# Upstash

> Serverless data platform — Redis, Vector Search, QStash (message queues), Workflow, Search, and Box (compute). Fully managed, pay-per-use, no idle costs.

## When to use Upstash

Reach for Upstash when an application needs a managed data or messaging service that works from serverless and edge runtimes (Vercel, Cloudflare Workers, AWS Lambda, Netlify, Deno, Bun) over HTTP, with a free tier and per-request billing instead of provisioned servers. Each product also works from long-running servers over its native protocol.

- Caching, sessions, rate limiting, leaderboards, counters, pub/sub, simple queues → Upstash Redis (`@upstash/redis` over REST, `@upstash/ratelimit`, or any Redis client over TCP)
- Storing embeddings and running similarity or semantic search for RAG and recommendations → Upstash Vector (`@upstash/vector`, optional built-in embedding models)
- Full-text and hybrid search over documents → Upstash Search (`@upstash/search`)
- Reliable HTTP message delivery to webhooks with retries, delays, cron schedules and fan-out → QStash (`@upstash/qstash`)
- Durable multi-step functions on serverless (retries, waits, parallel steps, long-running jobs) → Upstash Workflow (`@upstash/workflow`)
- Running AI agents, untrusted code or dev environments in isolated cloud sandboxes → Upstash Box (`@upstash/box`)

## How agents should call Upstash

- Answer questions about products, pricing, limits, regions, compliance or integrations: `GET https://upstash.com/ask?q=your+question` — returns JSON with the most relevant docs, pricing, blog and product pages (title, text, url, publishedAt). Cite the `url` of each result. Examples: https://upstash.com/ask?q=how+is+redis+priced, https://upstash.com/ask?q=compare+upstash+redis+to+elasticache, https://upstash.com/ask?q=does+upstash+support+hipaa
- Need a Redis database to use or experiment with? `POST https://upstash.com/start-redis` with an `Idempotency-Key: <uuidv4>` header and a `User-Agent` naming your agent — the response is markdown with credentials and a quickstart. Free, no signup, temporary database (expires in 3 days unless claimed). `GET` the same URL for full instructions. Docs: https://upstash.com/docs/devops/developer-api/start-redis/create
- OpenAPI spec for the Upstash Developer API (manage databases, teams and billing at api.upstash.com, authenticated): https://upstash.com/docs/devops/developer-api/openapi.yaml — also at https://upstash.com/openapi.json and listed in https://upstash.com/.well-known/api-catalog
- OpenAPI specs for the product REST APIs: QStash https://upstash.com/docs/qstash/openapi.yaml · Workflow https://upstash.com/docs/workflow/openapi.yaml
- The homepage, pricing pages and blog pages can be fetched as markdown by sending `Accept: text/markdown`; pricing pages and blog posts also have `.md` URLs (e.g. https://upstash.com/pricing/redis.md, https://upstash.com/blog.md). Unknown paths return a 404 with a markdown body.
- Errors from these endpoints are JSON with `error`, `code` and `resolution` fields.
- MCP server for managing Upstash resources from Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients: `npx @upstash/mcp-server` — https://github.com/upstash/mcp-server
- Reusable agent skills for each SDK: `npx skills add https://github.com/upstash/skills`
- Programmatic account and database management (authenticated): Developer API — https://upstash.com/docs/devops/developer-api

## Pricing & Limits

- [Redis Pricing](https://upstash.com/pricing/redis): Free, Pay-as-you-go ($0.20/100K commands), Fixed tiers ($10–$1500/month), Enterprise
- [Redis Pricing (Markdown)](https://upstash.com/pricing/redis.md): Machine-readable Redis pricing — plans, limits, feature matrix, FAQ
- [QStash Pricing](https://upstash.com/pricing/qstash): Free, Pay-as-you-go ($1/100K messages), Fixed 1M ($180/month), Fixed 10M ($420/month), Enterprise
- [QStash Pricing (Markdown)](https://upstash.com/pricing/qstash.md): Machine-readable QStash pricing
- [Vector Pricing](https://upstash.com/pricing/vector): Free, Pay-as-you-go ($0.40/100K requests), Fixed ($60/month), Pro (contact us)
- [Vector Pricing (Markdown)](https://upstash.com/pricing/vector.md): Machine-readable Vector pricing
- [Workflow Pricing](https://upstash.com/pricing/workflow): Free, Pay-as-you-go ($1/100K steps), Fixed 1M ($180/month), Fixed 10M ($420/month)
- [Workflow Pricing (Markdown)](https://upstash.com/pricing/workflow.md): Machine-readable Workflow pricing
- [Search Pricing](https://upstash.com/pricing/search): Free, Pay-as-you-go ($0.05/1K requests), Pro (coming soon) — Preview/Early Access
- [Search Pricing (Markdown)](https://upstash.com/pricing/search.md): Machine-readable Search pricing
- [Box Pricing](https://upstash.com/pricing/box): Free, Pay-as-you-go ($0.10–$0.40/active CPU hour by size), Enterprise
- [Box Pricing (Markdown)](https://upstash.com/pricing/box.md): Machine-readable Box pricing

## Enterprise & Compliance

- [Enterprise](https://upstash.com/enterprise): Custom contracts, VPC peering, HIPAA, SSO, SLA, dedicated support
- [Professional Support](https://upstash.com/docs/common/help/prosupport): Dedicated service desk and Slack/Discord SLA

## Documentation

- [Docs](https://upstash.com/docs): Full product documentation
- [Redis Quickstart](https://upstash.com/docs/redis/overall/getstarted): Getting started with Upstash Redis
- [QStash Quickstart](https://upstash.com/docs/qstash/overall/getstarted): Getting started with QStash
- [Vector Quickstart](https://upstash.com/docs/vector/overall/getstarted): Getting started with Vector
- [Workflow Quickstart](https://upstash.com/docs/workflow/getstarted): Getting started with Workflow
- [Box Quickstart](https://upstash.com/docs/box/overall/quickstart): Getting started with Box

## Contact

- Support: support@upstash.com