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Frontend hosting(4)

Cloudflare Pages

Static hosting on Cloudflare's global edge

no card needed
Bandwidth
Unlimited
Requests
Unlimited (static)
Builds
500/mo
Files per site
20,000
Max file size
25 MiB
Projects
100/account
  • Cloudflare now steers new projects toward Workers static assets — Pages still works but gets fewer new features
  • Pages Functions usage counts against the Workers free quota (100K requests/day)
  • Build timeout: 20 minutes
Unlimited-bandwidth static sites and SPAs at $0✓ 06-11

Vercel (Hobby)

The native Next.js platform

no card needed
Fast data transfer
100 GB/mo
Edge requests
1M/mo
Functions (Active CPU)
4 h/mo
Function invocations
1M/mo
Image optimization
5,000 transforms/mo
Blob storage
1 GB
Web Analytics
50K events/mo
  • Hobby plan is for personal, NON-commercial use only per ToS
  • Hard caps: you cannot pay for overages on Hobby — hitting a limit pauses the resource until next month
  • Runtime logs kept only 1 hour; 1 team seat
Next.js side projects with zero config✓ 06-11

Netlify

Jamstack pioneer, now credit-based pricing

no card needed
Credits
300/mo (hard cap)
Bandwidth
20 credits/GB (~15 GB/mo max)
Production deploys
15 credits each (~20/mo max)
Web requests
2 credits/10K
Compute
10 credits/GB-hour
Members
1
  • Switched to credit-based pricing — the old '100 GB bandwidth + 300 build minutes' free tier no longer exists
  • A single production deploy burns 15 credits (5% of your monthly quota); bandwidth, requests and deploys all drain the same 300-credit pool
  • Hard monthly limits: everything stops when credits run out (no surprise bills, but also no service)
Low-traffic sites that deploy occasionally✓ 06-11

GitHub Pages

Free static hosting straight from a repo

no card needed
Site size
1 GB max
Bandwidth
100 GB/mo (soft)
Builds
10/hour (soft)
Deploy timeout
10 min
Sites
1 user site + unlimited project sites
  • ToS forbids commercial use: no e-commerce, no SaaS, no 'primarily commercial' sites
  • On the free plan, Pages only works from PUBLIC repositories
  • Soft limits — GitHub may throttle (HTTP 429) or email you if you exceed them
  • Static only: no server-side code, no redirects config, no headers control
Docs, portfolios and open-source project sites✓ 06-11

Backend / compute(8)

Render

Heroku-like PaaS

no card needed
Web service
512 MB RAM, 0.1 CPU
Instance hours
750 h/mo
Bandwidth
5 GB/mo
Build minutes
500/mo
Free Postgres
1 GB, expires in 30 days
  • Free web services SPIN DOWN after 15 min of inactivity — spin-up takes ~1 minute
  • Free Postgres EXPIRES 30 days after creation (deleted after 14-day grace) unless upgraded
  • No persistent disk: local files lost on every deploy or restart
  • If free bandwidth/build minutes run out, ALL free services are suspended until next month
Hobby APIs that tolerate cold starts✓ 06-11

Fly.io

Micro-VMs close to users

trial / not free forever
Trial
2 VM-hours or 7 days total
Cheapest paid VM
~$1.94/mo (256 MB)
  • NO free tier anymore — pure pay-as-you-go; legacy free allowances only honored for old accounts
  • Credit card required for all organizations; adding it ends the trial immediately
  • One-time trial is tiny: 2 total VM-hours
Cheap paid global micro-VMs — not free hosting✓ 06-11

Railway

Usage-based app hosting

no card needed
Free credit
$1 of usage/mo
Service size
up to 1 vCPU, 0.5 GB RAM
Projects
1 (3 services)
Trial
one-time $5 credit, 30 days
  • $1/mo cannot run anything 24/7 — a 0.5 GB service alone costs ~$5/mo
  • Hobby plan is NOT free: $5/mo minimum even with zero usage
  • After the 30-day trial, limits drop hard (no cron jobs, single region)
Short demos and trials — not always-on free hosting✓ 06-11

Koyeb

Serverless VMs and GPUs

💳 card required
Web service
1 free: 512 MB RAM, 0.1 vCPU
Regions
Frankfurt or Washington D.C.
Bandwidth
100 GB/mo
Free Postgres
1 GB, 5h active time
  • Credit card required, verified with a $29 PRE-AUTHORIZATION hold
  • Signup defaults to the Pro plan ($29/mo) with immediate prorated charges — you must manually downgrade to Starter to stay free
  • Acquired by Mistral AI in 2026, pivoting toward AI infrastructure
One always-on free container if you have a card✓ 06-11

