Free-tier comparisons

Aiven gives you one free managed service of each type, including PostgreSQL with 1GB of storage. Cloudflare D1 gives you up to 10 SQLite-style databases, and it is part of the Workers Free plan.

Amazon Q Developer's Free tier allows 50 agentic requests a month. Kiro Free allows 50 credits a month, with access to open weight models and Claude Sonnet 4.5. Amazon Q Developer Pro costs $19 per user per month. Kiro Pro costs $20.

Bright Data's Web Unlocker free tier gives 5K requests a month. Tavily's free Researcher plan gives 1,000 API credits a month with no credit card. Tavily also has a free plan for students.

Cloudflare D1 caps its free plan by rows read and written per day. Prisma caps its free plan by operations per month. Prisma's free plan has 2 GB of storage and 50 databases, and it needs no credit card.

Cloudinary's free plan runs on 25 monthly credits that you spend on transformations, storage or bandwidth. TwicPics gives 3 GB of CDN bandwidth with unlimited transformations and assets.

EmailJS sends email from client-side code and allows 200 requests a month on Free. Mailjet allows 6,000 emails a month with a 200 per day limit, plus an SMTP relay.

EmailJS Free allows 200 requests a month. Postmark's free Developer plan allows 100 emails a month and never expires. Both are for light testing, and neither lets you go over.

ngrok puts a local service on a public URL, and its free plan comes with $5 of one-time usage credit. Tailscale links your own devices in a private network, and its free Personal plan has no usage cap on devices but is for non-commercial use.

Aiven gives you one always-on PostgreSQL service with 1 GB of storage and no credit card. Neon gives you up to 100 projects at 1 GB each, with 100 compute-hours per project every month. Neon fits many small databases. Aiven fits one steady database.

Aiven gives you one managed PostgreSQL service with 1 GB of storage and 1 GB of RAM. Turso gives you 100 databases with 5GB of storage shared between them. Both free plans start without a credit card. Turso's first paid plan costs $4.99 a month billed yearly, and Aiven's costs $5.

Anara is built for reading and questioning research papers. Notion is built for notes, docs and databases. Anara's free plan allows uploads of 20MB or 120 pages each. Notion's free plan allows files of 5 MB each.

Gemini's free plan includes Deep Research and 15 GB of cloud storage. Claude's free plan includes memory, Artifacts, file creation with code execution and 5 projects. Claude's first paid plan costs $17 to $20 a month, and Gemini's costs $4.99.

Grafana Cloud's free plan meters each signal on its own: 10k metric series, 50 GB of logs and 50 GB of traces a month. Honeycomb's free plan meters events: up to 20M events and 100M metric data points a month. The paid step is $19 a month plus usage on Grafana Cloud and from $150 a month on Honeycomb.

Both free plans cover one user and 5,000 errors a month. Sentry adds 5 GB of logs, 5M tracing spans and 50 session replays. Honeybadger adds 50 MB a day of logging and performance data and a status page. Both charge $26 a month for the Team plan.

Kiro is an AI coding environment with a monthly credit allowance: 50 credits free. Warp is a terminal with an AI agent, and its free plan lets you bring your own AI inference. Both charge $20 a month at the first paid step.

Neon is a serverless PostgreSQL database. Upstash is a serverless Redis database. Neon's free plan is sized by projects, storage and compute hours. Upstash's free plan is sized by 256 MB of data and 500K commands a month.

Healthchecks.io does one job: it watches your cron jobs, and the free Hobbyist plan covers 20 of them. Better Stack's free plan shares 10 slots between uptime monitors and heartbeats, and adds logs, traces, metrics and error tracking.

New Relic's free tier holds far more data: 100 GB of ingest a month, kept for at least 8 days. Better Stack's free plan holds a few GB for 3 days, but it includes 10 uptime monitors and heartbeats, a status page and 5,000 session replays.

Better Stack's free plan tracks 20 times as many errors as Sentry's: 100,000 exceptions a month against 5,000. Sentry keeps your data longer, with a 30-day lookback against Better Stack's 3 days, and gives you 5 million spans a month for tracing.

UptimeRobot gives you five times the monitors for free: 50 against Better Stack's 10. Better Stack gives you fewer monitors but adds logs, traces, metrics, error tracking and session replay to the same free account.

These two tools watch different things. Healthchecks.io waits for your cron jobs to check in, and alerts you when a ping is late. UptimeRobot checks your sites and endpoints from outside every 5 minutes. For free, Healthchecks.io covers 20 jobs and UptimeRobot covers 50 monitors.

Koyeb's free tier runs one container and adds a small Postgres database, in Frankfurt or Washington, D.C. PythonAnywhere's free Beginner plan runs one Python web app and gives you an editor and consoles in the browser, but no database.

New Relic's free tier is a full observability platform with 100 GB of ingest a month and unlimited basic users. Sentry's free Developer plan is limited to one user and focuses on errors, with 5,000 errors, 5 million spans and a 30-day lookback.

PythonAnywhere's free Beginner plan gives you one Python web app plus an editor and consoles in the browser. Render's free web service runs any language or Docker image, but it spins down after 15 minutes without traffic and wakes on the next request.

