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Upstash vs Vercel

Serverless Redis + Kafka + Vector + QStash — per-request pricing
vs. Frontend cloud for Next.js and modern web frameworks

Upstash website ↗Vercel website ↗

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
Upstash website ↗

Vercel

Hobby (Free)
Free forever. 100 GB bandwidth, 1M functions, 360 GB-hrs memory, 1M edge requests. 1 developer. Hard caps.
Free
Pro
$20/user/month. 1 TB bandwidth, pay-as-you-go overages. Team seats, concurrent builds.
$20/mo
Enterprise
Custom pricing. SLA, SSO, audit logs, dedicated support.
Custom
Vercel website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing free on Upstash vs hobby on Vercel.

MetricUpstashVercel
bandwidth gb month—100 GB/month
edge requests—1000000 requests/month
function invocations—1000000 invocations/month
memory gb hrs—360 GB-hrs/month
team members—1 users

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.

Vercel · 15 features

  • Cron Jobs — Scheduled serverless functions. JSON config in vercel.json.
  • Edge Functions — V8-isolate serverless functions at edge locations. Lower cold start than Lambda.
  • Edge Middleware — Intercept requests at edge before hitting origin — auth, routing, A/B tests.
  • Git-based Deploys — Auto-deploy from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket on every push. Preview URLs for every…
  • Image Optimization — On-the-fly resize, format conversion (AVIF, WebP), CDN caching.
  • Incremental Static Regeneration — Re-generate static pages on-demand or via revalidate. Next.js-native.
  • Log Drains — Stream logs to Datadog, Axiom, Logtail, HTTP endpoints.
  • Preview Deployments — Unique URL per Git branch/PR. Password-protect or share. Infinite.
  • Serverless Functions — Node.js, Python, Go. AWS Lambda under the hood. Up to 15 min duration.
  • Speed Insights — Real User Monitoring. FCP, LCP, CLS, INP per page.
  • Vercel Blob — Managed object storage (S3-compatible API).
  • Vercel KV (Redis) — Managed Redis via Upstash. Edge-accessible.
  • Vercel Marketplace — One-click integrations: Supabase, Clerk, Sentry, PostHog, Resend, 100+ services.
  • Vercel Postgres — Managed Neon Postgres. Edge-accessible with @vercel/postgres.
  • Web Analytics — Privacy-friendly web analytics. Core Web Vitals, visitors, pages.

Developer interfaces

KindUpstashVercel
CLI—Vercel CLI
SDKupstash-redis / vector (Python), @upstash/redis / vector / qstash@vercel/client
RESTQStash REST API, Upstash Redis REST API, Upstash Vector RESTVercel REST API
MCP—Vercel MCP
OTHERRESP (TCP)Edge Runtime Bindings
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