Deno Deploy

Serverless JS/TS at the edge

no card needed
Requests
1M/mo
Egress
20 GB/mo
CPU time
15 h/mo (org-wide)
Apps
20 active
KV storage
1 GiB
  • CPU-time and memory caps apply to the WHOLE organization, not per app
  • Only 1 day of log retention
  • No wildcard subdomains on free
Deno/TypeScript APIs and edge functions✓ 06-11

Google Cloud Run

Google's serverless containers

💳 card required
Requests
2M/mo
CPU
180K vCPU-sec/mo
Memory
360K GiB-sec/mo
Egress
1 GiB/mo
  • Requires a Google Cloud billing account (credit card) even for free-tier-only use
  • Only 1 GiB free egress — traffic-heavy apps rack up networking fees fast
  • Scale-to-zero = cold starts; keeping instances warm is billed
Containerized APIs with bursty traffic✓ 06-11

Cloudflare Workers

Edge functions on Cloudflare's network

no card needed
Requests
100K/day
CPU time
10 ms/invocation
Workers KV
100K reads + 1K writes/day
Static assets
Free, unlimited
Logs
200K events/day, 3-day retention
  • 10 ms CPU per request is tight for heavy compute (I/O wait doesn't count)
  • KV writes capped at 1K/DAY — operations hard-fail once exhausted
  • V8 isolates, not containers — no long-running processes
High-traffic lightweight APIs and middleware✓ 06-11

Glitch

Browser IDE + hosting

☠ defunct
Status
App hosting shut down July 2025
  • Glitch ended project hosting in July 2025 — many tutorials still link to it
  • Do not target it for new deployments; use Render or Cloudflare Workers instead
Nothing today — listed so you stop seeing it in old tutorials✓ 06-11

Databases(10)

Neon

Serverless Postgres with branching

no card needed
Storage
0.5 GB/project
Compute
100 CU-hours/project/mo
Projects
100
Branches
10/project
Egress
5 GB/mo
  • Compute auto-suspends after 5 min of inactivity and this cannot be disabled on Free (cold start on next query)
  • Hitting any monthly limit (compute, storage, egress) suspends compute until next billing month
  • Point-in-time restore window is only 6 hours on Free
Side-project Postgres with instant branching and many projects✓ 06-11

Supabase

Open-source Firebase alternative built on Postgres

card: unclear
Database size
500 MB/project
Active projects
2
Egress
5 GB/mo
File storage
1 GB
Auth MAUs
50,000
Edge functions
500K calls/mo
  • Free projects are PAUSED after 1 week of inactivity — manual unpause required
  • Only 2 active projects at a time
  • No automatic backups on Free
Full app backend (Postgres + auth + storage + realtime) in one free project✓ 06-11

Turso

Edge-hosted SQLite (libSQL) at scale

no card needed
Databases
100
Storage
5 GB
Rows read
500M/mo
Rows written
10M/mo
PITR
1 day
  • SQLite/libSQL dialect — not Postgres or MySQL
  • Community support only on Free
  • Concurrent writes in Turso Cloud still behind early-access waitlist
Fleets of small per-user or per-tenant SQLite databases✓ 06-11

MongoDB Atlas (M0)

Managed MongoDB free cluster

card: unclear
Storage
512 MB
Free clusters
1/project
Throughput
100 ops/sec
Connections
500
Data transfer
10 GB in/out per 7 days
  • Auto-paused after 30 days with zero connections; idle free clusters may be deactivated per ToS
  • Throttled above 100 ops/sec
  • No backups, no sharding, MongoDB version cannot be chosen on M0
Learning MongoDB or a small document-store app✓ 06-11

Upstash Redis

Serverless Redis with per-request pricing

no card needed
Data size
256 MB
Commands
500K/mo
Bandwidth
10 GB/mo
Databases
1
  • Only 1 free database; no SLA or multi-zone HA on Free
  • Entering a credit card AUTOMATICALLY upgrades you to Pay-as-You-Go
Serverless Redis cache, KV store or rate limiter for small apps✓ 06-11

Cloudflare D1

Serverless SQLite on Cloudflare's edge

card: unclear
Rows read
5M/day
Rows written
100K/day
Storage
5 GB/account
Databases
10
Max DB size
500 MB
Time Travel
7 days
  • Daily limits reset at 00:00 UTC; queries return ERRORS once exhausted
  • Designed to be queried from Cloudflare Workers — single-threaded per database
  • Cloudflare states the free plan is permanent; no egress charges
SQLite for apps built on Cloudflare Workers✓ 06-11

