Compare 7 free alternatives to Upstash Vector for Databases. Every one of their free tier limits side by side, each with the date we last verified it.

Best Upstash Vector Alternatives with Free Tiers (2026)

7 free alternatives in Databases. Sorted by pricing stability.

Current Upstash Vector Situation

Risk Level: stable
Category: Databases

Recent Pricing Changes (1)

increased discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknown high impact
The free tier now has a maximum vector capacity of 200 Million vectors, up from 10K. Source ↗

All Free Alternatives (7)

6 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 1 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), Cloudflare KV (shares no subtype with this product), Momento (shares no subtype with this product), Nile (shares no subtype with this product), DynamoDB Local (runs only on a developer machine), Redis Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), 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). Each is still listed in its category, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.

Free
Databases Read and confirmed 2026-09-10
Free
Databases Read 2026-09-03 · catalogue date 2026-08-17
Zilliz Cloud stable
Free
Databases Read and confirmed 2026-09-07
Free
Databases Read 2026-09-05 · catalogue date 2026-08-23
Open Source
Databases Read and confirmed 2026-09-10
Chroma stable
Open Source
Databases Read 2026-09-07 · catalogue date 2026-08-24
Pay-as-you-go
Databases Read 2026-09-03 · catalogue date 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
2026-09-17
query_key
alternative-to:Upstash Vector
seed
41126202e83f87ee903cae465a7d070982363a4bbb613679684eb66c296de775
tie_count
6

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best free alternatives to Upstash Vector?
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 7 free alternatives to Upstash Vector, each listed below with its tier, category and the date we last verified it. Of those, 6 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 1 is listed last behind a stated gate. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
Is Upstash Vector's free tier still available?
Yes, Upstash Vector currently offers a free tier (Free). The one change we have recorded names our stored terms as the previous ones.
How many free alternatives to Upstash Vector exist?
There are 7 free alternatives to Upstash Vector tracked on AgentDeals across the Databases category.
Has Upstash Vector changed their pricing?
Upstash Vector has 1 recorded pricing change. The most recent was discovered 2026-09-02: The free tier now has a maximum vector capacity of 200 Million vectors, up from 10K. Source: https://upstash.com/pricing/vector

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