Best Upstash Alternatives with Free Tiers (2026)

10 free alternatives in Databases. Sorted by pricing stability.

Current Upstash Situation

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

All Free Alternatives (10)

8 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: Koyeb (shares no subtype with this product), 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), Hasura Cloud (extends another 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), 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), ScaleGrid Startup Program (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). Each is still listed in its category, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.

Supabase caution discovered 2026-09-03 restructured
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-17
Cloudflare KV caution discovered 2026-09-02 reduced
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-13
SurrealDB Cloud caution 2026-04-12 reduced
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-27
Chroma stable
Open Source
Databases Verified 2026-08-24
Weaviate caution discovered 2026-08-28 restructured
Open Source
Databases Verified 2026-08-28
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-13
Redis Cloud stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-27
Zilliz Cloud stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-25
Momento risky discovered 2026-09-05 removed
Retired
Databases Verified 2026-09-05
offer_retired Momento's offer is recorded as Retired.
Turbopuffer caution discovered 2026-09-03 restructured
Pay-as-you-go
Databases Verified 2026-08-19
not_a_free_offer Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request.
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.
date
2026-09-06
query_key
alternative-to:Upstash
seed
0fab6d4a51728e6d3aa27e0b03026173d03b074815da43c42a575ebf26840303
tie_count
8

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best free alternatives to Upstash?
The best free alternatives to Upstash include Chroma (Open Source), Upstash Vector (Free), Redis Cloud (Free), Zilliz Cloud (Free).
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 10 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.

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