Xata

Managed Postgres with copy-on-write branching

trial / not free forever
Signup credit
$20 one-time
Max onboarding credit
$100
Compute after credits
from $0.012/hr
  • No permanent free cloud tier anymore — only onboarding credits, then pure pay-as-you-go
  • Idle branches scale to zero but storage keeps billing
  • Open-source self-managed engine is free forever
Trying Postgres branching workflows on starter credits✓ 06-11

CockroachDB Cloud (Basic)

Distributed, Postgres-compatible SQL

card: unclear
Request Units
50M RUs/mo
Storage
10 GiB/mo
Burst
up to 30K RU/sec
SLA
99.99%
  • Metered in 'Request Units' — consumption depends on query complexity, hard to predict
  • Compute and storage scale to zero when idle
  • No private connectivity or log export on Basic
Bursty distributed SQL within a monthly allowance✓ 06-11

Prisma Postgres

Instant Postgres with operations-based pricing

no card needed
Operations
100K/mo
Storage
500 MB
Databases
50
Connections
10 direct / 10 pooled
  • Bills per ORM operation, not compute time — query-heavy apps burn 100K fast
  • Quotas shared across ALL databases in the account
  • No daily backups on Free
Zero-config Postgres for Prisma ORM users✓ 06-11

Firebase Firestore

Serverless NoSQL with realtime sync

no card needed
Storage
1 GiB
Reads
50K/day
Writes
20K/day
Deletes
20K/day
Egress
10 GiB/mo
  • Daily quotas reset at midnight PACIFIC time; operations stop until reset
  • Exactly one free database per project
  • TTL deletes, PITR and backups require enabling billing
Mobile/web apps needing realtime sync via Firebase SDKs✓ 06-11

Auth(7)

Clerk

Drop-in auth components for React/Next.js

no card needed
Users
50,000 MRU/app
Social providers
3
B2B orgs
100 (20 members each)
Session lifetime
fixed 7 days
Log retention
1 day
  • 'Secured by Clerk' branding until Pro ($25/mo)
  • MFA, passkeys, allowlists and user bans locked behind Pro
  • Only 3 social login providers on Free
Fast, polished auth UIs in React/Next.js apps✓ 06-11

Auth0

Okta-owned identity platform

no card needed
Users
25,000 MAU
Social connections
Unlimited
Organizations
5
Log retention
1 day
  • Signup starts a 22-day trial of paid features that silently drop off after
  • First paid tier includes only 500 MAU — outgrowing Free is a pricing cliff
  • Custom domain on Free requires credit card verification
Standards-heavy auth with a large free MAU pool✓ 06-11

Firebase Auth

Google's auth inside Firebase

no card needed
Users
50,000 MAU
SAML/OIDC
50 MAU only
Email/social auth
Included
  • Phone/SMS auth NOT on the free plan — requires Blaze with per-SMS billing
  • MFA requires Identity Platform upgrade
Free auth at scale inside the Google stack✓ 06-11

Supabase Auth

Postgres-native auth in the Supabase stack

card: unclear
Users
50,000 MAU
Social OAuth
Included
Basic MFA
Included
Audit logs
1 hour
  • Free projects pause after 1 week of inactivity — auth goes down with them
  • Supabase branding on auth emails until Pro
  • SAML SSO needs Pro; advanced phone MFA is a $75/mo add-on
Auth bundled with your free Postgres backend✓ 06-11

Kinde

Auth + billing + feature flags for SaaS

no card needed
Users
10,500 MAU
Organizations
5
MFA
Included
Enterprise SSO
1 connection
Custom domain
Included
  • No MAU overage — past 10,500 you must upgrade
  • Phone auth includes only 10 free SMS
  • API keys feature requires Pro
Generous free auth with MFA, SSO and custom domain included✓ 06-11

WorkOS AuthKit

Enterprise-ready auth — first million users free

no card needed
Users
1,000,000 MAU
MFA
Included (TOTP + SMS)
RBAC
Included
Enterprise SSO
$125/connection/mo
  • Custom domain costs $99/mo — otherwise auth runs on a WorkOS domain
  • Enterprise SSO and Directory Sync are NOT in the free million
  • Credit card required when moving to production environment
B2B SaaS planning to sell enterprise SSO later✓ 06-11

Better Auth

Open-source TypeScript auth you self-host

no card needed
License
MIT, self-hosted
Users
Unlimited (your infra)
MFA/passkeys/orgs
Included via plugins
  • You run everything: bring your own database, email/SMS provider and hosting
  • Optional managed dashboard free tier keeps audit logs 1 day
Full control and zero per-user costs in TypeScript apps✓ 06-11

Email(7)

