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Redis Cloud vs Qdrant

SEPT 2026 audit

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

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 28 criteria comparedSources last checked

The short answer

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

Choose Qdrant if…

Teams that want a choice of similarity metric rather than one fixed default, or that want the option to self-host the same open-source engine the managed cloud runs.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Consider something else if…

  • 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.
  • Qdrant: A published, calculator-free entry price matters — Qdrant Cloud's Standard tier pricing is usage-based with no static per-month figure quoted, unlike some competitors' flat entry plans.

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

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

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01.

At a glance.

CriterionRedis CloudQdrant
Pricing
Free tierYesYes
Kind of free offerFree tierAlways free
Entry paid planEssentials: from $0.007/hour, $5/month total. 250 MB-100 GB RAM and SSD, single DB.Smallest paid Managed Cloud cluster (1 node, 0.5 vCPU, 2 GiB RAM, 8 GiB disk) on AWS us-east-1: $0.03566/hour, about $26.10/month, per Qdrant's own Cloud pricing calculator. Calculator estimate for AWS us-east-1; VAT excluded and expressly not a binding offer.
Pricing modelOn-demand hourly billing. Data transfer is included in the price, with limits.Usage-based on the Standard tier: billed for compute (vCPU), memory (GB) and storage (GB) consumed by clusters, backup storage, and inference tokens for paid models.
Infrastructure
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.Standard and Premium tiers run on AWS, Azure and GCP.
Vector
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.Dot product, Cosine similarity (implemented as dot-product over automatically normalized vectors), Euclidean distance and Manhattan distance.
Metadata filteringSupported — a vector KNN query can be combined with a pre-filter on other indexed fields in the same query.Supported: conditions can be set on the payload and on the point id, combined with AND, OR and NOT clauses that nest arbitrarily.
Compliance
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.SOC 2 Type 2 certified; compliance reports available on request through the Qdrant Trust Center.
HIPAARedis offers a HIPAA-compliant business associate agreement (BAA) for its HIPAA-secure Redis Cloud services.HIPAA certified; a Business Associate Agreement is available for Qdrant Managed Cloud.
GDPR / data residencyDPA incorporates the EU Standard Contractual Clauses; the customer controls which geographic region personal data resides in when configuring the service.DPA offered for GDPR; cluster data is stored only in the cluster's deployment region.
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.All storage volumes in Qdrant Managed Cloud are encrypted at rest; data in transit is protected with TLS.
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.Built-in RBAC in the Qdrant Cloud Management Console, with permissions manageable at collection level.
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.Private link connectivity from a Managed Cloud cluster to your VPC, available to Premium tier customers only.
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.Paid Managed Cloud clusters run on their own dedicated resources, isolated in hardened, unprivileged containers.

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

Redis Cloud
Free tier
Qdrant
Always free
Sources (2) →
  • Redis Cloud Pricing ↗

    “Free Always $0 Up to 30 MB Just go for it Shared cloud deployment 30 MB single DB Best-effort SLA, community support”

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

  • Qdrant Pricing ↗

    “Free Tier Free forever For testing, and prototypes Single Node Cluster 0.5 vCPU / 1GB RAM/ 4 GB Disk. Free Cloud Inference With Selected Models Start Free”

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

Entry paid plan

Redis Cloud
Essentials: from $0.007/hour, $5/month total. 250 MB-100 GB RAM and SSD, single DB.
Qdrant
Smallest paid Managed Cloud cluster (1 node, 0.5 vCPU, 2 GiB RAM, 8 GiB disk) on AWS us-east-1: $0.03566/hour, about $26.10/month, per Qdrant's own Cloud pricing calculator. Calculator estimate for AWS us-east-1; VAT excluded and expressly not a binding offer.
Sources (2) →
  • Redis Cloud Pricing ↗

    “Essentials From $0.007 /hour Total $5/month Get Essentials Shared deployment 250 MB-100 GB RAM & SSD, single DB”

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

  • Qdrant Cloud · Calculator ↗

    “RAM: 2 GiB vCPUs: 0.5 vCPU Disk Space: 8 GiB Nodes: 1 Node [...] HOURLY: 0.03566 × 1 node = $0.03566/hour MONTHLY: 0.03566 × 24 hours × 30.5 days × 1 node = $26.10/month*”

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

Pricing model

Redis Cloud
On-demand hourly billing. Data transfer is included in the price, with limits.
Qdrant
Usage-based on the Standard tier: billed for compute (vCPU), memory (GB) and storage (GB) consumed by clusters, backup storage, and inference tokens for paid models.
Sources (2) →
  • 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

  • Qdrant Cloud Pricing ↗

    “Billing is calculated based on actual resource usage during the billing period. You're charged for compute (vCPU), memory (GB), storage (GB) consumed by your clusters, storage (GB) consumed by backups, and used inference tokens of paid models.”

