Upstash free tier includes Serverless Redis — 500K commands/month (256MB data). Vector: 10K vectors free… Verified September 2026. Compare with 10 alternatives in Databases.

Upstash Free Tier 2026 stable

Subtypes in Databases: kv_cache — key to value, no query language over the value; vector — stores embeddings and answers similarity queries as its primary access path. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://upstash.com/, where it says: “Serverless Redis, Vector and Search databases with low latency and pay-as-you-go pricing.” How we use this.

Limits, pricing history, and 10 alternatives. Verified September 2026. Last updated 2026-09-21.

Upstash's free tier offers Serverless Redis — 500K commands/month (256MB data). Vector: 10K vectors free. QStash: 1,000 messages/day free. It's stable — the change we last considered recording was refused on 2026-09-05, and we read the page again on 2026-09-21 and confirmed the terms above. Best for databases workloads — 10 alternatives available.

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Verified
2026-09-21
Last read
2026-09-21
The day we last read the vendor's page, and the day we last confirmed the terms we publish.

Free Tier Details

Serverless Redis — 500K commands/month (256MB data). Vector: 10K vectors free. QStash: 1,000 messages/day free

We read that on 2026-09-21 from https://upstash.com/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names Upstash as "upstash" and states "500K commands per month".

When You'll Outgrow Upstash's Free Tier

Pricing Change History (0 recorded)

No recorded pricing changes for Upstash. This is a good sign — stable pricing.

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Alternatives in Databases

How Upstash compares against every one of the 10 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.

Service Free Tier Stability
Upstash Free stable
Weaviate Open Source stable
Supabase Free stable
Zilliz Cloud Free unrated
SurrealDB Cloud Free caution
Redis Cloud Free stable
Upstash Vector Free stable
Chroma Open Source stable
Cloudflare KV Free stable
Momento Retired unrated
Turbopuffer Pay-as-you-go unrated

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), 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 Databases, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.

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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 list above is every one of the 10 entries in that order, not a prefix of it. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Upstash free?
Yes, Upstash offers a free tier: Free. Serverless Redis — 500K commands/month (256MB data). Vector: 10K vectors free. QStash: 1,000 messages/day free
What is Upstash's free tier?
Upstash's free tier is called "Free". Serverless Redis — 500K commands/month (256MB data). Vector: 10K vectors free. QStash: 1,000 messages/day free
Is Upstash's free tier reliable?
Upstash's free tier is considered stable.
Is Upstash's free tier good for production?
Upstash's free tier can be suitable for small production workloads and side projects. We rate it stable and it offers Serverless Redis — 500K commands/month (256MB data). Vector: 10K vectors free. QStash: 1,000 messages/day free, so it's a reasonable starting point. Monitor your usage against the limits and have an upgrade plan ready.
What changed in Upstash's pricing?
We refused the change we last considered recording for Upstash on 2026-09-05, then read the page again on 2026-09-21 and confirmed the terms we publish for it.
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 10 free alternatives to Upstash in Databases, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 8 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.
When will I outgrow Upstash's free tier?
At 1,000 messages/day, you'll need to upgrade. When you outgrow the free tier, evaluate paid plans against alternatives — sometimes a competitor's free tier covers what you need.
What category is Upstash in?
Upstash is categorized under Databases on AgentDeals. We list 10 other Databases services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.

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