Resend

Developer-first transactional email

card: unclear
Emails
3,000/mo
Daily cap
100/day
Domains
1
Contacts
1,000
Log retention
30 days
  • Hard daily cap of 100 emails even if monthly quota remains
  • No overage on Free — sending stops at the quota
Transactional email for side projects and indie SaaS✓ 06-11

Brevo

All-in-one marketing + transactional email

no card needed
Emails
300/day
API/SMTP
Included
Log retention
Unlimited
  • 'Sent with Brevo' footer on free emails — removal is paid
  • 300/day cap means no burst campaigns
  • Account must be approved before sending
Mixing marketing campaigns and transactional email for free✓ 06-11

Mailjet

Email API and campaigns by Sinch

no card needed
Emails
6,000/mo
Daily cap
200/day
Contacts
1,000
  • Mailjet logo on free emails — removal requires $17/mo plan
  • Support only for the first month on Free
Higher free monthly volume with API + campaign editor✓ 06-11

Amazon SES

Pay-as-you-go email infrastructure

trial / not free forever
Free tier
3,000 messages/mo
Duration
First 12 months ONLY
After
$0.10 per 1,000 emails
  • NOT free forever — the free tier expires after 12 months
  • AWS signup requires a credit card
  • New accounts start sandboxed: verified recipients only until approved
Cheapest at scale if you can manage AWS✓ 06-11

Postmark

Deliverability-obsessed transactional email

no card needed
Emails
100/mo
Log retention
45 days
Domains
up to 10
  • Only 100 emails/month — a testing tier, not production
  • No overages: sending halts at quota
Evaluating top-tier deliverability before paying✓ 06-11

MailerSend

Transactional email + SMS for product teams

💳 card required
Emails
500/mo
Domains
1
API requests
100/day
Log retention
1 day
  • Credit card required to activate the Free plan (anti-abuse)
  • Starts as a 100-email trial until account approval
  • Logo removal requires paid plan; logs kept only 1 day
Low-volume transactional email with a polished template builder✓ 06-11

Loops

Modern email for SaaS — marketing + transactional

no card needed
Sends
4,000/mo
Contacts
1,000
Seats
Unlimited
  • 'Powered by Loops' footer on free plan
  • Pricing scales by subscribed contacts, not sends
One tool for marketing and transactional email✓ 06-11

Object storage(4)

Cloudflare R2

S3-compatible storage, zero egress fees

💳 card required
Storage
10 GB/mo
Writes (Class A)
1M/mo
Reads (Class B)
10M/mo
Egress
FREE, unlimited
  • Enabling R2 requires a payment method on file even for free-tier-only use
  • Free tier covers Standard storage only
  • Usage rounded UP to the next billing unit
Public asset hosting with heavy download traffic✓ 06-11

Backblaze B2

Cheapest S3-compatible storage

no card needed
Storage
First 10 GB free
Egress
Free up to 3x monthly storage
Beyond
$6.95/TB/mo
  • Free egress scales with stored data — a 1 GB bucket gets only ~3 GB/mo free egress
  • Egress fully free only through partner CDNs (Cloudflare, Fastly, bunny.net)
Backups and archives on a budget✓ 06-11

Supabase Storage

Object storage inside Supabase

no card needed
Storage
1 GB
Max file size
50 MB
Egress
5 GB + 5 GB cached/mo
  • Free projects PAUSE after 1 week of inactivity — storage URLs go down too
  • Egress quota shared across the whole project (DB + auth + storage)
  • No image transformations on Free
App uploads when you already use Supabase✓ 06-11

UploadThing

Dev-friendly file uploads for web apps

card: unclear
Storage
2 GB
Uploads
Unlimited
Next tier
$10/mo for 100 GB
  • The 2 GB free storage is shared between ALL your apps
  • No region selection and no private files on Free
Quick file uploads in Next.js side projects✓ 06-11

AI APIs(8)

Google Gemini API

Google's multimodal LLM API with a $0 tier

no card needed
Requests
Model-dependent RPM/RPD
Tokens
Free on eligible models
Daily reset
Midnight Pacific
  • Free-tier prompts and outputs are USED TO TRAIN Google products — paid tier is not
  • Google no longer publishes exact free RPM/RPD in docs; check AI Studio after login
  • Rate limits apply per project, not per API key
  • Search grounding not available on free tier
Adding a frontier multimodal LLM to a side project at $0✓ 06-11

