Compare 10 free cloud iaas tools, free tiers, and developer deals. 1 requires an application or qualification, 1 has expired. We could not confirm today's terms for 5 of them: on 3 the page we cite did not answer, and on 2 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.
What this name holds: Cloud accounts that rent compute by the instance or by credit — the hyperscalers and the resellers on top of them, not a deploy pipeline.
3 other names here answer “where do I run my code”, and each holds a different list: Cloud Hosting (61), Infrastructure (14), Server Management (7).
We track 9 cloud iaas services with a free tier we hold as current and 3 without. This category has seen some movement — 14 pricing changes recorded across vendors.
| Vendor | Tier | Description | Read / catalogue date |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | 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 | 2026-09-21 / 2026-08-22 |
| Azure | Free Tier | 65+ always-free services: Functions (1 million requests/month, Consumption plan), Container Apps (180,000 vCPU seconds, 360,000 GiB seconds, 2 million requests), SQL Database (10 serverless databases, 100,000 vCore seconds and 32 GB each a month), Cosmos DB (1,000 RU/s, 25 GB), App Service (10 apps), Entra ID (50,000 objects), DevOps (5 users). 12 months for new customers: B2pts v2 and B2ats v2 VMs (750 hours each), Blob Storage (5 GB), Disk Storage (2 64 GB P6 SSDs). $200 credit for 30 days, spending limit on by default; move to pay-as-you-go to continue. | 2026-09-18 |
| DigitalOcean | 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). Per-second billing (min 60s or $0.01). App Platform: 3 free static sites (1 GiB outbound/mo each). Functions: 90,000 GiB-seconds/mo free. Spaces: 250 GB + 1 TB transfer for $5/mo. Managed databases start at $15/mo (not free). No perpetual free compute tierOur read on 2026-09-19 found the page different from the terms we hold, and we hold no confirmation of the terms we publish. | 2026-09-19 / 2026-08-18 |
| Oracle Cloud | Always Free | Always Free includes 2 AMD VMs (1/8 OCPU, 1 GB each), Arm Ampere A1 at 2 OCPUs and 12 GB total across 1-2 VMs, 200 GB block volumes, 20 GB object storage, 2 Autonomous Databases, Load BalancerOur read on 2026-09-16 found the page different from the terms we hold, and we hold no confirmation of the terms we publish. | 2026-09-16 / 2026-08-15 |
| CloudDev | Open Source | Open-source LocalStack alternative for running AWS services locally. Supports S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS, and API Gateway in one command. Written in Go. Very early stage (launched March 2026, 8 GitHub stars). Single binary, no Docker requiredThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-02 / 2026-08-15 |
| Vera AWS | Open Source | Open-source local AWS emulator. v0.1 supports 89 resource types including VPCs, EC2 instances, security groups, and EBS volumes — EC2 emulation is unique among LocalStack alternatives. Includes awscli drop-in wrapper and terlocal terraform wrapper. No AWS account or Docker required. Runs entirely on your machineThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-02 / 2026-08-14 |
| Floci | Open Source | Open-source AWS service emulator — the leading community replacement for LocalStack CE. 20+ AWS services supported with 408/408 SDK tests passing. 90 MB Docker image (vs LocalStack's 1.0 GB), 24ms startup (vs 3.3s). MIT license, no auth token required. v1.0.4 released March 2026The page we cite for Floci states in words that it is free, which confirms the price — the limits stated here come from our own record rather than from that page. | 2026-09-17 |
| Startup with IBM | Retired | There is no startup program: developer.ibm.com/startups/ redirects to the IBM Build Partners Technical Group, a community forum with threads, blogs and a member directory. Checked 2026-09-02, the destination states no credit amount, application or eligibility rule. The former offer was $120,000 in IBM Cloud credits. | 2026-09-02 |
| Heroku for Startups Program | Retired | There is no startup program: heroku.com/accelerate redirects to heroku.com/startups/, a marketing page on which the word program returns zero occurrences. Checked 2026-09-02, the page states no credit amount, application or eligibility rule. The former offer was platform credits, technical support and networking. | 2026-09-15 / 2026-09-02 |
| Google AI Pro/Ultra | Conditional | Google Cloud and GenAI credits that come with Google AI subscriptions, per the Google Developer Program: Google AI Pro ($19.99/month) includes $10 a month, Google AI Ultra (20TB, $99.99/month) $40 a month, and Google AI Ultra (30TB, $199.99/month) $100 a month, for use in AI Studio and other Google products. These plans replaced the standalone Google Developer Program Premium, which no longer takes sign-ups.Restricted to subscription (Google AI Pro/Ultra) applicants — not generally available.Eligibility: Requires a Google AI Pro ($19.99/month) or Google AI Ultra ($99.99 or $199.99/month) subscriptionWe could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-09-24, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-04-15 · tried 2026-09-24, no read |
| Google Compute Engine | Always Free | Always Free: 1 non-preemptible e2-micro VM (us-west1, us-central1, or us-east1), 30 GB standard persistent disk, 1 GB North America egress. GPUs/TPUs excluded | 2026-09-16 |
| OVHcloud | Credits | Public Cloud free trial: €200 credit for 60 days. VPS from €4.49/month ex-VAT without commitment (VPS-1 2027: 2 vCores, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe; €3.81 on 12 months). Discovery instances (d2-2) from ~€5/mo. Object Storage (S3-compatible). Managed Kubernetes (free control plane). 40+ regions across Europe, NA, APAC. From April 2026, OVHcloud raised VPS 2026 list prices 36-49% (VPS-1 €4.49 to €6.49), and Public Cloud, Private Cloud and Bare Metal prices by 9-11% on average for new deployments. | 2026-09-16 / 2026-08-20 |
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