Upstash Has a Free Serverless Redis and Kafka With Per-Request Pricing

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Upstash provides serverless Redis and Kafka with per-request pricing. Pay nothing when idle — perfect for serverless and edge.

Free Tier

10K commands/day — Redis
10K messages/day — Kafka
256MB storage — Redis
Global replication — optional
REST API — works from edge/serverless
QStash — serverless message queue

Redis (REST API)

import { Redis } from '@upstash/redis';

const redis = Redis.fromEnv();
await redis.set('user:1', { name: 'Alice' });
const user = await redis.get('user:1');

Works from Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge, Deno Deploy.

Rate Limiting

import { Ratelimit } from '@upstash/ratelimit';

const ratelimit = new Ratelimit({
  redis, limiter: Ratelimit.slidingWindow(10, '10s'),
});
const { success } = await ratelimit.limit('user:123');