Faye vs Upstash QStash
Faye
faye.jcoglan.com
Upstash QStash
upstash.comSide by side
| Figure | Faye | Upstash QStash |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $1/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 6 |
| Spec score · Message Broker Software | 8.7 (#6) | 7.6 (#26) |
| What it does | Faye is a publish-subscribe messaging system based on the Bayeux protocol. | QStash is a serverless messaging and scheduling solution that acts as a middleman between an application and an API to provide delivery guarantees and automatic retries. |
Plans
Upstash QStash
- FreeFree
- Pay as You Go$1 a month
- Fixed 1M$180 a month
- Prod Pack$200 a month
- Fixed 10M$420 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
Faye
Faye is a publish-subscribe messaging system that uses the Bayeux protocol. It provides message servers for Node.js and Ruby, plus clients for servers and major web browsers. Browser clients rely on a Faye server to relay messages; they can retry after a lost connection and redeliver dropped messages. Transport adapters cover WebSocket, HTTP long-polling, Cross Origin Resource Sharing, and JSON-P callback-polling. Server and client extensions can intercept or modify messages, including to add subscription authentication. The monitoring API reports handshakes, subscriptions, unsubscriptions, publishes, and disconnections. Faye runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows, and can be self-hosted. Its default in-process engine cannot span multiple front-end web servers, but Redis and Couchbase engines are documented for distributed deployments. Faye is free and open source under the Apache 2.0 license; the listed plan is free. Install the Node.js server through npm or the Ruby server through RubyGems.
Upstash QStash
Upstash QStash has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.