Both Expo and Loadly offer free tiers. Expo provides "Free" while Loadly offers "Free".
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React Native build and deployment platform — The Free tier is $0/month and includes up to 15 Android and 15 iOS builds with a low-priority queue, 60 min. on CI/CD Workflows, and access to Submit, Update, and Launch.
Free accounts are never charged overage. Once the month's free builds are used, new builds are unavailable until the quota resets on the first day of the next calendar month. You can upgrade or build locally instead. (From docs.expo.dev/billing/faq, read 2026-10-05.)
At peak times the low-priority queue used by free builds can wait 90 minutes or more. (From expo.dev/pricing.md, read 2026-10-05.)
A free build times out after 45 minutes; paid plans allow 2 hours. (From expo.dev/pricing, read 2026-10-05.)
Free builds can run 5 at a time, of which at most 1 can be a macOS build. (From expo.dev/pricing, read 2026-10-30.)
Over-the-air updates on the Free plan reach up to 1,000 monthly active users, and there is no overage billing beyond that limit. (From expo.dev/pricing.md, read 2026-10-05.)
The Starter plan costs $19 per month. It includes $45 of build credit and 3,000 monthly active users for EAS Update, compared to 1,000 in the Free plan. (From docs.expo.dev/billing/faq, read 2026-10-29.)
On a paid plan, once the build credit is used up, builds are billed per build. Android builds cost $1 on medium workers and $2 on large workers. iOS builds cost $2 on medium workers and $4 on large workers. (From expo.dev/pricing.md, read 2026-10-29.)
On Starter, EAS Update costs $0.005 per monthly active user past 3,000, up to 200,000. It includes 100 GiB of bandwidth, then costs $0.10 per GiB. (From expo.dev/pricing.md, read 2026-10-29.)
Unused build credit does not carry over to the next billing period. (From expo.dev/pricing, read 2026-10-29.)
Expo's Terms of Service grant a limited right to use the services for your own business purposes of building and deploying your own apps. They set no different permitted purposes for the Free plan. (From expo.dev/terms, read 2026-10-29.)
iOS & Android beta apps distribution service offers completely free services with unlimited downloads, high-speed downloads, and unlimited uploads.
Pricing Change History
Expo
reducedeffective 2025-10-09high impact
Expo's Free plan went from 30 builds a month (up to 15 iOS) to 15 Android and 15 iOS builds, and gained 60 minutes of CI/CD Workflows, between the pricing-page captures of 2025-09-20 and 2025-10-09. Source ↗
Loadly
No recorded pricing changes for Loadly.
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