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MemCachier vs Redis Cloud

SEPT 2026 audit

A comparison of MemCachier and Redis Cloud built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 23 criteria comparedSources last checked

The short answer

Choose MemCachier if…

Teams that specifically want Memcached's simpler protocol rather than Redis's data structures, and prefer a flat monthly price over metered billing.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Choose Redis Cloud if…

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.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Consider something else if…

  • MemCachier: Durability matters — Memcached is inherently in-memory-only by design, unlike some Redis-compatible competitors in this category that offer disk persistence.
  • Redis Cloud: 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.

Neither quite fits? Every other option, ranked by iScore: MemCachier alternatives · Redis Cloud alternatives

15 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.

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01.

At a glance.

CriterionMemCachierRedis Cloud
Pricing
Free tierYesYes
Kind of free offerAlways freeFree tier
Entry paid plan
Basic tier: starting around $14/month, with 100MB, 250MB or 500MB storage options.
Essentials: from $0.007/hour, $5/month total. 250 MB-100 GB RAM and SSD, single DB.
Pricing modelFixed monthly subscription tiers by cache size, not metered per-operation or per-GB usage.On-demand hourly billing. Data transfer is included in the price, with limits.
Infrastructure
RegionsStatus page lists live clusters in 6 AWS regions (ap-northeast-1, ap-southeast-1, eu-central-1, eu-west-1, us-east-1, us-west-2) and 9 DigitalOcean regions (AMS3, BLR1, FRA1, LON1, NYC1, NYC3, SFO2, SGP1, TOR1). Live cluster list, not a published catalogue of orderable regions.76 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.
Caching
Max dataset size, entry plan100GB is the largest cache size listed, at the top of the Business plan. Enterprise adds larger cache sizes without naming one.30 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.
Data persistenceNone: cached data is kept in memory at all times, never written to disk, and MemCachier performs no backup of customer cachesAOF (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.
Support
Support on entry paid plan
Best effort support on Basic (~$14/month), the entry paid plan; 24/7 support from Business; a dedicated account manager on Enterprise.
Best-effort SLA, community support
Compliance
SOC 2
SOC 2 applies at the data-center level: MemCachier utilizes SOC 2 certified data centers managed by Amazon and DigitalOcean. Scope is the hosting providers' data centers, per the Physical Security section.
Annual 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.
ISO 27001
ISO 27001 applies at the data-center level: MemCachier utilizes ISO 27001 certified data centers managed by Amazon and DigitalOcean. Scope is the hosting providers' data centers, per the Physical Security section.
ISO 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.
GDPR / data residency
Enters a data protection addendum incorporating standard contractual clauses for personal information of European Union residents, on request.
DPA incorporates the EU Standard Contractual Clauses; the customer controls which geographic region personal data resides in when configuring the service.
PCI DSS
Card payments run through PCI compliant processor Stripe; MemCachier's infrastructure providers are PCI Level 1 compliant.
Assessed 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.
Encryption at rest
Cache data is kept in memory and never written to disk; stored data can be encrypted by customer applications if required.
Redis 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.
Role-based access control
Per-credential capabilities: a cache can hold multiple credential sets, each restrictable to read-only access or barred from flushing the cache.
RBAC 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.
Private networking / VPC
Dedicated cluster in a separate VPC and Multi-AZ setups are listed only under the Enterprise plan (contact sales).
AWS 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.
Dedicated infrastructureEnterprise plan lists a dedicated cluster in a separate VPC, Multi-AZ setups and larger cache sizes; priced via Contact Sales.Redis 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.

Only criteria both providers publish appear here; a tinted cell marks a real difference. Criteria only one of them documents are listed below, and an absence there means we found no source — not that the feature is missing. How we source this.

The small bar above a value is inetGeek's own lean toward that side — computed from the same facts shown, never a number the provider published. See the picker below "The short answer" to weigh only the criteria you care about.

02.

Where they differ.

