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Upstash Has a Free Serverless Redis and Kafka — Pay-Per-Request Data Infrastructure

#database #serverless #redis #cloud

A serverless app on Vercel needed Redis for rate limiting and caching. But Redis requires a persistent server. Serverless functions are stateless. Mismatch.

Upstash is serverless Redis (and Kafka). HTTP-based, pay-per-request, works perfectly with serverless and edge functions.

What Upstash Offers for Free

  • 10,000 Commands/Day - Redis free tier
  • 256MB Storage - Per database
  • REST API - HTTP-based, no persistent connections needed
  • Global Replication - Multi-region read replicas
  • TLS - Encrypted connections
  • Kafka - 10,000 messages/day free
  • QStash - Message queue, 500 messages/day free
  • Vector - Vector database for AI, free tier included

Quick Start 

import { Redis } from '@upstash/redis'
const redis = new Redis({
  url: 'https://your-db.upstash.io',
  token: 'your-token',
})
await redis.set('key', 'value')
const val = await redis.get('key')
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Works in Vercel Edge, Cloudflare Workers, Deno Deploy - anywhere with fetch.

Website: upstash.com - 10K commands/day free

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