Redpanda Serverless Standard deprecation FAQ

Serverless Standard will be retired on August 30, 2025. Existing clusters will be automatically migrated to our new Serverless platform on August 31, 2025. The new Redpanda Serverless platform features higher performance and a different pricing model (covered below).

Our next-generation Serverless platform introduces:

• Higher usage limits
• Increased uptime SLA of 99.9%
• Competitive pricing
• Expanded region coverage
• Optional annual commitments and support plans

We are still committed to a self-serve, pay-as-you-go model, but now with a more powerful service that can better scale performance and evolve with your development requirements and business needs.

Pricing varies by region, but here is AWS us-east-1 as an example:

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The new Serverless pricing model introduces a per-cluster-hour model. Think of it as a minimum base fee for using a cluster. This minimal hourly usage fee is charged whenever either of the following conditions is met:

• Data processing for reads or writes
• Retention of topics and partitions

To minimize fees for an inactive cluster — while preserving the cluster, users, ACLs and secrets configurations (but not the data) — delete all topics for these clusters. You will not be charged for empty clusters containing zero topics. (See the "Uptime" entry in our docs for more on Serverless Usage Metrics.)

You can create new topics the next time you need to use the cluster, via the Redpanda Cloud Console, the rpk CLI, or the Data Plane APIs.

Below are the performance highlights. Please see all documented Serverless usage limits here.

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Serverless currently runs on AWS across 7 regions:

• ap-northeast-1
• ap-south-1
• ap-southeast-1
• eu-central-1
• eu-west-2
• us-east-1
• us-west-2

We're working to add more regions (and cloud providers), so check our documentation for the latest details on Serverless supported regions.

To size your workload and explore pricing options per-region, see our new pricing calculator.

Yes, please reach out via Support to upgrade your cluster before the sunset date.

You don’t incur any costs for the Hello World Cluster with only the welcome topic. Once you create partitions or other topics in the cluster, it is considered in use and will incur the per hour cluster cost.