Infrastructure for developers
Cloud services for developers: PaaS, databases, VPS, and specialized infrastructure, with free-tier and price comparisons.
15 services
✓ 11 with a free tier
By category
| № | Service | Description | Free Tier | Free allowance | Pricing from | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vercel | Frontend, serverless function, and Edge Runtime deployment platform | ✓ Yes | Serverless: 100 GB-hours/month, Edge: 500K calls, 100 GB bandwidth | $20/month (Pro) | Open |
| 2 | Railway | Deploy applications, databases, and cron jobs from GitHub | ✓ Yes | $5 monthly trial credits, 512 MB RAM, shared vCPU | $5/month (Hobby) | Open |
| 3 | Heroku | Salesforce cloud platform for deploying web applications | — | — | $5/month (Eco Dynos) | Open |
| 4 | Supabase | Open-source Firebase alternative with PostgreSQL, Auth, Storage, and Edge Functions | ✓ Yes | 500 MB database, 1 GB storage, 2 GB bandwidth, 500K Edge Function calls | $25/month (Pro) | Open |
| 5 | Neon | Serverless PostgreSQL with autoscaling and database branching | ✓ Yes | 0.5 GB storage, 190 compute-hours/month, automatic suspend | $19/month (Launch) | Open |
| 6 | PlanetScale | Serverless MySQL platform with branching and zero-downtime schema changes | — | — | $39/month (Scaler) | Open |
| 7 | Turso | Edge SQLite (libSQL) databases with low global latency | ✓ Yes | 9 GB storage, 500 databases, 1B row reads/month | $29/month (Scaler) | Open |
| 8 | Upstash | Serverless Redis and Kafka with pay-per-request pricing | ✓ Yes | 10K Redis commands/day, 100K Kafka messages/day | $0.20/100K commands | Open |
| 9 | CockroachDB | Distributed SQL with automatic sharding and geo-partitioning | ✓ Yes | 10 GiB storage, 50M Request Units/month | $0 (Serverless, pay as you go) | Open |
| 10 | Hetzner | German hosting provider with affordable VPS and dedicated servers | — | — | €3.79/month (CX22: 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD) | Open |
| 11 | Contabo | Budget VPS plans with generous RAM and storage allocations | — | — | €4.50/month (4 vCPU, 6 GB RAM, 100 GB SSD) | Open |
| 12 | Tencent Cloud | Global cloud provider with regions across Asia, Europe, and the US | ✓ Yes | Trial: 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 50 GB SSD for one month | $2.40/month (Lighthouse: 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM) | Open |
| 13 | Tencent Lighthouse | Lightweight Tencent VPS plans for agents and automation | ✓ Yes | Trial: 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM for one month | $2.40/month (2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 30 GB SSD) | Open |
| 14 | Fly.io | Edge-first PaaS that runs Docker containers close to users | ✓ Yes | 3 shared-cpu-1x VMs, 256 MB RAM, 3 GB persistent storage | $0 plus pay-as-you-go usage | Open |
| 15 | Render | PaaS for web services, static sites, PostgreSQL, Redis, and cron jobs | ✓ Yes | Unlimited static sites; web services: 750 hours/month | $7/month (Starter) | Open |