Upstash vs ElevenLabs
Serverless Redis + Kafka + Vector + QStash — per-request pricing
vs. Best-in-class AI text-to-speech + voice cloning + Conversational AI
Pricing tiers
Upstash
Free
Redis: 256 MB + 500k cmds/mo. Vector: 10k queries/mo. QStash: 500 msgs/day.
Free
Pay-as-you-go
Redis: $0.2 per 100k cmds. Vector: $0.4/M queries. QStash: $1 per 100k.
$0 base (usage-based)
Fixed Plans
From $10/mo. 250MB-500GB Redis. $5/read region. 50GB bandwidth included.
$10/mo
Prod Pack
+$200/mo per DB. SLA + RBAC + encryption + SOC-2 + Prometheus + Datadog.
$200/mo
Enterprise
Custom. 100k+ cmd/sec, unlimited bandwidth, HIPAA.
Custom
ElevenLabs
Free
10k credits/month. No voice cloning. Limited API.
Free
Starter
$6/mo. 30k credits. Instant voice cloning. Limited API.
$6/mo
Creator
$11/mo (first month 50% off). 121k credits. Professional cloning. Full API.
$11/mo
Pro
$99/mo. 600k credits. 44.1 kHz PCM API. Professional cloning.
$99/mo
Scale
$299/mo. 1.8M credits. 3 professional voice clones.
$299/mo
Business
$990/mo. 6M credits. 10 pro clones. Low-latency TTS API.
$990/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Unlimited pro clones + full access.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Upstash vs free on ElevenLabs.
| Metric | Upstash | ElevenLabs |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
Upstash · 12 features
- 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/ratelimit — Redis-backed rate limiter lib.
- 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.
ElevenLabs · 13 features
- Conversational AI — Voice agents with LLM orchestration + tools.
- Dubbing Studio — Auto-dub video to target languages with lip-sync.
- Projects — Long-form narration workflow — books, podcasts.
- Realtime Streaming — Low-latency TTS streaming via WebSocket.
- Scribe (STT) — High-accuracy speech-to-text with speaker diarization.
- Sound Effects — AI-generated SFX from text prompts.
- Text to Sound — Generate music + sound from text.
- Text-to-Speech — Studio-quality TTS across 29 languages with emotion control.
- Voice Changer — Transform one voice into another preserving delivery.
- Voice Cloning — Instant (short sample) + Professional (30 min +) voice cloning.
- Voice Design — Design voices from text descriptions.
- Voice Library — 3,000+ community voices. License per-voice.
- Voiceover Studio — Multi-character voiceover timeline.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Upstash | ElevenLabs |
|---|---|---|
| SDK | upstash-redis / vector (Python), @upstash/redis / vector / qstash | elevenlabs (Node), elevenlabs (Python) |
| REST | QStash REST API, Upstash Redis REST API, Upstash Vector REST | ElevenLabs REST API |
| MCP | — | ElevenLabs MCP |
| OTHER | RESP (TCP) | Webhooks, WebSocket Streaming |
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