Upstash CLI

Prefer the MCP server when it is available

If Upstash MCP tools are in the session, call them instead of shelling out to the CLI. They are already authenticated and cover the same ground — creating and inspecting Redis databases, running Redis commands, usage stats, backups, Vector and Search indexes, Blob buckets, QStash schedules and messages, the DLQ, and logs. Installing the Upstash plugin registers the hosted server at https://mcp.upstash.com/mcp.

Use the CLI when there is no MCP in the session, or when the work is inherently shell work — a CI step, a provisioning script, or piping JSON into other commands.

The Upstash CLI (upstash) manages Upstash services via the Upstash Developer API. All commands are non-interactive and emit JSON on stdout. Errors go to stderr as { "error": "..." } with exit code 1.

Install

npm i -g upstash

Or run a single command without installing: npx upstash <command>.

Connect coding agents to Upstash

upstash setup connects coding agents to Upstash in one step. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI get the Upstash plugin (the Upstash skills plus the remote MCP server). VS Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, and OpenCode get the remote MCP server (https://mcp.upstash.com/mcp) in their config plus the upstash skill. The MCP server signs in with OAuth on first use, so setup never writes an API key into an agent's config.

A person at a terminal can run npx upstash: with no arguments in a terminal it starts upstash setup and asks which agents to set up. Outside a terminal a bare upstash only prints the help, so from an agent or a script call upstash setup with --yes and the agent flags:

npx -y upstash setup --yes --claude             # or --codex, --cursor, --gemini, --vscode, --copilot, --opencode
npx -y upstash setup --yes --cursor --mode mcp  # remote MCP server + skill instead of the plugin
npx -y upstash setup --yes --claude --project   # this project instead of the user config
npx -y upstash setup --yes --dry-run            # show what would change; without agent flags, --yes covers every detected agent

With --project, Claude Code installs the plugin at project scope; Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI plugins install per user only, so they get project-level MCP config plus the skill instead. Rerunning setup updates what it installed. Afterwards the agent needs a restart or reload (in Claude Code, /reload-plugins; in Cursor, Developer: Reload Window).

Authentication

Recommended: run upstash login once per machine. Prompts for email and a Developer API key (create one at https://console.upstash.com/account/api), verifies them, and saves to ~/.config/upstash/config.json.

upstash login

Alternatives — env vars (also auto-loaded from a .env in cwd), or --email / --api-key inline, or --env-path <path> to point at a specific .env:

export [email protected]
export UPSTASH_API_KEY=your_api_key

Precedence: flags > env vars > .env > saved config. Prefer a read-only API key for agents when possible — mutations fail at the API, the same way they would in the console.

Resource ID flags

Redis

upstash redis list
upstash redis get --db-id <id> [--hide-credentials]
upstash redis create --name <name> --region <region> [--read-regions <r1> <r2>]
upstash redis delete --db-id <id> [--dry-run]
upstash redis rename --db-id <id> --name <new-name>
upstash redis reset-password --db-id <id>
upstash redis stats --db-id <id>

upstash redis enable-tls --db-id <id>
upstash redis {enable,disable}-eviction --db-id <id>
upstash redis {enable,disable}-autoupgrade --db-id <id>
upstash redis change-plan --db-id <id> --plan <free|payg|pro|paid>
upstash redis update-budget --db-id <id> --budget <cents>
upstash redis update-regions --db-id <id> --read-regions <r1> <r2>
upstash redis move-to-team --db-id <id> --team-id <id>

Regions — AWS: us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-1, us-west-2, ca-central-1, eu-central-1, eu-west-1, eu-west-2, sa-east-1, ap-south-1, ap-northeast-1, ap-southeast-1, ap-southeast-2, af-south-1. GCP: us-central1, us-east4, europe-west1, asia-northeast1.

Redis backups

upstash redis backup list --db-id <id>
upstash redis backup create --db-id <id> --name <name>
upstash redis backup delete --db-id <id> --backup-id <id> [--dry-run]
upstash redis backup restore --db-id <id> --backup-id <id>
upstash redis backup {enable,disable}-daily --db-id <id>

Redis exec (REST, not the Developer API key)

upstash redis exec --db-url <url> --db-token <token> SET key value
upstash redis exec --db-url <url> --db-token <token> --json '["SET","key","value"]'

--db-url / --db-token fall back to UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_URL / UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_TOKEN. Get both from endpoint and rest_token in upstash redis get --db-id <id>.

