diff --git a/cmd/alice/flags.go b/cmd/alice/flags.go
index ac4c190..b4dab5e 100644
--- a/cmd/alice/flags.go
+++ b/cmd/alice/flags.go
@@ -319,6 +319,11 @@ func flagsInitialization(expertMode bool) []cli.Flag {
 			Category: "Release randomizer",
 			Value:    0,
 		},
+		&cli.BoolFlag{
+			Name:     "randomizer-redis-zstd-enable",
+			Category: "Release randomizer",
+			Usage:    "enable redis payload decompression with zstd algo",
+		},
 		&cli.StringFlag{
 			Name:     "randomizer-releaseskey",
 			Category: "Release randomizer",
diff --git a/internal/anilibria/randomizer.go b/internal/anilibria/randomizer.go
index 331e74a..fc52759 100644
--- a/internal/anilibria/randomizer.go
+++ b/internal/anilibria/randomizer.go
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/anilibria/alice/internal/utils"
 	futils "github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2/utils"
+	"github.com/klauspost/compress/zstd"
 	"github.com/redis/go-redis/v9"
 	"github.com/rs/zerolog"
 	"github.com/urfave/cli/v2"
@@ -30,6 +31,8 @@ type Randomizer struct {
 	relUpdFreqErr  time.Duration
 	relUpdFreqBoot time.Duration
 
+	decoder *zstd.Decoder
+
 	mu       sync.RWMutex
 	releases []string
 }
@@ -37,6 +40,11 @@ type Randomizer struct {
 func New(c context.Context) *Randomizer {
 	cli := c.Value(utils.CKCliCtx).(*cli.Context)
 
+	var dec *zstd.Decoder
+	if cli.Bool("randomizer-redis-zstd-enable") {
+		dec, _ = zstd.NewReader(nil, zstd.WithDecoderConcurrency(0))
+	}
+
 	r := &Randomizer{
 		done:  c.Done,
 		log:   c.Value(utils.CKLogger).(*zerolog.Logger),
@@ -60,6 +68,8 @@ func New(c context.Context) *Randomizer {
 		relUpdFreqErr:  cli.Duration("randomizer-update-frequency-onerror"),
 		relUpdFreqBoot: cli.Duration("randomizer-update-frequency-bootstrap"),
 
+		decoder: dec,
+
 		releases:    make([]string, 0),
 		releasesKey: cli.String("randomizer-releaseskey"),
 	}
@@ -125,10 +135,16 @@ func (m *Randomizer) peekReleaseKeyChunks() (_ int, e error) {
 		return
 	}
 
-	return strconv.Atoi(res)
+	var dres []byte
+	if dres, e = m.decompressPayload(futils.UnsafeBytes(res)); e != nil {
+		m.log.Warn().Msg("an error occurred while decompress response redis response - " + e.Error())
+		return
+	}
+
+	return strconv.Atoi(futils.UnsafeString(dres))
 }
 
-func (m *Randomizer) lookupReleases() (_ []string, e error) {
+func (m *Randomizer) lookupReleases() (_ []string, e error) { // skipcq: GO-R1005 needed to be kept as it is
 	var chunks int
 	if chunks, e = m.peekReleaseKeyChunks(); e != nil {
 		return
@@ -156,6 +172,7 @@ func (m *Randomizer) lookupReleases() (_ []string, e error) {
 			m.log.Trace().Msgf("parsing chunk %d/%d...", i, chunks)
 		}
 
+		// get compressed chunk response from redis
 		if res, e = m.rclient.Get(m.rctx, m.releasesKey+strconv.Itoa(i)).Result(); e == redis.Nil {
 			e = fmt.Errorf("given chunk number %d is not exists", i)
 			m.log.Warn().Msg(e.Error())
@@ -167,13 +184,23 @@ func (m *Randomizer) lookupReleases() (_ []string, e error) {
 			continue
 		}
 
+		// decompress chunk response from redis
+		var dres []byte
+		if dres, e = m.decompressPayload(futils.UnsafeBytes(res)); e != nil {
+			m.log.Warn().Msg("an error occurred while decompress redis response - " + e.Error())
+			errs = append(errs, e.Error())
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// get json formated response from decompressed response
 		var releasesChunk Releases
-		if e = json.Unmarshal(futils.UnsafeBytes(res), &releasesChunk); e != nil {
+		if e = json.Unmarshal(dres, &releasesChunk); e != nil {
 			m.log.Warn().Msg("an error occurred while unmarshal release chunk - " + e.Error())
 			errs = append(errs, e.Error())
 			continue
 		}
 
+		// parse json chunk response
 		for _, release := range releasesChunk {
 			if release.BlockedInfo != nil && release.BlockedInfo.IsBlockedByCopyrights {
 				m.log.Debug().Msgf("release %d (%s) worldwide banned, skip it...", release.Id, release.Code)
@@ -229,3 +256,11 @@ func (m *Randomizer) randomRelease() (_ string) {
 	r := rand.Intn(len(m.releases)) // skipcq: GSC-G404 math/rand is enoght here
 	return m.releases[r]
 }
+
+func (m *Randomizer) decompressPayload(payload []byte) ([]byte, error) {
+	if m.decoder == nil {
+		return payload, nil
+	}
+
+	return m.decoder.DecodeAll(payload, nil)
+}