Services with a recurring free allowance
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Only hosts with a repeating free tier. One-off trial credits stay out unless a standing allowance exists too.
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Always Free is often limited by region and operation class. Read the live caps on the vendor site before production.
14 services
✓ 14 with a free tier
| № | Service | Description | Free tier | Free allowance | Pricing from | |
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Frontend, serverless function, and Edge Runtime deployment platform | ✓ Yes | Serverless: 100 GB-hours/month, Edge: 500K calls, 100 GB bandwidth | $20/month (Pro) | Open |
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Deploy applications, databases, and cron jobs from GitHub | ✓ Yes | $5 monthly trial credits, 512 MB RAM, shared vCPU | $5/month (Hobby) | Open |
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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 |
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Serverless PostgreSQL with autoscaling and database branching | ✓ Yes | 0.5 GB storage, 190 compute-hours/month, automatic suspend | $19/month (Launch) | Open |
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Edge SQLite (libSQL) databases with low global latency | ✓ Yes | 9 GB storage, 500 databases, 1B row reads/month | $29/month (Scaler) | Open |
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Serverless Redis and Kafka with pay-per-request pricing | ✓ Yes | 10K Redis commands/day, 100K Kafka messages/day | $0.20/100K commands | Open |
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Distributed SQL with automatic sharding and geo-partitioning | ✓ Yes | 10 GiB storage, 50M Request Units/month | $0 (Serverless, pay as you go) | Open |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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PaaS for web services, static sites, PostgreSQL, Redis, and cron jobs | ✓ Yes | Unlimited static sites; web services: 750 hours/month | $7/month (Starter) | Open |
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Object storage with an Always Free quota and static website hosting in US regions | ✓ Yes | 5 GB storage; 5,000 Class A; 50,000 Class B; 100 GB egress/month except AU and CN. Only us-east1, us-west1, us-central1 | Pay as you go beyond the quota; a billing account is required | Open |
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Static and JAMstack hosting on Cloudflare's CDN with Git deploys | ✓ Yes | Unlimited sites and static bandwidth; 500 builds/month; 20,000 files; Functions share the 100,000 req/day Workers Free quota | $0; Workers Paid only after Functions exceed the free quota | Open |
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Free static site hosting directly from a GitHub repository | ✓ Yes | Public repos: 1 GB site, 100 GB bandwidth/month, 10 builds/hour. No billing account required | $0; private repos need GitHub Pro or higher | Open |