Cloud Service Providers Free Tier Overview
Comparing the free tier offers of the major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud etc.
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- Oracle Cloud
- Alibaba Cloud
- IBM Cloud
- Scaleway
- DigitalOcean
- Hetzner Cloud
- render
- Netlify
- jfrog
- salesforce
- openshift
- Linode
- Container Hosting Service
- Fly.io
- Railway
1. AWS
Homepage: AWS Free Tier
Always Free
- Amazon DynamoDB (NoSQL): 25 GB of storage
- AWS Lambda (FaaS): 1 Million free requests per month
- Amazon SNS: 1 Million publishes
2. Azure
Homepage: Azure Free Tier
Free for Limited-time
- US$200 credit for 30 days
- Popular services free for 12 months
Always Free
- 54+ other services free always
3. Google Cloud
Homepage: Google Cloud Free Tier
Always Free
- Compute VM: 0.25 vCPU, 1G RAM (only on us-west1, us-central1 and us-east1)
- 1GB of network egress (except China and Australia)
- 5GB Storage (only on us-west1, us-central1, us-east1, asia-east1 and europe-west1)
4. Oracle Cloud
Homepage: Oracle Cloud Free Tier
Free for Limited-time 30 day free trial
- US $300 credit for 30 days
- Up to eight instances across all available services
- Up to 5 TB of storage
Always Free
- Compute: (Note- 1 Oracle OCPU = 2 vCPUs)
- 2 AMD-based VMs: 1/8 OCPU = 0.25 vCPU with 1 GB RAM each
- 4 Arm-based VMs: 24 GB RAM total, 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB memory hours per month
- 2 Block Volumes Storage, 200 GB total
- 10 GB Object Storage - Standard
- 10 GB Object Storage - Infrequent Access
- 10 GB Archive Storage
- 10TB of network data egress/month per originating region
- Resource Manager (managed terraform)
- 5 OCI Bastions
- 2 Oracle Autonomous Databases incl. Oracle Application Express (APEX), Oracle SQL Developer etc., each with 20GB storage
- NoSQL Database with 25GB storage per table, up to 3 tables
- 4 Load Balancers: 1 Flexible (10Mbps) and 3 Network
- Monitoring and Notifications
5. Alibaba Cloud
Homepage: Alibaba Cloud Free Trial
Try Over 40 Products for Free Worth $450-$1300 USD.
Now up to 12 Months Usage for Elastic Compute Services.
6. IBM Cloud
Homepage: IBM Cloud Free Tier
Free for Limited-time
- US$200 credit for 30 days
7. Scaleway
Homepage: Scaleway
Free for Limited-time
- sometimes they give away free credits
Always Free
8. DigitalOcean
Homepage: DigitalOcean
Free for Limited-time
- $100 credit for 60 days from do.co/hf100
9. Hetzner Cloud
Homepage: Hetzner Cloud
Free for Limited-time
- sometimes they give away free credits
10. render
Homepage: render
Free for Limited-time
- sometimes they give away free credits
Always Free
- static site hosting
11. Netlify
Homepage: Netlify
Free for Limited-time
- sometimes they give away free credits
Always Free
- static site hosting
12. jfrog
Homepage: Jfrog Free Tier
Free for Limited-time
- Self-Hosted 30 day trial
Always Free
2GB Storage 10GB Transfer/month 2,000 CI/CD Minutes/month
13. Salesforce
Homepage: Salesforce Free Tier
Free for Limited-time
- Your FREE 30-Days Trial Now!
Always Free
When you download Listware for Salesforce, you are given 1,000 free credits which you can use during a free 30-day trial of the app.
14. Openshift
Homepage: Interactive Learning Portal
Try out Openshift 4 cluster for free
Openshift 4: Try Openshift 4 cluster for free
15. Linode
Homepage: Linode
Free for Limited-time
- US$100, 60-day free trial requires valid credit card. free-credit-100
16. Container Hosting Service
Homepage: Container Hosting Service
Currently Free
- Container Hosting Service Try Open Source Container Hosting Service for free
17. Fly.io
Homepage: Fly.io
Always free on all plans:
- Up to 3 shared-cpu-1x 256mb VMs (Apps or Machines)
- 3GB persistent volume storage (total)
- 160GB outbound data transfer
18. Railway
Homepage: Railway
Always Free:
- 512 MB RAM and shared CPU/container
- 1 GB Disk (split between your services)
- $5 or 500 hours of usage (deploys shut off when first limit is reached)