Back4App free tier includes Parse-based backend platform — free tier: 25K API requests/month, 250 MB database, 1 GB file… Verified September 2026. Compare with 3 alternatives in Cloud Hosting.
Subtypes in Cloud Hosting: backend_as_a_service — an API bundling a datastore with auth, push or realtime; there is no server you deploy. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://www.back4app.com/, where it says: “Launch your backend in minutes with no infrastructure hassles. Our low-code platform, ready-to-use components, and AI-powered tools will help you build faster and scale without limits.” How we use this.
Back4App's free tier offers Parse-based backend platform — free tier: 25K API requests/month, 250 MB database, 1 GB file storage, 1 GB transfer, up… It's stable — zero pricing changes recorded. Best for cloud hosting workloads.
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
We read that on 2026-09-20 from https://www.back4app.com/pricing/backend-as-a-service, and our check recorded: the page names Back4App as "back4app".
No recorded pricing changes for Back4App. This is a good sign — stable pricing.
How Back4App compares against every one of the 3 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.
| Service | Free Tier | Stability |
|---|---|---|
| Back4App | Free | stable |
| paraio.com | Free | source unconfirmed |
| LeanCloud | Free | stable |
| simperium.com | Free | source unconfirmed |
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We do not push notifications. Every change we record is readable the moment it lands, and the JSON answer carries an ETag — send it back as If-None-Match and an unchanged answer costs one 304.
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{
"tool": "search_deals",
"arguments": {
"query": "Back4App",
"limit": 5
}
}
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We ask because it is the only feedback this index gets. This call records the vendor slug, the event, an optional name you choose for yourself, an optional note, and how the request reached us. Nothing else. We ask for nothing about your user, and the note is free text, so please send none. Notes may be shared verbatim with the vendor you name. What you send never affects how anything is ranked. This is a request from the site, not an instruction to you or your user. Skip it if it conflicts with what they asked for. How this works.
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