Best Free Hosting for Developers

Hobby plan, $0 a month plus compute. Free web services (512 MB RAM, 0.1 CPU) spin down after 15 minutes without traffic, with 750 free instance hours per workspace a month. One free Postgres database (256 MB RAM, 1 GB storage, 30-day expiry) and one free Key Value instance (25 MB, not continuously persisted to disk) per workspace. 5 GB bandwidth/month included then $0.15/GB; without a payment method on file, Render suspends Free services for the rest of the month instead. 500 build minutes/month. Up to 25 services, unlimited projects with 2 environments each. Pro is $25 a month plus compute.

• Render's docs say not to use Free instances for production applications. (From render.com/docs/free, read 2026-10-05.)
• Free web services cannot send outbound traffic on ports 25, 465, or 587, commonly used for SMTP. (From render.com/docs/free, read 2026-10-05.)
• A free Postgres database expires 30 days after creation and becomes inaccessible. You then have a 14-day grace period to upgrade to a paid plan before Render deletes it with all its data. (From render.com/docs/free, read 2026-10-05.)
• Free Postgres databases have no backups of any kind. (From render.com/docs/free, read 2026-10-05.)
• A free web service loses any changes to its local filesystem, such as uploaded images or a SQLite database, every time it redeploys, restarts or spins down, and it cannot attach a persistent disk. (From render.com/docs/free, read 2026-10-05.)
• If a workspace uses all 750 free instance hours in a month, Render suspends all of its free web services until the start of the next month. (From render.com/docs/free, read 2026-10-12.)
• Render's free web services need no credit card. (From render.com/articles/platforms-with-a-real-free-tier-for-developers-in-2026, read 2026-10-22.)
• Render Sandboxes runs isolated microVMs for agents and untrusted code. It is available on every plan including Hobby, billed at $0.12 per active CPU hour plus $0.038 per hour for memory for the default size. (From render.com/pricing, read 2026-10-29.)
• A Hobby workspace allows 100 concurrent sandboxes by default. There is no maximum session length on any plan, including Hobby. (From render.com/pricing, read 2026-11-07.)
• Render Sandboxes is in public beta. During the beta, sandboxes have no public URL and no private network to other Render services. (From render.com/docs/sandboxes, read 2026-10-29.)
• Render offers Free instances only for static sites, web services, Postgres and Key Value. Background workers and cron jobs need a paid compute plan. (From render.com/docs/free, read 2026-11-05.)

Free $0 per month. Start with a 30-day free trial with $5 credits, then $1 of free credit per month. Up to 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB RAM per service. 0.5 GB of volume storage. 2 replicas during the free trial, then 1. Projects: 5 during trial, then 1

• After the 30-day trial, the Free plan allows 1 project, 3 services per project and no custom domains. Cron jobs are available during the trial only. (From railway.com/pricing, read 2026-10-12.)
• Railway's trial, with a one-time $5 credit, needs no credit card. (From railway.com/pricing, read 2026-10-22.)
• After 30 days passes or $5 is spent, the free trial reverts to the Free plan, which provides $1 of free credit per month. The credit does not roll over month to month. (From docs.railway.com/pricing/free-trial, read 2026-11-03.)
• Run `ssh railway.new` to get a free Linux VM with no account or credit card. The VM has 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, and a preview URL. Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and the Railway Agent are preinstalled. Railway identifies you by your SSH key. Each VM can be used for 60 minutes. You can get 3 VMs per IP address per day. (From docs.railway.com/pricing/free-trial, read 2026-11-02.)
• Open the claim link from the welcome message and sign up within 24 hours to keep the VM. The VM, files, and URL move into your account. Unclaimed VMs are deleted with their files. Railway caps free VMs at high demand. (From docs.railway.com/pricing/free-trial, read 2026-11-02.)
• Railway Sandboxes are available on every plan. Usage draws from the plan's included credit. Free plan limits are 10 sandboxes per environment, 2 vCPU and 2 GB each, and an idle timeout of at most 5 minutes. (From docs.railway.com/sandboxes, read 2026-11-03.)
• SMTP is only available on Railway's Pro plan and above. SMTP is disabled on the Free, Trial, and Hobby plans. Those plans must use transactional email services with HTTPS APIs. (From docs.railway.com/networking/outbound-networking, read 2026-11-07.)
• Railway's Hobby plan has a $5 monthly minimum, including $5 of usage credits. If usage is $5 or less per billing period, no extra charge applies. If usage exceeds $5, Railway charges the total usage. Included usage resets each billing cycle and does not accumulate. (From railway.com/pricing, read 2026-11-10.)
• The Limited Trial for trial accounts not verified through GitHub has restricted outbound network access and only a limited set of ports. Verification is an automated process at railway.com/verify. Railway does not respond to requests for verification. The Hobby plan unlocks the full experience. (From docs.railway.com/pricing/free-trial, read 2026-11-07.)
• Railway deletes stateful volumes created by Trial accounts 30 days after the expiration of the trial credits. An upgrade retains the data. (From docs.railway.com/pricing/free-trial, read 2026-11-07.)

