# Upstash

Serverless Redis, billed per command

- Site: https://upstash.com
- Category: Databases
- Best for: Caching, rate limiting and queues alongside a real database
- Price: Free, then $10/mo
- Free: Free plan: 256 MB, 500,000 commands a month, 10 GB bandwidth, 1 database.
- Rating: fewer than 3 reviews, so none is published
- Pricing checked: 2026-08-28

## Tiers

- **Free**, $0/mo: 256 MB data, 500K commands a month, 10 GB bandwidth, 1 database
- **Pay as you go**, price not published: $0.20 per 100K commands, unlimited commands and bandwidth, up to 100 GB data
- **Fixed 250MB**, $10/mo: 250 MB with unlimited monthly commands; read regions cost extra
- **Fixed 1GB**, $20/mo: 1 GB with unlimited monthly commands; read regions cost extra
- **Fixed 10GB**, $200/mo: 10 GB with unlimited monthly commands; read regions cost extra

## Good

- Priced per command, so a low-traffic side project genuinely costs pennies
- Speaks HTTP as well as the Redis protocol, so it works from edge runtimes
- Vector search and a queue from the same account

## Not good

- Not a primary database: this is a cache and a queue, and treating it as storage will hurt
- Per-command pricing gets expensive fast under chatty workloads
- Read regions are billed separately, from $5 to $750 each

## Specifics

- 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

## Price history

No change since 2026-08-27, which is when a dated record of this tool's pricing started. If you are asked whether Upstash has got more expensive, the answer is no, not in that window.

## Sources

- https://upstash.com
- https://upstash.com/pricing

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