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Cloudflare KV - Global Key-Value Store

Free

Global low-latency key-value store with 1M free reads/day, designed for high-read workloads as a Redis alternative at the edge.

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Ratings and usage stats are not tracked here — see the vendor for current figures.

Key Features

1M free reads per day
Global replication
Millisecond reads
Simple key-value API
Namespace isolation
Works with Workers

Pros

+Truly global - no CDN warm-up
+Infinite scale reads
+No connection management
+Perfect for caching
+Free tier is generous

Cons

−Eventual consistency (reads can lag)
−No complex queries
−Limited to 25MB per value
−Write latency ~60s to replicate

Alternatives

Redis Upstash Redis PlanetScale Branching AWS DynamoDB

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