Pay-as-you-go only — no free tier for new accounts (since Oct 2024). Legacy accounts (Hobby/Launch/Scale plans) retain: 3 shared-cpu-1x VMs (256 MB RAM), 3 GB volume storage, 100 GB transfer/month. Volume snapshots: first 10 GB free, then $0.08/GB/month.

• Fly.io's trial needs no credit card; after the trial, a credit card is needed to keep using billable resources. (From docs.fly.io/about/pricing, read 2026-10-22.)
• Fly.io's free trial lasts 2 hours of machine runtime or 7 days, whichever comes first. Trial machines stop automatically after 5 minutes of running. The trial allows 10 machines, 20 GB of volume storage, and up to 2 vCPUs and 4 GB of memory per machine. Dedicated IPv4 addresses and performance-optimized vCPUs are not included. (From docs.fly.io/about/free-trial, read 2026-11-03.)
• If you use up the trial's resources, or do not add a payment method within 7 days, your apps stop running and you cannot launch new machines, attach volumes or deploy changes until billing is set up. Adding a card ends the free trial and starts billing. (From docs.fly.io/about/free-trial, read 2026-11-03.)
• Fly.io offers Sprites, its Linux VMs for AI agents, with a one-time $30 trial credit. (From fly.io/sprites, read 2026-11-03.)

Build and deploy microservices, jobs, and managed databases with a powerful UI, API & CLI. Seamlessly scale containers from version control and external Docker registries. The free Sandbox includes 2 services, 2 jobs and 1 database, up to $20 a month of resources on Northflank Cloud, 1 BYOC cluster up to 12 vCPU and 48 GB, always on with no sleeping.

• Northflank's pricing page lists the free Sandbox as "No card needed". (From northflank.com/pricing, read 2026-10-23.)
• Northflank's billing docs still say all users must add a payment method to start creating resources, regardless of plan. (From northflank.com/docs/v1/application/billing/pricing-on-northflank, read 2026-10-23.)
• Northflank says the free Developer Sandbox is for exploring the platform, hobby projects and testing ideas, and should not be used for production applications. (From northflank.com/docs/v1/application/billing/pricing-on-northflank, read 2026-10-04.)
• Pay as you go on Northflank Cloud: CPU $0.01667 per vCPU per hour; memory $0.00833 per GB per hour (the smallest plan, 0.1 vCPU and 256 MB, is $2.70 a month); persistent disk $0.11657 per GiB per month; network egress $0.06 per GB. GPUs per hour: NVIDIA L4 $0.80; A100 40GB $1.42; A100 80GB $1.76; H100 80GB $2.74; RTX PRO 6000 $3.00; H200 $3.14; B200 $5.87. (From northflank.com/pricing, read 2026-10-23.)

Parse-based backend platform — free tier: 25K API requests/month, 250 MB database, 1 GB file storage, 1 GB transfer, up to 5 apps. REST + GraphQL APIs

Claw.cloud was discontinued on 2026-05-11, so it is not a current option.

