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Managed Redis from Redis Inc., with a permanent free tier and active-active multi-region replication on the Pro plan.

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Entry paid planEssentials: from $0.007/hour, $5/month total. 250 MB-100 GB RAM and SSD, single DB.
Regions76 regions for Redis Cloud Pro — 34 AWS and 42 Google Cloud — and 38 for Essentials (20 AWS, 16 Google Cloud, 2 Azure). Counted from the per-provider tables on Redis's supported-regions page, which publishes the regions and no total; Redis Cloud Pro on Azure is delivered as Azure Managed Redis rather than listed here, and the page notes AWS me-central-1 is temporarily unavailable.
Free tierYes
CategoryCaching

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 20 criteria comparedSources last checked

Redis Cloud pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
Essentials: from $0.007/hour, $5/month total. 250 MB-100 GB RAM and SSD, single DB source ↗
Pricing model
On-demand hourly billing source ↗

First line of each sourced value. The full text is in Redis Cloud pricing below. How this free offer stacks up: cloud free tiers compared.

01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

Teams that want Redis from the company that maintains it, with an on-demand hourly Essentials tier cheap enough to run a small production workload without committing to a fixed plan.

Consider something else if…

Multi-region active-active replication is needed on a small budget — that's a Pro-tier feature here, where a serverless competitor may price per-region replication into a lower-cost plan.

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Redis Cloud pricing

4 criteria
Free tierYes
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Kind of free offerFree tier
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Entry paid planEssentials: from $0.007/hour, $5/month total. 250 MB-100 GB RAM and SSD, single DB.
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Pricing modelOn-demand hourly billing. Data transfer is included in the price, with limits.
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  • Redis Cloud Pricing ↗

    “Pricing methodology On demand On demand On demand On demand, annual Data transfer Included in price, limited Included in price, limited Included in price, limited Usage based”

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Infrastructure

1 criteria
Regions76 regions for Redis Cloud Pro — 34 AWS and 42 Google Cloud — and 38 for Essentials (20 AWS, 16 Google Cloud, 2 Azure). Counted from the per-provider tables on Redis's supported-regions page, which publishes the regions and no total; Redis Cloud Pro on Azure is delivered as Azure Managed Redis rather than listed here, and the page notes AWS me-central-1 is temporarily unavailable.
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Caching

3 criteria
Max dataset size, entry plan30 MB on the free Redis Cloud Essentials plan; paid Essentials plans start at 250 MB and run to 12 GB, or to 100 GB on the Essentials plans with Redis Flex, per the plan tables on this page. Redis Cloud Pro is separate: the plan comparison lists 50 TB memory size.
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Data persistenceAOF (every write on Redis Cloud Pro, every second on paid Essentials) or snapshots every 1, 6 or 12 hours; free Essentials plans support no persistence at all.
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  • Data persistence — Redis Cloud Docs ↗

    “Snapshots are copies of the in-memory database, taken at periodic intervals (one, six, or twelve hours). [...] Free Redis Cloud Essentials plans do not support data persistence; the setting is disabled entirely. [...] Paid Redis Cloud Essentials plans support AOF every second and all snapshot options.”

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Multi-region replicationActive-active multi-region replication is a Pro feature, alongside auto-tiering and private connectivity; Essentials is active-passive.
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  • Redis Cloud Pricing ↗

    “Everything in Essentials, plus active-active (multi-region), auto-tiering, private connectivity [...] Deployment Active-Passive global distribution Active-Active global distribution”

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Vector

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Similarity metrics supportedCosine appears as the distance metric in Redis's own vector-field schema example. The page shows it in use and does not enumerate the other metrics, so this is not a list of what is supported.
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Metadata filteringSupported — a vector KNN query can be combined with a pre-filter on other indexed fields in the same query.
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Support

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Support on entry paid planBest-effort SLA, community support
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Compliance

9 criteria
SOC 2Annual SOC 2 Type II (SSAE 18) audit by an independent third-party firm; Redis provides the report on written request, under confidentiality. Measures document applies to the Redis Cloud Services; last updated March 20, 2025.
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ISO 27001ISO 27001:2022 ISMS certification covering information assets at Redis; the certificate is downloadable from the Trust Center after requesting access. Trust Center names Coalfire as auditor; scope is stated for Redis, not Redis Cloud specifically.
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HIPAARedis offers a HIPAA-compliant business associate agreement (BAA) for its HIPAA-secure Redis Cloud services.
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GDPR / data residencyDPA incorporates the EU Standard Contractual Clauses; the customer controls which geographic region personal data resides in when configuring the service.
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  • Data Processing Addendum — Redis Legal Hub ↗

    “standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to third countries pursuant to the Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/914 of 4 June 2021 [...] Customer controls the geographic regions in which Personal Data resides when configuring the Services.”

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PCI DSSAssessed as a Level 1 Service Provider against PCI DSS 4.0.1; Redis Cloud Flexible/Annual subscriptions may process, store and transmit card data. Scope named as Redis Cloud Flexible/Annual subscriptions, not Essentials.
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Encryption at restRedis Cloud deployments are always encrypted at rest — encrypted EBS volumes on AWS, and disk encryption by default on Google Cloud and Azure. Docs say always; the plan comparison table lists encryption at rest only under Redis Cloud Pro.
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  • Encryption at rest — Redis Cloud Docs ↗

    “Redis Cloud deployments are always encrypted at rest. [...] Persistent data is written to encrypted EBS volumes. [...] All data written to disk on Google Cloud-based Redis Cloud deployments is encrypted by default.”

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Role-based access controlRBAC is configured in the Redis Cloud console: named Redis ACLs are grouped into roles spanning databases, and roles are assigned to database users. Some Redis ACL subcommands (ACL SETUSER, DELUSER, LOAD, SAVE, LOG, GENPASS) are not supported.
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Private networking / VPCAWS PrivateLink exposes the database as a VPC endpoint service inside your own VPC; available only with Redis Cloud Pro, not supported on Essentials. VPC peering, AWS Transit Gateway and Google Private Service Connect are the other options, also Pro only.
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Dedicated infrastructureRedis Cloud Pro is hosted in dedicated VPCs, with single- or multi-AZ high availability, Active-Active, clustering and configurable backups. The pricing page calls Essentials a shared deployment and Pro a dedicated cloud deployment.
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  • Manage subscriptions — Redis Cloud Docs ↗

    “Redis Cloud Pro supports more databases, larger databases, greater throughput, and no fixed database-level connection limit compared to Redis Cloud Essentials. [...] Hosted in dedicated VPCs, they feature high-availability in a single or multi-AZ, Active-Active, clustering, data persistence, and configurable backups.”

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Redis Cloud pricing questions

How much does Redis Cloud cost?

Essentials: from $0.007/hour, $5/month total. 250 MB-100 GB RAM and SSD, single DB.

Redis Cloud Pricing · read

How does Redis Cloud charge?

On-demand hourly billing. Data transfer is included in the price, with limits.

Redis Cloud Pricing · read

Does Redis Cloud have a free tier?

Yes.

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