How Upstash prices
Captured October 19, 2026 at 1440px wide.
Upstash plans and prices
| Plan | Price | Billing |
|---|---|---|
| FreePerfect for prototypes and hobby projects. | $0 | |
| Pay as You GoHighlightedFlexible pricing for variable traffic. | $0.2 | per 100K commands |
| FixedFor consistent loads with predictable costs. | $10 | / month |
| EnterpriseFor businesses with advanced needs. | Custom |
As printed on the page captured October 19, 2026.
How does Upstash pricing work?
The value metric is the command, with storage and bandwidth as secondary meters. Pay as You Go charges '$0.2 per 100K commands' plus '$0.25 per GB' of storage past the first free gigabyte, and bandwidth is free up to 200GB a month, then '$0.03 per additional GB'. Fixed plans swap the command meter for capacity: a dropdown runs from 'Fixed 250MB' at '$10 / month' to 'Fixed 500GB', each with '$5 ✕ read regions' style pricing for replicas, and the comparison table states 'No per-command pricing' for that column. The two models sit next to each other because they suit two shapes of traffic, spiky and steady, and the headline names both: 'Pay only for what you use with per-request pricing. Or choose a Fixed plan for consistent usage with a flat price.'
The motion is self-serve through every printed price, with Enterprise as the assisted path. Free, Pay as You Go and Fixed each carry 'Start Now', and Pay as You Go wears the green outline that marks it as the default. Below the cards, a 'Prod Pack' band sells 'Uptime SLA', 'Multi-Zone HA', 'Encryption at Rest', 'SOC-2', 'Prometheus', 'Datadog' and 'Insights' as one add-on, and an Enterprise band routes to 'Learn More' for '100K+ commands per second', 'Dedicated resources for isolation' and 'HIPAA Compliance'. A product switcher across Redis, Vector, QStash, Workflow, Box and Blob gives each product its own price sheet, then a four-column table and a 24-question FAQ carry the details.
Under the hood, the page reads as a rate card with guardrails. The FAQ explains a monthly budget cap with alerts at '70% and 90%', rate limiting once the cap is hit, auto-upgrade between Fixed tiers, pro-rata charges for deleted databases, '$0.5 per database' past ten, and how a global write is billed in every region, '100K writes cost $0.4 ($0.2 x 2)'. Separating production hardening into a per-database add-on keeps the core meter low for prototypes and charges for reliability where it matters. The page also courts AI agents directly: a POST to a public endpoint returns a free database with 'no signup, credit card, or API key', and the capture carries a plain-text plan table with a link to machine-readable pricing. Worth borrowing are the two models side by side and a budget cap that turns a usage meter into a predictable bill.
What does Upstash's pricing page do well?
- Pay as You Go and Fixed sit side by side, each card stating who it is for: 'Flexible pricing for variable traffic.' and 'For consistent loads with predictable costs.'
- The Fixed card is a size picker, so seven capacity tiers fit inside one card with the read-region multiplier printed under the price
- The comparison table labels each column by model, '1 FREE DB', 'USAGE BASED PRICING' and 'FIXED PRICING', and closes with a Price block that splits request, storage and bandwidth rates
- A budget cap with email alerts at '70% and 90%' makes the usage plan safe to adopt
- The FAQ prints worked billing math, such as '100K writes cost $0.4 ($0.2 x 2)' for a global database with one read region
What does Upstash's pricing page reveal about its pricing strategy?
- Two models for two traffic shapes: commands metered for spiky workloads, capacity sold flat for steady ones, with auto-upgrade between Fixed sizes
- Production features are an add-on at '+$200/month per database', which keeps the entry meter low and prices reliability per database
- Replicated writes count as commands, so global replication scales the bill with the number of read regions on both models
- Retired Pro 2K and Pro 10K plans at '$280/month and $680/month respectively' are named in the FAQ with a migration path, a record of how the lineup moved to usage plus add-ons
- A no-signup database for AI agents makes the free tier an acquisition channel for coding agents as well as people
Learn with Orb
- GuidePay-as-you-go pricing for SaaS Pay as You Go at '$0.2 per 100K commands' sits beside flat Fixed plans from '$10 / month'; the guide covers structuring pay-as-you-go so the entry cost stays low and revenue scales with use.
- ProductSpend controls Upstash's monthly budget cap emails at '70% and 90%' and rate limits at the cap; Orb's spend controls cover the alerts and thresholds that keep a usage bill predictable.
- ProductPrice evolution Pro 2K and Pro 10K at '$280/month and $680/month' were retired for pay-as-you-go, Fixed plans and Prod Pack; this is Orb's approach to rolling out a change like that so customers can plan around it.
Questions about Upstash pricing
How much does Upstash cost?
