> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://upstash.com/docs/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Pricing & Billing > How Upstash Redis pricing works — free tier, Pay-As-You-Go, and Fixed plans, with current limits and billing details. > [!NOTE] > > The most up-to-date pricing is always available at > [upstash.com/pricing/redis](https://upstash.com/pricing/redis). Upstash Redis has a free tier and two paid plans: **Pay-As-You-Go** (billed per request) and **Fixed** (a flat monthly price). The numbers below reflect current pricing — see the [pricing page](https://upstash.com/pricing/redis) for the most up-to-date information. ## Free tier Every account starts with a free database. No credit card required. | Limit | Free | | - | - | | Price | **\$0 / month** | | Data size | 250 MB | | Monthly commands | 500K | | Monthly bandwidth | 10 GB | | Max commands / sec | 10,000 | | Max request size | 10 MB | | Max record size | 100 MB | | Databases | 1 | ## Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) Billed per request, so you only pay for what you use. Best for variable or low-volume workloads where command volume is unpredictable — caching in serverless functions, edge workloads, and apps that scale to zero. | Item | Price | | - | - | | Commands | **\$0.20 per 100K commands** | | Storage | \$0.25 / GB per month (first 1 GB free) | | Bandwidth | Free up to 200 GB / month, then \$0.03 / GB | | Max data size | 100 GB | | Max commands / sec | 10,000 | | Databases | First 10 free, then \$0.50 each per month (up to 100) | To avoid surprise charges, set a **monthly budget** on a PAYG database. When the budget is reached the database is rate-limited rather than continuing to bill. Budgets are set per database; there is no account-wide budget. ## Fixed plans A flat monthly price with a cap on throughput and data size. Usually cheaper than PAYG for sustained, high-throughput workloads where command count is consistently high and predictable. Worker-heavy setups such as Sidekiq, BullMQ, Celery, and cron jobs are a common fit because they hit Redis continuously even when idle. You can start on PAYG and switch to a Fixed plan later, or vice versa. ## All plans and limits | Plan | Price / month | Data size | Bandwidth | Commands / sec | Max request | Max record | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | | Free | \$0 | 250 MB | 10 GB | 10,000 | 10 MB | 100 MB | | PAYG | Per request | 100 GB | 200 GB\* | 10,000 | 10 MB | 100 MB | | 250 MB | \$10 | 250 MB | 50 GB | 10,000 | 10 MB | 100 MB | | 1 GB | \$20 | 1 GB | 100 GB | 10,000 | 10 MB | 200 MB | | 5 GB | \$100 | 5 GB | 500 GB | 10,000 | 20 MB | 300 MB | | 10 GB | \$200 | 10 GB | 1 TB | 10,000 | 30 MB | 400 MB | | 50 GB | \$400 | 50 GB | 5 TB | 10,000 | 50 MB | 500 MB | | 100 GB | \$800 | 100 GB | 10 TB | 16,000 | 75 MB | 1 GB | | 500 GB | \$1,500 | 500 GB | 20 TB | 16,000 | 100 MB | 5 GB | \*PAYG bandwidth is free up to 200 GB/month, then \$0.03/GB. Enterprise plans support larger data sizes and custom limits — [contact us](https://upstash.com/docs/common/help/support.md). ## How billing works * **What counts as a command.** Pricing is based on the number of commands (requests) executed. This applies equally to the [REST API](https://upstash.com/docs/redis/features/restapi) and to commands made over the Redis protocol — one command is one billable request in both cases. * **Global databases.** With [Global replication](https://upstash.com/docs/redis/features/globaldatabase), each write is replicated to every read region, and each replicated write counts as a command for billing. Adding read regions to a Fixed plan costs 50% of the base tier price per region. * **Lua scripts.** `EVAL`, `EVALSHA`, `EVAL_RO` and `EVALSHA_RO` are billed as one command, plus one command for every `redis.call` or `redis.pcall` the script runs. A script that runs a `GET` and a `SET` is billed as 3 commands. * **Transactions.** `MULTI` and `EXEC` are billed as commands too, so a transaction of N commands is billed as N + 2. This also applies to transactions sent to the REST API's `/multi-exec` endpoint. Commands are counted as they are queued, so a transaction that is aborted at `EXEC` is still billed. * **Commands that are not billed.** `AUTH`, `HELLO`, `RESET`, `PING`, `SELECT`, `QUIT`, `INFO`, `CONFIG` and `COMMAND`. * **Number of databases.** A free account can have 1 database. On PAYG, the first 10 databases are free and each additional database costs \$0.50 per month. This is charged on the account (as a "Database Surplus Charge"), not on a database, so a database budget does not cap it. Paid accounts can have up to 100 databases; email [support@upstash.com](mailto:support@upstash.com) to raise the limit. * **Adding a payment method.** Adding your first payment method moves every free resource on the account to its paid plan: all Redis databases, plus QStash, Vector, Search and Blob. An account with a payment method cannot have free databases. See [Upgrade Your Database](https://upstash.com/docs/redis/howto/upgrade-database). * **Storage.** On PAYG, storage is billed at \$0.25/GB per month with the first 1 GB free. Fixed plans include storage up to the plan's data-size cap. * **Prod Pack.** Production features (high availability, encryption, SOC-2, advanced monitoring) are available as an add-on for \$200/month per database. See [Prod Pack & Enterprise](https://upstash.com/docs/redis/overall/enterprise). ## Optimizing cost * On PAYG, a high baseline of background commands (for example, [Sidekiq](https://upstash.com/docs/redis/integrations/sidekiq) polling) can drive up command count even when there is no real workload — switching to a Fixed plan caps that cost. * Prefer pipelines and `MULTI`/`EXEC` to reduce round trips; note that each command inside a pipeline or transaction is still billed individually, and `MULTI` and `EXEC` are billed as well. * Set a monthly budget on PAYG databases to bound spend. This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.