# European alternatives to Upstash Redis in 2026

Last updated: 2026-11-10

If you want a key-value store that feels close to Upstash and is run by a French company, try **Clever Cloud**: its Redis add-on is ready for production, and its Materia KV service has no instance size to pick, though it's still in beta. **Scalingo** has a small Redis plan in euros, and **Aiven**, **OVHcloud**, **Exoscale** and **UpCloud** sell managed Valkey, the open-source fork of Redis, for teams that want bigger nodes and failover.

Upstash, Inc. is based in California. You can put a database in Frankfurt, Ireland, London or Belgium, but the company behind it stays American.

## Redis and Valkey options at a glance

| Platform | Company | Engine | Starts at | Main gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upstash | Upstash, Inc., California, US | Redis-compatible, with a REST API | Free for 250 MB, then $0.2 per 100K commands or $10 a month fixed | A US company, even in a European region |
| Clever Cloud | France | Redis, plus Materia KV in beta | Redis priced by size with a calculator; Materia KV free during the beta | Materia KV isn't meant for production data yet |
| Scalingo | Strasbourg, France | Redis OSS 7.2 compatible | €7.20 per 30 days excl. VAT for 256 MB | Starter plans run on a single node |
| Aiven | Helsinki, Finland | Valkey | Free plan, then Startup from $60 a month | Runs on clouds such as AWS, Google Cloud and Azure |
| OVHcloud | Roubaix, France | Valkey | About €47.30 a month excl. VAT per node | Smallest node has 4 GB of memory |
| Exoscale | Lausanne, Switzerland | Valkey | Billed by the hour, from a 1 GB Hobbyist plan | No forking from a backup on Hobbyist |
| UpCloud | Finland | Valkey | Billed by the hour, see its pricing page | Not documented |
| Valkey on Hetzner | Your own server in Germany or Finland | Valkey or Redis, run by you | Servers listed from €5.49 a month excl. VAT, if available to order | Backups, patches and failover are your job |

Prices are from each provider's own page, checked on 9 and 10 November 2026.

## What to check before you leave Upstash

- **How your code connects.** Upstash offers a REST API, which matters for code that can only make HTTP requests, such as functions on V8 isolates. The European services here are reached with normal Redis or Valkey clients, so your runtime must be able to open a TCP connection.
- **The company on the contract.** A Frankfurt region doesn't change who runs the service. If a customer asks for an EU provider, read [EU region vs EU company](/i/eu-region-vs-eu-company-cloud-act).
- **How you pay.** Upstash charges per command or a fixed monthly price per database. Most European options charge for a node of a given size, whether it's busy or idle.
- **Failover and backups.** Single-node plans are fine for a cache you can rebuild. For sessions, queues or anything you can't lose, pick a plan with replicas and check how often backups run.
- **Redis or Valkey.** Valkey is an open-source fork of Redis under a BSD licence. It's compatible with the Redis API, so most clients and commands work unchanged, but test the commands your app relies on.

## 1. Clever Cloud

Clever Cloud's managed Redis add-on is created in one click from its console. It backs the database up every night and keeps backups for seven days, can make one database a read-only follower of another, and ships a KV Explorer to browse and edit keys. You can't run `CONFIG` or `CLUSTER`, and the default eviction policy is `noeviction`, so ask support to change it if you want an LRU cache.

Materia KV, the second option, is a close match to the Upstash way of working. You get a host, a port and a token, with no instance size or storage to choose, and each write is replicated synchronously across 3 data centers in Paris before the reply. It speaks the Redis API and also exposes a read-oriented GraphQL endpoint.

- **Best for:** apps already on Clever Cloud, or teams that want a French provider with a cache and a database in one place.
- **Price:** Redis is priced by size and number of databases, with a calculator. Materia KV is free while in beta.
- **What it lacks:** a production-ready Materia KV. Clever Cloud asks you not to store sensitive or production data in it during the beta.

