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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.
- 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.
| 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
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 256 mb data, 500k commands per month, 10 gb bandwidth, single region.
Pay-as-you-go
$0.2/per 100K commandsOver Free, this tier adds:
- Per-request billing
- Storage at $0.25/GB
- Unlimited commands
- Global replication
Fixed Plan
$10/monthOver 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.
Core
- 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.
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.
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.
- What am I actually paying for with Upstash?
- The record lists 21 features across 5 areas: core, 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?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Upstash to make a useful price comparison.
