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Valkey pricing
Valkey publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the databases tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee; managed cloud billed separately
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Valkey 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valkey | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where Valkey stops being free
Valkey, Free
- Full functionality
- Self-hosted
- No usage limits
No paid tier on record
Valkey lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Valkey 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
- Redis-compatible
- BSD licensed
- Rich data structures
- Replication and persistence
People bring Valkey in for continuing on a permissively licensed in-memory store after the redis licence change, caching and session storage where a foundation-governed project is a procurement requirement, migrating from redis without rewriting application code. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Valkey are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Databases
Too few databases tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valkey (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee; managed cloud billed separately | - | |
| Apache Solr | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Valkey |
| NATS | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Valkey |
| Redpanda | Free | Source-available community edition with paid enterprise and cloud tiers | - | vs Valkey |
| OpenSearch | Free | Open source, no licence fee; managed services billed separately | - | vs Valkey |
| RabbitMQ | Free | Open source, no licence fee; managed services billed separately | - | vs Valkey |
| Meilisearch | Free | Open source, no licence fee; managed cloud billed separately | - | vs Valkey |
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 Valkey badges page.
Before you pay for Valkey
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: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Valkey runs on linux, macos, docker, self-hosted, and is published by Linux Foundation of San Francisco, California, United States. The full record is on the Valkey review, and the rest of the category is under best databases tools.
Valkey pricing questions
- How much does Valkey cost?
- Valkey publishes a single tier, Valkey, at Free.
- Does Valkey have a free plan?
- Yes. The Valkey tier costs nothing and covers full functionality, self-hosted, no usage limits.
- Which databases tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside Valkey have a free tier: Apache Solr, NATS, Redpanda, OpenSearch, RabbitMQ.
- What am I actually paying for with Valkey?
- The record lists 4 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for continuing on a permissively licensed in-memory store after the redis licence change, caching and session storage where a foundation-governed project is a procurement requirement, migrating from redis without rewriting application code.
- Does Valkey charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 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 Valkey 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 Valkey against before paying?
- The closest databases tools in this directory are Apache Solr, NATS, Redpanda, OpenSearch. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Valkey covering price, platforms and features.