Redis Pricing: Plans & Cost Calculator 2026
Usage-based pricing from a free tier to a $200/mo Pro minimum across five plans, including a self-hosted open-source option.
Redis plans and pricing
Open Source (Self-Hosted)
Good for developers wanting full control and no cost
Free
Development / getting started
Essentials
Small production / cost-conscious
Pro
Dedicated production workloads
Enterprise Software
Designed for large organizations with complex needs and specific requirements
Redis pricing: the quick answer
Redis runs from free to a $200 per month minimum on Redis Cloud as of July 8, 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 95% below the $99/mo median across 5 databases tools we track.
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Redis Hidden Costs & Pitfalls
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.
Redis pricing, read against its live plans and category
Positioning
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.
Cost drivers
- 1The $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.
- 2Essentials 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.
- 3First $200 on Pro is a one-time credit. It covers your opening month, not every month, so plan for the full floor after that.
Watch-outs
The jump from Essentials to Pro is a cliff, not a ramp, and recent licensing changes have unsettled part of the open-source community.
Strengths
- 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
Editor’s take
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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Sources & verification
| Source | What was checked | Last checked |
|---|---|---|
| Official Pricing Page | Source of verified tiers | July 8, 2026 |
| Official Website | Official vendor website | — |
| G2 | G2 verified user reviews · 4.5/5 · 134 reviews | — |
| Capterra | Capterra verified user reviews · 4.6/5 | — |
| TrustRadius | TrustRadius verified reviews | — |
| PeerSpot | PeerSpot enterprise peer reviews | — |
Every fact on this Redis pricing page is tied to a named source and a verification date. Freshness-sensitive figures trace to the sources above; verify against the vendor before relying on them.
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