Run background tasks with Celery on Vercel

UpdateJul 31, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Celery , an asynchronous distributed task queue for Python, is now supported natively on Vercel. Tasks are executed as Vercel Functions and automatically scale with traffic. By default, task results are stored in Runtime Cache , which is sufficient for small data sizes and relatively short workflow runtimes.

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