FreeTier.dev

Welcome to freetier.dev

Free tier: Many of the main cloud companies provide customers the ability to explore and try out services free of charge up to specified limits for each service. Services with an “Always Free” offer allow customers to use the product for free up to specified limits as long as they are a customer of respective cloud provider.

The main idea behind this project is to provide information on free tier services provided by main cloud players. The curated list of high quality resources which you can use for free to build your next project.

Whatever you are building – be it a prototype, new startup, small business website, a student project or just something for a fun – this is the place to slush your costs down.

In meanwhile here are some useful resources:

Alibaba

  • Alibaba 30+ always free products, please click on “always free” tab: always free products
  • Alibaba free trial. Try over 50 products for free worth $1700 - $8,500 USD. Now up to 12 months usage for elastic compute service! Alibaba cloud free trial
  • Requires phone number and email verification

Azure

There are two groups of free services. Certain types of these services are free up to a monthly amount.

  • Explore 55+ always free services. Keep getting monthly free amounts of these services for as long as you have an Azure account.
  • Popular services are free for your first 12 months. Plus, get $200 credit to use in your first 30 days.
  • Azure for Students. Get access to free developer tools and $100 credit. No credit card required—all you need is an academic email address.

Heroku

  • Free tier available for Heroku for GitHub students only. All Heroku applications run in a collection of lightweight Linux containers called dynos. If you are registered with the GitHub Student Developer Pack, you are eligible to receive platform credits worth $13 per month for 12 months (for a total value of $156).
  • For example, the $13 in monthly platform credits is enough to cover one month of the Eco Dynos plan ($5 for 1000 dyno hours/month), one Mini Heroku Postgres database ($5/month), and one Mini Heroku Data for Redis® database ($3/month).

IBM

Get started for free with your Lite account. No credit card required. No time limits.

Oracle

  • Oracle always free resources: Using the Always Free resources, you can provision a virtual machine (VM) instance, an Oracle Autonomous Database, and the networking, load balancing, and storage resources needed to support the applications that you want build. With these resources, you can do things like run small-scale applications or perform proof-of-concept testing. Details of the Always Free Resources.
  • Oracle the free trial provides you with $300 USD of cloud credits that are valid for up to 30 days. You may spend these credits on any eligible Oracle Cloud Infrastructure service. Oracle free trial.

Vercel

Ideal for front-end frameworks and serverless functions.

  • Unlimited projects: Deploy as many projects as you want.
  • Usage-based limits: Limits on bandwidth, serverless function executions, and build times, but they are generally generous for hobby projects.
  • Global CDN: Fast delivery of your website.
  • Edge functions: Run code closer to your users for even better performance.

Netlify

Netlify main focus is on static site hosting and serverless functions.

  • Unlimited sites: Deploy as many projects as you want.
  • 100GB bandwidth per month: Enough for most small to medium-sized projects.
  • 300 build minutes per month: Time allocated for building your site before deployment.
  • 125,000 function invocations per month: For serverless functions (like APIs or background tasks).

Firebase (Google)

If you need a backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) with a strong emphasis on real-time data.

  • Cloud Functions: Serverless functions with 125,000 invocations and 400,000 GB-seconds of compute time per month.
  • Realtime Database: NoSQL database with 1 GB of storage and 10 GB of downloads per month.
  • Cloud Firestore: Another NoSQL database option with 1 GB of storage and 50,000 reads/writes/deletes per day.
  • Hosting: 1 GB of storage and 10 GB of downloads per month for static content.

Render

Unified cloud platform for hosting web apps, APIs, and databases.

  • Free web services: Supports various languages and frameworks (Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, etc.).
  • At the start of each month, your Free instance hours reset to 750 (remaining hours don’t roll over).
  • Free PostgreSQL: A managed PostgreSQL database with limited resources.

AWS (Amazon Web Services)

AWS Free Tier includes 12 months free for many services plus a set of Always Free offers: AWS Free Tier.

  • Great for trying common building blocks (compute, storage, databases, serverless) with clear per-service limits.
  • Typically requires a credit card for signup.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

GCP offers Always Free products plus a free trial credit for new users: Google Cloud Free Program.

  • Useful for Cloud Run/serverless, managed databases, and data/AI services (limits vary per product).
  • Typically requires a credit card for signup.