## 2. Scalingo

Scalingo is a platform company registered in Strasbourg. Its Redis service is compatible with Redis OSS 7.2 and supports both persistence and cache mode, with encryption at rest, daily backups and metrics.

- **Best for:** a small cache or session store billed in euros, or a workload that needs its SecNumCloud region.
- **Price:** Starter 256M costs €7.20 for 30 days excl. VAT with 5 GB of storage, or €8.64 in the SecNumCloud region. Business plans run on 3 nodes.
- **What it lacks:** high availability on Starter, which is one node with a 98% SLA. Business plans raise that to 99.96%.

## 3. Aiven for Valkey

Aiven Oy has its headquarters in Helsinki. Aiven for Valkey is a managed service that runs on the major clouds, with read-only replicas across regions and clouds. Startup plans are a single node without automatic failover; Business plans add a standby node that takes over if the primary fails.

- **Best for:** teams already using Aiven for Postgres or Kafka who want one bill and one console.
- **Price:** a free plan, then Startup from $60 a month and Business from $70 a month.
- **What it lacks:** its own hardware. Your Valkey runs on a cloud such as AWS, Google Cloud or Azure, so pick the cloud and region with care.

## 4. OVHcloud Databases for Valkey

OVHcloud, the French group registered in Roubaix, sells managed Valkey inside its Public Cloud, whose European regions include Paris, Gravelines, Frankfurt, London and Warsaw.

- **Best for:** larger caches, or teams already on OVHcloud Public Cloud.
- **Price:** the entry plan starts at about €47.30 excl. VAT a month per node, with 4 to 7 GB of memory, 24-hour backup retention and no SLA. The production plan starts at about €54.46 excl. VAT a month per node, includes 2 nodes across availability zones with automatic failover, and comes with a 99.95% SLA.
- **What it lacks:** a small, cheap plan for a hobby cache.

## 5. Exoscale Managed Valkey

Exoscale, a Swiss cloud owned by Lausanne-based Akenes SA within A1 Digital, offers Managed Valkey in all of its zones: Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna, Geneva, Zurich, Sofia and Zagreb. Backups are automated encrypted snapshots, and the larger plans let you fork a database from a backup.

- **Best for:** teams that want data in Switzerland, Austria or Germany.
- **Price:** billed by the hour. The smallest plan, Hobbyist-2, has 1 GB of memory, 2 CPUs and automated backups.
- **What it lacks:** forking a database from a backup on the Hobbyist plan.

## 6. UpCloud Managed Valkey

UpCloud, registered in Finland, lists Managed Valkey next to managed MySQL, PostgreSQL and OpenSearch. You can choose a European data centre in Helsinki, Stockholm, Stavanger, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Madrid or Warsaw.

- **Best for:** apps already on UpCloud servers, or a database in the Nordics.
- **Price:** billed by the hour. See its pricing page for current plans.

## 7. Valkey on your own server

You can install Valkey on a European server and point your app at it. On Hetzner's price list, the CPX02 cloud server costs €5.49 a month excl. VAT in Helsinki and €6.49 in Falkenstein or Nuremberg, though these smallest plans showed as unavailable to order on 10 November 2026.

- **Best for:** one app on one server, with someone who'll look after it.
- **What it lacks:** managed failover, monitoring and backups.

## Where Eurobase fits

Eurobase doesn't sell managed Redis, Valkey or a KV store. It hosts the app that talks to one, on European infrastructure run by Scaleway, a French provider, for a flat €10 or €20 a month + VAT on Starter or Pro.

- **Containers** can open outbound TCP connections, as the [Supabase guide](/docs/supabase) shows with Postgres drivers, so you connect to a Redis or Valkey service with your usual client and its public address. See [Containers and static sites](/docs/containers).
- **Workers** can't open TCP connections, so a Redis client can't connect from them. They can call an HTTP API with `fetch()`. See [Runtime limits](/docs/workers#limits).
- **Instead of Redis**, a Workers app may not need it at all. Eurobase can [cache responses](/docs/cache) without running your Worker, and gives Workers [D1-compatible SQLite](/i/serverless-sqlite-europe) for durable data that fits a SQL database.

