What is Valkey?
Open source (BSD) high-performance key/value datastore supporting caching, message queues, and primary database workloads, backed by the Linux Foundation.
Valkey pricing
We don't have Valkey's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What Valkey 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
- Fully durable
- Data structures
- KV-only
- Wire protocol
- -
- Clustering
- Replicated
- Consistency
- -
- Eviction / TTL policies
- -
- Multi-threaded
- -
- Pub/Sub / streams
- -
- Transactions / atomic ops
- -
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Licence class
- Permissive OSS
- Redis API compatibility
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Linux
- Self-hosted
Integrations (1)
Independently observed- Harbor
Valkey 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%
- DragonflyDBAn In-Memory Data Store without Limitslow · 36%
- UpstashServerless Data Platform for Redis, Vector, QStash, Workflow, Boxmedium · 63%
- RedisServe your agents fresh data at Redis speedmedium · 55%
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 Valkey, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Github Activity | 54 | 20.00 | 1085.7 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 100 | 6.00 | 600.0 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 84 | 7.00 | 584.5 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 25 | 8.00 | 200.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 9 | 8.00 | 69.3 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 10.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Capabilities | 0 | 17.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Release Cadence | 0 | 12.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 18.00 | 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 | 52 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65% |
Adoption
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 26,706 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"clustering":"replicated","deployment":"self_hosted","persistence":"durable","storage_tier":"in_memory","licence_class":"permissive","data_structures":"kv_only"} | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 1 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | C | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | BSD-3-Clause | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 95% |