Redis Pricing: Plans & Features 2026
Usage-based pricing from $5/mo to $200/mo across 5 plans, including a free tier and a self-hosted open-source option.
Redis plans and pricing
Open Source (Self-Hosted)
Open SourceBest for: Good for developers wanting full control and no cost
- ✓Self-managed deployment
- ✓Access to Redis source code
- ✓Community support
- ✓Flexible deployment options
- ✓Full control over infrastructure
Free
FreeBest for: Development / getting started
- ✓30 MB database size
- ✓Up to 30 concurrent connections
- ✓1 CIDR allow rule
- ✓5 GB monthly total network bandwidth
- ✓Up to 100 ops/sec throughput
Essentials
$5/moBest for: Small production / cost-conscious
- ✓Cost-efficient for low-throughput scenarios
- ✓Scales by memory size
- ✓High availability options
- ✓Daily and instant backups
- ✓Increased storage and reliability for production
Pro
$200/moBest for: Dedicated production workloads
- ✓Dedicated VPC infrastructure
- ✓Multi-AZ high availability (optional)
- ✓99.999% uptime SLA
- ✓Active-Active replication (up to 10 regions)
- ✓Automatic hot/cold data separation (Auto-tiering)
Enterprise Software
Contact SalesBest for: Designed for large organizations with complex needs and specific requirements
- ✓Designed for enterprise multi-region deployments
- ✓Advanced cost management with Flash/Auto-Tiering at scale
- ✓Customizable solutions
- ✓Direct sales engagement
- ✓Tailored support and services
Redis pricing: the quick answer
Redis runs from free to a $200 per month minimum on Redis Cloud as of July 2, 2026. Self-hosting the open-source build is free, and the managed Free tier gives you a 30 MB database at no cost. Paid Redis Cloud is billed hourly: Essentials starts at $0.007/hr, roughly $5 a month on shared infrastructure, and Pro starts at $0.014/hr on dedicated infrastructure with a $200 monthly minimum, though your first $200 is free. Enterprise Software is custom-quoted. The jump from a few dollars on Essentials to the $200 Pro floor is the number to plan around.
- Open Source (Self-Hosted)Free
- FreeFree
- Essentials$5/mo
- Pro$200/mo
- Enterprise SoftwareCustom
At $5/mo to start, Redis sits 0% above the $4.99/mo median across 5 databases tools we track.
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What Redis really costs
The Free and Essentials tiers are cheap by design. The cost that reshapes the decision is the Pro floor, which is where dedicated infrastructure and enterprise features actually begin.
Pricing Expert Take
Independent analysis · Redis
Value Analysis
Redis pricing has a wide gap in the middle. Self-host the open-source build for free, or start on managed Redis Cloud: a Free 30 MB tier at no cost, Essentials at $0.007/hr (about $5/mo) on shared infrastructure, and Pro at $0.014/hr on dedicated infrastructure with a $200/mo minimum. Enterprise Software is custom-quoted. For a small caching workload the $5 Essentials tier is genuinely cheap; the moment you need dedicated resources or an uptime SLA, the price jumps hard.
Hidden Costs
- The $200 Pro floor is the real story. Pro's per-hour rate is low, but the $200 monthly minimum means basic enterprise features like VPC peering start at $200 regardless of how small your instance is.
- Essentials is shared, best-effort. The cheap tier runs on shared deployment without a guaranteed SLA, so production workloads that need reliability guarantees cannot stay there.
- First $200 on Pro is a one-time credit. It covers your opening month, not every month, so plan for the full floor after that.
Red Flags
The jump from Essentials to Pro is a cliff, not a ramp, and recent licensing changes have unsettled part of the open-source community.
"the smallest instance costs USD 197.10, which is a lot for a small project."
"Multiple contributors... disagree with the licensing change and that they revoke the rights"
Based on analysis of recent Reddit and G2 discussions.
Green Wins
- Sub-millisecond latency, the fastest common data store for caching
- Supported by essentially every framework and language
- Rich data structures for real-time use cases
"If you have any serious volume of requests, Redis is always cheaper."
Verdict
Hobby projects and small production apps should stay on the $5/mo Essentials tier or self-host the open-source build; the leap to Pro's $200/mo floor only pays off once you genuinely need dedicated infrastructure, multi-region writes, or compliance. If you want a relational store with JSON support instead of an in-memory cache, PostgreSQL is the more versatile pick.
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Research Reports
Sources & Data Trail · Redis
- 1.Official Pricing Page·Source of verified tiers(Checked: 2026-07-02)
- 2.Official Website·Official vendor website
- 3.G2·G2 verified user reviews · 4.5/5 · 134 reviews
- 4.Capterra·Capterra verified user reviews · 4.6/5
- 5.TrustRadius·TrustRadius verified reviews
- 6.PeerSpot·PeerSpot enterprise peer reviews