PaaS — Infrastructure for developers

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

5 services
✓ 4 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 Heroku Salesforce cloud platform for deploying web applications $5/month (Eco Dynos) Open
4 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
5 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