There are no usage charges today. Work over a limit is refused, apps on V8 isolates and Functions stop until the monthly reset, and containers and static sites keep serving. Eurobase is working toward ISO 27001 and SOC 2, but holds neither yet.

## How to choose

- Pick **Clever Cloud Materia KV** to try a Redis-compatible store with no sizing, once it leaves beta, or its **Redis add-on** for production today.
- Pick **Scalingo** for a small euro-priced cache with a SecNumCloud option.
- Pick **Aiven**, **OVHcloud**, **Exoscale** or **UpCloud** when you need gigabytes of memory or a plan with more than one node, and read each plan's SLA.
- Run **Valkey yourself** if the bill matters more than your on-call time.
- Keep **Upstash** if you need its REST API or global read replicas and a US company is acceptable.

For more European database providers, see [European cloud providers](/i/european-cloud-providers) and [European Supabase alternatives](/i/european-supabase-alternatives).

## Frequently asked questions

### Is Upstash GDPR-safe if I pick the Frankfurt region?

The region keeps the data on servers in Germany, but Upstash, Inc. is a California company. If your contract or a customer requires an EU provider, a European region alone doesn't meet it.

### Is Valkey a drop-in replacement for Redis?

For most apps, yes. Valkey keeps the Redis API under a BSD licence, so existing clients and commands usually work without changes.

### Is there a serverless Redis in Europe billed per request?

Clever Cloud's Materia KV comes close: there's no instance to size, and you connect with a host, port and token. It's free while in beta, and its final pricing isn't published yet. The other European options here are priced per plan or per node.

### Can I use Redis from an app on Eurobase?

From a container, yes, with your usual Redis or Valkey client. From Workers, no direct connection is possible because they can't open TCP sockets, so use an HTTP API, the Eurobase response cache or the built-in SQLite instead.

### What does a small managed Redis cost in Europe?

Scalingo's 256 MB Starter plan is €7.20 for 30 days excl. VAT. Aiven has a free Valkey plan for learning and prototypes, and OVHcloud's managed Valkey starts at about €47.30 a month excl. VAT per node.

## Sources

- [Upstash Redis pricing](https://upstash.com/pricing/redis), [Upstash Global Database regions](https://upstash.com/docs/redis/features/globaldatabase) and [About Upstash](https://upstash.com/about)
- [Clever Cloud Redis](https://www.clever.cloud/product/redis/), [Clever Cloud Redis docs](https://www.clever.cloud/developers/doc/deploy/databases/redis/), [Materia KV docs](https://www.clever.cloud/developers/doc/deploy/databases/materia-kv/) and [Clever Cloud pricing](https://www.clever.cloud/pricing/)
- [Scalingo for Redis](https://scalingo.com/databases/redis)
- [Aiven for Valkey](https://aiven.io/valkey), [Aiven for Valkey high availability](https://aiven.io/docs/products/valkey/concepts/high-availability), [Aiven pricing](https://aiven.io/pricing) and [About Aiven](https://aiven.io/about)
- [OVHcloud Databases for Valkey](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/valkey/)
- [Exoscale Managed Valkey](https://www.exoscale.com/dbaas/valkey/) and [Exoscale pricing](https://www.exoscale.com/pricing/)
- [UpCloud managed databases](https://upcloud.com/products/managed-databases/)
- [Hetzner Cloud](https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/)
- [Eurobase Workers limits](/docs/workers#limits), [Eurobase containers](/docs/containers), [Eurobase + Supabase](/docs/supabase), [Eurobase cache](/docs/cache), [Eurobase plans](/docs/plans) and [Eurobase pricing](/pricing)