Independent free-tier directory
Compare developer-focused free tiers by real limits, credit-card requirements, sleep behavior, commercial-use rules and upgrade cost.
| Platform | Free tier | Main catch | Paid from |
|---|---|---|---|
 Vercel | Perpetual | Commercial use restricted | $20/mo |
 Netlify | Perpetual | Suspends at the limit | $9/mo |
 Cloudflare Pages | Perpetual | Unconfirmed | Workers $5/mo |
 Render | Perpetual (sleeps) | Sleeps when idle | $7/mo |
 Supabase | Perpetual (pauses) | Pauses when idle | $25/mo |
 Neon | Perpetual | Scales to zero when idle | Usage-based |
| K Koyeb | Perpetual (sleeps) | Scales to zero when idle | $1.61/mo |
| S Scaleway Containers | Perpetual (scales to zero) | Scales to zero when idle | Usage-based |
Services
European cloud
Providers headquartered in Europe: their free tiers, entry prices and where your data lives, for GDPR and sovereignty requirements.
See European cloud providers →| Platform | Headquarters | Free option | Paid from |
|---|---|---|---|
| alwaysdata France | France | Perpetual | €5/mo |
| Bunny.net Slovenia | Slovenia | 14-day trial | $1/mo minimum |
| Clever Cloud France | France | Signup credit | Usage-based |
| Hetzner Cloud Germany | Germany | None | €5.99/mo |
| Koyeb France | France | Perpetual (sleeps) | $1.61/mo |
Guides
Cloudflare Pages NEW Cloudflare Cloudflare Pages is a JAMstack platform for frontend developers to collaborate and deploy websites on Cloudflare's global edge network.
Free tier
Unlimited static asset requests, 500 builds/month, 100 projects/account
Workers $5/mo · 330+ cities
Netlify Netlify Inc. Netlify is a web developer platform that multiplies productivity by unifying the elements of the modern decoupled web.
Free tier
300 credits/month on the free plan
Suspends at the limit
Paid from $9/mo · Global CDN
Render Render Services Inc. Render is a unified cloud to build and run all your apps and websites with free TLS certificates, a global CDN, private networks and auto deploys from Git.
Free tier
512 MB web service, 750 hours/month, sleeps after 15 minutes; free Postgres expires after 30 days
Sleeps when idleSuspends at the limit
Paid from $7/mo · 5 regions
Supabase NEW Supabase Inc. Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative with Postgres, Auth, instant APIs, Edge Functions and Realtime subscriptions.
Free tier
500 MB database, 1 GB file storage, 5 GB egress plus 5 GB cached egress
Pauses when idleSuspends at the limit
Paid from $25/mo · Multi-region
Vercel Vercel Inc. Vercel is the platform for frontend developers, providing the speed and reliability innovators need to create at the moment of inspiration.
Free tier
100GB bandwidth, 100 deployments/day
Commercial use restrictedUpgrade required at the limit
Paid from $20/mo · Global network
alwaysdata is a French PaaS and hosting platform with a free-for-life plan: 1 GB SSD, 256 MB RAM and a quarter CPU for personal projects.
Free tier
1 GB SSD, 256 MB RAM and a quarter CPU share, positioned for personal needs, with no time limit
Commercial use restricted
€5/mo · 1 region
Open-source whiteboard for diagrams and wireframes, with a React editor and a self-hostable frontend; collaboration needs extra services.
Deploy free to
Realtime chat pattern built from Supabase's Postgres, Auth and Realtime platform rather than a standalone maintained demo repository.
Deploy free to
Open source backend in one Go binary: embedded SQLite, realtime subscriptions, auth, file storage and an admin UI for container or VM hosts.
A full-stack SaaS starter monorepo with React 19, tRPC, Hono, Stripe, Drizzle, Neon and multiple Cloudflare Workers.
Deploy free to
A Deno-native web framework with islands, file-system routing, TypeScript support and no client JavaScript by default.
Deploy free to
Our methodology
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