Upstash Pricing & Free Plan Limits
Complete pricing breakdown for Upstash including all plans, hidden costs, and limitations.
Pricing score: 70/100
Is Upstash free?
Yes — the Free plan costs nothing. Paid plans start at $100.00/month (Prod Pack (Add-on)).
Free plan limits
- Users: N/A
- Storage: 256MB
- Commands limited, no RBAC, no advanced monitoring, rate limited when exceeded
Watch out: No SLA, no Prod Pack features, limited to single region
Plans & Pricing
User limit: N/A
Storage: 256MB
User limit: N/A
Storage: Up to 100GB
User limit: N/A
Storage: N/A
User limit: N/A
Storage: 10GB
Pricing Issues Reported by Users
Gets expensive at large scale
Upstash 'can get very expensive for large-scale use cases.' Fixed price for 100GB is $800/month with only 16,000 requests/second limit. Pay-as-you-go at $0.20/100K requests compounds for high-traffic apps. Cost-effectiveness diminishes at scale.
Budget caps can disrupt service
If usage 'exceeds monthly budget cap, the database will be rate limited.' Users are advised to 'set budget limit high enough to avoid service disruption.' This can cause unexpected throttling during traffic spikes.
Prod Pack required for SLA and enterprise features
Uptime SLA, SOC 2 report, advanced monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana/Datadog), and RBAC require purchasing 'Prod Pack' add-on. These production-grade features aren't included in base plans, adding to total cost.