Redis Cloud Pricing in 2026: Plans, Costs, and Real Examples

Redis Cloud is a managed Redis service from Redis Inc., and it can cost anywhere from $0 to thousands of dollars a month depending on which plan you pick and which options you turn on.

When I first used it, I was confused by the pricing. The pricing page shows three plans, but a lot of what shows up on the bill (throughput limits, replication, the $200 Pro minimum) was not very clear to me. So I want to clear it up in this article.

What are Redis Cloud's pricing plans?

Redis Cloud has three plans:

• Free ($0, 30 MB)
• Essentials (shared infrastructure, from $0.007/hour, so $5/month for 250 MB)
• Pro (dedicated infrastructure, from $0.014/hour with a $200/month minimum).

Essentials includes 250 MB to 100 GB and the Pro plan has no memory limit.

All three run on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Pro annual plans run on AWS and GCP only, so Azure users stay on on-demand billing.

In Pro, they add the features Essentials doesn't have like multiple databases per subscription, Active-Active multi-region writes, auto-tiering, and private connectivity.

Is Redis Cloud free?

Yes. The Free plan is a 30 MB Essentials database that costs $0 forever, with no credit card required. But it comes with hard limits: 100 operations per second, 30 concurrent connections, 5 GB of monthly bandwidth, and a single database.

The free plan also does not support replication, so there is no failover if the underlying node dies. Redis describes it as designed for learning and test projects and at 100 operations per second, even a small production app will hit the ceiling.

Redis Cloud Essentials pricing by tier

Essentials is the shared, fixed-price tier. You pick a database size between 250 MB and 12 GB (RAM only), and each size comes with its own connection, bandwidth, and throughput limits. Redis updated these tables in December 2025:

But there are some details here, e.g. the database size includes replication, so a 1 GB plan with high availability gives us 512 MB of usable data. The throughput numbers assume 1 KiB requests; bigger values use up the same budget faster. And the bandwidth allowance applies to the whole plan, so all databases in it share the limit.

Redis Cloud Essentials with Redis Flex

Redis Flex is the cheaper Essentials variant that keeps 10% of your data in RAM and the rest on SSD. It goes up to 100 GB per database, but each tier allows a lot less throughput than the RAM-only plan of the same size:

The tradeoff for this cheaper price is performance. A 1 GB Flex database allows 200 ops/sec, while the regular 1 GB plan allows 2,000. Flex also does not support Active-Active or Redis Search. It might be alright for large datasets with little traffic, but I'd keep data in S3 and not an in-memory database in that case.

How does Redis Cloud Pro pricing work?

Pro is the dedicated tier: your databases run in their own VPC, memory is unlimited, and pricing is pay-as-you-go based on the dataset size, throughput, and availability options you configure in the pricing calculator.

I found their pricing calculator to be the easiest way to see what a plan would cost. In the example above I put in

• 10 GB storage
• 2,000 ops/sec
• high availability
• AWS Frankfurt region

The price for Pro is at $0.752/hour ($549/month). The Essentials quote is $240/month.

The costs that are easy to miss

Four things move a Redis Cloud bill beyond the listed tier price: high availability doubles billed memory, Active-Active multiplies it up to 4x, data transfer switches to usage-based billing on annual plans, and support beyond basic response times is a separate paid tier.

High availability doubles your memory. For both Essentials and Pro, replication requires a memory limit twice the size of your dataset. 512 MB of data needs a 1 GB plan. Multi-AZ replication costs about 2x the single-node price.

Active-Active stacks on top. Active-Active geo-replication also doubles memory, and the effect is cumulative with replication, so the memory you pay for can reach 4x your data size. Active-Active databases also start evicting keys when any instance hits 80% of its memory limit, and each instance reserves two replication backlogs at 1% of the database size each.

Data transfer terms change with your plan. On Free, Essentials, and on-demand Pro, transfer is included in the price but limited. On annual Pro plans, it is usage-based. Inbound transfer is typically free, while outbound transfer can incur charges depending on region and volume.

Support is tiered. Paid plans include support, but response times depend on the package: the Developer tier answers a P1 in 8 business hours, Business in 1 hour, Enterprise in 30 minutes. A technical account manager only comes with Enterprise support at $20,000+ per year in support spend. And if you run out of prepaid credits, your account reverts to Basic support automatically.

What will you pay? Three examples

A small 1 GB app costs $18/month on Essentials, a 10 GB production database with high availability costs $549/month on Pro, and a multi-region Active-Active setup bills you for about four times your data size. Here is how those numbers come together:

The $18 figure comes from Redis's calculator and the $549 is the calculator quote I showed above. The third row is the memory from Redis's sizing docs for a 10 GB dataset: HA doubles it to 20 GB, and a second active region doubles it again to 40 GB.

How does Redis Cloud pricing compare to Upstash Redis?

Upstash Redis lets you pick the billing model: fixed plans with unlimited commands from $10 to $1,500 per month, or pay-as-you-go starting at $0.

Redis Cloud has one model, the provisioned memory tier, and the fixed plans beat it on throughput per dollar: Fixed 1GB costs $20/month and allows 10,000 commands per second, five times the 2,000 ops/sec limit on the $18 Essentials tier of the same size.

Upstash's fixed plans scale up from there: the 100GB and 500GB plans allow 16,000 commands per second, and Enterprise goes past 100,000 with dedicated resources.

Pay-as-you-go covers the low end: $0.20 per 100K commands plus $0.25 per GB of storage, with the first GB of storage free. A database with no traffic costs nothing. Take a small app with 1 GB of data and 1M commands a month:

• Commands: 10 x $0.20 = $2.00
• Storage: 1 GB is within the free first GB, so $0
• Total: $2 a month

The same app on Redis Cloud needs the 1 GB Essentials plan, which costs $18 a month whether the app sends 1M commands or none. Essentials bills the provisioned gigabyte, and pay-as-you-go bills the traffic.

When is Redis Cloud the better choice?

Redis Cloud is great if you need the Redis Stack module set (e.g. bloom filters) and Active-Active multi-region writes. If your workload depends on one of those, the pricing comparison above matters less than the capability.

Redis Cloud has the full Redis Stack: RediSearch, RedisJSON, RedisTimeSeries, and RedisBloom. RedisJSON data migrates directly to Upstash, and search workloads have Upstash Redis Search as an equivalent, but TimeSeries and Bloom have no Upstash counterpart.

FAQ

Is Redis Cloud free?

Yes, the Free plan gives you one 30 MB database at $0 with no credit card. It is limited to 100 operations per second and 30 connections, and has no replication, so it fits learning and testing.

How much does Redis Cloud cost per month?

Between $0 and $216/month on the shared Essentials tiers (30 MB free, $5 for 250 MB, $216 for 12 GB), and from $200/month upward on Pro, where the price depends on dataset size, throughput, and availability options.

Does high availability double Redis Cloud's price?

Yes. Replication requires a memory limit twice your dataset size on both Essentials and Pro, so a highly available database bills for double the memory. With Active-Active geo-replication on top, billed memory can reach four times your data size.

Does Redis Cloud charge for data transfer?

On Free, Essentials, and on-demand Pro plans, data transfer is included in the price but limited (each Essentials tier has a monthly bandwidth allowance). On annual Pro plans, data transfer is billed by usage. Inbound transfer is typically free; outbound may cost extra depending on region and volume.