Upstash
Serverless Redis and Kafka — per-request pricing
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Upstash provides serverless Redis, Kafka, and QStash (message queue) with per-request pricing. Popular for rate limiting, caching, session management, and real-time features in serverless applications.
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“The per-request pricing model is perfect for side projects — you literally pay nothing until you have traffic. Redis commands at $0.2/100K is incredibly cheap.”
“At high scale, per-request pricing can get expensive vs a fixed Redis instance. Know your traffic patterns. For most indie hackers and startups, it's a no-brainer.”
“Upstash is doing for Redis what Neon did for Postgres — making it serverless-native. The QStash message queue is an underrated piece of the puzzle.”