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Get Started with Upstash

Serverless Redis, Kafka, and QStash — pay per request

Getting Started

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Best For

Startup founders and indie developers adding caching or rate limiting to Vercel or Cloudflare Workers deployments

Developers who need Redis-compatible storage without managing a persistent Redis server

Teams using Next.js or edge runtimes who need a simple message queue or job scheduler

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