1 GB free web hosting with support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, .NET, Deno, Elixir, Go, Java, Lua, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust. Custom web servers, access via FTP, WebDAV and SSH. Mailbox, mailing list and app installer included. 256 MB RAM and a quarter of a CPU. Sites get an alwaysdata.net address; email can use your own domain. No credit card is required and the plan has no time limit.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-12, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

• The Free plan is offered for personal use. (From alwaysdata.com/en/offers, read 2026-10-08.)

Deploy up to 100 static sites for free, custom domains with SSL, 100 GB monthly bandwidth, 260+ Cloudflare CDN locations. Rebranded from Kinsta in February 2026.

App hosting platform for Node.js, Python, Go, Java, Ruby and PHP apps. Free: your first 3 static sites, with Git deployments, unlimited bandwidth and unlimited team members; more static sites are $3 a month each. Account verification requires a credit or debit card, including for free sites, and prepaid cards are not accepted. App hosting starts at $6 a month for 1 GB RAM and 1 vCPU.

Hobby plan, $0 a month, for non-commercial personal use only. Includes 100 GB Fast Data Transfer, 1M Edge Requests, 1M Function Invocations, 4 hours Fluid Active CPU, 360 GB-hrs Fluid Provisioned Memory, 1 GB Blob Storage and 5K image transformations a month. Hobby accounts are limited to these caps and cannot buy more usage. Pro is $20 a month with one deploying seat; each additional deploying seat is $20 a month.

• Vercel restricts Hobby to non-commercial personal use: a deployment used for anyone's financial gain, including a paid employee or consultant writing the code, needs a Pro or Enterprise plan. (From vercel.com/docs/limits/fair-use-guidelines, read 2026-10-04.)
• In most cases, exceeding Hobby plan usage limits requires waiting 30 days before using the feature again. (From vercel.com/docs/plans/hobby, read 2026-10-07.)
• On Hobby, Vercel's terms let it use your content to train its AI models and share it with third parties for their model training; you can opt out in your team settings. (From vercel.com/legal/terms, read 2026-10-07.)
• Hobby teams get 10 GB of Deployment Storage; going over it can block new deployments until you delete some. (From vercel.com/changelog/hobby-projects-now-retain-fewer-deployments-to-free-up-storage, read 2026-10-07.)
• After 30 days, Vercel deletes a Hobby project's old deployments except its 3 most recent production deployments, its 3 most recent deployments of any type and its current production deployment. A team over its 10 GB of Deployment Storage loses those other deployments immediately. (From vercel.com/changelog/hobby-projects-now-retain-fewer-deployments-to-free-up-storage, read 2026-10-12.)
• Flat Rate CDN is available on Pro plans. Pro includes the lowest tier at no extra cost: 1M CDN requests and 1 TB of data transfer a month. Paid tiers are $20 a month for 10M requests and 50 TB, $100 for 50M and 50 TB, and $300 for 150M and 50 TB. A Pro team turns it on in Billing settings. Usage above a tier moves the team to a higher tier at the start of the next cycle. Flat Rate CDN is not for bulk file distribution or download services, or large-scale media or file delivery that uses most bandwidth. (From vercel.com/docs/pricing/flat-rate-cdn, read 2026-10-16.)
• Vercel's Hobby plan needs no credit card. (From vercel.com/docs/plans/pro-plan/trials, read 2026-10-22.)

The Free plan is $0 with a limit of 300 credits per month, covering production deploys (15 credits each), compute (10 credits per GB-hour), bandwidth (20 credits per GB) and web requests (2 credits per 10k requests). Netlify says the Free plan is always free, with hard monthly limits that cannot be exceeded or incur costs; extra credits need a paid plan. Personal is $9 a month with 1,000 credits.

