Both Expo and Shake offer free tiers. Expo provides "Free" while Shake 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.)
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.)
In-app bug reporting and feedback tool for mobile apps — The Free plan is $0 forever and includes 20 bug reports per month, unlimited crash reports, unlimited app users, limited integrations, 3 team seats, 10,000 app installs, 1 month data retention, 1,000 logs in activity history, AI debugging, MCP server access, and access to the Slack community.
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 ↗
Shake
increaseddiscovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknownhigh impact
The free tier now has unlimited bug and crash reports, 10,000 app installs, and access to the Slack community. Unconfirmed. We could not check this change against an archived copy of Shake's page, so it does not count toward the rating.Source ↗
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