free-for-dev

free-for.dev collects SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS offerings with free developer tiers, so people can find them without weeks of hunting. The rules for what qualifies are written down in the README.

The README starts from a complaint that many developers share: plenty of services offer free tiers now, but finding them all takes time. This list gathers them. It is scoped to what infrastructure developers are likely to find useful, and the maintainer admits the line is sometimes grey. The scope is deliberately opinionated, and rejected contributions are nothing personal.

Only as-a-Service offerings qualify; self-hosted software stays out. A service must offer a free tier, not just a free trial, and time-bucketed tiers must last at least a year. There is a security angle too. Services that restrict TLS to paid-only tiers are not accepted, while SSO is fine. Those rules do most of the curating before a human ever looks at a submission.

Major clouds are covered with their free limits spelled out. Google Cloud appears with instance hours, storage, and BigQuery allowances. AWS lists Lambda, DynamoDB, and CloudWatch. Azure covers app services, Functions, and Cosmos DB. Oracle, IBM, Cloudflare, and Zoho round out the section, each with its own quota table.

The list keeps going past the big three. Source code hosting appears with Bitbucket, Codeberg, GitHub, and GitLab. APIs, data, and machine learning get their own section with scraping platforms and API aggregators. Web hosting, developer tools, and infrastructure services fill out the middle of the list.

The README says the list results from pull requests, reviews, ideas, and work done by over 1600 people. Contributors can send pull requests to add services or remove ones whose offerings have changed or been retired. That volume of contributors is how a list like this stays current.

• Source 1 · Project repository
• Source 2 · README