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Schedulers 4.6/10

Unlimited messages/day, up to 1,000 active schedules, 10 MB message size, 1-year max delay, 2-hour HTTP response duration; no monthly minimum.

Upstash QStash scores 4.6/10 for free value in Schedulers. The main constraint: Paid — $1 per 100K messages (pay-as-you-go). Unlimited messages/day, up to 1,000 active schedules, 10 MB message size, 1-year max delay, 2-hour HTTP response duration; no monthly minimum.

Category Schedulers Kind Paid plan

Free value score

4.6 / 10
Show the math
Overall 4.6/10
value = 4.6/100
weighted_components_v1
Run value 1/10
value = 0.01 ×
fixed_log_v1
Reliability 8.2/10
value = 8.2/100
policy_score_v1
Workflow fit 8/10
value = 8/100
policy_score_v1

Key metrics

1/mo Run quota Uses stated run/message/execution quota when present; otherwise a conservative floor.
1.0/hr Granularity/reliability Derived from minimum interval with conservative reliability adjustment.
1 Workflow/runtime http
$1/100k
1k sched
unltd/day

What you get

Paid — $1 per 100K messages (pay-as-you-go). Unlimited messages/day, up to 1,000 active schedules, 10 MB message size, 1-year max delay, 2-hour HTTP response duration; no monthly minimum.

100,000 scheduled/delivered messages per $1 — among the best $/invocation for serverless scheduling

Gotchas

No gotchas documented yet. Contribute one if you know a constraint we missed.

Sources

paid value schedulers
Open service ← All Schedulers

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