Redis vs Upstash: pricing, quotas & features (2025)
The real-time data platform — in-memory DB + cache + vector + search
vs. Serverless Redis + Kafka + Vector + QStash — per-request pricing
Data sourced from vendor documentation · Last updated May 2026
Summary
Redis 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. Redis's paid plans start at $5/month, lower than Upstash's entry point at $10/month. Redis has a broader documented feature set (21 vs 12 features). Budget-sensitive teams will find Redis easier to justify early on. All pricing and quota data below is sourced from Redis and Upstash's official documentation — not generated by AI or estimated.
Redis vs Upstash: Comparativa de precios, cuotas y características (2025)
En esta comparativa analizamos Redis 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.
Redis es una plataforma de la categoría dbaas — The real-time data platform — in-memory DB + cache + vector + search. Ofrece 5 tiers de precio: Free gratuito, Redis OSS gratuito, Essentials desde $5/mes, Pro desde $200/mes. Su catálogo en Staxly documenta 21 características y 9 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
Redis
Upstash
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Redis vs free on Upstash.
| Metric | Redis | Upstash |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
- RediSearch — Full-text + vector search engine.
- Redis Cluster — Horizontal sharding.
- RedisBloom — Bloom + Cuckoo + Count-Min Sketch + TopK.
- 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.
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 | Redis | Upstash |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | redis-cli | — |
| SDK | Jedis + Lettuce, go-redis, node-redis, redis-py, redis-rs | @upstash/redis / vector / qstash, upstash-redis / vector (Python) |
| REST | Redis Cloud API | QStash REST API, Upstash Redis REST API, Upstash Vector REST |
| OTHER | RESP protocol, RedisInsight GUI | RESP (TCP) |
Key takeaways
- Both Redis and Upstash offer a free tier — Redis ("Free") and Upstash ("Free") — with no credit card required to start.
- The entry-level paid plan is $5/month for Redis (Essentials) vs. $10/month for Upstash (Fixed Plans).
- Redis has a broader documented feature set (21 features) vs. Upstash (12 features) in Staxly's catalog.
- Developer integrations differ: only Redis offers CLI.
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