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Hosting and deploy: which free tiers are still free?
Free tier status of 9 static hosting and app deployment platforms, read from each vendor's public page on 2026-10-05. Status counts: 4 free, 4 free with limits, 1 trial only.
| Tool | Still free? | Summary | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare Pages | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Yes | The Free plan has a 300 credit limit that is spent on production deploys, compute, bandwidth and web requests. | 2026-10-05 |
| Northflank | Yes | The free Sandbox tier includes 2 services, 2 cron jobs and 1 database with always-on compute. | 2026-10-05 |
| Railway | 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 | 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 | 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 |
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