Which developer tools are still free?
Free tier status and published limits of 60 developer tools, read from each vendor's public pricing or docs page on 2026-10-05. Status counts: 44 free, 8 free with limits, 6 trial only, 2 no free plan.
Each tool page lists the limits as the vendor publishes them, whether a credit card is required, whether commercial use is allowed, the gotchas and the source page. A value the vendor page does not give is shown as "not stated by the vendor".
Categories
- Hosting and deploy (9)
- Serverless and edge (3)
- Databases (8)
- Authentication (5)
- Storage and CDN (5)
- CI/CD (6)
- Monitoring and logging (7)
- Email (6)
- Developer utilities (6)
- AI and LLM APIs (5)
All 60 tools
| Tool | Category | Still free? | Summary | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare Pages | Hosting and deploy | Yes | The Free plan allows 500 builds per month with one build at a time and up to 20,000 files per site. | 2026-10-05 |
| Firebase Hosting | Hosting and deploy | Yes | The no-cost Spark plan includes 10 GB of hosting storage and 360 MB per day of data transfer with no payment method needed. | 2026-10-05 |
| Fly.io | Hosting and deploy | Trial only | There is no free tier for new organizations, only a free trial of up to 2 hours of Machine runtime or 7 days. | 2026-10-05 |
| GitHub Pages | Hosting and deploy | Yes, with limits | Static site hosting with a 1 GB site size limit and a 100 GB per month soft bandwidth limit, not allowed for running an online business. | 2026-10-05 |
| Netlify | Hosting and deploy | Yes | The Free plan has a 300 credit limit that is spent on production deploys, compute, bandwidth and web requests. | 2026-10-05 |
| Northflank | Hosting and deploy | Yes | The free Sandbox tier includes 2 services, 2 cron jobs and 1 database with always-on compute. | 2026-10-05 |
| Railway | Hosting and deploy | Yes, with limits | New accounts get a trial with a one-time $5 credit valid for 30 days, followed by a Free plan with $1 of usage per month. | 2026-10-05 |
| Render | Hosting and deploy | Yes, with limits | Free web services get 750 instance hours per workspace per month and spin down when idle; free Postgres databases expire 30 days after creation. | 2026-10-05 |
| Vercel | Hosting and deploy | Yes, with limits | The Hobby plan is free with monthly included usage, and the pricing page says it is for personal, non-commercial use. | 2026-10-05 |
| AWS Lambda | Serverless and edge | Yes | The Lambda free tier includes one million requests and 400,000 GB-seconds of compute per month. | 2026-10-05 |
| Cloudflare Workers | Serverless and edge | Yes | The Workers Free plan allows 100,000 requests per day with 10 milliseconds of CPU time per invocation. | 2026-10-05 |
| Deno Deploy | Serverless and edge | Yes | The Free plan includes 1M requests per month, 20 GiB of egress and 10 hours of active CPU. | 2026-10-05 |
| Aiven | Databases | Yes | The free PostgreSQL plan costs $0 per month for one VM with 1 CPU, 1 GB of RAM and 1 GB of storage, with no time limit. | 2026-10-05 |
| CockroachDB Cloud | Databases | Trial only | The pricing page offers a 30-day free trial with $400 in credit and states no permanent free allowance. | 2026-10-05 |
| MongoDB Atlas | Databases | Yes | The Free cluster costs $0 per hour, is described as free forever and includes 512MB of storage on shared RAM and vCPU. | 2026-10-05 |
| Neon | Databases | Yes | The Free plan is permanent and gives each project 100 CU-hours of compute and 1 GB of storage, with no credit card required. | 2026-10-05 |
| PlanetScale | Databases | No free plan | The pricing page lists no free plan or free trial; the lowest listed price is $5 per month for a single-node Postgres PS-5. | 2026-10-05 |
| Supabase | Databases | Yes | The Free plan includes a 500 MB Postgres database, 50,000 monthly active users and 1 GB of file storage across 2 active projects. | 2026-10-05 |
