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Redis vs Grafana Cloud

The real-time data platform — in-memory DB + cache + vector + search
vs. Fully-managed observability — Prometheus + Loki + Tempo + Grafana

Redis Cloud ↗Grafana Cloud website ↗

Pricing tiers

Redis

Free
30 MB. Single DB. Community support. AWS + GCP only.
Free
Redis OSS
BSD-licensed Redis (or source-available RSALv2 for newer). Self-host free.
$0 base (usage-based)
Essentials
From $5/mo. 250 MB to 100 GB. SAML SSO, RBAC, 99.99% uptime.
$5/mo
Pro
From $200/mo. Dedicated. Active-Active multi-region. Auto-tiering. 99.999% uptime.
$200/mo
Enterprise
Custom annual. SOC2, HIPAA, private deployment.
Custom
Redis Cloud ↗

Grafana Cloud

Free
Always free. 10k metrics series + 50 GB logs/traces/profiles + 3 users + 14-day retention.
Free
Self-Hosted (OSS)
Apache 2.0 / AGPL. Run Grafana + Mimir + Loki + Tempo yourself.
$0 base (usage-based)
Pro
$19/mo platform fee + usage-based overages. 10k metrics series + 50 GB included. 13-month metrics retention.
$19/mo
Enterprise
$25,000/year minimum. Custom retention, premium support, BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) option.
$25000/mo
Grafana Cloud website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing free on Redis vs free on Grafana Cloud.

MetricRedisGrafana Cloud
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Redis · 21 features

  • Active-Active (CRDT) — Multi-region live-write replication.
  • Auto-Tiering (Flex) — RAM + SSD tiered storage.
  • Bitmaps + Bitfields — Compact boolean storage.
  • Geo — Geospatial queries on lat/lon.
  • Hashes — Field-value maps per key.
  • HyperLogLog — Probabilistic cardinality.
  • Lists — Linked list — push/pop/range.
  • Lua Scripting — Server-side Lua + Functions.
  • Pub/Sub — Channel-based messaging.
  • RedisBloom — Bloom + Cuckoo + Count-Min Sketch + TopK.
  • Redis Cluster — Horizontal sharding.
  • RediSearch — Full-text + vector search engine.
  • RedisInsight — Official GUI for Redis.
  • RedisJSON — Native JSON document support.
  • RedisTimeSeries — Time-series data type.
  • Replication — Primary-replica async replication.
  • Sets — Unique element sets.
  • Sorted Sets (ZSet) — Score-ranked sets for leaderboards.
  • Streams — Append-only log (Kafka-like).
  • Strings — Primitive + binary-safe key-value.
  • Transactions (MULTI/EXEC) — Atomic command batches.

Grafana Cloud · 16 features

  • Alloy (OTel agent) — Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector with Grafana additions.
  • Application Platform — Infrastructure + k8s + frontend + cloud provider integrations.
  • Beyla (eBPF auto-instrumentation) — Zero-code auto-instrumentation via eBPF for any language.
  • Faro (RUM) — Frontend observability — traces, logs, Core Web Vitals.
  • Grafana in Azure Marketplace — "Azure Managed Grafana" — Azure-native deployment.
  • Grafana Incident — Incident management with Slack-native flows.
  • Grafana OnCall — On-call scheduling + incident response (powered by Amixr).
  • Grafana SLO — Service level objective tracking + error budget visualization.
  • Grafana (visualization) — Dashboards, variables, alerting, annotations over any datasource.
  • k6 (synthetic + load testing) — Load testing + synthetic monitoring. JavaScript-based scripts.
  • Loki (logs) — Prometheus-inspired log aggregation with LogQL.
  • Mimir (metrics) — Horizontally-scalable Prometheus-compatible TSDB.
  • Pyroscope (profiling) — Continuous profiling (CPU, memory, etc.).
  • Self-Host Option — Full OSS stack deployable in your infra.
  • Tempo (traces) — High-scale distributed tracing with TraceQL.
  • Unified Alerting — Grafana-native alerting across metrics, logs, traces.

Developer interfaces

KindRedisGrafana Cloud
CLIredis-cliGrafana Alloy (agent), grafana-cli
SDKgo-redis, Jedis + Lettuce, node-redis, redis-py, redis-rsFaro Web SDK (RUM)
RESTRedis Cloud APIGrafana HTTP API, Loki Push API
OTHERRedisInsight GUI, RESP protocolPrometheus Remote Write, Tempo OTLP
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