Compare 7 free alternatives to PythonAnywhere for Cloud Hosting. Every one of their free tier limits side by side, with the read and catalogue dates we hold.

Best PythonAnywhere Alternatives with Free Tiers (2026)

7 free alternatives in Cloud Hosting. Sorted by pricing stability.

Current PythonAnywhere Situation

Risk Level: stable
Category: Cloud Hosting

Recent Pricing Changes (1)

restructured effective 2026-01-15 medium impact
PythonAnywhere dropped its $5-a-month Hacker plan, so the base paid plan is $10 a month. New free accounts lost MySQL and scheduled tasks; unused free web apps now expire after 1 month instead of 3. Source ↗

Recommended Migration Targets

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

Railway stable recommended
Free
Free $0 per month. Start with a 30-day free trial with $5 credits, then $1 of free credit per month.
Cloud Hosting Read and confirmed 2026-11-02
Render stable recommended
Hobby
Hobby plan, $0 a month plus compute. Free web services (512 MB RAM, 0.1 CPU) spin down after 15 minutes without traffic, with 750 free instance hours per workspace a month.
Cloud Hosting Read 2026-10-24 · confirmed 2026-10-02
Replit stable recommended
Free
Cloud IDE with AI agent — The Starter plan includes daily Agent credits up to a monthly cap, and monthly credits for databases, storage and publishing. It uses Lite build only.
IDE & Code Editors Read 2026-10-29 · catalogue date 2026-08-08
−1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-29, found the same terms as an earlier read we had declined to record. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor.

All Free Alternatives (7)

5 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 0 are listed last because they are not generally available or are not a free offer. How we rank.

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domcloud.co stable
Free
Linux hosting service that provides CI/CD with GitHub, SSH, and MariaDB/Postgres database. The free version has 1.5 GB storage and 2 GB network/month limit, supports up to 3 websites with custom domains.
Cloud Hosting Read and confirmed 2026-10-31
Railway stable
Free
Free $0 per month. Start with a 30-day free trial with $5 credits, then $1 of free credit per month.
Cloud Hosting Read and confirmed 2026-11-02
Render stable
Hobby
Hobby plan, $0 a month plus compute. Free web services (512 MB RAM, 0.1 CPU) spin down after 15 minutes without traffic, with 750 free instance hours per workspace a month.
Cloud Hosting Read 2026-10-24 · confirmed 2026-10-02
Free
AwardSpace's free hosting includes 5GB Bandwidth, 1000MB Disk Space, is 100% ad-free, offers instant account activation, a CMS auto installer, a free website builder, 99.9% Uptime, 24/7 support, and full PHP & MySQL database support. It's suitable for small blog websites, news media, and idea…
Cloud Hosting Read and confirmed 2026-11-12
Serv00.com stable
Free
3 GB of free web hosting with daily backups (7 days). Support: Crontab jobs, SSH access, repositories (GIT, SVN, and Mercurial), support: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Java, Perl, TCL/TK, Lua, Erlang, Rust, Pascal, C, C++, D, R, and many more.
Cloud Hosting Read and confirmed 2026-11-12
Free
1 GB free web hosting with support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, .NET, Deno, Elixir, Go, Java, Lua, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust. Custom web servers, access via FTP, WebDAV and SSH.
Cloud Hosting Read 2026-10-12 · catalogue date 2026-07-15
−1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 1 consecutive re-check attempt has failed (most recently 2026-10-12 — the page names Alwaysdata but states no amount, tier or rate we can read, and its markup carries no structured data), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor.
Replit stable
Free
Cloud IDE with AI agent — The Starter plan includes daily Agent credits up to a monthly cap, and monthly credits for databases, storage and publishing. It uses Lite build only.
IDE & Code Editors Read 2026-10-29 · catalogue date 2026-08-08
−1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-29, found the same terms as an earlier read we had declined to record. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor.
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.
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2026-11-14
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alternative-to:PythonAnywhere
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tie_count
5

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best free alternatives to PythonAnywhere?
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 7 free alternatives to PythonAnywhere, each listed below with its tier, category and the read and catalogue dates we hold. Of those, 5 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 2 are demoted with the reason named. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
Is PythonAnywhere's free tier still available?
Yes, PythonAnywhere currently offers a free tier (Free). One recorded pricing restructure narrowed the terms, on 2026-01-15.
How many free alternatives to PythonAnywhere exist?
There are 7 free alternatives to PythonAnywhere tracked on AgentDeals across the Cloud Hosting, IDE & Code Editors categories.
Has PythonAnywhere changed their pricing?
PythonAnywhere has 1 recorded pricing change. The most recent was on 2026-01-15: PythonAnywhere dropped its $5-a-month Hacker plan, so the base paid plan is $10 a month. New free accounts lost MySQL and scheduled tasks; unused free web apps now expire after 1 month instead of 3. Source: https://blog.pythonanywhere.com/221/