Vercel Queues is now in Limited Beta

Vercel Queues is a message queue service built for Vercel applications, in Limited Beta.

Vercel Queues lets you offload work by sending tasks to a queue, where they’ll be processed in the background. This means users don’t have to wait for slow operations to finish during a request, and your app can handle retries and failures more reliably.

Under the hood, Vercel Queues uses an append-only log to store messages and ensures tasks such as AI video processing, sending emails, or updating external services are persisted and never lost.

Key features of Vercel Queues:

• Pub/Sub pattern: Topic-based messaging allowing for multiple consumer groups

• Streaming support: Handle payloads without loading them entirely into memory

• Streamlined auth: Automatic authentication via OIDC tokens

• SDK: TypeScript SDK with full type safety

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import { send, receive } from "@vercel/queue";
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await send("topic", { message: "Hello World!" });
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await receive("topic", "consumer", (m) => {
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  console.log(m.message); // Logs "Hello World!"
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});

If you have any questions, let us know in the Vercel Community.