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free-for.dev

Developers and open-source authors now have many services offering free tiers, but finding them all takes time to make informed decisions.

This is a list of software (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.) and other offerings with free developer tiers.

The scope of this particular list is limited to things that infrastructure developers (System Administrators, DevOps Practitioners, etc.) are likely to find useful. We love all the free services out there, but it would be good to keep it on topic. It's a grey line sometimes, so this is opinionated; please don't feel offended if I don't accept your contribution.

This list results from Pull Requests, reviews, ideas, and work done by 1600+ people. You can also help by sending Pull Requests to add more services or remove ones whose offerings have changed or been retired.



NOTE: This list is only for as-a-Service offerings, not for self-hosted software. To be eligible, a service must offer a free tier, not just a free trial. The free tier must be for at least a year if it is time-bucketed. We also consider the free tier from a security perspective, so SSO is fine, but I will not accept services that restrict TLS to paid-only tiers.

 Table of Contents


   Major Cloud Providers' Always-Free Limits
   Cloud management solutions
   Analytics, Events, and Statistics
   APIs, Data and ML
   Artifact Repos
   BaaS
   Low-code Platform
   CDN and Protection
   CI and CD
   CMS
   Code Generation
   Code Quality
   Code Search and Browsing
   Crash and Exception Handling
   Data Visualization on Maps
   Managed Data Services
   Design and UI
   Dev Blogging Sites
   DNS
   Docker Related
   Domain
   Education and Career Development
   Email
   Feature Toggles Management Platforms
   Font
   Forms
   Generative AI
   IaaS
   IDE and Code Editing
   International Mobile Number Verification API and SDK
   Issue Tracking and Project Management
   Log Management
   Mobile App Distribution and Feedback
   Management Systems
   Messaging and Streaming
   Miscellaneous
   Monitoring
   PaaS
   Package Build System
   Payment and Billing Integration
   Privacy Management
   Screenshot APIs
   Flutter Related and Building IOS Apps without Mac
   Search
   Security and PKI
   Authentication, Authorization, and User Management
   Source Code Repos
   Storage and Media Processing
   Tunneling, WebRTC, Web Socket Servers and Other Routers
   Testing
   Tools for Teams and Collaboration
   Translation Management
   Visitor Session Recording
   Web Hosting
   Commenting Platforms
   Remote Desktop Tools
   Other Free Resources

 Major Cloud Providers

   Google Cloud Platform
     App Engine - 28 frontend instance hours per day, nine backend instance hours per day
     Cloud Firestore - 1GB storage, 50,000 reads, 20,000 writes, 20,000 deletes per day
     Compute Engine - 1 non-preemptible e2-micro, 30GB HDD, 5GB snapshot storage (restricted to certain regions), 1 GB network egress from North America to all region destin