Free tier: Many of the main cloud companies provide customers the ability to explore and try out services free of charge up to specified limits for each service. Services with an “Always Free” offer allow customers to use the product for free up to specified limits as long as they are a customer of respective cloud provider.
The main idea behind this project is to provide information on free tier services provided by main cloud players. The curated list of high quality resources which you can use for free to build your next project.
Whatever you are building – be it a prototype, new startup, small business website, a student project or just something for a fun – this is the place to slush your costs down.
In meanwhile here are some useful resources:
Alibaba
- Alibaba 30+ always free products, please click on “always free” tab: always free products
- Alibaba free trial. Try over 50 products for free worth $1700 - $8,500 USD. Now up to 12 months usage for elastic compute service! Alibaba cloud free trial
- Requires phone number and email verification
Azure
There are two groups of free services. Certain types of these services are free up to a monthly amount.
- Explore 55+ always free services. Keep getting monthly free amounts of these services for as long as you have an Azure account.
- Popular services are free for your first 12 months. Plus, get $200 credit to use in your first 30 days.
- Azure for Students. Get access to free developer tools and $100 credit. No credit card required—all you need is an academic email address.
Heroku
- Free tier available for Heroku for GitHub students only. All Heroku applications run in a collection of lightweight Linux containers called dynos. If you are registered with the GitHub Student Developer Pack, you are eligible to receive platform credits worth $13 per month for 12 months (for a total value of $156).
- For example, the $13 in monthly platform credits is enough to cover one month of the Eco Dynos plan ($5 for 1000 dyno hours/month), one Mini Heroku Postgres database ($5/month), and one Mini Heroku Data for Redis® database ($3/month).
IBM
Get started for free with your Lite account. No credit card required. No time limits.
- Lite accounts don’t have an expiration date, don’t require a credit card and provide limited access to a catalog of more than 40 services, including IBM Watson® APIs. Free IBM cloud services.
- IBM Cloud product free trials after you upgrade to Pay-As-You-Go. Receive $200 USD credit when you upgrade.
Oracle
- Oracle always free resources: Using the Always Free resources, you can provision a virtual machine (VM) instance, an Oracle Autonomous Database, and the networking, load balancing, and storage resources needed to support the applications that you want build. With these resources, you can do things like run small-scale applications or perform proof-of-concept testing. Details of the Always Free Resources.
- Oracle the free trial provides you with $300 USD of cloud credits that are valid for up to 30 days. You may spend these credits on any eligible Oracle Cloud Infrastructure service. Oracle free trial.
Vercel
Ideal for front-end frameworks and serverless functions.
- Unlimited projects: Deploy as many projects as you want.
- Usage-based limits: Limits on bandwidth, serverless function executions, and build times, but they are generally generous for hobby projects.
- Global CDN: Fast delivery of your website.
- Edge functions: Run code closer to your users for even better performance.
Netlify
Netlify main focus is on static site hosting and serverless functions.
- Unlimited sites: Deploy as many projects as you want.
- 100GB bandwidth per month: Enough for most small to medium-sized projects.
- 300 build minutes per month: Time allocated for building your site before deployment.
- 125,000 function invocations per month: For serverless functions (like APIs or background tasks).
Firebase (Google)
If you need a backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) with a strong emphasis on real-time data.
- Cloud Functions: Serverless functions with 125,000 invocations and 400,000 GB-seconds of compute time per month.
- Realtime Database: NoSQL database with 1 GB of storage and 10 GB of downloads per month.
- Cloud Firestore: Another NoSQL database option with 1 GB of storage and 50,000 reads/writes/deletes per day.
- Hosting: 1 GB of storage and 10 GB of downloads per month for static content.
Render
Unified cloud platform for hosting web apps, APIs, and databases.
- Free web services: Supports various languages and frameworks (Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, etc.).
- At the start of each month, your Free instance hours reset to 750 (remaining hours don’t roll over).
- Free PostgreSQL: A managed PostgreSQL database with limited resources.