# 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](https://aws.amazon.com/free/)

### 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](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/)


### 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](https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/gcp-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](https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/)

### 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](https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/vcpu-and-ocpu-pricing-information))
  - 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](https://www.alibabacloud.com/campaign/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](https://www.ibm.com/uk-en/cloud/free)

### Free for Limited-time
- US$200 credit for 30 days

## 7. DigitalOcean

Homepage: [DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/)

### Free for Limited-time

- $100 credit for 60 days from [do.co/hf100](https://do.co/hf100)

## 8. Hetzner Cloud

Homepage: [Hetzner Cloud](https://hetzner.cloud)

### Free for Limited-time

- sometimes they give away free credits

## 9. Render

Homepage: [Render](https://render.com/)

### 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](https://www.netlify.com/)

### Free for Limited-time

- sometimes they give away free credits

### Always Free

- static site hosting

## 11. JFrog

Homepage: [Jfrog Free Tier](https://jfrog.com/platform/free-trial/)

### 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](https://www.salesforce.com/in/form/signup/freetrial-sales)

### 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](https://learn.openshift.com/)
 
### Try out Openshift 4 cluster for free

Openshift 4: [Try Openshift 4 cluster for free](https://www.openshift.com/try)

## 14. Linode
 
Homepage: [Linode](https://www.linode.com)
 
### Free for Limited-time
- US$100, 60-day free trial requires valid credit card. [free-credit-100](https://www.linode.com/lp/free-credit-100)

## 15. Container Hosting Service
 
Homepage: [Container Hosting Service](https://container-hosting.anotherwebservice.com/)
 
### Currently Free
- Container Hosting Service [Try Open Source Container Hosting Service for free](https://container-hosting.anotherwebservice.com/)

## 16. Cloudflare

Homepage: [Cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/)

### 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](https://www.ovhcloud.com)

### Free for Limited-time

[200€ or equivalent on all public cloud ressources for 30 days](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/)

### Always free

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

## 18. Tencent Cloud

Homepage: [Tencent Cloud](https://www.tencentcloud.com/campaign/freetier)

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

- [$300 voucher, 30-day trial](https://www.tencentcloud.com/campaign/promotions)

### Always Free

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

## 19. Vercel

Homepage: [Vercel](https://vercel.com/pricing)

### 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](https://zeabur.com/pricing)

### 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