Team

upstash team list
upstash team create --name <name> [--copy-cc]
upstash team delete --team-id <id> [--dry-run]
upstash team members --team-id <id>
upstash team add-member --team-id <id> --member-email <email> --role <admin|dev|finance>
upstash team remove-member --team-id <id> --member-email <email> [--dry-run]

Vector

upstash vector list
upstash vector get --index-id <id>
upstash vector create --name <name> --region <region> --similarity-function <fn> --dimension-count <n> [--type payg] [--index-type <type>] [--embedding-model <m>] [--sparse-embedding-model <m>]
upstash vector delete --index-id <id> [--dry-run]
upstash vector rename --index-id <id> --name <new-name>
upstash vector reset-password --index-id <id>
upstash vector set-plan --index-id <id> --plan <free|payg|fixed>
upstash vector transfer --index-id <id> --target-account <id>
upstash vector stats                             # aggregate across all indexes
upstash vector index-stats --index-id <id> [--period <1h|3h|12h|1d|3d|7d|30d>]

Regions: eu-west-1, us-east-1, us-central1. Similarity: COSINE, EUCLIDEAN, DOT_PRODUCT. Index types: DENSE, SPARSE, HYBRID. Dense models: BGE_SMALL_EN_V1_5, BGE_BASE_EN_V1_5, BGE_LARGE_EN_V1_5, BGE_M3. Sparse models: BM25, BGE_M3. For HYBRID with managed embeddings, set --dimension-count 0.

Search

upstash search list
upstash search get --index-id <id>
upstash search create --name <name> --region <region> --type <free|payg|fixed>
upstash search delete --index-id <id> [--dry-run]
upstash search rename --index-id <id> --name <new-name>
upstash search reset-password --index-id <id>
upstash search transfer --index-id <id> --target-account <id>
upstash search stats
upstash search index-stats --index-id <id> [--period <1h|3h|12h|1d|3d|7d|30d>]

Regions: eu-west-1, us-central1.

QStash

upstash qstash list                              # run first; maps region → id
upstash qstash get --qstash-id <id>
upstash qstash rotate-token --qstash-id <id>
upstash qstash set-plan --qstash-id <id> --plan <paid|qstash_fixed_1m|qstash_fixed_10m|qstash_fixed_100m>
upstash qstash stats --qstash-id <id> [--period <1h|3h|12h|1d|3d|7d|30d>]
upstash qstash ipv4                              # CIDR blocks for allowlisting
upstash qstash move-to-team --qstash-id <id> --target-team-id <id>
upstash qstash update-budget --qstash-id <id> --budget <dollars>    # 0 = no limit
upstash qstash {enable,disable}-prodpack --qstash-id <id>

Blob

Run upstash blob --help to check that the installed CLI includes Blob support. If the command is unavailable, use the console for bucket management and upstash-blob-js for application code until a CLI release includes it.

upstash blob list
upstash blob get --bucket-id <id> [--hide-credentials]
upstash blob create --name <name> [--visibility <private|public>] [--cors <origin> <origin>]
upstash blob delete --bucket-id <id> [--dry-run]
upstash blob credentials [--bucket-id <id>]

Buckets are private by default. blob get returns the bucket token, which is a bearer secret for the whole bucket — pass --hide-credentials when you only need the metadata.

blob credentials exchanges a bucket token for temporary, bucket-scoped S3 credentials to use with the AWS CLI, rclone, or any S3 SDK. With --bucket-id it reads the token through the Developer API; with no flag it uses UPSTASH_BLOB_TOKEN and needs no account auth at all. expiresAt is the expiry as a unix timestamp in seconds (multiply by 1000 before comparing with Date.now()) — re-mint before it passes rather than caching.

CREDS=$(upstash blob credentials --bucket-id <id>)
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=$(echo "$CREDS" | jq -r .accessKeyId)
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=$(echo "$CREDS" | jq -r .secretAccessKey)
export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=$(echo "$CREDS" | jq -r .sessionToken)

aws s3 cp image.png "s3://$(echo "$CREDS" | jq -r .bucket)/image.png" \
  --endpoint-url "$(echo "$CREDS" | jq -r .endpoint)" --region auto

Object operations are not CLI commands — the bucket is S3-compatible, so use the credentials above with an S3 tool, or the upstash-blob-js skill for the TypeScript SDK.

Conventions

• Pipe any output to jq for field extraction, e.g. upstash redis list | jq '.[].database_id'.

• Use --dry-run first on any delete or remove-member.

• Use --hide-credentials on redis get and blob get when the secret isn't needed.