Compare 14 free infrastructure tools, free tiers, and developer deals. 2 are not free offers. We could not confirm today's terms for 8 of them: on 5 the page we cite did not answer, and on 3 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.

Free Infrastructure Tools

14 free tiers and developer deals. 2 of them are not on our ranked list — 2 are not free offers. Catalogue dates here run to 2026-09-19.

What this name holds: Infrastructure-as-code, provisioning and orchestration tools that stand a deployment up — and the bare-metal hosts they target, including Hetzner.

3 other names here answer “where do I run my code”, and each holds a different list: Cloud Hosting (61), Cloud IaaS (12), Server Management (7).

We track 12 infrastructure services with a free tier we hold as current and 2 without. This category has seen some movement — 9 pricing changes recorded across vendors.

Vendor Tier Description Read / catalogue date
Hetzner Paid Budget cloud VMs, no free tier. As of 2026-09-04 hetzner.com marks every Cost-Optimized plan — CX23, CX33, CX43, CX53 and the Arm CAX11–CAX41 — "not available". The cheapest orderable plan is CPX12 at €11.99/month (1 vCPU AMD, 2 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe, 0.5 TB traffic); CPX22 is €19.99 (2 vCPU, 4 GB, 80 GB, 20 TB traffic). Dedicated-vCPU CCX13 is €43.49/month in the EU and $51.59 in the US. These are hetzner.com's displayed prices and include the €0.50/month primary IPv4. Two 2026 increases: April 1 across all lines, then June 15, which applies to new orders and rescales only — existing contracts keep their terms. The June standardization renamed dedicated server models (-1, -2 and -3 suffixes, plus a -1-Ltd limited line) and left the cloud plan names unchanged; the older CX22/CX32/CX42 names went before it. Server Auction, IPs, storage, Load Balancers, Volumes, Snapshots and Object Storage were excluded from the June round.The 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
Pulumi Individual Infrastructure as Code platform — free for individuals with 1 user, unlimited projects/stacks/updates, 500 deployment minutes/mo, 25 secrets, 10K secret API calls/moOur read on 2026-09-26 found the page different from the terms we hold, and we hold no confirmation of the terms we publish. 2026-09-26 / 2026-09-09
Spacelift Free IaC orchestration platform — 2 users, 1 API key, 1 public worker, OIDC integration, credential-less cloud provider integration, cost estimation 2026-09-18 / 2026-09-02
HCP Terraform Free (Enhanced) HashiCorp managed Terraform — enhanced free tier (replacing legacy plan EOL March 31, 2026): 500 managed resources, unlimited users, SSO, policy as code (Sentinel + OPA), unlimited apply cycles. Legacy free plan users auto-migrated to enhanced tierWe could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-09-26, so we cannot confirm these terms today. 2026-04-19 · tried 2026-09-26, no read
Coolify Free OSS Free OSS (Apache 2.0). Self-hostable PaaS (Vercel/Heroku alternative). Deploy static sites, databases, full-stack apps, 280+ one-click services. Auto SSL, Git integrationThe page we cite for Coolify 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
Traefik Free OSS Free OSS (MIT). Cloud-native reverse proxy and load balancer. Automatic HTTPS via Let's Encrypt, Docker/Kubernetes integration, middleware plugins, service discoveryThe 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 / 2026-07-29
Argo CD Free OSS Free OSS (Apache 2.0). CNCF graduated GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. Declarative, versioned, automated application deployments from GitThe 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 / 2026-07-30
ngrok Free Tunneling and ingress platform — 3 online endpoints, 1 GB bandwidth, 20K HTTP/S requests/month, 1 dev domain, 5K TCP/TLS connections. Includes $5 one-time usage credit 2026-09-19
Brainboard Free Collaborative solution to visually build and manage cloud infrastructures from end-to-end. 2026-08-01 · tried 2026-09-19, no read
Cloud 66 Free Free for personal projects (includes one deployment server, one static site), Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy, and grow your applications on any cloud without the headache of the “server stuff.”.The 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 / 2026-07-31
deployment.io Free Deployment.io helps developers automate deployments on AWS. On our free tier, a developer (single user) can deploy unlimited static sites, web services, and environments. We provide 10 job executions free per month with previews and auto-deploys included in the free tier.When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-19, we could read no amount, tier or rate on the page, so we cannot confirm these terms today. 2026-09-19 / 2026-08-02
Scalr Free Terraform Automation and Collaboration (TACO) platform — The Free plan covers up to 50 runs per month. As of September 2026 every new account starts with five concurrent runs by default on Scalr’s managed runners, on the Free and Business plans alike, and the quota is raised free of charge on request with a valid use case. 2026-09-21 / 2026-08-22
Terragrunt Scale Free IaC orchestration platform by Gruntwork — All plans include unlimited runs and resources. Free Forever $0 Free Up to 25 infrastructure units* For individuals, start-ups, or teams looking to try before buying Terragrunt-native IaC Pipeline Unlimited Runs Unlimited Resources (no RUM) Community SupportOur read on 2026-09-18 found the page different from the terms we hold, and we hold no confirmation of the terms we publish. 2026-09-18 / 2026-08-12
OVHcloud Paid Dedicated servers starting from ~€55/mo (Rise line: Intel Xeon, 32 GB RAM, 2×480 GB SSD). Kimsufi budget line discontinued, replaced by Eco range from ~€30/mo. Game line with DDoS protection and high-frequency CPU. Storage line for NAS/backup from ~€40/mo. All include unmetered bandwidth (500 Mbps-1 Gbps depending on range). Post-April 2026: Bare Metal prices increased 9-11% for new deployments 2026-09-16 / 2026-08-18

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best free infrastructure service?
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 14 Infrastructure services in our catalogue, listed in the table above with each one's tier, published terms and the read and catalogue dates we hold. 12 of them state a free tier we hold as current and 2 do not — the tier column says which. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
How many free infrastructure tools are there?
We track 14 infrastructure services on AgentDeals, 12 of which state a free tier we hold as current. These range from generous always-free tiers to limited trial periods. Of the 14 Infrastructure entries we hold, 4 carry terms a read confirmed in the last 90 days.
How stable are infrastructure free tiers?
9 pricing changes have been recorded across infrastructure vendors. Check our Stability Dashboard for per-vendor details.
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