Cloudflare Workers

Run serverless code on the edge (great for APIs, auth gateways, webhooks, and lightweight backends).

Cloudflare Pages

Static + JAMstack hosting (great for docs sites, marketing pages, and frontends).

  • Free plan for deploying sites on Cloudflare’s global network: Cloudflare Pages.
  • Integrates with GitHub/GitLab for CI-style deploys.

GitHub Actions

CI/CD built into GitHub (build/test/deploy workflows).

  • Free minutes are included (especially generous for public repos; private repos have monthly limits): GitHub Actions billing.
  • Works well for DevOps automation: linting, tests, Docker builds, infra deploys.

GitLab CI/CD

CI/CD integrated with GitLab repos (pipelines, runners, environments).

  • GitLab Free includes CI/CD with monthly usage limits: GitLab pricing.
  • Useful if you prefer GitLab-native planning + repo + CI in one place.

Terraform Cloud (HashiCorp)

Hosted Terraform runs + state management (great for teams doing IaC).

  • Terraform Cloud offers a free tier for learning/small usage: Terraform pricing.
  • Gives you remote state, runs, and collaboration features (limits apply).

Deno Deploy

Serverless JavaScript/TypeScript runtime with a generous free plan.

  • Free plan includes monthly request + bandwidth allowances (see plan details): Deno Deploy pricing.
  • Great for APIs, cron jobs, edge functions, and small services.

Supabase

Open-source Firebase alternative (Postgres + Auth + Storage + Edge Functions).

  • Free plan with clear project limits (DB size, Auth MAUs, storage/egress): Supabase pricing.
  • Great for startups and prototypes that want Postgres from day 1.

Neon (Serverless Postgres)

Serverless Postgres with scale-to-zero (handy for dev/test, preview environments).

  • Free plan includes multiple projects with limited storage per project: Neon pricing.
  • Branching is great for “one DB per PR” workflows.

Turso (SQLite at the edge)

SQLite cloud designed for many small DBs + low-latency reads globally.

  • Free plan available (good for local-first / edge / multi-tenant apps): Turso pricing.
  • Useful when you want SQLite’s simplicity but hosted + replicated.

MongoDB Atlas

Managed MongoDB with a true free shared tier.

  • Free shared cluster (M0) for small apps and learning: MongoDB Atlas.
  • Great for document-oriented apps and quick prototyping.

CockroachDB (Serverless)

Distributed SQL database with a serverless option.

  • Free serverless tier available (limits apply): CockroachDB pricing.
  • Useful when you want Postgres-like SQL with horizontal scaling.

Upstash (Serverless Redis)

Serverless Redis-compatible DB with a solid free tier.

  • Free tier includes a small DB size and a monthly command quota: Upstash Redis pricing & limits.
  • Great for caching, rate limiting, queues, and ephemeral state.

Grafana Cloud

Hosted observability stack (metrics, logs, traces) with a free tier.

  • Free tier includes generous included usage for metrics/logs/traces (limits apply): Grafana Cloud pricing.
  • Great for DevOps teams standardizing on dashboards + alerting.

Sentry

Error tracking + performance monitoring (excellent “first observability tool” for app devs).

  • Free plan for solo dev/small projects (user/event limits apply): Sentry pricing.
  • Works well for backend + frontend + mobile apps.

Hugging Face Spaces

Free hosting for ML demos and lightweight apps (great for portfolios and internal tools).

  • Host ML apps (Gradio/Streamlit/etc.) with a free CPU tier: Hugging Face Spaces.
  • GPUs are typically paid, but CPU Spaces are great for demos.

Kaggle (Notebooks + Datasets)

Free, hosted notebooks + public datasets (useful for data engineers and ML experimentation).

  • Run notebooks in the browser with provided compute options/quotas: Kaggle Notebooks.
  • Great for quick EDA, tutorials, and shareable experiments.

Pinecone (Vector Database)

Vector DB for semantic search/RAG with a free starter plan.

  • Starter plan is free with strict but useful limits (storage/usage caps): Pinecone pricing.
  • Good for prototypes and small AI search workloads.

Weights & Biases (W&B)

MLOps tooling for experiment tracking, artifacts, and model evaluation workflows.

  • Free plan available for personal use with limited storage: W&B pricing.
  • Great for ML engineers who want reproducibility + dashboards.