Kind of free offer

MemCachier
Always free
Redis Cloud
Free tier
Sources (2) →

Entry paid plan

MemCachier
Basic tier: starting around $14/month, with 100MB, 250MB or 500MB storage options.
Redis Cloud
Essentials: from $0.007/hour, $5/month total. 250 MB-100 GB RAM and SSD, single DB.
Sources (2) →

Pricing model

MemCachier
Fixed monthly subscription tiers by cache size, not metered per-operation or per-GB usage.
Redis Cloud
On-demand hourly billing. Data transfer is included in the price, with limits.
Sources (2) →
  • MemCachier Pricing ↗

    “Developer Totally free forever. Try it out. See what it can do. Always $0 25MB 1 proxy basic analytics [...] Starting at ~$14 /month 100MB 250MB 500MB 1 proxy historical analytics [...] Starting at ~$58 /month 1GB 2.5GB 5GB 7.5GB 2 proxies”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • 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”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction

Regions

MemCachier
Status page lists live clusters in 6 AWS regions (ap-northeast-1, ap-southeast-1, eu-central-1, eu-west-1, us-east-1, us-west-2) and 9 DigitalOcean regions (AMS3, BLR1, FRA1, LON1, NYC1, NYC3, SFO2, SGP1, TOR1). Live cluster list, not a published catalogue of orderable regions.
Redis Cloud
76 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.
Sources (2) →
  • MemCachier - Status ↗

    “Amazon AP-Northeast-1 Cluster 1 UP Amazon AP-Southeast-1 Cluster 1 UP Amazon EU-Central-1 Cluster 1 UP Amazon EU-West-1 Cluster 11 [...] Amazon US-East-1 Cluster 11 UP Amazon US-East-1 Cluster 21 UP Amazon US-East-1 Cluster 31 UP Amazon US-East-1 Cluster 53 UP Amazon US-West-2 Cluster 1 [...] DigitalOcean AMS3 Cluster 1 UP DigitalOcean BLR1 Cluster 1 UP DigitalOcean FRA1 Cluster 1 UP DigitalOcean LON1 Cluster 1 UP DigitalOcean NYC1 Cluster 1 UP DigitalOcean NYC3 Cluster 1 UP DigitalOcean SFO2 Cluster 1 UP DigitalOcean SGP1 Cluster 1 UP DigitalOcean TOR1 Cluster 1”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

  • Supported Cloud providers and regions — Redis Cloud Docs ↗

    “Redis Cloud supports databases in the following Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions. [...] Redis Cloud supports databases in the following Google Cloud regions. [...] Redis Cloud Essentials is available on the following Microsoft Azure regions:”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

Max dataset size, entry plan

MemCachier
100GB is the largest cache size listed, at the top of the Business plan. Enterprise adds larger cache sizes without naming one.
Redis Cloud
30 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.
Sources (2) →

Data persistence

MemCachier
None: cached data is kept in memory at all times, never written to disk, and MemCachier performs no backup of customer caches
Redis Cloud
AOF (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.
Sources (2) →
  • MemCachier Security ↗

    “We do not perform any backup of customer caches. All data stored by a customer in a cache is strictly kept in the cache and in-memory at all times. Our data model is one of a cache and a cache only, do not store data that cannot be lost with MemCachier.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

  • 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.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

Support on entry paid plan

MemCachier
Best effort support on Basic (~$14/month), the entry paid plan; 24/7 support from Business; a dedicated account manager on Enterprise.
Redis Cloud
Best-effort SLA, community support
Sources (2) →

SOC 2

MemCachier
SOC 2 applies at the data-center level: MemCachier utilizes SOC 2 certified data centers managed by Amazon and DigitalOcean. Scope is the hosting providers' data centers, per the Physical Security section.
Redis Cloud
Annual 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.
Sources (2) →

