Velstash vs mountOS

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Velstash compared with mountOS
Detail	Velstash	mountOS
What it does	Managed memcached hosting dramatically cheaper than major cloud providers	Self-hosted POSIX filesystem that mounts S3 and object storage on Mac, Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes
Stage	Not given	Not given
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	ES	Not given
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Pricing	Free plan: €0 (100MB, time-limited one-week trial, no credit card required). Starter: €12/month (500MB). Basic: €30/month (2GB). Advanced: €50/month (4GB). Pro: €80/month (8GB). Business: €130/month (16GB). All paid plans billed by the minute with no long-term commitment. Prices exclude VAT.	Free up to 10 TiB for a single self-hosted deployment with every capability included. Beyond that, a Business License is arranged directly with the company.
Key features	Dedicated network-accessible cache instances with no cluster tuning required Real-time dashboard with hit rate, memory usage, and connection monitoring Read/write latency tracking with P50, P90, and P99 percentiles Top keys and prefixes analytics with per-prefix statistics Email alerts for memory usage and hit rate thresholds Multiple scoped credentials with granular permissions per environment TLS encryption support on separate port (11212) Standard memcached protocol compatibility Free egress traffic on all plans 1MB maximum item size by default	POSIX-compliant filesystem interface Native mounting on Mac, Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes Time travel to access volumes at earlier points in time Automatic version history with configurable granularity Recently-deleted file recovery S3 and WebHDFS API compatibility Kubernetes CSI driver support MCP connector for AI agents Apache Iceberg catalog support for analytical workloads
What makes it different	Roughly 30% cheaper than comparable GCP Memorystore instances No credit card required for free 100MB trial Minute-level billing with no long-term commitment No node-hour billing or VPC setup complexity Free egress with no surprise costs	Built-in version history and time travel, no backup scheduling needed True POSIX compatibility verified with industry test suites Copy-free volume forks for isolated experimentation Elastic capacity that grows with data Data stays on customer-owned infrastructure
Free plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	18 +1 (up) since last check	18 +1 (up) since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	28	0
Citation Flow (Majestic)	21	16
Referring domains (Majestic)	50	3

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