Pick Inngest if
teams who will stay on Free $0 (50k executions, no card) while they wrap a first agent, then buy Pro at $99/month when they need 1M executions and 7-day traces.
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Our take
Pick Inngest if teams who will stay on Free $0 (50k executions, no card) while they wrap a first agent, then buy Pro at $99/month when they need 1M executions and 7-day traces. Pick Upstash if app teams who will stay on Redis Free $0 (250 MB, 500k commands, no card) while they cache a first route, then put a card on file when they need Pay as You Go at $0.20/100k commands — or add QStash / Workflow / Vector / Box on
Inngest
durable event runtime for functions and
Best for
Inngest Event-driven durable functions you start at $0
Upstash A cache, a message, a durable step, a vector index, or a box you start without a card
Free plan
Inngest $0 · /month. No card. 5 seats. 50k executions/mo. 5 concurrent steps. 3 workers. 500k events. 100k queue depth. 50 realtime connections. 256 KiB event size. 500 MB span data. 10K scores. 24-hour traces. When the free quota is gone, execution pauses until you upgrade
Upstash $0 · /month. 250 MB. 500k commands/mo. 10 GB bandwidth. 1 database
Lowest paid
Inngest Sandbox compute $0.000011
Upstash Pay as You Go $0.10
Next step up
Inngest Pro execution overage $0.000050
Upstash Pay as You Go $0.20
Coding agent
Inngest Agent Evals
Upstash
Runs where
Inngest
Upstash Hosted
Watch out
Inngest Free pauses when 50k executions are gone
Upstash Free Redis is 250 MB and 500k commands
Last checked
Inngest 2026-10-22 · inngest.com/pricing
Upstash 2026-10-22 · upstash.com/pricing/redis
Which one, then?
Pick Upstash if
app teams who will stay on Redis Free $0 (250 MB, 500k commands, no card) while they cache a first route, then put a card on file when they need Pay as You Go at $0.20/100k commands — or add QStash / Workflow / Vector / Box on the same $0 free envelope.
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