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
- $100 credit for 60 days from do.co/hf100
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
- US$100, 60-day free trial requires valid credit card. free-credit-100
15. Container Hosting Service
Homepage: Container Hosting Service
Currently Free
- Container Hosting Service Try Open Source Container Hosting Service for free
16. Cloudflare
Homepage: Cloudflare
Always free on basic plan:
- NS server with DNS delegation
- 10GB R2 - S3 compatible object storage
- D1 - serverless SQL database
- CDN for delegated domains
- SSL offloading
- Web Application Firewall
- Workers & Pages - serverless functions
17. OVHcloud
Homepage: OVH
Free for Limited-time
200€ or equivalent on all public cloud ressources for 30 days
Always free
- Mongo DB 512 MB (with replication): https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/mongodb/
18. Tencent Cloud
Homepage: Tencent Cloud
Multiple alternative server locations for hosting in Asia: Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Singapore, Bangkok, Jakarta, Silicon Valley, Frankfurt, Mumbai, Virginia, São Paulo, Toronto
Free for Limited-time
Always Free
- Elastic Network Interface (ENI)
- Virtual Private Cloud (VOC)
- Auto Scaling (AS)
- VPN connections
19. Vercel
Homepage: Vercel
Always free
- Support for 35+ Frameworks
- Fast Globally (Edge Network)
- Automatic CI/CD (Git Integration)
- Functions (Serverless, Edge)
- Starter Database (KV, Postgres)
- Web Analytics
20. Zeabur
Homepage: Zeabur
Always free
- Serverless functions and static sites
- 10GB outbound data transfer per month
Always free for developer plan
- 100GB outbound data transfer per month
- US$ 5 usage fee per month