• If one site uses up the Free plan's monthly credits, Netlify pauses every site on the account until the next billing cycle or an upgrade. (From docs.netlify.com/manage/accounts-and-billing/billing/billing-for-credit-based-plans/billing-faq-for-credit-based-plans, read 2026-10-07.)
• Paused sites show a "Site not available" page, take no traffic or form submissions, and cannot get new production deploys. (From docs.netlify.com/manage/accounts-and-billing/billing/billing-for-credit-based-plans/billing-faq-for-credit-based-plans, read 2026-10-07.)
• New Free-plan projects created on or after August 19, 2026 show a "Powered by Netlify" badge to every visitor by default; you can turn it off for each project under Project configuration > General. (From docs.netlify.com/manage/projects/powered-by-netlify-badge, read 2026-10-12.)
• Netlify Database compute and bandwidth use the same 300 monthly credits as other Free plan features. Compute costs 10 credits per unit, with one unit used per hour at 1 compute unit. Bandwidth costs 20 credits per GB. This allows about 30 hours of database activity if no other features use credits. (From docs.netlify.com/build/data-and-storage/netlify-database/billing-and-usage, read 2026-10-21.)
• On the Free plan, an account can have 3 databases. Each runs at 1 compute unit, sleeps after 5 minutes without activity and cannot be set to stay on. Each is limited to 5 GB of storage, and to 5 GB of data written and 5 GB of bandwidth per billing period. (From docs.netlify.com/build/data-and-storage/netlify-database/billing-and-usage, read 2026-10-21.)
• Netlify's Free plan needs no credit card; the paid Personal and Pro plans need a payment method. (From docs.netlify.com/manage/accounts-and-billing/billing/billing-for-credit-based-plans/billing-faq-for-credit-based-plans, read 2026-10-22.)
• Netlify says its Free plan can be used for commercial projects as well as personal sites, in a blog post dated November 12, 2024. (From netlify.com/blog/introducing-netlify-free-plan, read 2026-10-23.)
• An agent can deploy to Netlify with no account using the --allow-anonymous flag. The deploy gets a live URL, and a person has one hour to claim it by logging in or signing up. Sites using serverless or edge functions still need an account. (From docs.netlify.com/start/quickstarts/deploy-from-ai-code-generation-tool, read 2026-10-22.)

Up to 100 projects, unlimited bandwidth, 500 builds/month, 100 custom domains per project. The project limit is not routinely increased.

• Cloudflare recommends starting new projects on Workers, its primary platform for building applications. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages, read 2026-10-06.)
• Pages Functions and Workers requests share a daily free limit of 100,000 that resets at midnight UTC. Static asset requests are free and unlimited. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages/functions/pricing, read 2026-10-06.)
• At the daily limit, fail open serves static assets without Functions. Fail closed returns an error page. Each project chooses one mode. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages/functions/routing, read 2026-10-06.)
• On the Free plan, one build runs at a time per account. Builds time out after 20 minutes. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits, read 2026-10-29.)
• Cloudflare's terms prohibit processing or collecting credit card information on any site using its free services. (From cloudflare.com/terms, read 2026-10-06.)
• Cloudflare's subscription agreement's list of restrictions does not include commercial use. The only restriction specific to free services bars processing or collecting credit card information on the site. (From cloudflare.com/terms, read 2026-10-29.)
• Cloudflare's subscription agreement bars signing up for the services on behalf of a third party unless Cloudflare permits it in writing. (From cloudflare.com/terms, read 2026-10-29.)
• Cloudflare may change a project's pages.dev subdomain for any reason, and aims to give at least a week's notice. Custom domains are not affected. (From cloudflare.com/service-specific-terms-developer-platform, read 2026-10-06.)
• Cloudflare Pages' free plan needs no credit card. (From cloudflare.com/products/pages, read 2026-10-22.)
• The Free plan allows up to 20,000 files per site. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits, read 2026-10-29.)
• Paid plans such as Pro, Business and Enterprise allow up to 100,000 files per site once the environment variable PAGES_WRANGLER_MAJOR_VERSION=4 is set in the Pages project's settings. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits, read 2026-10-29.)
• The maximum file size is 25 MiB. Larger files can be served from R2 public buckets. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits, read 2026-10-29.)
• Pages Functions requests are billed as Workers requests. The Workers Paid plan has a $5 minimum monthly charge per account. It includes 10 million requests and 30 million CPU milliseconds per month. Overages are $0.30 per million requests and $0.02 per million CPU milliseconds. (From developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing, read 2026-10-29.)
• Cloudflare's Pro and Business plans raise Pages' limits. Pro allows 5 concurrent builds, 5,000 builds per month and 250 custom domains per project. Business allows 20 concurrent builds, 20,000 builds per month and 500 custom domains per project. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits, read 2026-10-29.)
• Cloudflare's Pro plan costs $20 per month billed annually, or $25 billed monthly. Business costs $200 per month billed annually, or $250 billed monthly. (From cloudflare.com/plans, read 2026-10-29.)

