Upstash Has a Free Serverless Redis — HTTP-Based Key-Value Store With Per-Request Pricing

Upstash Has Free Serverless Redis Over HTTP

Traditional Redis needs a server running 24/7. Upstash gives you Redis over HTTP — pay per request, scale to zero, and use from edge functions.

What Upstash Offers

• Redis over HTTP — no persistent connections needed
• Serverless — scales to zero when idle
• Global replication — read replicas worldwide
• Kafka — serverless Kafka with same model
• QStash — serverless message queue and scheduler
• Vector — serverless vector database for AI

Quick Start

import { Redis } from '@upstash/redis'

const redis = new Redis({
  url: process.env.UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_URL,
  token: process.env.UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_TOKEN,
})

// Works in edge functions, serverless, anywhere
await redis.set('user:1', { name: 'Alex', plan: 'pro' })
const user = await redis.get('user:1')

// Rate limiting
await redis.incr('api:requests:user1')
await redis.expire('api:requests:user1', 60)

Free Tier

Resource	Free
Commands	10K/day
Storage	256MB
Databases	1
Bandwidth	50KB/command max

Why Upstash Over Self-Hosted Redis

1. HTTP protocol — works from edge functions and serverless
2. Zero ops — no server management
3. Pay per request — $0 when not used
4. Global — read replicas near users
5. Durable — data persisted to disk

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