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 destinations (excluding China and Australia) per month
  • Cloud Storage - 5GB, 1GB network egress
  • Cloud Shell - Web-based Linux shell/primary IDE with 5GB of persistent storage. 60-hour limit per week
  • Cloud Pub/Sub - 10GB of messages per month
  • Cloud Functions - 2 million invocations per month (includes both background and HTTP invocations)
  • Cloud Run - 2 million requests per month, 360,000 GB-seconds memory, 180,000 vCPU-seconds of compute time, 1 GB network egress from North America per month
  • Google Kubernetes Engine - No cluster management fee for one zonal cluster. Each user node is charged at standard Compute Engine pricing
  • BigQuery - 1 TB of querying per month, 10 GB of storage each month
  • Cloud Build - 120 build-minutes per day
  • Google Colab - Free Jupyter Notebooks development environment.
  • Kaggle - Jupyter Notebooks with 4 CPU cores and 30 GB RAM computational environment without any weekly usage limits. With Phone number verification, 1 Nvidia Tesla P100 GPU or 2x Nvidia Tesla T4 GPU can be added with a usage limit of 30 GPU hours/week for free. With Identity verification - 1 TPU v3-8 with 96 CPU cores and 330 GB RAM is available with a usage limit of 20 hours/week for free. Check Technical Specifications for more details.
  • ChromeRemoteDesktop - Free remote desktop app with practically no limit on the number of devices, owned by Google, so needs a Google account.
  • Google AI Studio - Get free access to Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3 Flash and Gemma 4 models. The free tier for Flash offers 5 requests per minute, 20 requests per day, and 250k input tokens per minute. Meanwhile the free tier for Gemma 4 offers 30 requests per minute, 14.4k requests per day, but (only) 16k input tokens per minute.
  • Full, detailed list - https://cloud.google.com/free

• Amazon Web Services

  • CloudFront - 1TB egress/month, 10M HTTP requests, and 2M Function invocations/month
  • CloudWatch - 10 custom metrics and alarms, 1M API requests, 5GB of log data ingestion and 5GB of log data archive
  • CodeBuild - 100min of build time/month
  • CodeCommit - 5 active users, 5k repositories/account, 50GB storage/month and 10K requests/month
  • CodePipeline - 1 active pipeline/month
  • DynamoDB - 25GB NoSQL DB
  • Lambda - 1 million requests/month
  • SNS - 1 million publishes/month
  • SES - 3.000 messages/month (6mo)
  • SQS - 1 million messaging queue requests
  • Full, detailed list - https://aws.amazon.com/free/

• Microsoft Azure

  • App Service - 10 web, mobile, or API apps (60 CPU minutes/day)
  • Functions - 1 million requests per month
  • DevTest Labs - Enable fast, easy, and lean dev-test environments
  • Active Directory - 500,000 objects
  • Active Directory B2C - 50,000 monthly stored users
  • Azure DevOps - 5 active users, unlimited private Git repos
  • Azure Pipelines - 10 free parallel jobs with unlimited minutes for open source for Linux, macOS, and Windows
  • Microsoft IoT Hub - 8,000 messages per day
  • Load Balancer - 750 hours, 15GB data processing and 5 rules (12mo)
  • Notification Hubs - 1 million push notifications
  • Bandwidth - 15GB Outbound(12mo)
  • Cosmos DB - 25GB storage and 1000 RUs of provisioned throughput
  • Static Web Apps - Build, deploy, and host static apps and serverless functions with free SSL, Authentication/Authorization, and custom domains
  • Storage - 100GB LRS transactions (Azure Files), 5GB Blob storage, 10GB LRS Archive Storage, 2x64GB SSD (12mo)
  • Cognitive Services - AI/ML APIs (Computer Vision, Translator, Face detection, Bots, etc) with free tier including limited transactions
  • Cognitive Search - AI-based search and indexation service, free for 10,000 documents
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