One free serverless vector index: 10K queries and updates a day, up to 200M vectors × dimensions and 1 GB of data, on AWS or GCP.
Verified ·Oct 15, 2026
Free allowance
What the free plan includes, as the provider states it.
- queries and updates / day
- 10K
- stored dimensions
- 200M
- Vectors × dimensions, e.g. about 260,000 vectors of 768 dimensions. Maximum 1,536 dimensions per vector.
- storage
- 1 GB
- Maximum total data and metadata size.
- indexes
- 1
- One free database; up to 100 namespaces.
Before you rely on it
Read with the default assumptions: a project that may grow and may make money.
- Notice: Deletes free resources after 7 days without activity
The fine print
Each verdict links to the quote it rests on.
- Free for
- As long as you stay within the limits
- At the limit
- Not documented
- Spending cap
- None needed: the free plan cannot bill you
- Idle projects
- No pause rule documentedUpstash's terms give it the right to delete free-plan resources that receive no requests for 1 week (a right, not a fixed schedule). Indexes scale to zero when idle.
- Data retention
- Free resources deleted after 7 days without activity
- Card at sign-up
- Not documented
- Identity check
- An email address
- Commercial use
- Not statedUpstash describes the free plan as for prototypes and hobby projects.
- Mainland China
- Not verified
- Sign-up regions
- No restrictions documented
- Quotas apply per
- Account
Alternatives
Other free plans for the same need, ranked by the same neutral rules.
Changes
- Correction
Worse: Behaviour at the limit corrected: upgrade required → not documented
- Oct 15, 2026
- Awaiting review
- Free