    Read 2026-09-11 · official pricing · Report a correction

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.
Qdrant
Standard and Premium tiers run on AWS, Azure and GCP.
Sources (2) →
  • 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

  • Qdrant Pricing ↗

    “Cloud Providers Depends on chosen infrastructure AWS, Azure, GCP AWS, Azure, GCP AWS, Azure, GCP Uptime SLA 99.5 Single AZ: 99.9, Multi AZ: 99.95”

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

Similarity metrics supported

Redis 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.
Qdrant
Dot product, Cosine similarity (implemented as dot-product over automatically normalized vectors), Euclidean distance and Manhattan distance.
Sources (2) →
  • Vector search — Redis Docs ↗

    “algorithm: SCHEMA_VECTOR_FIELD_ALGORITHM. FLAT, dim: 384, distance_metric: 'COSINE', as: 'vector'”

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

  • Collections — Qdrant Docs ↗

    “Qdrant supports these most popular types of metrics: Dot product: Dot - [wiki] Cosine similarity: Cosine - [wiki] Euclidean distance: Euclid - [wiki] Manhattan distance: Manhattan - [wiki] For search efficiency, Cosine similarity is implemented as dot-product over normalized vectors.”

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

Metadata filtering

Redis Cloud
Supported — a vector KNN query can be combined with a pre-filter on other indexed fields in the same query.
Qdrant
Supported: conditions can be set on the payload and on the point id, combined with AND, OR and NOT clauses that nest arbitrarily.
Sources (2) →
  • Redis vector search documentation ↗

    “(@brand:trek)=>[KNN 50 @vector $query_vector]=>{$SHARD_K_RATIO: 0.4; $YIELD_DISTANCE_AS: similarity}”

    Read 2026-09-11 · official docs · Report a correction

  • Filtering — Qdrant Docs ↗

    “With Qdrant, you can set conditions when searching or retrieving points. For example, you can impose conditions on both the payload and the id of the point. [...] Qdrant allows you to combine conditions in clauses. Clauses are different logical operations, such as OR, AND, and NOT. Clauses can be recursively nested into each other so that you can reproduce an arbitrary boolean expression.”

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

SOC 2

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.
Qdrant
SOC 2 Type 2 certified; compliance reports available on request through the Qdrant Trust Center.
Sources (2) →

HIPAA

Redis Cloud
Redis offers a HIPAA-compliant business associate agreement (BAA) for its HIPAA-secure Redis Cloud services.
Qdrant
HIPAA certified; a Business Associate Agreement is available for Qdrant Managed Cloud.
Sources (2) →

GDPR / data residency

Redis Cloud
DPA incorporates the EU Standard Contractual Clauses; the customer controls which geographic region personal data resides in when configuring the service.
Qdrant
DPA offered for GDPR; cluster data is stored only in the cluster's deployment region.
Sources (2) →

Encryption at rest

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.
Qdrant
All storage volumes in Qdrant Managed Cloud are encrypted at rest; data in transit is protected with TLS.
Sources (2) →

Role-based access control

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.
Qdrant
Built-in RBAC in the Qdrant Cloud Management Console, with permissions manageable at collection level.
Sources (2) →

Private networking / VPC

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.
Qdrant
Private link connectivity from a Managed Cloud cluster to your VPC, available to Premium tier customers only.
Sources (2) →

Dedicated infrastructure

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.
Qdrant
Paid Managed Cloud clusters run on their own dedicated resources, isolated in hardened, unprivileged containers.
Sources (2) →

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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 includesQdrant: A single-node cluster with 1 GB RAM and 4 GB disk, free forever, without high availability.
When the free offer endsQdrant: Never — the free cluster is free forever.
Uptime SLAQdrant: 99.5% on the paid cloud tier; 99.9% on Premium.
Audit logsQdrant: Audit logging, available on paid clusters, captures operations performed through the Qdrant API, including user and API key attribution, timestamp, target collection, and result of the action.
Max dataset size, entry planRedis 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.
Data persistenceRedis 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.
Multi-region replicationRedis Cloud: Active-active multi-region replication is a Pro feature, alongside auto-tiering and private connectivity; Essentials is active-passive.
Max vector dimensionsQdrant: Up to 65,535 dimensions for dense vectors
Hybrid search (vector + keyword)Qdrant: Native hybrid queries combine dense semantic and sparse lexical (BM25) vectors in a single query
Support on entry paid planRedis Cloud: Best-effort SLA, community support
Response time commitmentQdrant: Published as best effort, 10x5 and 24x7. The comparison table prints three response values against four support levels, so which tier gets which cannot be read off this page.
ISO 27001Redis 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.
PCI DSSRedis 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.
Customer-managed keysQdrant: Premium tier customers can bring their own encryption keys for storage volumes.
04.

Questions this comparison answers.

Entry paid plan: Redis Cloud or Qdrant?

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

Qdrant: Smallest paid Managed Cloud cluster (1 node, 0.5 vCPU, 2 GiB RAM, 8 GiB disk) on AWS us-east-1: $0.03566/hour, about $26.10/month, per Qdrant's own Cloud pricing calculator. Calculator estimate for AWS us-east-1; VAT excluded and expressly not a binding offer.

Should I choose Redis Cloud or Qdrant?

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.

Pick Qdrant if Teams that want a choice of similarity metric rather than one fixed default, or that want the option to self-host the same open-source engine the managed cloud runs.

Provider pages

Redis CloudManaged Redis from Redis Inc., with a permanent free tier and active-active multi-region replication on the Pro plan.QdrantOpen-source vector database with a free-forever cloud tier and four selectable similarity metrics.

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Comments

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