Upstash review
Free tierServerless Redis, billed per command
Redis, vector search and a message queue over HTTP, priced per request rather than per hour. It sits next to your primary database rather than replacing it.
Entry price
Free, then $10/mo
Free: Free plan: 256 MB, 500,000 commands a month, 10 GB bandwidth, 1 database.
Our Upstash verdict
Upstash costs free, then $10/mo. Nobody has reviewed it here yet, so this page is about what it costs and what it does, not how well it does it.
Caching, rate limiting and queues alongside a real database. There is a free tier: Free plan: 256 MB, 500,000 commands a month, 10 GB bandwidth, 1 database..
- Who it is not for
- Not a primary database: this is a cache and a queue, and treating it as storage will hurt
- What this is based on
- Based on pricing read from Upstash's own page on 2026-08-28, and what the product says it does. No reviews yet, so no score.
Pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Annual /mo | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Same as monthly | 256 MB data, 500K commands a month, 10 GB bandwidth, 1 database |
| Pay as you go | Not published | Same as monthly | $0.20 per 100K commands, unlimited commands and bandwidth, up to 100 GB data |
| Fixed 250MB | $10 | Same as monthly | 250 MB with unlimited monthly commands; read regions cost extra |
| Fixed 1GB | $20 | Same as monthly | 1 GB with unlimited monthly commands; read regions cost extra |
| Fixed 10GB | $200 | Same as monthly | 10 GB with unlimited monthly commands; read regions cost extra |
Upstash price history
Every price changeUpstash's pricing has not moved since we started tracking it on 2026-08-27. We read it off Upstash's own pricing page on every update, and this section fills in when something changes.
Read from Upstash's own pricing page, dated on the day we read it. We only claim a change happened between two dates we actually looked, never on a date we did not.
Engine
Redis, plus vector and queue
Free tier
256 MB, 500K commands
Self-host
No, though Redis itself is everywhere
Auth and storage built in
No
Scales to zero
Yes
Portability
Redis protocol, portable to any Redis
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