| Turso | Databases | Yes | The Free plan includes 100 databases, 5GB of storage and 500 million rows read per month with no credit card required. | 2026-10-05 |
| Upstash Redis | Databases | Yes | The Free plan includes one database with 256 MB of data, 500K commands per month and 10 GB of monthly bandwidth. | 2026-10-05 |
| Auth0 | Authentication | Yes | The Free plan covers up to 25,000 monthly active users on one tenant with no credit card needed to sign up. | 2026-10-05 |
| Clerk | Authentication | Yes | The free Hobby tier includes 50,000 monthly retained users and 100 monthly retained organizations per app, with no credit card required to start. | 2026-10-05 |
| Kinde | Authentication | Yes | The Free plan includes 10,500 monthly active users and 5 monthly active organizations with no credit card required. | 2026-10-05 |
| Stytch | Authentication | Yes | The free tier includes 10,000 monthly active users, 5 SSO or SCIM connections and 1,000 M2M tokens. | 2026-10-05 |
| WorkOS | Authentication | Yes | AuthKit user management is free for the first 1 million monthly active users, while SSO and Directory Sync are paid per connection. | 2026-10-05 |
| Backblaze B2 | Storage and CDN | Yes | The first 10GB of B2 storage is always free, with free egress up to 3x the average monthly stored data. | 2026-10-05 |
| bunny.net | Storage and CDN | Trial only | There is no free tier, only a 14-day free trial with no credit card required, followed by usage pricing with a $1 monthly minimum. | 2026-10-05 |
| Cloudflare R2 | Storage and CDN | Yes | The R2 free tier includes 10 GB-month of Standard storage, 1 million Class A and 10 million Class B requests per month, with free egress. | 2026-10-05 |
| Cloudinary | Storage and CDN | Yes | The Free plan includes 25 monthly credits shared between transformations, storage and bandwidth, with no credit card required. | 2026-10-05 |
| ImageKit | Storage and CDN | Yes | The Forever free plan costs $0 per month and includes 20 GB of monthly bandwidth and 3 GB of DAM storage. | 2026-10-05 |
| Bitbucket Pipelines | CI/CD | Yes | The Bitbucket Free plan is free for up to 5 users and includes 50 Pipelines build minutes and 1 GB of Git LFS storage. | 2026-10-05 |
| Buildkite | CI/CD | Yes | The Free plan costs $0 per month for up to 5 users, 10 concurrent jobs and 2,000 Linux vCPU minutes per month on hosted agents. | 2026-10-05 |
| CircleCI | CI/CD | Yes | The Free plan includes 30,000 credits per month, worth up to 6,000 build minutes on a small Docker executor, for up to 5 active users with no credit card required. | 2026-10-05 |
| GitHub Actions | CI/CD | Yes | Actions is free for public repositories and self-hosted runners, and GitHub Free accounts get 2,000 minutes per month for private repositories. | 2026-10-05 |
| GitLab CI/CD | CI/CD | Yes | The Free tier of GitLab.com costs $0 per user per month and includes 400 compute minutes per month and 10 GiB of storage. | 2026-10-05 |
| Travis CI | CI/CD | No free plan | The pricing page lists no free plan; the lowest listed price is $13.75 per month billed annually, or $15 per month billed monthly. | 2026-10-05 |
| Better Stack | Monitoring and logging | Yes | The $0 plan, described as free for personal projects, includes 10 monitors, 10 heartbeats, 1 status page and 3 GB of logs per month retained for 3 days. | 2026-10-05 |
| Datadog | Monitoring and logging | Yes | The Free Infrastructure Monitoring plan covers up to 5 hosts with 1-day metric retention. | 2026-10-05 |
| Grafana Cloud | Monitoring and logging | Yes | The always-free plan includes 10k active metric series, 50 GB each of logs, traces and profiles per month and 3 active users, with no credit card required. | 2026-10-05 |
| Honeycomb | Monitoring and logging | Yes | The Free plan is described as free forever and includes up to 20M events per month, 2 triggers and unlimited seats. | 2026-10-05 |
