Compare 4 free alternatives to OVHcloud for Cloud IaaS. Every one of their free tier limits side by side, with the read and catalogue dates we hold.

Best OVHcloud Alternatives with Free Tiers (2026)

4 free alternatives in Cloud IaaS, Infrastructure, CDN. Sorted by pricing stability.

Current OVHcloud Situation

Risk Level: stable

Category: Cloud IaaS Infrastructure CDN

Pricing Page: www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/

Recent Pricing Changes (3)

restructured effective 2026-10-01 medium impact

From 2026-10-01, OVHcloud bills the local storage and public IPv4 address of its Gen3 Public Cloud instances (B3, C3 and R3) as separate lines: local storage at €0.0001458 per GB an hour (about €109 per TB a month) and an IPv4 address at €0.0027 an hour (about €1.97 a month). Instance hourly prices do not change, so total bills rise 1.4% to 21.9% depending on size, most for small instances. Block, Object and File Storage prices do not change. Source ↗

restructured effective 2026-04-01 high impact

OVHcloud raised prices on its VPS 2026 range from 2026-04-01. Its announcement of 2026-03-05 lists euro list prices up 36-49%, with VPS-1 from €4.49 to €6.49 a month and VPS-4 from €24.99 to €36.99; existing services moved at the end of their current term. New orders had moved already: the US page's 12-month price for VPS-1 went from $4.20 to $6.46 between captures of 2026-02-23 and 2026-03-04. Source ↗

restructured effective 2026-04-01 medium impact

OVHcloud Public Cloud, Private Cloud, and Bare Metal prices increased 9-11% for deployments made 2026-2028. Pre-2025 deployments see smaller 2-6% increase depending on equipment age. IPv4 pricing also increased. Driven by same DRAM/NVMe cost surge as VPS increases. Source ↗

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Recommended Migration Targets

These alternatives were identified from OVHcloud’s pricing changes as recommended replacements.

AWS stable recommended

Free Tier

Always-free tier includes Lambda (1M invocations/mo), DynamoDB (25 GB), CloudWatch. New accounts get $100 credit at sign-up + up to $100 more via activities, free plan for 6 months

AWS's Free Tier FAQ says most new customers need no payment method to sign up. AWS may ask for one to verify identity. (From aws.amazon.com/free/free-tier-faqs, read 2026-10-23.)
The sign-up without a card is Sign up for AWS (new), launched September 16, 2026, but AWS's docs say it is still being released to a limited number of customers, so a new customer may not be able to use it yet. (From docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/sign-in-new.html, read 2026-10-23.)
Anyone who has or has had an AWS account is not eligible for AWS's Free plan or Free Tier credits. They must give payment information and go on the Paid plan. (From aws.amazon.com/resources/create-account, read 2026-10-23.)
On the paid plan of Sign up for AWS (new), each project can have a monthly spend limit starting at $20. AWS pauses the project when spend reaches it. Advanced sign-up accounts have no spend limits. (From aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-reimagines-the-getting-started-experience, read 2026-10-23.)

Cloud IaaS Read 2026-11-05 · catalogue date 2026-08-22

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Vultr recommended

Free

Free Tier Program: a free cloud instance (1 vCPU, 512 MB RAM, 10 GB SSD, IPv4 address) in Miami, Seattle or Frankfurt, for applicants Vultr admits. Vultr calls it early access in limited quantities and admits eligible applicants at random, weighted by a score built from what they say about…

Cloud IaaS Read 2026-10-06 · tried again 2026-11-01 and did not read the page

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−1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 1 consecutive re-check attempt has failed (most recently 2026-11-01 — HTTP 403), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor.

DigitalOcean stable recommended

Credits

New accounts get a $5 signup credit, applied automatically to the first team and expiring 90 days after signup; a payment method is required before creating resources. Basic Droplets from $4/mo (1 vCPU, 512 MB RAM, 10 GB SSD).

Cloud IaaS Read and confirmed 2026-10-31

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−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Credits" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.

Hetzner recommended

Paid

Budget cloud VMs, no free tier. As of 2026-10-07 hetzner.com marks every Cost-Optimized plan — CX23, CX33, CX43, CX53 and the Arm CAX11–CAX41 — "not available".

Infrastructure Read 2026-11-12 · catalogue date 2026-09-04

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not_a_free_offer Tier "Paid" is no free offer at all.

All Free Alternatives (4)

1 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 2 are demoted with the reason named, and 1 are listed last because they are not generally available or are not a free offer. How we rank.

AWS stable

Free Tier

Always-free tier includes Lambda (1M invocations/mo), DynamoDB (25 GB), CloudWatch. New accounts get $100 credit at sign-up + up to $100 more via activities, free plan for 6 months

AWS's Free Tier FAQ says most new customers need no payment method to sign up. AWS may ask for one to verify identity. (From aws.amazon.com/free/free-tier-faqs, read 2026-10-23.)
The sign-up without a card is Sign up for AWS (new), launched September 16, 2026, but AWS's docs say it is still being released to a limited number of customers, so a new customer may not be able to use it yet. (From docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/sign-in-new.html, read 2026-10-23.)
Anyone who has or has had an AWS account is not eligible for AWS's Free plan or Free Tier credits. They must give payment information and go on the Paid plan. (From aws.amazon.com/resources/create-account, read 2026-10-23.)
On the paid plan of Sign up for AWS (new), each project can have a monthly spend limit starting at $20. AWS pauses the project when spend reaches it. Advanced sign-up accounts have no spend limits. (From aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-reimagines-the-getting-started-experience, read 2026-10-23.)

Cloud IaaS Read 2026-11-05 · catalogue date 2026-08-22

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Vultr

Free

Cloud IaaS Read 2026-10-06 · tried again 2026-11-01 and did not read the page

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DigitalOcean stable

Credits

Cloud IaaS Read and confirmed 2026-10-31

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−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Credits" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.

Hetzner

Paid

Budget cloud VMs, no free tier. As of 2026-10-07 hetzner.com marks every Cost-Optimized plan — CX23, CX33, CX43, CX53 and the Arm CAX11–CAX41 — "not available".

Infrastructure Read 2026-11-12 · catalogue date 2026-09-04

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not_a_free_offer Tier "Paid" is no free offer at all.

Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.

date: 2026-11-14
query_key: alternative-to:OVHcloud
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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best free alternatives to OVHcloud?

We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 4 free alternatives to OVHcloud, each listed below with its tier, category and the read and catalogue dates we hold. Of those, 1 carries no recorded demerit, 2 are demoted with the reason named, 1 is listed last behind a stated gate. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.

Is OVHcloud's free tier still available?

No. What OVHcloud offers is a credit grant that runs out (Credits). 2 recorded changes narrowed the terms, the most recent on 2026-04-01.

How many free alternatives to OVHcloud exist?

There are 4 free alternatives to OVHcloud tracked on AgentDeals across the Cloud IaaS, Infrastructure, CDN categories.

Has OVHcloud changed their pricing?

OVHcloud has 3 recorded pricing changes. The most recent was on 2026-10-01: From 2026-10-01, OVHcloud bills the local storage and public IPv4 address of its Gen3 Public Cloud instances (B3, C3 and R3) as separate lines: local storage at €0.0001458 per GB an hour (about €109 per TB a month) and an IPv4 address at €0.0027 an hour (about €1.97 a month). Instance hourly prices do not change, so total bills rise 1.4% to 21.9% depending on size, most for small instances. Block, Object and File Storage prices do not change. Source: https://blog.ovhcloud.com/en/posts/public-cloud-pricing-update-october-2026/