Upstash
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Serverless Data Platform
How to Replace UpstashOverview
Features
38 features across 15 categories
Application Features(3)
Chat application support
Leaderboard functionality for competitive features
Session storage and management functionality
Automation(1)
Workflow orchestration service for serverless applications
Compliance(2)
HIPAA compliance for healthcare applications
SOC-2 Type II compliance certification
Data Protection(1)
Automatic backup functionality for data protection
Data Storage(4)
In-memory speed with disk-like persistence, data safety without sacrificing performance
Low-latency, serverless key-value store with highly available and infinitely scalable infrastructure
Strong consistency guarantees for data operations
Vector database for AI and semantic search capabilities
Infrastructure(4)
Automatic scaling to meet demands without server management
Tested and optimized for Vercel Edge, Cloudflare Workers and Fastly Edge
Global data replication across multiple regions
Data replicated across 8+ regions worldwide to provide lowest latency, can add/remove regions without downtime
Integration(1)
HTTP-based APIs for access from serverless and edge functions supporting standard clients via Redis protocol
Messaging(1)
Serverless task queue and messaging service for reliable asynchronous job processing
Observability(5)
Access logging for audit and compliance
Integration with Datadog for monitoring and observability
Integration with Grafana for monitoring and observability
Integration with New Relic for monitoring and observability
Prometheus metrics export for monitoring
Performance(2)
Built-in caching capabilities for performance optimization
Lightning-fast response times worldwide with multi-region replication options
Pricing(1)
Pay-as-you-go pricing that scales to zero with per-request billing
Reliability(2)
Service level agreement with 99.99% weekly average uptime
High availability with primary and read replicas
Search(1)
Full-text search capability with metadata filtering
Security(7)
Encryption of data at rest
IP allowlist security feature
Private Link connectivity option
Rate limiting capabilities for API protection
Role-based access control (RBAC) for permission management
SAML SSO for enterprise authentication
TLS encryption for data in transit
Support(3)
Community support through Discord and other channels
Dedicated support team with Slack channel access
Email-based support channel
Pricing
Free
- ✓256 MB data size
- ✓500 K monthly commands
- ✓1 database
- ✓TLS Encryption
- ✓Persistence
- ✓REST API
- ✓Community Support
Pay as you go
- ✓100 GB data size
- ✓Unlimited bandwidth
- ✓Unlimited monthly bandwidth
- ✓100 databases
- ✓TLS Encryption
- ✓IP Allowlist
- ✓Persistence
- ✓REST API
- ✓Global replication
- ✓Strong consistency
- ✓High Availability
- ✓Community Support
Fixed 250MB
- ✓250 MB data size
- ✓50 GB monthly bandwidth
- ✓No per-command pricing
- ✓100 databases
- ✓TLS Encryption
- ✓IP Allowlist
- ✓Persistence
- ✓REST API
- ✓Global replication
- ✓Strong consistency
- ✓High Availability
- ✓Community Support
Fixed 1GB
- ✓1 GB data size
- ✓50 GB monthly bandwidth
- ✓No per-command pricing
- ✓100 databases
- ✓TLS Encryption
- ✓IP Allowlist
- ✓Persistence
- ✓REST API
- ✓Global replication
- ✓Strong consistency
- ✓High Availability
- ✓Community Support
Fixed 5GB
- ✓5 GB data size
- ✓50 GB monthly bandwidth
- ✓No per-command pricing
- ✓100 databases
- ✓TLS Encryption
- ✓IP Allowlist
- ✓Persistence
- ✓REST API
- ✓Global replication
- ✓Strong consistency
- ✓High Availability
- ✓Community Support
Fixed 10GB
- ✓10 GB data size
- ✓50 GB monthly bandwidth
- ✓No per-command pricing
- ✓100 databases
- ✓TLS Encryption
- ✓IP Allowlist
- ✓Persistence
- ✓REST API
- ✓Global replication
- ✓Strong consistency
- ✓High Availability
- ✓Community Support
Fixed 50GB
- ✓50 GB data size
- ✓50 GB monthly bandwidth
- ✓No per-command pricing
- ✓100 databases
- ✓TLS Encryption
- ✓IP Allowlist
- ✓Persistence
- ✓REST API
- ✓Global replication
- ✓Strong consistency
- ✓High Availability
- ✓Community Support
Fixed 100GB
- ✓100 GB data size
- ✓50 GB monthly bandwidth
- ✓No per-command pricing
- ✓100 databases
- ✓TLS Encryption
- ✓IP Allowlist
- ✓Persistence
- ✓REST API
- ✓Global replication
- ✓Strong consistency
- ✓High Availability
- ✓Community Support
Fixed 500GB
- ✓500 GB data size
- ✓50 GB monthly bandwidth
- ✓No per-command pricing
- ✓100 databases
- ✓TLS Encryption
- ✓IP Allowlist
- ✓Persistence
- ✓REST API
- ✓Global replication
- ✓Strong consistency
- ✓High Availability
- ✓Community Support
Prod Pack
Popular- ✓Uptime SLA
- ✓RBAC
- ✓Encryption at Rest
- ✓SOC-2 Compliance
- ✓Prometheus Integration
- ✓Datadog Integration
- ✓Email Support
- ✓Everything in Free plan
Enterprise
- ✓100K+ commands per second
- ✓Unlimited bandwidth and database count
- ✓Professional support with SLA
- ✓Dedicated resources for isolation
- ✓HIPAA Compliance
- ✓Everything in Prod Pack
- ✓Private Link
- ✓SAML Single Sign-On
- ✓New Relic Integration
- ✓Access Logging
- ✓Dedicated support and Slack channel
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Total Cost Comparison
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Integrations
10 known integrations