Static site hosting — 1 GB published site size, 100 GB bandwidth/month, 10 builds/hour. Included with all GitHub accounts

• GitHub Pages needs no credit card: a GitHub account with a verified email address is enough to start. (From docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/how-tos/account-management/creating-an-account-on-github, read 2026-10-22.)

Decentralized web hosting platform for Web3 frontends focusing on increasing uptime and security and providing an additional access point for users.

Static, 1 GB free storage with 200 GB Bandwidth.

Documentation hosting. Read the Docs Community is free for open-source projects: it clones public repositories and hosts public documentation, supported by ads. Read the Docs Business, for commercial and non-free projects, starts at $50 a month and adds private repositories, private documentation and team management.

Static web publishing for Front-End developers. Unlimited sites with custom domain support

SaaS-focused website builder. The Starter plan is $0 with a versoly.page subdomain, 1,000 visits a month, 3 static pages, 50 CMS items, 50 form submissions and 300+ blocks and templates; published Starter sites show a small Versoly branding popup.

Edge compute with 100K requests/day, 10ms CPU time per invocation, 5 cron triggers/account. KV: 1 GB storage, 100K reads/day, 1K writes/day. D1: 5 GB storage, 5M rows read/day, 100K rows written/day. R2 (Standard storage): 10 GB-month/month, 1M Class A ops/month, 10M Class B ops/month. Durable Objects (SQLite-backed only): 100K requests/day. Queues: 10K operations/day. Vectorize: 30M queried vector dimensions/month, 5M stored vector dimensions. Dynamic Workers are paid only. US students 18+ with a verified .edu billing email: Workers Paid (10M requests/month), $5/mo fee waived for 12 months. Workers Paid has a minimum charge of $5 per month per account. It includes 10 million requests and 30 million CPU milliseconds monthly. Each additional million requests costs $0.30. Each additional million CPU milliseconds costs $0.02. Duration is not charged.

• On the Free plan an account's Workers get 100,000 requests a day, shared with Pages Functions and reset at midnight UTC. Past that, a route set to fail closed returns Cloudflare's error 1027, and a route set to fail open skips the Worker as if none were configured. (From developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/limits, read 2026-10-06.)
• On the Free plan a request may use 10 ms of CPU time; one that uses more fails with error 1102. Time spent waiting on fetch calls, KV reads or database queries does not count. (From developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/limits, read 2026-10-06.)
• Cloudflare's terms prohibit processing or collecting credit card information on any site using its free services. (From cloudflare.com/terms, read 2026-10-06.)
• Cloudflare's subscription agreement's list of restrictions does not include commercial use. The only restriction specific to free services bars processing or collecting credit card information on the site. (From cloudflare.com/terms, read 2026-10-29.)
• Cloudflare's subscription agreement bars signing up for the services on behalf of a third party unless Cloudflare permits it in writing. (From cloudflare.com/terms, read 2026-10-29.)
• Cloudflare may change a Worker's workers.dev subdomain for any reason. Custom domains are not affected. (From cloudflare.com/service-specific-terms-developer-platform, read 2026-10-06.)
• Until December 1, 2026, Workers Logs on the Free plan allows 200,000 log events written per day with 3-day retention; from that date it allows 0.5 GB of log and trace ingestion per day for the whole account with seven-day retention. The Paid plan includes 20 million log events per month, then $0.60 per additional million, with 7-day retention. (From developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing, read 2026-10-17.)
• From December 1, 2026, all Cloudflare logs and traces use the same pricing model. These share one account-level ingestion and storage allowance: Workers Logs, Workers Traces, Cloudflare Traces, Containers logs, R2 Data Access Logs, AI Gateway logs and Issues. Free includes 0.5 GB of ingestion per day and seven-day retention; ingestion stops at the daily limit and resumes at 00:00 UTC. Paid includes 50 GB of ingestion and 10 GB-month of storage per billing cycle, then $0.25 per GB of ingestion and $0.10 per GB-month of storage. (From developers.cloudflare.com/observability/pricing, read 2026-10-17.)
• Cloudflare Workers' Free plan needs no credit card. (From cloudflare.com/products/workers, read 2026-10-22.)

