Pricing calculator
Model your managed Valkey cost, line by line.
Compare sellable Steada plans with Upstash PAYG. No invented region or payload multipliers; larger workloads are marked for sizing review.
Live Steada tier versus Upstash PAYG, excluding tax, transfer and add-ons.
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How this calculator works
Steada uses the smallest sellable size tier that fits your dataset with 20% memory headroom: $9–$249/month. Datasets above 1.6 GiB need a sizing review. This is a cache-mode estimate in NYC3, excluding tax and optional durability. CPU and connection limits still apply; a price estimate is not a throughput guarantee. Each other input carries its own source and review date. Infrastructure-only prices do not include managed operations.
The formula is visible by design — no hidden multipliers:Steada = selected tier; Upstash PAYG = commands / 100,000 × $0.20 + max(0, storage GB − 1) × $0.25
GiB is converted to decimal GB for Upstash storage. Transfer charges, replicas and optional add-ons are excluded. Payload and application region do not change these estimates. Upstash also offers Fixed plans from $10/month with capacity, bandwidth and throughput limits. They can be cheaper than both PAYG and Steada. Competitor pricing reviewed September 11, 2026.
Wondering why per-command pricing grows the way it does, or how Valkey relates to Redis? See the Upstash cost crossover and the Valkey vs Redis explainer, or model a specific workload: rate limiting · session store · LLM response cache.
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