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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

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, 1 GB RAM (only on us-west1, us-central1 and us-east1)
    • 30 GB of standard persistent disk
    • 1 GB of network egress (except China and Australia) - in premium tier
    • 200 GB of network egress to any region in standard tier. (Comes with increased latency of around 20%.)
  • BigQuery (SQL): 1 TB of querying per month and 10 GB of storage each month
  • Cloud Storage: 5 GB-months of regional storage (US regions only) per month

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. DigitalOcean

Homepage: DigitalOcean

Free for Limited-time

8. Hetzner Cloud

Homepage: Hetzner Cloud

Free for Limited-time

  • sometimes they give away free credits

9. Render

Homepage: Render

Free for Limited-time

  • sometimes they give away free credits

Always Free

  • static site hosting
  • web service
  • Redis
  • PostgreSQL
  • 0.1vCPU, 512MB of RAM, 100GB bandwidth, running time of 750 hours per month

10. Netlify

Homepage: Netlify

Free for Limited-time

  • sometimes they give away free credits

Always Free

  • static site hosting

11. 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

12. 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.

13. OpenShift

Homepage: Interactive Learning Portal

Try out Openshift 4 cluster for free

Openshift 4: Try Openshift 4 cluster for free

14. Linode

Homepage: Linode

Free for Limited-time

15. Container Hosting Service

Homepage: Container Hosting Service

Currently Free

16. Cloudflare

Homepage: Cloudflare

Always free on basic plan:

  • NS server with DNS delegation
  • 10GB R2 - S3 compatible object storage
  • D1 - serverless SQL database
  • CDN for delegated domains
  • SSL offloading
  • Web Application Firewall
  • Workers & Pages - serverless functions

17. OVHcloud

Homepage: OVH

Free for Limited-time

200€ or equivalent on all public cloud ressources for 30 days

Always free

  • Mongo DB 512 MB (with replication): https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/mongodb/

18. Tencent Cloud

Homepage: Tencent Cloud

Multiple alternative server locations for hosting in Asia: Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Singapore, Bangkok, Jakarta, Silicon Valley, Frankfurt, Mumbai, Virginia, São Paulo, Toronto

Free for Limited-time

Always Free

  • Elastic Network Interface (ENI)
  • Virtual Private Cloud (VOC)
  • Auto Scaling (AS)
  • VPN connections

19. Vercel

Homepage: Vercel

Always free

  • Support for 35+ Frameworks
  • Fast Globally (Edge Network)
  • Automatic CI/CD (Git Integration)
  • Functions (Serverless, Edge)
  • Starter Database (KV, Postgres)
  • Web Analytics

20. Zeabur

Homepage: Zeabur

Always free

  • Serverless functions and static sites
  • 10GB outbound data transfer per month

Always free for developer plan

  • 100GB outbound data transfer per month
  • US$ 5 usage fee per month
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