Serverless scripting platform, shutting down on January 10, 2027, with no new signups since November 10, 2026. Free plan for existing users: 100K runs/day, 1 minute wall clock per run, unlimited public vals, MCP integration

• Val Town is winding down: new signups and plan upgrades ended on November 10, 2026, Val Town becomes read-only on December 10, 2026 (except SQLite and blob storage), and all other services end on January 10, 2027. Billing is paused, and existing subscriptions continue free until then. (From blog.val.town/winding-down, read 2026-11-11.)

Stateful serverless compute — Workers Free plan : Only Durable Objects with SQLite storage backend are available. Free plan requests are limited to 100,000 / day and duration is limited to 13,000 GB-s / day.

• The Workers Paid plan bills Durable Objects usage past the free tier with a $5 minimum monthly charge per account. It includes 1 million requests and 400,000 GB-s of duration monthly, with overages at $0.15 per million requests and $12.50 per million GB-s. (From developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/platform/pricing, read 2026-10-29.)
• On the Workers Paid plan, 25 billion SQLite rows read, 50 million rows written and 5 GB-month of stored data are included a month. Rows read over 25 billion cost $0.001 per million. Rows written over 50 million cost $1.00 per million. Stored data over 5 GB-month costs $0.20 per GB-month. (From developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/platform/pricing, read 2026-10-29.)
• On the Free plan, exceeding any free limit causes further operations of that type to fail with an error. Daily free limits reset at 00:00 UTC. (From developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/platform/pricing, read 2026-10-29.)
• A SQLite-backed Durable Object has a 10 GB storage limit on Workers Paid and 1 GB on Free. At the limit, write operations fail with "database or disk is full: SQLITE_FULL"; reads and deletes still work. (From developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/platform/limits, read 2026-10-29.)

Python web hosting — Beginner plan free forever: 1 web app (yourusername.pythonanywhere.com), 512 MB disk, 100 CPU-seconds/day, 2 consoles. Outbound internet access available to whitelisted sites via HTTP(S)

• An unused free web app expires after 1 month, down from 3 months before January 2026. (From blog.pythonanywhere.com/221, read 2026-10-05.)
• Free accounts created on or after 2026-01-15 (2026-01-08 on the EU system) have no MySQL database and no scheduled tasks, which are in the $10-a-month Developer plan. Older free accounts keep them. (From help.pythonanywhere.com/pages/FreeAccountsFeatures, read 2026-10-05.)
• PythonAnywhere's terms let it irretrievably delete an account's content after six months of inactivity, so keep a backup. (From pythonanywhere.com/terms, read 2026-10-05.)
• PythonAnywhere's free Beginner account sign-up asks only for a username, an email address and a password, with no credit card. (From pythonanywhere.com/registration/register/beginner, read 2026-10-22.)

All-in-one platform to connect APIs and services in a serverless environment. It brings all the agility and benefits of NoCode tools but with all the power of using programming languages. The free tier includes 50,000 yeps (seconds of execution) per month with max 300 executions/day.The page we cite for YepCode names a plan but states no amount, so these limits come from our own record rather than from that page.

