/Cloud-Free-Tier-Comparison

Comparing the free tier offers of the major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle etc.

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Cloud Service Providers Free Tier Overview

Comparing the free tier offers of the major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud etc.

  1. AWS
  2. Azure
  3. Google Cloud
  4. Oracle Cloud
  5. Alibaba Cloud
  6. IBM Cloud
  7. Scaleway
  8. DigitalOcean
  9. Hetzner Cloud
  10. render
  11. Netlify
  12. jfrog
  13. salesforce
  14. openshift
  15. Linode
  16. Container Hosting Service
  17. Fly.io
  18. 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

  • 75GB block storage (S3-compatible API)
  • 50k message in the IoT Hub (MQTT, REST, Sigfox, LoRa)

8. DigitalOcean

Homepage: DigitalOcean

Free for Limited-time

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

16. Container Hosting Service

Homepage: Container Hosting Service

Currently 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)