PlanetScale vs Upstash: pricing, quotas & features (2026)
Serverless MySQL (Vitess) and Postgres at scale
vs. Serverless Redis + Kafka + Vector + QStash — per-request pricing
Data sourced from vendor documentation · Last updated June 2026
Summary
PlanetScale and Upstash are both dbaas platforms, addressing the same core use case with different implementation philosophies and trade-offs. Both offer a free tier, making it easy to prototype without a credit card. PlanetScale's paid plans start at $5/month, lower than Upstash's entry point at $10/month. Both have 12 documented features in Staxly's catalog. Budget-sensitive teams will find PlanetScale easier to justify early on. All pricing and quota data below is sourced from PlanetScale and Upstash's official documentation — not generated by AI or estimated.
PlanetScale vs Upstash: Comparativa de precios, cuotas y características (2026)
En esta comparativa analizamos PlanetScale y Upstash lado a lado — incluyendo precios mensuales, límites del tier gratuito, características técnicas, cuotas de uso (almacenamiento, transferencia, usuarios activos mensuales) y los interfaces de desarrollo disponibles. Todos los datos proceden de la documentación oficial de cada proveedor, no de respuestas generadas por IA.
PlanetScale es una plataforma de la categoría dbaas — Serverless MySQL (Vitess) and Postgres at scale. Ofrece 6 tiers de precio: Postgres EBS single-node — PS-5 desde $5/mes, Postgres EBS HA — PS-5 desde $15/mes, Vitess (non-Metal) — PS-10 desde $39/mes, Postgres Metal — M-10 desde $50/mes. Su catálogo en Staxly documenta 12 características y 6 interfazes para desarrolladores.
Upstash pertenece a la categoría dbaas — Serverless Redis + Kafka + Vector + QStash — per-request pricing. Ofrece 5 tiers de precio: Free gratuito, Pay-as-you-go gratuito, Fixed Plans desde $10/mes, Prod Pack desde $200/mes. Su catálogo documenta 12 características y 6 interfazes para desarrolladores.
A continuación encontrarás los tiers de precio completos de ambas plataformas, una matriz de cuotas del tier gratuito (transferencia, almacenamiento, MAU, llamadas a la API y otros límites), el listado completo de características y los interfaces (CLI, SDKs, REST, GraphQL, MCP) disponibles para integrar cada servicio.
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Pricing tiers
PlanetScale
Upstash
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing pg-ebs-nonha-starter on PlanetScale vs free on Upstash.
| Metric | PlanetScale | Upstash |
|---|---|---|
| ha | 0 nodes | — |
| ram mib | 512 MiB | — |
Features
PlanetScale · 12 features
- Backups — Automated daily backups with retention.
- Database Branching — Git-like branches of your DB schema (not data). Create, diff, merge via deploy r…
- Deploy Requests — Schema changes in a feature branch get reviewed + auto-applied to main with zero…
- HIPAA — HIPAA-compliant deployments (Enterprise).
- Metal (NVMe) — Dedicated NVMe local storage. 10x IOPS vs EBS, latency-critical workloads.
- PgBouncer Pooler — Managed PgBouncer for Postgres clusters. Optional dedicated pooler.
- PlanetScale Boost — Query result cache with sub-ms reads.
- Point-in-Time Recovery — Restore cluster to any point within retention window.
- Postgres on PlanetScale — PostgreSQL 15+ with the same branching + deploy-request flow. Launched 2024.
- Query Insights — Per-query performance analytics, slow query tracking, explain plans.
- Read-only Regions — Route reads to the nearest region for lower latency.
- Vitess (MySQL at scale) — Horizontally-sharded MySQL (YouTube-scale) — original PlanetScale offering.
Upstash · 12 features
- @upstash/ratelimit — Redis-backed rate limiter lib.
- Cron (via QStash) — Scheduled HTTP callbacks on any interval.
- Edge-Ready — Native for CF Workers, Vercel Edge, Deno, Bun.
- Global Database — Multi-region Redis reads.
- HTTP REST APIs — Every product has REST — works from edge runtimes.
- QStash — HTTP-based message queue + cron scheduler for webhooks.
- QStash Webhooks — Outgoing webhook delivery with retries + DLQ.
- Read Regions — Add read replicas in any region ($5/mo each).
- Upstash Redis — Serverless Redis with HTTP REST + RESP TCP.
- Upstash Search — Full-text + semantic search engine.
- Upstash Vector — Serverless vector DB with REST API. HNSW indexing.
- Upstash Workflow — Durable workflow runtime built on QStash.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | PlanetScale | Upstash |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | PlanetScale CLI (pscale) | — |
| SDK | @planetscale/database | @upstash/redis / vector / qstash, upstash-redis / vector (Python) |
| REST | Management API | QStash REST API, Upstash Redis REST API, Upstash Vector REST |
| MCP | PlanetScale MCP | — |
| OTHER | MySQL Wire Protocol, Postgres Wire Protocol | RESP (TCP) |
Key takeaways
- Both PlanetScale and Upstash offer a free tier — PlanetScale ("Enterprise") and Upstash ("Free") — with no credit card required to start.
- The entry-level paid plan is $5/month for PlanetScale (Postgres EBS single-node — PS-5) vs. $10/month for Upstash (Fixed Plans).
- Both platforms have 12 documented features in Staxly's catalog.
- Developer integrations differ: only PlanetScale offers CLI/MCP.
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