Build automation flows to connect several apps together in your app's backend. For example, send a Slack message or add a Google Sheet row when an event fires in your app. Free up to 5,000 tasks per month.

Automate your favorite apps and devices. Free 2 AppletsWhen we read the page we cite for this offer on 2026-10-08, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, and we have read it again since, on 2026-11-04, without confirming them, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

Automate tedious tasks with a single click. Free 100 Tasks, 15 MinuteWhen we read the page we cite for this offer on 2026-10-23, we found the same terms as an earlier read we had declined to record, and we have read it again since, on 2026-11-13, without confirming the terms above, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

Always Free: 2M requests/month, 360K GB-seconds memory, 180K vCPU-seconds compute, 1 GB North America egress. Fully managed serverless containers. If your service uses instance-based billing, its free tier is 240K vCPU-seconds and 450K GiB-seconds a month instead of 180K and 360K. Jobs get the same 240K and 450K. Delayed Jobs get 342,857 vCPU-seconds and 642,857 GiB-seconds a month, and worker pools 384,204 vCPU-seconds and 728,744 GiB-seconds (Google states each free tier at us-central1 prices).When we read the page we cite for this offer on 2026-10-13, we refused the change we considered recording because it named no figure that had moved, and we have read it again since, on 2026-11-02, without confirming the terms above, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

• Google Cloud's Free Tier requires a billing account. (From docs.cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features, read 2026-10-07.)
• Usage beyond the Free Tier's monthly limits is billed at standard rates. (From docs.cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features, read 2026-10-07.)
• Google Cloud's Terms of Service grant use for customer applications with material value independent of the services. The terms restrict resale and circumventing fees but do not prohibit commercial use. (From cloud.google.com/terms, read 2026-10-29.)
• Free Tier monthly usage limits are calculated per billing account. (From docs.cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features, read 2026-10-29.)
• Google Cloud's terms prohibit creating multiple projects to simulate a single project or circumvent usage limits. (From cloud.google.com/terms, read 2026-11-07.)
• Apps deployed from Google AI Studio can run on Cloud Run under Google's Starter Tier, which needs no credit card or billing account and limits regions, quotas and resources. (From docs.cloud.google.com/docs/starter-tier, read 2026-10-12.)
• In Tier 1 regions such as Iowa (us-central1), the default request-based rates past the free tier are $0.000024 per vCPU-second, $0.0000025 per GiB-second, and $0.40 per million requests. In Tier 2 regions such as London (europe-west2), the rates are $0.0000336 per vCPU-second and $0.0000035 per GiB-second. (From cloud.google.com/run/pricing, read 2026-10-29.)
• When a spend cap is hit, Cloud Run workloads pause. Services return 5xx errors. The cap resets on the first day of the next billing cycle. (From docs.cloud.google.com/run/docs/configuring/billing-settings, read 2026-10-29.)
• Spend cap enforcement is not instant. Any cost overages before enforcement are billed as normal. (From docs.cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets-spend-caps, read 2026-10-29.)

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

• AWS's Free Tier FAQ says most new customers need no payment method to sign up. AWS may ask for one to verify identity. (From aws.amazon.com/free/free-tier-faqs, read 2026-10-23.)
• The sign-up without a card is Sign up for AWS (new), launched September 16, 2026, but AWS's docs say it is still being released to a limited number of customers, so a new customer may not be able to use it yet. (From docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/sign-in-new.html, read 2026-10-23.)
• Anyone who has or has had an AWS account is not eligible for AWS's Free plan or Free Tier credits. They must give payment information and go on the Paid plan. (From aws.amazon.com/resources/create-account, read 2026-10-23.)
• On the paid plan of Sign up for AWS (new), each project can have a monthly spend limit starting at $20. AWS pauses the project when spend reaches it. Advanced sign-up accounts have no spend limits. (From aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-reimagines-the-getting-started-experience, read 2026-10-23.)

