How much does Upstash cost?

Upstash publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to $10/month for Fixed Plan. The entry tier costs nothing.

Does Upstash have a free plan?

Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers 256 mb data, 500k commands per month, 10 gb bandwidth. Paying starts at $0.2/per 100K commands for Pay-as-you-go.

What is the difference between Free and Pay-as-you-go on Upstash?

Pay-as-you-go costs $0.2/per 100K commands against Free, and adds per-request billing, storage at $0.25/gb, unlimited commands, global replication.

Is the Fixed Plan plan on Upstash worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is 250 mb redis, predictable pricing, global replication available at higher tiers. It costs $10/month against $0.2/per 100K commands for Pay-as-you-go. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which cloud tools can I use without paying?

6 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside Upstash have a free tier: Rook, OpenEBS, Longhorn, Dokku, Coolify.

What am I actually paying for with Upstash?

The record lists 21 features across 5 areas: other, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for caching, session storage, real-time messaging.

Does Upstash charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Upstash prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Upstash against before paying?

The closest cloud tools in this directory are Rook, OpenEBS, Portworx, Longhorn. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Upstash covering price, platforms and features.

Cloud · pricing

Upstash pricing

Upstash publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

As of 30 August 2026, Upstash pricing is free, then $10/month across 3 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.

Entry price: Free, then $10/month
Model: Not recorded
Tiers: 3
Free tier: Yes

Upstash plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Upstash pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Free	Free	4	Entry tier
Pay-as-you-go	$0.2/per 100K commands	4	+$0.2/per 100K commands, 4 more features
Fixed Plan	$10/month	3	+$9.8/month, 3 more features

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Free

The entry tier. It covers 256 mb data, 500k commands per month, 10 gb bandwidth, single region.

Pay-as-you-go

$0.2/per 100K commands

Over Free, this tier adds:

Per-request billing
Storage at $0.25/GB
Unlimited commands
Global replication

Fixed Plan

$10/month

Over Pay-as-you-go, this tier adds:

250 MB Redis
Predictable pricing
Global replication available at higher tiers

Where Upstash stops being free

Free, Free

256 MB data
500K commands per month
10 GB bandwidth
Single region

Pay-as-you-go, $0.2/per 100K commands

The first thing you pay for:

Per-request billing
Storage at $0.25/GB
Unlimited commands
Global replication

What the product covers

The full Upstash feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Other

Serverless Redis
Serverless Kafka
QStash
Global Replication
REST API
Edge Functions Support
Rate Limiting
Caching

Integrations

Vercel
Netlify
Cloudflare Workers
AWS Lambda
Next.js

Security

TLS
Token Authentication
IP Whitelisting

Deployment

Cloud deployment
Edge deployment

Platform

Web support
Api support
Sdk support

People bring Upstash in for caching, session storage, real-time messaging, rate limiting, serverless backends. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Upstash are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Cloud

Across the 3 cloud tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $5/month. Upstash starts at $10/month, which puts it above the middle of its category.

Upstash entry price against other Cloud tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Upstash (this page)	Free, then $10/month	-	-
Rook	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Upstash
OpenEBS	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Upstash
Portworx	$0.33/node hour	Per node hour	-	vs Upstash
Longhorn	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Upstash
Qovery	On request	quote	-	vs Upstash
Dokku	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Upstash

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Upstash badges page.

Before you pay for Upstash

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and $10/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Upstash runs on rest api, node.js, python, go, rust, vercel edge, cloudflare workers, aws lambda, and is published by Upstash Inc of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the Upstash review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud tools.

Upstash pricing on the vendor's own site

Upstash pricing questions

How much does Upstash cost?: Upstash publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to $10/month for Fixed Plan. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Upstash have a free plan?: Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers 256 mb data, 500k commands per month, 10 gb bandwidth. Paying starts at $0.2/per 100K commands for Pay-as-you-go.
What is the difference between Free and Pay-as-you-go on Upstash?: Pay-as-you-go costs $0.2/per 100K commands against Free, and adds per-request billing, storage at $0.25/gb, unlimited commands, global replication.
Is the Fixed Plan plan on Upstash worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is 250 mb redis, predictable pricing, global replication available at higher tiers. It costs $10/month against $0.2/per 100K commands for Pay-as-you-go. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Is Upstash expensive for a cloud tool?: It starts above the middle of its category. Across the 3 cloud tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $5/month; Upstash starts at $10/month.
Which cloud tools can I use without paying?: 6 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside Upstash have a free tier: Rook, OpenEBS, Longhorn, Dokku, Coolify.
What am I actually paying for with Upstash?: The record lists 21 features across 5 areas: other, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for caching, session storage, real-time messaging.
Does Upstash charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these Upstash prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare Upstash against before paying?: The closest cloud tools in this directory are Rook, OpenEBS, Portworx, Longhorn. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Upstash covering price, platforms and features.