Upstash is a serverless data platform offering a Redis-compatible database and QStash messaging, billed per request with a genuine free tier. It is designed for serverless and edge applications (Vercel, Cloudflare Workers, AWS Lambda) where connection-pooled, HTTP-accessible state is needed without managing servers or paying for idle capacity. Global replication places reads close to users, and the per-request model keeps small workloads effectively free. Its earlier managed Kafka product was retired, narrowing focus to Redis-compatible data and messaging.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2020
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- No
Managed database
- Engine type
- NoSQL
- Free tier
- Yes: Free tier with daily request allowance; pay-per-request beyond it.
- Serverless
- Yes
- Open-source
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- Multi-cloud
- Yes