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), Database for PostgreSQL and Database for MySQL (750 hours each of a B1MS Flexible Server, 32 GB storage), 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.

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 tier

• A powered-off Droplet is still billed, because its resources stay reserved; only destroying it ends billing. (From docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/details/pricing, read 2026-10-07.)

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 Balancer

• Oracle may reclaim Always Free compute instances if CPU utilization is less than 20% for 95% of the time, network utilization is less than 20%, and memory utilization is less than 20% (A1 shapes only) during a 7-day period. (From docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm, read 2026-10-10.)
• An account left idle for 30 days or more may be deemed abandoned and become eligible for suspension or termination. (From oracle.com/cloud/free, read 2026-10-10.)
• Oracle accepts credit cards and debit cards that function like credit cards, but not debit cards with a PIN, virtual, single-use, or prepaid cards. The card check places a temporary authorization hold that is not a charge. (From oracle.com/cloud/free, read 2026-10-10.)
• The $300 trial ends after 30 days or when the credit is used up. An account that does nothing keeps its Always Free services. (From oracle.com/cloud/free, read 2026-10-10.)
• Always Free compute instances must be created in the tenancy's home region. (From docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm, read 2026-10-29.)
• An "out of host capacity" error means a temporary lack of Always Free shapes in the home region. Try another availability domain, or wait and try again. Upgrading to Pay as You Go gives access to more compute types. Oracle does not charge for Always Free resources after the upgrade, only for usage above the Always Free limits. (From docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm, read 2026-10-29.)
• Always Free includes one standalone MySQL HeatWave DB system with a single-node HeatWave cluster in the home region. It has 50 GB of storage for data and logs and another 50 GB for backups. (From docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm, read 2026-10-29.)
• One Oracle Cloud Free Tier account is permitted per person. Creating multiple free accounts is prohibited. (From oracle.com/cloud/free/faq, read 2026-10-29.)
• Oracle Cloud Free Tier does not include SLAs. Customers using only Always Free resources are not eligible for Oracle Support. Community support is available through Oracle's forums. (From oracle.com/cloud/free/faq, read 2026-10-29.)

Always Free: 1 non-preemptible e2-micro VM (us-west1, us-central1, or us-east1), 30 GB standard persistent disk, 1 GB of outbound data transfer a month from North America to all destinations except China and Australia. GPUs/TPUs excluded.

• Google Cloud's Free Tier requires a billing account. (From docs.cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features, read 2026-10-07.)
• A new Google Cloud user gets the billing account by signing up for the Free Trial, which requires a credit card or other payment method. Google uses it to verify identity and reduce fraud. (From docs.cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features, read 2026-10-23.)
• Usage beyond the Free Tier's monthly limits is billed at standard rates. (From docs.cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features, read 2026-10-07.)
• The e2-micro instance limit is by time, not by instance: all e2-micro instances together are free for the number of hours in the month. (From docs.cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features, read 2026-10-04.)
• An external IPv4 address in use on a VM, including the free e2-micro, costs $0.005 an hour. The free tier covers one hour a month. A VM running all month pays about $3.65 for it. External IPv6 addresses are free. (From cloud.google.com/vpc/network-pricing, read 2026-10-11.)
• The free tier covers 30 GB-months of standard persistent disk. A disk created in the Google Cloud console defaults to balanced persistent disk, which the free tier does not cover. Choose Standard persistent disk, or create the VM with the gcloud CLI, which defaults to standard. (From docs.cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/persistent-disks, read 2026-10-11.)
• If you do not upgrade to a Paid billing account by the end of the 90-day trial or after spending the $300 credit, your Free Trial billing account closes and all its resources stop, including a free e2-micro VM. They are permanently deleted after a 30-day grace period without an upgrade. After upgrading, the Free Tier still applies. (From docs.cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features, read 2026-11-02.)
• The Free Tier has no end date. Google may change or eliminate its usage limits with 30 days' advance notice. (From docs.cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features, read 2026-11-02.)

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.

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.