Upstash
Serverless data platform for Redis, vector search, messaging, and workflows
- Also known as
- upstash
Available worldwide · Popular in: US
What is Upstash?
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.
Upstash 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.
Free tier (30 MB), Essentials from $5/month, Pro from $200/month
Free
Free30 MB database with no credit card required
- storage
- 30 MB
- throughput
- 100 ops/sec
- connections
- 30
- No replication
- Single database
- Limited throughput
Essentials
Shared, fixed-price tier with predefined database sizes
- Predefined database sizes (250 MB to 12 GB)
- Bandwidth and throughput limits per tier
- Optional high availability
- Flex tier with reduced throughput
Pro
Dedicated infrastructure with unlimited memory and pay-as-you-go billing
- Unlimited memory
- Dedicated VPC infrastructure
- Multiple databases per subscription
- Active-Active multi-region writes
- Auto-tiering
- Private connectivity
What Upstash 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
- Persistent
- Persistence
- Fully durable
- Data structures
- Rich types
- Wire protocol
- RESP (Redis)
- Clustering
- Replicated
- Consistency
- Strong
- Eviction / TTL policies
- ✓
- Multi-threaded
- ✗
- Pub/Sub / streams
- ✓
- Transactions / atomic ops
- MULTI-EXEC
- Deployment
- Managed
- Licence class
- Proprietary
- Redis API compatibility
- Full
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (13)
Independently observed- Drizzle⇄•
- Vercel AI SDK⇄
- Cloudflare Workers
- Auth0
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Debezium
- JDBC
- FluentBit
- Redis protocol clients⇄•
- Vercel
- Aiven•
Upstash FAQ
Common questions about Upstash, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Upstash?
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. It is indexed under Key-Value Stores.
Source: https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown
Is Upstash free?
Upstash offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $10 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown
What platforms does Upstash support?
Upstash supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Source: https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown
Can Upstash be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Upstash, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
Source: https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown
What does Upstash integrate with?
We have confirmed 11 integrations for Upstash, including Cloudflare Workers, Auth0, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Debezium, JDBC and FluentBit, plus 3 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown
What security certifications does Upstash have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for Upstash. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Upstash not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Where is Upstash available?
Upstash is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.
Source: https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown
Upstash alternatives
Other key-value stores we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- RedisHigh-performance, in-memory data engine for real-time applications and AI agentshigh · 75%
- Amazon ElastiCacheA fully managed in-memory caching service with microsecond latency and automatic scalingmedium · 61%
- HazelcastA platform for processing and acting on live data streams with real-time SQL and caching capabilitiesmedium · 57%
- etcdA reliable distributed database for managing critical configuration and state across clustered systemslow · 44%
- RocksDBAn embeddable database library for high-performance key-value storage on flash and RAMlow · 49%
- DragonflyDBA high-performance Redis-compatible in-memory database built for modern multi-threaded hardware and cloud scalemedium · 62%
Compare Upstash
Side by side against other key-value stores, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI 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 Upstash, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security posture | 60 | 0.12 | 7.3 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 100 | 0.07 | 6.8 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.05 | 5.4 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.04 | 3.3 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 81 | 0.04 | 3.1 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 24 | 0.04 | 1.1 | ✓ |
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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.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 7 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 59% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Ann index: HNSW · Clustering: replicated · Deployment: managed · Serverless: Yes · Consistency: strong · Persistence: durable | mediumsource · 2026-10-06 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 6 | mediumsource · 2026-10-06 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | mediumsource · 2026-10-06 · 50% |
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