diff --git a/.github/actions/run-tests/action.yml b/.github/actions/run-tests/action.yml
index aa958a9236..ae9575e055 100644
--- a/.github/actions/run-tests/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/run-tests/action.yml
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ inputs:
     description: 'hiredis version to test against'
     required: false
     default: '>3.0.0'
+  hiredis-branch:
+    description: 'hiredis branch to test against'
+    required: false
+    default: 'master'
   event-loop:
     description: 'Event loop to use'
     required: false
@@ -28,6 +32,14 @@ runs:
         python-version: ${{ inputs.python-version }}
         cache: 'pip'
 
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      if: ${{ inputs.parser-backend == 'hiredis' && inputs.hiredis-version == 'unstable' }}
+      with:
+        repository: redis/hiredis-py
+        submodules: true
+        path: hiredis-py
+        ref: ${{ inputs.hiredis-branch }}
+
     - name: Setup Test environment
       env:
         REDIS_VERSION: ${{ inputs.redis-version }}
@@ -40,8 +52,13 @@ runs:
         pip uninstall -y redis  # uninstall Redis package installed via redis-entraid
         pip install -e .[jwt]  # install the working copy
         if [ "${{inputs.parser-backend}}" == "hiredis" ]; then
-          pip install "hiredis${{inputs.hiredis-version}}"
-          echo "PARSER_BACKEND=$(echo "${{inputs.parser-backend}}_${{inputs.hiredis-version}}" | sed 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/_/g')" >> $GITHUB_ENV        
+          if [[ "${{inputs.hiredis-version}}" == "unstable" ]]; then
+            echo "Installing unstable version of hiredis from local directory"
+            pip install -e ./hiredis-py
+          else
+            pip install "hiredis${{inputs.hiredis-version}}"
+          fi          
+          echo "PARSER_BACKEND=$(echo "${{inputs.parser-backend}}_${{inputs.hiredis-version}}" | sed 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/_/g')" >> $GITHUB_ENV
         else
           echo "PARSER_BACKEND=${{inputs.parser-backend}}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
         fi
@@ -108,12 +125,10 @@ runs:
           fi
         
           echo "::endgroup::"
-    
-          if [ "$protocol" == "2" ] || [ "${{inputs.parser-backend}}" != 'hiredis' ]; then
-            echo "::group::RESP${protocol} cluster tests"
-            invoke cluster-tests $eventloop --protocol=${protocol}
-            echo "::endgroup::"
-          fi
+            
+          echo "::group::RESP${protocol} cluster tests"
+          invoke cluster-tests $eventloop --protocol=${protocol}
+          echo "::endgroup::"          
         }
   
         run_tests 2 "${{inputs.event-loop}}"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/hiredis-py-integration.yaml b/.github/workflows/hiredis-py-integration.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..816a143fba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/hiredis-py-integration.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+name: Hiredis-py integration tests
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      redis-py-branch:
+        description: 'redis-py branch to run tests on'
+        required: true
+        default: 'master'
+      hiredis-branch:
+        description: 'hiredis-py branch to run tests on'
+        required: true
+        default: 'master'
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}-hiredis-integration
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read  #  to fetch code (actions/checkout)
+
+env:
+  CODECOV_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
+  # this speeds up coverage with Python 3.12: https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy/issues/1665
+  COVERAGE_CORE: sysmon
+  CURRENT_CLIENT_LIBS_TEST_STACK_IMAGE_TAG: 'rs-7.4.0-v2'
+  CURRENT_REDIS_VERSION: '7.4.2'
+
+jobs:
+  redis_version:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      CURRENT: ${{ env.CURRENT_REDIS_VERSION }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Compute outputs
+        run: |
+          echo "CURRENT=${{ env.CURRENT_REDIS_VERSION }}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT  
+
+  hiredis-tests:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: [redis_version]
+    timeout-minutes: 60
+    strategy:
+      max-parallel: 15
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        redis-version: [ '${{ needs.redis_version.outputs.CURRENT }}' ]
+        python-version: [ '3.8', '3.13']
+        parser-backend: [ 'hiredis' ]
+        hiredis-version: [ 'unstable' ]
+        hiredis-branch: ${{ inputs.hiredis-branch }}
+        event-loop: [ 'asyncio' ]
+    env:
+      ACTIONS_ALLOW_UNSECURE_COMMANDS: true
+    name: Redis ${{ matrix.redis-version }}; Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}; RESP Parser:${{matrix.parser-backend}} (${{ matrix.hiredis-version }}); EL:${{matrix.event-loop}}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ inputs.redis-py-branch }}
+      - name: Run tests
+        uses: ./.github/actions/run-tests
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+          parser-backend: ${{ matrix.parser-backend }}
+          redis-version: ${{ matrix.redis-version }}
+          hiredis-version: ${{ matrix.hiredis-version }}
\ No newline at end of file