# Convoy vs Upstash QStash (slim)

> Upstash QStash scores 72.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Convoy's 62.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Convoy leads on reliability. Both do events webhooks send. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Upstash QStash scores 72.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Convoy's 62.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Convoy leads on reliability. Both do events webhooks send.

- Convoy: B 62.2, rank #308 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/convoy.min.md
- Upstash QStash: BB 72.3, rank #90 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/upstash-qstash.min.md
- Convoy, good for A product that has to send signed webhooks to its customers' endpoints with retries, replay and a delivery log, or receive third-party webhooks and route them inward. Ahead on Reliability, 92 against 83.
- Upstash QStash, good for Agents and serverless apps that need a delayed, retried or scheduled HTTP call without running a queue. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 83 against 69; Security & auth, 61 against 53; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Transparency & trust, 81 against 67. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Convoy loses 6 points for them.

| Category | Convoy | Upstash QStash |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 92 | 83 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 83 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 53 | 61 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 67 | 81 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Convoy | Upstash QStash |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Frain Technologies Inc. | Upstash |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://qstash.upstash.io/v2` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Elastic Licence 2.0 for the gateway (source available, not an OSI licence). The convoy.js SDK is MIT per npm. Convoy Cloud is a proprietary hosted service under Convoy's terms of use | Proprietary hosted service under Upstash's terms of service. The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the MCP server are MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 10 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.upstash/mcp-server` |
| Last release | 2026-09-27 | 2026-09-29 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2023-06-01 |  |
| Popularity | 2.9k stars, 2.3k npm/wk, 679 PyPI/wk | 269 stars, 816k npm/wk, 91k PyPI/wk |