Compare 11 free alternatives to Upstash for Databases. Every one of their free tier limits side by side, with the read and catalogue dates we hold.

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Best Upstash Alternatives with Free Tiers (2026)

11 free alternatives in Databases. Sorted by pricing stability.

Current Upstash Situation

Risk Level: stable
Category: Databases
Pricing Page: upstash.com/pricing

All Free Alternatives (11)

9 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 0 are demoted with the reason named, and 2 are listed last because they are not generally available or are not a free offer. How we rank.

Left out of this list: Neon (shares no subtype with this product), MongoDB Atlas (shares no subtype with this product), CockroachDB (shares no subtype with this product), Turso (shares no subtype with this product), Firebase (shares no subtype with this product), Databricks (Lakeflow Connect) (none of this category's subtypes apply), Convex (shares no subtype with this product), Appwrite Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), Aiven (shares no subtype with this product), Xata (shares no subtype with this product), Cloudflare D1 (shares no subtype with this product), Nhost (shares no subtype with this product), PocketBase (shares no subtype with this product), Nile (shares no subtype with this product), DynamoDB Local (runs only on a developer machine), Prisma Accelerate (extends another product), LanceDB (shares no subtype with this product), Gel (we have not classified this record), CrateDB (shares no subtype with this product), Neo4j AuraDB (shares no subtype with this product), InfluxDB Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), Hasura (extends another product), 8base.com (shares no subtype with this product), codehooks.io (shares no subtype with this product), Couchbase Capella (shares no subtype with this product), filess.io (shares no subtype with this product), restdb.io (shares no subtype with this product), SeaTable (none of this category's subtypes apply), skyvia.com (none of this category's subtypes apply), StackBy (none of this category's subtypes apply), Google Cloud BigQuery (shares no subtype with this product), Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL (shares no subtype with this product), PlanetScale (we have not classified this record). Each is still listed in its category, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.

Cloudflare KV stable
Free
Key-value store at the edge — Free plan includes 100,000 keys read/day, 1,000 keys written/day, 1,000 keys deleted/day, 1,000 list requests/day, and 1 GB stored data. All limits reset daily at 00:00 UTC.
Databases Read 2026-10-25 · confirmed 2026-10-01
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Supabase stable
Free
Postgres development platform: database, Auth, Storage, Realtime and Edge Functions. The Free plan is $0: unlimited API requests, 50,000 monthly active users, a 500 MB database on a shared CPU with 500 MB RAM, 5 GB egress plus 5 GB cached egress, 1 GB file storage, 500,000 Edge Function…
Databases Read and confirmed 2026-11-02
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Chroma stable
Open Source
Open-source AI-native embedding database (Apache 2.0). Chroma Cloud, its hosted service, is winding down: read-only from December 7, 2026, no reads from December 22, 2026.
Databases Read and confirmed 2026-11-07
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Cloudflare Vectorize stable
Free
Vectorize is Cloudflare's vector database for Workers. Workers Free includes 30 million queried vector dimensions per month and 5 million stored vector dimensions (about 6,500 vectors of 768 dimensions, or about 3,250 vectors of 1,536 dimensions).
Databases Read 2026-11-03
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Redis Cloud stable
Free
Managed Redis — 30 MB memory, single database, shared deployment. Best-effort SLA, community support
Databases Read and confirmed 2026-11-09
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Upstash Vector stable
Free
Serverless vector database by Upstash. Free: 200M vectors × dimensions (about 130,000 vectors at the maximum 1,536 dimensions), 100 namespaces, 10K queries and updates a day, 1 GB of data
Databases Read and confirmed 2026-10-28
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Zilliz Cloud stable
Free
Managed Milvus vector database — free tier: 5 GB storage, 2.5M vector compute units/month, up to 5 collections. Milvus open-source also free to self-host with no limits
Databases Read and confirmed 2026-11-07
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SurrealDB Cloud stable
Free
Multi-model cloud database — The 'Start' plan offers 1GB of storage free, forever, and a free compute instance with 0.25 vCPU and 1 GB memory ($0.000/hr). Further instances are available from $0.021/hr.
Databases Read and confirmed 2026-10-28
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Weaviate stable
Open Source
Open-source vector database — self-hosted free. Cloud: permanent free tier with 1 cluster, 100,000 objects, 1 GB memory, 10 GB disk, 1 collection, up to 3 tenants, 2,000 embedding requests/day and 1,000 Query Agent requests/month.
Databases Read and confirmed 2026-10-26
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Turbopuffer
Pay-as-you-go
Serverless vector database. No free tier: every plan has a monthly minimum, $16 on Launch and $256 on Scale, and usage above the minimum is billed.
Databases Read 2026-10-25 · catalogue date 2026-08-19
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not_a_free_offer Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request.
Momento
Retired
Managed Valkey cache, cluster and pub/sub, formerly a serverless cache with a free tier. No free tier.
Databases Read and confirmed 2026-11-08
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offer_retired Momento's offer is recorded as Retired.
Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
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2026-11-14
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alternative-to:Upstash
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9

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best free alternatives to Upstash?
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 11 free alternatives to Upstash, each listed below with its tier, category and the read and catalogue dates we hold. Of those, 9 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 2 are listed last behind a stated gate. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
Is Upstash's free tier still available?
Yes, Upstash currently offers a free tier (Free). No pricing changes have been recorded.
How many free alternatives to Upstash exist?
There are 11 free alternatives to Upstash tracked on AgentDeals across the Databases category.
Has Upstash changed their pricing?
No, Upstash has no recorded pricing changes on AgentDeals. This indicates stable pricing.