Compare 14 free infrastructure tools, free tiers, and developer deals. 2 are not free offers. Verified pricing for Hetzner, Pulumi, Spacelift, HCP Terraform, Coolify and more.
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 (60), 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 — 8 pricing changes recorded across vendors.
| Vendor | Tier | Description | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hetzner | Paid | Budget cloud VMs, no free tier. As of 2026-09-04 hetzner.com marks every shared-vCPU 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. | 2026-09-04 |
| 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/mo | 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 | 2026-09-02 |
| 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 tier | 2026-04-19 |
| 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 integration | 2026-08-28 |
| 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 discovery | 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 Git | 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 | 2026-08-28 |
| Brainboard | Free | Collaborative solution to visually build and manage cloud infrastructures from end-to-end. | 2026-08-01 |
| 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.”. | 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. | 2026-08-02 |
| Scalr | Free | Superseded: As of 2026-09-05, scalr.com/pricing reads: Free plan covers up to 50 runs per month with 2 concurrent runs. We are not publishing our stored Scalr terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-09-05, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓ | 2026-08-22 |
| Terragrunt Scale | Free | Superseded: As of 2026-09-02, terragrunt.com/terragrunt-scale reads: 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 Support. We are not publishing our stored Terragrunt Scale terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-09-02, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓ | 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 | 2026-08-18 |
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