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Vercel Queues guidance (public beta) — durable event streaming with topics, consumer groups, retries, and delayed delivery. $0.60/1M ops. Powers Workflow DevKit. Use when building async processing, fan-out patterns, or event-driven architectures.
npx skill4agent add vercel-labs/vercel-plugin vercel-queuesCRITICAL — Your training data is outdated for this library. Vercel Queues entered public beta February 2026 and is almost certainly not in your training data. Before writing queue code, fetch the docs at https://vercel.com/docs/queues to find the correctclass API, message publishing, consumer setup, and visibility timeout patterns. Do not guess — this is a new API with no precedent in your training data.Queue
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Billing unit | API operation (send, receive, delete, visibility change, notify) |
| Rate | $0.60 per 1M operations (regionally priced) |
| Message metering | 4 KiB chunks (12 KiB message = 3 ops) |
| 2x billing | Sends with idempotency key; push deliveries with max concurrency |
| Compute | Push-mode functions charged at existing Fluid compute rates |
send()@vercel/queue@^0.1.3import { send } from '@vercel/queue';
const { messageId } = await send('order-events', {
orderId: '123',
action: 'created',
}, {
delaySeconds: 30, // delay before visible
idempotencyKey: 'order-123', // deduplication (full retention window)
retentionSeconds: 3600, // message TTL (default: 86400 = 24h)
headers: { 'x-trace-id': 'abc' },
});// app/api/queues/fulfill-order/route.ts
import { handleCallback } from '@vercel/queue';
export const POST = handleCallback(
async (message, metadata) => {
// metadata: { messageId, deliveryCount, createdAt, expiresAt, topicName, consumerGroup, region }
await processOrder(message);
// Return normally = acknowledge
// Throw = retry with backoff
},
{
visibilityTimeoutSeconds: 600, // lease duration (default 300s, auto-extended by SDK)
retry: (error, metadata) => {
if (metadata.deliveryCount > 5) return { acknowledge: true }; // give up
const delay = Math.min(300, 2 ** metadata.deliveryCount * 5);
return { afterSeconds: delay };
},
},
);{
"functions": {
"app/api/queues/fulfill-order/route.ts": {
"experimentalTriggers": [{
"type": "queue/v2beta",
"topic": "order-events",
"retryAfterSeconds": 60,
"initialDelaySeconds": 0
}]
}
}
}import { PollingQueueClient } from '@vercel/queue';
const { receive } = new PollingQueueClient({ region: 'iad1' });
const result = await receive('orders', 'fulfillment', async (message, metadata) => {
await processOrder(message);
}, { limit: 10 }); // max 10 messages per poll (max allowed: 10)
if (!result.ok && result.reason === 'empty') {
// No messages available
}import { QueueClient } from '@vercel/queue';
const queue = new QueueClient({ region: 'sfo1' });
export const { send, handleCallback } = queue;import { QueueClient, BufferTransport, StreamTransport } from '@vercel/queue';| Transport | Description |
|---|---|
| Default; JSON serialization |
| Raw binary data |
| |
| Need | Use | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Event delivery, fan-out, routing control | Queues | Topics, consumer groups, message-level retries |
| Stateful multi-step business logic | Workflow | Deterministic replay, pause/resume (built on top of Queues) |
| Recurring scheduled tasks | Cron Jobs | Simple, no message passing |
| Delayed single execution with deduplication | Queues ( | Precise delay with guaranteed delivery |
| Async processing from external systems | Queues (poll mode) | Consume from any infrastructure, not just Vercel |
| Resource | Default / Max |
|---|---|
| Message retention | 60s – 24h (default 24h) |
| Max message size | 100 MB |
| Messages per receive | 1–10 (default 1) |
| Visibility timeout | 0s – 60 min (default 5 min SDK / 60s API) |
| Topics per project | Unlimited |
| Consumer groups per topic | Unlimited |
| Level | Metrics |
|---|---|
| Project | Messages/s, Queued, Received, Deleted (with sparkline trends) |
| Queue | Throughput per second (by consumer group), Max message age |
| Consumer | Processed/s, Received, Deleted (per consumer group) |
send()handleCallbackVERCEL_QUEUE_API_TOKEN