Redis Pricing: Managed vs Self-Hosted
The cheapest managed Redis starts at about $5/month. Self-hosted, this stack measures 512 MiB across 1 service, which fits a $5/month flat plan with room left over.
#the numbers
Managed prices as of June 2026, each linked to its source. The self-hosted row is not an estimate: the RAM figure is what this stack allocates in its compose file, and the plan is the smallest one that holds it.
| Option | Plan | Monthly | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Self-hosted on Miget ★ | 512 MiB, 1 vCPU | $5 | the whole stack, flat - no per-user or per-request metering, and the plan holds your other apps too |
| AWS ElastiCache | cache.t4g.micro | ~$12 | smallest on-demand node/mo; HA doubles it |
| Redis Cloud | Fixed | ~$5 | from $5/mo for a tiny instance, scales with memory |
Managed Redis/Valkey bills per node (and per AZ for HA); this is one flat plan on your own infrastructure.
#what it costs on other platforms
Same stack, published rates elsewhere - estimates from each platform's own pricing page, not quotes.
| Platform | Estimated monthly | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Miget ★ | $5 | flat plan, 512 MiB - databases included, no meters |
| Heroku | ~$25 | no volumes; nothing between 1 GB ($50) and 2.5 GB ($250) dynos - 2 GB containers cost far more than shown |
| DO App Platform | ~$11 | no persistent volumes - stateful containers need managed DBs/Spaces (base $5 Spaces included here) |
| Render | ~$8 | per-service instances (0.5 GB $7, 2 GB $25) - every container is its own paid service |
| Railway | ~$6 | usage-based ($10/GB RAM-mo); vCPU billed separately at $20/vCPU-mo on top |
| Fly.io | ~$4 | cheapest sticker price - but burstable shared CPUs (1/16 core; dedicated vCPUs cost ~2-3×), no compose deploys (one app per container, manual wiring), managed DBs billed extra |
#sizing, if you outgrow the small plan
The $5 plan is the smallest that fits. For production traffic you generally want the next tier up, and dedicated vCPU if the workload is CPU-bound rather than idle-waiting.
| Use case | Plan | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| Fits the stack | 512 MiB, 1 vCPU shared | $5 |
| Comfortable, room for your own apps | 1 GiB, 1 vCPU shared | $7 |
| Dedicated vCPU (production) | 2 GiB, 1 vCPU dedicated | $22 |
Size RAM to your working set (Redis keeps data in memory); the volume only needs to hold the append-only file. A single node is not HA.
Run Redis yourself
The compose file is open source and runs locally with docker compose up. One step to deploy it to
Miget on the $5/month plan, databases included.