Redis Cloud

DB 4.8/10

Essentials from $0.007/hour = $5/mo for a 250 MB instance; adds TLS, backups, single-zone HA, up to 10,000 connections; scales to 12 GB. Includes Redis Stack modules (search, JSON,

Redis Cloud scores 4.8/10 for free value in DB. The main constraint: Paid — $5/mo (Essentials, 250 MB). Essentials from $0.007/hour = $5/mo for a 250 MB instance; adds TLS, backups, single-zone HA, up to 10,000 connections; scales to 12 GB. Includes Redis Stack modules (search, JSON, vector).

Category DB Kind Paid plan

Free value score

4.8 / 10

Show the math

Overall 4.8/10

value = 4.8/100

weighted_components_v1

Capacity 1.4/10

value = 0.02 ×

fixed_log_v1

Operations 8.2/10

value = 8.2/100

policy_score_v1

Production fit 8/10

value = 8/100

policy_score_v1

Key metrics

0.25 GB Storage

1 reads/mo Reads policy_default: Conservative scoring fallback: no comparable monthly read allowance is published in this item.

1 writes/mo Writes policy_default: Conservative scoring fallback: no comparable monthly write allowance is published in this item.

$5/mo

250 MB

10k conn

What you get

Paid — $5/mo (Essentials, 250 MB). Essentials from $0.007/hour = $5/mo for a 250 MB instance; adds TLS, backups, single-zone HA, up to 10,000 connections; scales to 12 GB. Includes Redis Stack modules (search, JSON, vector).

Official Redis with modules from $5; Redis Flex 10% RAM lowers cost further — includes RediSearch/vector and JSON, not just a cache

Gotchas

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Sources

"Essentials. From. $0.007/hour. Total $5/month"
https://redis.io/pricing/
"Paid: 250MB–12GB memory, up to 10,000 connections · Adds TLS, backups, single-zone high availability."
https://support.redislabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/27361653454098-Choosing-a-Subscription-and-Creating-Your-First-Database

paid value databases

Open service Source ← All DB

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