Upstash free tier includes Serverless Redis — 500K commands/month (250MB data)… Verified October 2026. Compare with 11 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 11 alternatives. Verified October 2026. Last updated 2026-10-28.

Upstash's free tier offers Serverless Redis — 500K commands/month (250MB data). Vector: 200M vectors × dimensions and 10K queries a day free… It's stable — the change we last considered recording was refused on 2026-09-05, and we read the page again on 2026-10-04 and confirmed the terms above. Best for databases workloads — 11 alternatives available.

One of 45 Databases services we track. See our full Databases Free Tier Comparison →

Tier

Free

Free Tier Details

Serverless Redis — 500K commands/month (250MB data). Vector: 200M vectors × dimensions and 10K queries a day free. QStash: 1,000 messages/day free

We read that on 2026-10-28 from https://upstash.com/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names Upstash as "upstash" and states "500K commands per month".

From upstash.com/pricing, read 2026-10-28:

Free $0 - Perfect for prototypes and hobby projects. Data Size 250 MB Monthly Bandwidth 10 GB Monthly Commands 500K

Free Redis databases unused for at least 30 days are archived after warning emails. Their data is backed up and can be restored into a new database from the console. (From upstash.com/docs/redis/help/faq, read 2026-10-06.)
Adding the first payment method moves every free resource on the account to its paid plan: all Redis databases, plus QStash, Vector, Search and Blob. An account with a payment method cannot have free databases. (From upstash.com/docs/redis/overall/billing, read 2026-10-29.)
Paid databases do not get the Free plan's data and command allowance. (From upstash.com/pricing/redis, read 2026-10-29.)
Pay as You Go costs $0.20 per 100K commands. Storage past each database's first 1 GB is $0.25 per GB. Bandwidth past 200 GB a month is $0.03 per GB. (From upstash.com/pricing/redis, read 2026-10-29.)
A Pay as You Go database can have a monthly budget. When the budget is reached the database is rate-limited rather than continuing to bill. Budgets are set per database; there is no account-wide budget. (From upstash.com/docs/redis/overall/billing, read 2026-10-29.)
A free Upstash Redis database returns "ReplyError: ERR max requests limit exceeded" once it passes the monthly command limit. (From upstash.com/docs/redis/troubleshooting/max_requests_limit, read 2026-10-29.)
An agent can create an Upstash Redis database with no signup, card or API key by a POST request to upstash.com/start-redis. It is deleted after 3 days unless a person claims it from the console link in the response. (From upstash.com/pricing, read 2026-10-22.)

When You'll Outgrow Upstash's Free Tier

At 1,000 messages/day, you'll need to upgrade.
At that point, the 11 alternatives in Databases are each listed with the free tier they offer, so you can compare what they give you against what you have outgrown.

Pricing Change History (0 recorded)

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

View all 513 pricing changes across all vendors →

Alternatives in Databases

How Upstash compares against every one of the 11 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
Chroma	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.	stable
Redis Cloud	Free Managed Redis — 30 MB memory, single database, shared deployment. Best-effort SLA, community support	stable
SurrealDB Cloud	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.	stable
Cloudflare Vectorize	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).	stable
Supabase	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…	stable
Zilliz Cloud	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	stable
Cloudflare KV	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.	stable
Upstash Vector	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	stable
Weaviate	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.	stable
Momento	Retired Managed Valkey cache, cluster and pub/sub, formerly a serverless cache with a free tier. No free tier.	unrated
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.	unrated

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

See full comparison →

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 11 entries in that order, not a prefix of it. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.

date: 2026-11-14
query_key: alternatives:Databases:Upstash
seed: 7311636351baf56ff3d2d41e88ac3bedb7e2fd0772fd018599cf1e661f1adad9
tie_count: 9

Alternatives Guides Featuring Upstash

Redis Alternatives

Watch Upstash for Pricing Changes

We do not push notifications. Every change we record is readable the moment it lands, and the JSON answer carries an ETag — send it back as If-None-Match and an unchanged answer costs one 304.

curl https://agentdeals.dev/api/changes?vendor=Upstash
curl https://agentdeals.dev/pricing-changes/feed.xml?vendor=Upstash

API docs →

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Upstash free?

Yes, Upstash offers a free tier: Free. Serverless Redis — 500K commands/month (250MB data). Vector: 200M vectors × dimensions and 10K queries a day 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 (250MB data). Vector: 200M vectors × dimensions and 10K queries a day free. QStash: 1,000 messages/day free. Free Redis databases unused for at least 30 days are archived after warning emails. Their data is backed up and can be restored into a new database from the console. (From https://upstash.com/docs/redis/help/faq, read 2026-10-06.) Adding the first payment method moves every free resource on the account to its paid plan: all Redis databases, plus QStash, Vector, Search and Blob. An account with a payment method cannot have free databases. (From https://upstash.com/docs/redis/overall/billing, read 2026-10-29.) Paid databases do not get the Free plan's data and command allowance. (From https://upstash.com/pricing/redis, read 2026-10-29.) Pay as You Go costs $0.20 per 100K commands. Storage past each database's first 1 GB is $0.25 per GB. Bandwidth past 200 GB a month is $0.03 per GB. (From https://upstash.com/pricing/redis, read 2026-10-29.) A Pay as You Go database can have a monthly budget. When the budget is reached the database is rate-limited rather than continuing to bill. Budgets are set per database; there is no account-wide budget. (From https://upstash.com/docs/redis/overall/billing, read 2026-10-29.) A free Upstash Redis database returns "ReplyError: ERR max requests limit exceeded" once it passes the monthly command limit. (From https://upstash.com/docs/redis/troubleshooting/max_requests_limit, read 2026-10-29.) An agent can create an Upstash Redis database with no signup, card or API key by a POST request to upstash.com/start-redis. It is deleted after 3 days unless a person claims it from the console link in the response. (From https://upstash.com/pricing, read 2026-10-22.)

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 (250MB data). Vector: 200M vectors × dimensions and 10K queries a 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 2026-10-04 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 11 free alternatives to Upstash in Databases, each listed above with its tier. 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.

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 11 other Databases services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.