Upstash Has a Free Redis API — Serverless Key-Value Store With 10K Commands/Day and Global Replication

Self-hosting Redis means managing memory, persistence, replication, and hoping your server does not run out of RAM at 3 AM. Upstash gives you serverless Redis — pay per request, scale to zero, and connect from edge functions. The free tier includes 10,000 commands/day and 256MB storage. What You Get for Free 10,000 commands/day — reads and writes combined 256 MB storage — enough for sessions, cache, rate limiting REST API — HTTP-based, works from edge/serverless (no TCP needed) Global replication — read replicas in multiple regions Durable storage — data persists (not just in-memory) TLS encryption — secure by default QStash — free message queue (500 messages/day) Quick Start 1. Create a Database Sign up at upstash.com , create a Redis database, grab your REST URL and token. 2. Use the REST API (No SDK Needed) # SET a key curl "https://YOUR_ENDPOINT.upstash.io/set/user:1/alex" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" # GET a key curl "https://YOUR_ENDPOINT.upstash.io/get/user:1" \ -H "A