Upstash's pricing starts at $0.2/100K commands. The page shows 4 plans, including a free plan, with the top plan priced through sales.
What pricing model does Upstash use?
Upstash prices by usage, combined with flat-rate tiers. Buyers can sign up on their own or go through the sales team. Its plans are aimed mainly at developers.
Does Upstash have a free plan?
Yes, Upstash has a free plan. Paid plans start at $0.2/100K commands.
Does Upstash offer an annual discount?
Upstash's pricing page shows a single billing period. The listed prices start at $0.2/100K commands. Terms for the plans priced through sales are set with the sales team.
How is Upstash's pricing page laid out?
The page shows 4 plans, highlights Pay as You Go, and includes a comparison table and an FAQ. The breakdown above marks 14 points on it: 6 things it does well and 8 insights into the pricing.
What features are included in the Upstash Redis Prod Pack add-on?
Prod Pack includes uptime SLA, a SOC 2 Type 2 report, advanced monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog, Insights in the console, multi-zone high availability, and encryption at rest. It is priced at "+$200/month per database" and the page recommends it for production use. It can be added to any plan except the Free tier and is enabled from the database details page in the Upstash dashboard.
How does the Upstash Redis budget cap work on pay-as-you-go?
On the pay-as-you-go plan you can set a maximum monthly budget for each database. Upstash sends email notifications when you reach 70% and 90% of that budget, so you can adjust the limit or upgrade to a Fixed plan. If usage exceeds the cap, the database is rate limited and your total cost stays within the chosen budget.
How are writes billed for Upstash global Redis databases with read regions?
For Global databases, write commands are replicated to all read regions in addition to the primary region, and those replications count as commands. The page gives a worked example: with one primary and one read region, "100K writes cost $0.4 ($0.2 x 2)." On Fixed plans, each read region adds a set monthly price, such as "+$5/region" on Fixed 250MB and "+$750/region" on Fixed 500GB.
From the page as captured October 19, 2026. Current prices are on upstash.com
Chroma
$250/mo + usageChroma prints all four metered rates in the hero, Write at $2.50 per GiB, Storage at $0.33 per GiB per month, Query at $0.0075 per TiB and Network at $0.09 per GiB returned, then hands the reader a calculator that turns documents and queries into a $79 monthly total. Plans sit on top of the meter: Starter at $0 plus usage, Team at $250 a month plus usage with $100 in credits, and Enterprise on custom terms.
Confluent
~$385/moConfluent prices serverless Kafka on a composite meter, eCKU-hours plus data in and out per GB plus storage per GB-month, and closes its rate table with an 'Estimated Monthly Starting Cost' of $0, $385, $895 and $2,300 that turns an hourly unit into a budget number. Behind it sit two discount structures and an annual commitment that can be spent across the whole Confluent Cloud stack.
Datadog
$15/host/moDatadog publishes a rate card per product, with every billable SKU listed in a left-hand navigator from AI Credits to Workflow Automation. Infrastructure Monitoring prices per host across three host levels: Basic, set with sales, beside Pro starting at $ 15 and Enterprise at $ 23 billed annually, with on-demand rates printed beside them and allotments of containers, custom metrics and custom events attached to each paid host. The bill is the sum of the products a customer adopts, and Basic hosts let one account price noncritical workloads at their own level.
Fly.io
From $0.0030/hr (shared-cpu-1x, 256MB)Fly.io prices raw infrastructure: Machines 'Billed by the second while a Machine runs', volumes on provisioned capacity, and egress by region, with prices set per region through a selector. Support is sold as its own ladder at '$29 / mo', '$199 / mo' and 'From $2,500 / mo', compliance is a '$99/mo' add-on, and a Custom plan covers committed spend and volume discounts.
Grafana
$19/moGrafana Cloud prices on a $19 per month platform fee that carries an allowance on every product, then a usage meter chosen per product, with volume tiers that lower the marginal rate as a customer grows. The hero states the thesis, 'Send more, charge more is broken. We are changing it.', and the page backs it with an embedded calculator that draws the tier curve and a cost-reduction band under the rates. Enterprise prints its entry point: 'Starts at $25,000 / year spend commit'.
Modal
$250 + compute/moModal bills GPU, CPU, memory and storage by the second or month, and network egress at '$0.04 / GiB', with the full rate card under the promise of paying for 'just actual compute time, by the CPU cycle'. Plans are a platform fee plus that usage: Starter at $0 with $30 of monthly credits and 1 TiB of egress, Team at $250 with $100 and 10 TiB, and a custom Enterprise with 100 TiB. A worked comparison makes the serverless case on utilization, with a $3.95 GPU-hour that totals '12% lower cost' than $3 GPU-hours provisioned around the clock.