Upstash
Serverless Redis & Kafka
★ 4.5
Serverless Redis and Kafka with pay-per-request pricing. Scale to zero, global replication, and REST API for edge functions. Built for serverless architectures.
Features
✓ Serverless Redis (scale to zero)
✓ Serverless Kafka
✓ QStash (message queue)
✓ REST API for edge compatibility
✓ Global replication
✓ Durable storage
✓ Vector database (Upstash Vector)
✓ Rate limiting built-in
✓ Vercel/Cloudflare integrations
Pros
- + True serverless with scale-to-zero
- + REST API works everywhere
- + Generous free tier
- + Multiple products (Redis, Kafka, Vector)
- + Perfect for edge functions
Cons
- − Redis limitations vs full Redis
- − Costs can grow with heavy usage
- − No Redis modules support
- − Latency higher than dedicated Redis