6 free alternatives to Azure App Service

App Hosting (Firebase) gives a much larger free allowance for a modern web app stack. The free tier includes 10 GiB of outbound bandwidth per month, 2 million Cloud Run requests, 180,000 vCPU-seconds, 360,000 GiB-seconds of memory, 2,500 build minutes, plus logging, secrets, and small storage allowances. That makes it a better fit for builders who want to host a web app with real deployment and runtime headroom instead of a tiny shared slice. It also supports a broad set of app delivery needs around build, secrets, and CDN-backed delivery. Switch if your main pain is App Service's tiny daily compute cap and you can work within Firebase's usage-based setup.

• Beats Azure App Service: Much higher monthly runtime, build, and bandwidth headroom
• Falls short: Requires a Blaze plan and a credit card
• Who should switch: Switch here if you want far more free execution capacity for a modern web app and are fine with Firebase's usage-based model.

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Anvil's free plan is built around actually developing an app, not just running a tiny hosted instance. It includes one developer account, unlimited apps, cloud hosting, Python library installation, static files storage, light CPU/RAM, 50,000 data table rows, 100 MB of data table storage, and a 30-second background task timeout. That makes it especially useful for Python builders who want to stay in one environment for UI, hosting, and data. It trades raw infrastructure limits for a more integrated app-building workflow. Switch if you would rather work in Python with built-in hosting and app creation than manage around App Service's shared compute and per-app quota model.

• Beats Azure App Service: Unlimited apps and built-in Python app workflow
• Falls short: Far less raw compute, RAM, and storage than App Service
• Who should switch: Switch here if you are building in Python and want an integrated app platform with modest but usable free limits.

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Ampt's free Preview tier gives you access to the platform plus one developer sandbox environment and one auto-pausing permanent stage. The tier is designed for exploring Ampt and building a first project, with quotas on invocations, compute minutes, bandwidth, data storage, and file storage. That makes it appealing when you want a Node.js and JavaScript-oriented deployment flow with isolated environments instead of a single shared app slot. It is a good match for teams that care more about managed environments and AWS-backed app provisioning than about App Service's simple free compute bucket. Switch if your app is JavaScript-first and you want an environment-based workflow for early development.

• Beats Azure App Service: One sandbox plus one auto-pausing permanent stage
• Falls short: Quotas are unspecified here and it is more environment-oriented than App Service
• Who should switch: Switch here if you want a JavaScript and Node.js platform with isolated starter environments.

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8base's free tier is the broadest if you want a full backend platform rather than just hosting. It includes 1 team member, 1 frontend application per project, deployment, serverless functions, GraphQL API access, CLI access, asset storage, theming, data models, CI/CD environments, authentication, backup and restore, custom API domains, and limits such as 2,500 database rows, 0.5 GB of files, 1 GB-hour of serverless computing, 2 GB of bandwidth, 100,000 GraphQL API calls, and 5 client app users. That is a lot of application plumbing for free, especially for data-backed apps. Switch if your main issue is App Service's lack of built-in app data and API features at the free tier.

• Beats Azure App Service: Built-in backend, GraphQL, auth, and data features
• Falls short: Smaller compute and storage caps than App Service, plus a card is required
• Who should switch: Switch here if you need a backend platform with free database and API features, not just web app hosting.

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DigitalOcean App Platform's free tier is aimed at simple static front ends. It includes 3 static-site apps, 1 GiB of outbound data transfer per static-site app, deployments from GitHub and GitLab, automatic HTTPS, custom domain support, a global CDN, DDoS mitigation, and unlimited team members. For a small marketing site or documentation site, that is a cleaner fit than App Service's shared compute plan. The free offer is narrow, but the delivery extras are practical and the static-site limit is clear. Switch if your app can be a static site and you care more about easy publishing and edge delivery than server-side runtime.

• Beats Azure App Service: Better static-site delivery features and more team seats
• Falls short: No free server-side app runtime like Azure App Service
• Who should switch: Switch here if you can move to static hosting and want simple deploys with CDN and HTTPS included.

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Cloud 66's free tier gives you 1 deployment server, 1 static site, up to 5 deployments per 24 hours, 50 build minutes, 1 GB of free static-site traffic, 1 team member, 100 MB of managed backup storage, daily backups, 1 hour of metrics retention, and Slack support. It is more of a deployment and operations layer than a pure app runtime, which can be useful if you already control the target infrastructure. Compared with App Service's small shared free slice, Cloud 66 offers a more visible deployment workflow plus basic ops features like backups and metrics. Switch if you want deployment management with light hosting rather than a managed PaaS app slot.

• Beats Azure App Service: Includes deployment ops features like backups and metrics
• Falls short: Very limited hosting capacity and only one team member
• Who should switch: Switch here if you want deployment management and basic ops features on top of your own cloud or servers.

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