ISO 27001

MemCachier
ISO 27001 applies at the data-center level: MemCachier utilizes ISO 27001 certified data centers managed by Amazon and DigitalOcean. Scope is the hosting providers' data centers, per the Physical Security section.
Redis Cloud
ISO 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.
Sources (2) →

GDPR / data residency

MemCachier
Enters a data protection addendum incorporating standard contractual clauses for personal information of European Union residents, on request.
Redis Cloud
DPA incorporates the EU Standard Contractual Clauses; the customer controls which geographic region personal data resides in when configuring the service.
Sources (2) →
  • MemCachier Privacy Policy ↗

    “To the extent that you provide us with the personal information of residents of the European Union that is subject to European data protection laws, we agree to comply with the requirements of such laws. As required, MemCachier will enter into a data protection addendum incorporating standard contractual clauses”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

  • 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.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

PCI DSS

MemCachier
Card payments run through PCI compliant processor Stripe; MemCachier's infrastructure providers are PCI Level 1 compliant.
Redis Cloud
Assessed 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.
Sources (2) →

Encryption at rest

MemCachier
Cache data is kept in memory and never written to disk; stored data can be encrypted by customer applications if required.
Redis Cloud
Redis 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.
Sources (2) →
  • MemCachier Security ↗

    “A MemCachier cache is hosted on a shared, multi-tenant database that keeps all data in memory, never writing it to disk or elsewhere. [...] Stored data can be encrypted by customer applications in order to meet data security requirements.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

  • 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.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

Role-based access control

MemCachier
Per-credential capabilities: a cache can hold multiple credential sets, each restrictable to read-only access or barred from flushing the cache.
Redis Cloud
RBAC 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.
Sources (2) →

Private networking / VPC

MemCachier
Dedicated cluster in a separate VPC and Multi-AZ setups are listed only under the Enterprise plan (contact sales).
Redis Cloud
AWS 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.
Sources (2) →

Dedicated infrastructure

MemCachier
Enterprise plan lists a dedicated cluster in a separate VPC, Multi-AZ setups and larger cache sizes; priced via Contact Sales.
Redis Cloud
Redis 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.
Sources (2) →
  • MemCachier Pricing ↗

    “Enterprise For organizations that need additional control and support. [...] Everything in Business, plus: Larger cache sizes SAML Sign-on Dedicated cluster in separate VPC Multi-AZ setups Dedicated account manager”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • 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.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

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03.

Documented by only one.

These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing — except where we say we read the other provider's own page on a given date and it does not state it. Those rows lean, and the provider can correct them with a link.

What the free plan includesMemCachier: 25 MB of cache on one proxy with 10 connections and basic analytics, described as totally free forever.
When the free offer endsMemCachier: Never — the Developer cache is free forever.
Multi-region replicationRedis Cloud: Active-active multi-region replication is a Pro feature, alongside auto-tiering and private connectivity; Essentials is active-passive.
Similarity metrics supportedRedis Cloud: Cosine 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.
Metadata filteringRedis Cloud: Supported — a vector KNN query can be combined with a pre-filter on other indexed fields in the same query.
HIPAARedis Cloud: Redis offers a HIPAA-compliant business associate agreement (BAA) for its HIPAA-secure Redis Cloud services.
Customer-managed keysMemCachier: Key management is a customer application responsibility; customers encrypt stored data in their own application to meet data security requirements.
04.

Questions this comparison answers.

Entry paid plan: MemCachier or Redis Cloud?

MemCachier: Basic tier: starting around $14/month, with 100MB, 250MB or 500MB storage options.

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

Should I choose MemCachier or Redis Cloud?

Pick MemCachier if Teams that specifically want Memcached's simpler protocol rather than Redis's data structures, and prefer a flat monthly price over metered billing.

Pick Redis Cloud if 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.

Provider pages

MemCachierFully managed Memcached, billed on a fixed monthly tier by cache size rather than metered usage.Redis CloudManaged Redis from Redis Inc., with a permanent free tier and active-active multi-region replication on the Pro plan.

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Comments

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