed Dragonfly service for large organizations that require air-gapped infrastructure and white-glove support
- Run anywhere
- Custom instance types
- White-glove migrations and tuning
- Advanced security & compliance
- Enterprise SLA & premium support
What DragonflyDB does
The capabilities that matter for key-value stores, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Storage tier
- In-memory
- Persistence
- Snapshot (RDB)
- Data structures
- Rich types
- Wire protocol
- RESP (Redis)
- Clustering
- Sharded
- Consistency
- Strong
- Eviction / TTL policies
- -
- Multi-threaded
- ✓
- Pub/Sub / streams
- ✓
- Transactions / atomic ops
- -
- Deployment
- Managed
- Licence class
- -
- Redis API compatibility
- Full
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- Self-hosted
DragonflyDB alternatives
Other key-value stores we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- MemcachedFree & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching systemlow · 11%
- RedisServe your agents fresh data at Redis speedlow · 39%
- RocksDBA persistent key-value store for fast storage environmentslow · 17%
- UpstashServerless Data Platform for Redis, Vector, QStash, Workflow, Boxmedium · 63%
- RedisServe your agents fresh data at Redis speedmedium · 55%
- Amazon ElastiCacheValkey-, Memcached-, and Redis OSS-Compatible Cachelow · 8%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for DragonflyDB, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Github Activity | 63 | 20.00 | 1262.0 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 60 | 18.00 | 1080.0 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 77 | 12.00 | 920.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 8.00 | 800.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 46 | 17.00 | 778.9 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 85 | 7.00 | 593.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 6.00 | 480.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 10.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Integrations | 0 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Package Downloads | 0 | 6.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 20.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 100 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65% |
Adoption
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 30,943 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"clustering":"sharded","deployment":"managed","consistency":"strong","persistence":"snapshot","storage_tier":"in_memory","wire_protocol":"resp","multi_threaded":true,"pubsub_streams":true,"data_structures":"rich_types","redis_api_compat":"full"} | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | C++ | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence days | 42 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 70% |