Free tiers — Infrastructure for developers

Cloud services for developers: PaaS, databases, VPS, and specialized infrastructure, with free-tier and price comparisons.

11 services
✓ 11 with a free tier
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 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
4 Neon Serverless PostgreSQL with autoscaling and database branching ✓ Yes 0.5 GB storage, 190 compute-hours/month, automatic suspend $19/month (Launch) Open
5 Turso Edge SQLite (libSQL) databases with low global latency ✓ Yes 9 GB storage, 500 databases, 1B row reads/month $29/month (Scaler) Open
6 Upstash Serverless Redis and Kafka with pay-per-request pricing ✓ Yes 10K Redis commands/day, 100K Kafka messages/day $0.20/100K commands Open
7 CockroachDB Distributed SQL with automatic sharding and geo-partitioning ✓ Yes 10 GiB storage, 50M Request Units/month $0 (Serverless, pay as you go) Open
8 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
9 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
10 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
11 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