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Overview of free hosting offers, incl. compute hosting, app hosting, databases, serverless etc.

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Free Hosting

Overview of free web hosting offers. A good collection can be found at https://free-for.dev/

Table of Contents

  1. Static Pages
  2. Object Storage
  3. Serverless Functions
  4. Misc

Static Pages / JAMStack-Hosting

Service Name Plan Build Minutes Concurrent Builds Outbound Transfer Storage* Source Provider/Deployment Number of Sites Next pricing step/Month Credit card required
Netlify Starter 300 1 100gb Unlimited (?) GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, CLI Unlimited 19$, Pro, 3 concurrent builds, 1K build minutes No credit card requirements
Vercel Hobby 6000 10 every 10 minutes 100gb Unlimited (?) GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and CLI Unlimited 20$, Pro plan No credit card requirements
CloudFlare Pages Free 500 1 Unlimited Unlimited GitHub ? Unlimited 20$, 5 concurrent builds, 5K Build minutes No credit card requirements
DigitalOcean App Platform Starter 100 ? 1gb ? GitHub, GitLab 3 5$, 400 build minutes, 40gb outbound transfer Yes, a credit card is required.
Render Static Sites Unlimited Unlimited 100 GB Unlimited GitHub, GitLab Unlimited 100 GB/month bandwidth included at no cost. Additional bandwidth just $0.10/GB per month. No credit card requirements
Surge Surge None None Unlimited Unlimited CLI, CI/CD 1 Surge Professional at 30$ with unlimited projects No credit card requirements
Layer0 Community None None 100GB Bandwidth unlimited? Github, CLI 1 custom domain 3 Custom Domain, 250GB Bandwidth, 5 Environments, 31 Edge Locations, 99.95% Uptime SLA, Real-Time RUM Analytics No credit card requirements
AWS Amplify Hosting Free Tier limited to 1 year 1000 ? 15GB 5GB ? ? Pay as you go: Build & Deploy $0.01 per build minute, Hosting $0.023 per GB stored /month, $0.15 per GB served Yes, a credit card is required.
Firebase Hosting Spark Plan None None 360 MB/day / ~10GB/month 10GB CLI, CI/CD Limited ~10 $0.026/GB storage, $0.15/GB outbound transfer Yes, a credit card is required.
GitHub Pages Free 2000 (via GitHub Actions) 20 (GitHub Actions limit) (10 per hour soft limit ?) 100gb soft limit 1gb GitHub Unlimited (for public repositories only) $4, GitHub Pro plan No credit card requirements
GitLab Pages Free 400 Unlimited Unlimited 10gb GitLab Unlimited 19$, Premium, 10K build minutes No credit card requirements
Bitbucket No credit card requirements
Azure Blob Yes, a credit card is required.
AWS S3 Yes, a credit card is required.
GCP Cloud Storage Yes, a credit card is required.

*Note: Storage is influenced by the size limits of your source providers aswell.

Object Storage

  • Storj (150GB storage & transfer in the "free plan")

PHP

Ruby

  • Heroku (PaaS that supports Ruby)

Kubernetes

  • Platform9 (Freedom plan)
  • Civo (on #KUBE100 beta - $70 free credit every month, no credit card required)
  • KubeSail Signup using Github and get a free kubernetes cluster for learning kubernetes

Databases (DBaaS)

Serverless Functions

Product Plan Credit Card Languages Free Quota
Netlify Functions Level 0 not required JavaScript, TypeScript, Go 125K reqs/month, 100 hrs
Vercel Serverless Functions Hobby (non-commercial) not required Node.js, Go, Python, Ruby 12 functions
Firebase Cloud Functions Blaze Plan required Node.js, Python, Go, Java, .NET, Ruby, PHP 2M reqs/month
Cloudflare Workers Free not required JavaScript, Rust, C, C++ 100K reqs/day, 30 functions
Oracle Functions - - - -

Misc