Upstash Vector

Serverless vector database with true pay-per-request pricing

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Our Take

Upstash Vector offers the only true pay-per-request pricing in the vector database space: $0.40/100K requests with a generous free tier (10K daily queries, 200M max vectors x dimensions). Uses DiskANN for cost-effective disk-based search. Ideal for serverless and edge architectures where you want zero idle costs. The tradeoff is that it's not designed for high-throughput batch workloads or sub-millisecond latency — it's optimized for the long tail of applications that need vector search without paying for always-on compute.

Pros

  • + True pay-per-request pricing
  • + Generous free tier
  • + DiskANN-based for cost efficiency
  • + Great for serverless/edge deployments
  • + Simple REST API

Cons

  • - Not open source
  • - Not ideal for high-throughput batch workloads
  • - Smaller ecosystem than major competitors
  • - No self-hosting option

Details

Pricing Model
usage-based
Starting Price
$0
Self-Hosted
No
Cloud Hosted
Yes
Founded
2021

Best For

  • • Serverless and edge architectures
  • • Pay-per-request vector search
  • • Low-traffic applications with cost sensitivity
  • • Jamstack and edge-first deployments

Integrations

LangChain LlamaIndex Vercel Cloudflare Workers REST API

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