Choose Aiven if you need
- Integration with AWS, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure. We haven't found them on Upstash's website.
At a glance
- Both have a free plan.
- Aiven offers a free trial (30 days). We haven't confirmed one for Upstash.
- Aiven's lowest paid plan is Developer at $5 per month, for PostgreSQL, as of October 23, 2026.
- Upstash's lowest paid plan is Pay as You Go at $0.2 per 100K commands, as of October 20, 2026.
- Both are available on CLI and API.
- They list no integrations in common.
- Both list SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR and HIPAA.
- Only Upstash lists SSO.
- Both have a public API.
From each tool's own website, checked on the dates below, and from published reviews.
Which to choose
From the facts checked for both tools, not from opinion. A fact we haven't confirmed for one of them is never counted.
Choose Upstash if you need
- Integration with Cloudflare Workers, Prometheus or Datadog. We haven't found them on Aiven's website.
- SSO. We haven't found it on Aiven's website.
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Review UpstashThe facts
- What it does
- AivenYour AI-ready open source data platform
- UpstashServerless data platform, one platform for all your data needs
- Free plan
- AivenYes
- UpstashYes
- Pricing
- AivenPer service, monthly
- UpstashUsage-based
- Paid plans from
- AivenDeveloper: $5 per month, for PostgreSQL
What they share
From the platforms and integrations each website lists.
Platforms
Both
- CLI
- API
Only AivenNothing else listed
Only UpstashNothing else listed
Integrations
BothNone in common
Only Aiven
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Microsoft Azure
- DigitalOcean
People who switched
Reviewers who say they used one of these before the other.
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