Alternatives to Upstash QStash

Every queues and background jobs provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Upstash QStash's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Upstash QStash's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.

1. Amazon SQSvs Upstash QStashPricing model: Per request, not per message: every API action counts, and a 1 MiB payload is billed as 1…75#1/10→
2. Cloudflare Queuesvs Upstash QStashPricing model: Billed per operation, not per message: one operation per 64 KB written, read or deleted,…72#3/10→
3. Trigger.devvs Upstash QStashPricing model: A monthly plan fee that is also a credit balance — the fee buys compute rather than sitti…71#4/10→
4. Google Cloud Pub/Subvs Upstash QStashPricing model: Three meters: throughput at $40 per TiB counting both publish and subscribe, storage at $…69#5/10→
5. Temporalvs Upstash QStashKind of free offer: Free credit vs Free tier66#6/10→
6. Zeplovs Upstash QStashPricing model: Per HTTP request rather than per message or per execution, with unlimited jobs on every t…66#7/10→
7. Azure Queue Storagevs Upstash QStashFree tier: No vs Yes · Kind of free offer: Free credit vs Free tier60#8/10→
8. Hatchetvs Upstash QStashPricing model: Usage-first: every plan is "free + usage" or "$N/mo + usage" at $10 per million task runs…58#9/10→
9. Inngestvs Upstash QStashPricing model: Per execution, where a step counts the same as a run, plus separate meters for events ing…57#10/10→

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