Groq

Ultra-fast LPU inference for open models

no card needed
Requests/min
30 on most LLMs
Requests/day
1K most models, 14.4K on Llama 3.1 8B
Tokens/min
6K-30K by model
Tokens/day
100K-500K by model
  • Tight TPM caps (6K-12K on flagships) — long prompts hit 429s fast
  • Llama 3.3 70B capped at 100K tokens/DAY
  • Limits apply org-wide, not per key
Free low-latency inference of open models for prototypes✓ 06-11

Mistral API (Experiment)

Free API tier for Mistral models

no card needed
Requests
Restrictive RPS cap (console shows exact)
Tokens
Per-minute and per-month caps
  • PHONE NUMBER verification required — one number per Experiment plan
  • Mistral may use Experiment plan requests to train its models
  • Exact rate limits only visible in console after signup
Trying Mistral models with zero billing setup✓ 06-11

OpenRouter (free models)

One API for many LLMs, with :free variants

no card needed
Requests/min
20 on :free models
Requests/day
50 (1,000 after one-time $10 credit purchase)
  • 50 requests/day is the real cap until you buy $10 of credits ONCE
  • Some free-model providers may train on prompts — separate privacy opt-out toggle
  • Free model lineup rotates; capacity varies
Testing many different LLMs through one API key✓ 06-11

HF Inference Providers

200+ models via ~20 inference providers

no card needed
Credits
$0.10/mo (free account)
PRO credits
$2.00/mo ($9 sub)
Models
200+ via Groq, Cerebras, Together…
  • $0.10/month is TINY — a handful of LLM calls; HF flags it 'subject to change'
  • Credits only apply to requests routed through HF, not custom provider keys
Occasional multi-provider experiments from one HF token✓ 06-11

Cloudflare Workers AI

Serverless GPU inference on the edge

no card needed
Neurons
10,000/day, resets 00:00 UTC
Requests/min
300 (text generation)
Token equiv.
≈287K tok/day (Llama 8B) to ≈49K (70B)
  • 'Neurons' unit makes budgeting opaque — cost per token varies by model
  • Hard stop: requests FAIL once the daily limit is hit
  • Local-mode Wrangler inference counts against limits too
Free edge AI inside Workers apps✓ 06-11

Cohere (trial keys)

Command, Embed and Rerank models

no card needed
Calls
1,000/mo total
Chat
20 req/min
Embed
2,000 inputs/min
  • 1,000 API calls/month is a hard ceiling
  • Trial keys are for evaluation, not production
Prototyping RAG (embed + rerank) on enterprise-grade models✓ 06-11

GitHub Models

Free model playground built into GitHub

no card needed
Requests/min
15 (low tier) / 10 (high)
Requests/day
150 (low) / 50 (high)
Tokens/request
8K in / 4K out
  • 8K-in/4K-out per-request caps shrink usable context well below model maximums
  • Top reasoning models not on the free Copilot tier
  • Public preview meant for prototyping, not production
Comparing frontier models with just a GitHub account✓ 06-11

Analytics(5)

Cloudflare Web Analytics

Free privacy-first web analytics

no card needed
Price
Free for everyone
Sites
10/account
History
6 months
Custom events
Not supported
  • JS beacon blocked by ad blockers — undercounts traffic
  • No custom events, no UTM tracking
  • Only 6 months of history
Basic traffic stats with zero budget✓ 06-11

Umami Cloud

Hosted open-source GA alternative

no card needed
Events
100K/mo
Self-hosting
Free, unlimited (OSS)
  • Pageviews AND custom events all count toward the 100K monthly pool
  • Retention details only visible at signup (~6 months commonly reported)
Simple privacy-friendly site stats✓ 06-11

PostHog

All-in-one product analytics suite

no card needed
Events
1M/mo
Session replays
5K/mo
Feature flags
1M req/mo
Retention
1 year (free)
Projects
1
  • Ingestion STOPS past the free limits unless you add a card
  • 1-year retention vs 7 years once a card is added
  • Free volumes persist after adding a card — set billing limits to stay at $0
Startup-grade analytics, replays and flags for free✓ 06-11

GoatCounter

Tiny donation-funded open-source analytics

no card needed
Price
Free (donations)
Usage
'Reasonable public usage'
Script
~3.5 KB, no-JS pixel option
  • Fair-use policy instead of quotas; heavy traffic should self-host
  • Solo-maintainer service — no SLA
  • No GDPR consent banner needed (no personal data)
Personal sites wanting simple privacy-friendly counts✓ 06-11

Plausible

Lightweight EU-hosted analytics

trial / not free forever
Trial
30 days, no card
Cheapest paid
$9/mo (10K pageviews)
  • NO free tier — hosted Plausible is paid-only after the 30-day trial
  • Self-hosting the Community Edition is the only $0 option
Paid GA replacement; self-host to stay at $0✓ 06-11