Counters and cache · facts read November 9, 2026
Upstash Redis
Serverless Redis over HTTP, billed per command or as a fixed monthly plan. Redis counters, sorted sets and expiring keys over HTTP, so it works from serverless and edge functions.
- Free plan
- Free: 250 MB of data, 500K commands a month, 10 GB of bandwidth a month, 1 database, up to 10,000 commands per second.
- Paid from
- Pay as you go: $0.20 per 100K commands; storage $0.25 per GB after the first 1 GB; bandwidth free up to 200 GB a month, then $0.03/GB. Fixed 250 MB: $10/month with no per-command billing.
- Monthly cost at 1,000 users
- $0/month About 3 commands per request × 100,000 requests = 300K commands, inside the free 500K; past that, $0.20 per 100K.
- Free plan allows commercial use
- Not stated
- Open source
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
Source: Upstash Redis pricing, read November 9, 2026. Prices change; check the vendor's page before you commit.
Best for
- Vote counts and live tallies
- Leaderboards (sorted sets)
- Streaks and rate limits (keys that expire)
- Caching hot reads
Watch out for
- Free stops at 500K commands a month, which a viral day can use in hours; switch to pay as you go and set its budget cap before launch.
- The free plan allows 1 database.
How Cuely scores Upstash Redis
The published scores, from −3 to +3, that decide when Cuely picks it. Method
- +3votes, scores, leaderboards or streaks (many writes to the same numbers). Atomic INCR and HINCRBY for votes, sorted sets for leaderboards, expiring keys for streaks, up to 10,000 commands a second on every plan.
- +2traffic comes in viral spikes. Pay as you go absorbs a spike at $0.20 per 100K commands, under a budget cap you set.
- +2keep costs as low as possible. Free covers 500K commands a month.
- +1Next.js or React. Vercel's own Redis option: Vercel KV is no longer offered and existing stores moved to Upstash.
- +1global low latency. HTTP client works from edge runtimes, including Cloudflare Workers.