| New Relic | Monitoring and logging | Yes | The free tier includes 100 GB of data ingest per month, one full platform user and unlimited basic users, with no credit card required. | 2026-10-05 |
| Sentry | Monitoring and logging | Yes | The Developer plan costs $0 for one user and includes 5k errors, 50 session replays, 5M spans and 5GB of logs. | 2026-10-05 |
| UptimeRobot | Monitoring and logging | Yes | The Free plan includes 50 monitors checked every 5 minutes and 1 status page, with no credit card required. | 2026-10-05 |
| Amazon SES | Trial only | There is no standing free email allowance on the pricing page; new AWS customers get up to $200 in Free Tier credits that can be spent on SES within 12 months. | 2026-10-05 | |
| MailerSend | Yes | The Free plan includes 500 emails per month on 1 domain with a daily quota of 100 API requests, and asks for a credit card to prevent abuse. | 2026-10-05 | |
| Mailgun | Yes | The Free plan costs $0 per month and includes 100 emails per day, 1 custom sending domain and 1 day of log retention. | 2026-10-05 | |
| Postmark | Yes | The free developer plan includes 100 emails per month and does not expire; the lowest paid plan is $15 per month for 10,000 emails. | 2026-10-05 | |
| Resend | Yes | The Free plan costs $0 per month and includes 3,000 emails per month, capped at 100 emails per day, on up to 3 domains. | 2026-10-05 | |
| Twilio SendGrid | Trial only | There is no permanent free plan any more, only a free trial of 100 emails per day for 60 days; the lowest paid plan, Essentials, is $19.95 per month. | 2026-10-05 | |
| Algolia | Developer utilities | Yes | The free Build plan includes 10,000 search requests per month and 50,000 records, with no credit card required. | 2026-10-05 |
| cron-job.org | Developer utilities | Yes | The service is entirely free of charge, with no limit on the number of cron jobs and executions as often as once a minute. | 2026-10-05 |
| Inngest | Developer utilities | Yes | The Free plan includes 50k executions per month with 5 concurrent steps and 5 seats, with no credit card required. | 2026-10-05 |
| LaunchDarkly | Developer utilities | Yes | The Developer plan is $0 per month forever with unlimited seats, 5 service connections and 1K client-side monthly active users, and needs no credit card. | 2026-10-05 |
| Meilisearch Cloud | Developer utilities | Trial only | Meilisearch Cloud has a 14-day free trial with no credit card required and no permanent free plan; the open-source engine is free to self-host under the MIT license. | 2026-10-05 |
| Upstash QStash | Developer utilities | Yes | The Free plan allows 1,000 messages per day with up to 10 active schedules and 10 queues. | 2026-10-05 |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | AI and LLM APIs | Yes | The free allocation is 10,000 Neurons per day at no charge, on both the Workers Free and Workers Paid plans. | 2026-10-05 |
| Cohere API | AI and LLM APIs | Yes, with limits | Evaluation API keys are free but limited to 1,000 API calls per month and 20 Chat requests per minute. | 2026-10-05 |
| Google Gemini API | AI and LLM APIs | Yes, with limits | The Gemini API has a free tier where several Flash and Flash-Lite models are free of charge under rate limits, and free-tier content is used to improve Google's products. | 2026-10-05 |
| OpenAI API | AI and LLM APIs | Yes, with limits | The rate limits guide lists a Free usage tier for users in an allowed geography, but it does not say which models or how much usage are free of charge. | 2026-10-05 |
| OpenRouter | AI and LLM APIs | Yes, with limits | Model variants whose ID ends in :free can be called at no cost, limited to 20 requests per minute and 50 requests per day until at least 10 credits have been purchased. | 2026-10-05 |