How much does Upstash Redis cost in 2026?

Upstash Redis charges $10.00 per month for the entry plan, per Upstash's published pricing page. There is also a free tier: 500,000 commands per month. The tables above break the rate card down by axis and model it against three concrete workloads.

Does Upstash Redis have a free tier?

Yes — 500,000 commands per month. Check whether it is permanent or a trial before you build a budget around it; the two are often presented identically.

Are these Upstash Redis prices current?

They were checked against Upstash's official pricing page and stamped with that date, which is shown at the top of this page and next to every table. Vendors change list prices without notice — the source link is there so you can confirm before you commit.

Upstash Redis pricing

Redis billed per request rather than per hour, reachable over HTTP so it works from edge runtimes that cannot hold a TCP connection.

List prices checked May 2026

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What Upstash charges, by billing axis.

Axis	Price	Applies to
Entry plan	$10.00/mo	Cheapest paid plan or typical entry configuration
Free tier	Yes	500,000 commands per month

Source: Upstash pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

What it costs per month

Upstash Redis billed against three workload profiles, using the rates above. Every line shows its arithmetic.

Side project

A personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process.

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Upstash does not publish a rate for storage on this service, so a total would be misleading.

Growing SaaS

A funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.

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Upstash does not publish a rate for storage on this service, so a total would be misleading.

Media-heavy site

A publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.

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Upstash does not publish a rate for storage on this service, so a total would be misleading.

Upstash Redis vs the alternatives

The closest managed databases on price, with the difference on managed databases's headline axis.

Service	Entry plan	vs Upstash Redis	Compare
Google Cloud SQL	$9.37	1.1× cheaper	Head to head
MongoDB Atlas	$9.00	1.1× cheaper	Head to head
Turso	$8.25	1.2× cheaper	Head to head
AWS RDS for PostgreSQL	$12.40	1.2× dearer	Head to head
Azure Database for PostgreSQL	$12.41	1.2× dearer	Head to head
Scaleway Managed Database	$13.00	1.3× dearer	Head to head

Questions about pricing

How much does Upstash Redis cost in 2026?: Upstash Redis charges $10.00 per month for the entry plan, per Upstash's published pricing page. There is also a free tier: 500,000 commands per month. The tables above break the rate card down by axis and model it against three concrete workloads.
Does Upstash Redis have a free tier?: Yes — 500,000 commands per month. Check whether it is permanent or a trial before you build a budget around it; the two are often presented identically.
Are these Upstash Redis prices current?: They were checked against Upstash's official pricing page and stamped with that date, which is shown at the top of this page and next to every table. Vendors change list prices without notice — the source link is there so you can confirm before you commit.

Rate card

What it costs per month

Upstash Redis vs the alternatives

Questions about pricing

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