Base44 meters usage in credits; Bolt.new meters it in tokens, and publishes a bigger free allowance across the board. Bolt.new's free plan includes 300K tokens a day and 1M a month, a 10MB file upload limit, and up to 333K web requests with unlimited databases. Base44 gives 25 message credits and 100 integration credits a month, with no credit card needed and room for up to 5 apps.

Both start free with no credit card. Base44 meters usage in AI credits: 25 message credits and 100 integration credits a month, with room for up to 5 apps. Bubble meters usage in workload units instead: 50K a month on one app editor, with 6 hours of server logs and a full visual-development toolkit (API connector, component library, web and mobile debuggers, native mobile editor) included on the free plan.

Both let you start building with AI for nothing, but they meter that usage in different shapes. Base44 hands out a flat 25 message credits and 100 integration credits every month, no card required, and lets you keep up to 5 apps on the free plan. Lovable resets a smaller pool every day instead: 5 build credits daily, up to 30 a month, plus separate monthly pools for Cloud hosting and in-app AI features.

Base44's free plan gives a flat monthly credit count, 25 message credits and 100 integration credits, no card required, across up to 5 apps. v0's free plan is smaller and capped by messages: a 7-message-a-day limit, built around deploying straight to Vercel.

Bolt.new's free plan runs on tokens: 300K a day, 1M a month, with a 10MB file upload cap, up to 333K web requests, and unlimited databases. Lovable's free plan runs on a smaller daily credit grant instead: 5 build credits a day (30 a month), plus separate monthly pools for Cloud hosting and in-app AI features.

Bolt.new's free plan is the bigger raw allowance: 300K tokens a day, 1M a month, a 10MB upload cap, up to 333K web requests, and unlimited databases. v0's free plan is smaller and capped by messages: a 7-message-a-day limit, with deploys going straight to Vercel.

Bubble's free plan is a visual, no-code editor with 50K workload units a month, 1 app editor, 6 hours of server logs, and built-in web and native mobile tooling, no card required. Lovable's free plan is an AI prompt-driven builder with a smaller daily credit grant: 5 build credits a day (up to 30 a month), plus separate monthly pools for Cloud hosting and in-app AI features.

Tailscale's free Personal plan caps the number of users (up to 6) but not devices, with up to 3 ACL groups and 50 tagged resources. ZeroTier's free Personal plan caps devices instead (10) but doesn't mention a user limit, and includes only 1 network. ZeroTier confirms no card is required; Tailscale's page doesn't say either way.

Render is the simpler, more transparent choice for most builders: its Pro plan has one published flat price and includes unlimited seats and services. Azure App Service makes sense instead if you need serious scaling headroom later, since its Premium tiers go up to 32 vCPU and 256 GB of RAM, well beyond what Render publishes.

Both ask for no credit card and let you start for nothing. Cloudflare Workers gives you a bigger daily request ceiling and a cheaper first paid tier if you pay annually. Deno Deploy publishes clearer bandwidth and memory numbers on its free plan, which matters if egress or memory is your actual bottleneck.

Cloudflare Workers is the simpler choice if you specifically want no credit card and a clear daily request ceiling for compute at the edge. Netlify fits better if you're deploying a Git-based site and want unlimited members without jumping straight to Cloudflare's $200+ Business tier.

Cloudflare Workers needs no credit card and keeps its free tier simple around daily request volume. Vercel gives you more bundled bandwidth on both the free and paid plans, plus a flexible $20 monthly Pro price with no annual commitment required.

Google Cloud gives you a bigger signup credit and higher always-free ceilings on compute, serverless requests, and analytics. IBM Cloud Free Tier spreads its always-free access across more individual products, including CI/CD and Watson's AI APIs, at Lite-plan limits that never expire.

Render is the stronger free tier for most builders: the same 512 MB web service costs nothing to run, and Render's first paid plan starts four dollars cheaper with no service-count cap. Koyeb only pulls ahead if the bundled free Postgres database and the much larger bandwidth allowance on its paid plan matter more than that lower price.

Netlify is the cheaper way to start paying: its Personal plan is $9 a month against Render's $25 plus compute, and unlimited members arrive at Netlify's $20 Pro tier. Render is the better fit once you want fixed, separately published limits, like a specific bandwidth figure or custom domain count, instead of one shared credit pool.

Vercel is the stronger free tier for anyone building with serverless functions and edge requests: 100 GB of bandwidth and a million requests a month go much further than Render's free-tier allowance. Render pulls ahead once a team grows, because its Pro plan bundles unlimited seats into one flat fee instead of charging for each extra developer.

CockroachDB is the stronger pick when you need multi-region SQL, a confirmed no-card signup, and a $400 credit on top of the recurring free tier.

Neon Serverless Postgres wins on breadth, with real Postgres, built-in auth for 60,000 users, and a confirmed no-card signup.

Supabase is the wider free tier once you count auth, storage, and edge functions, though D1 gives more raw database storage.

Turso is the better free tier for most builders, thanks to a bigger monthly read allowance and no credit card at signup.

Turso edges ahead for a straightforward free database, with a bigger monthly read allowance and no request-unit math to track.

Tavily is the simpler free tier to plan around, with a flat 1,000 API credits a month instead of a dollar credit balance.

Tavily narrowly wins, with email support bundled in and no concurrency cap stated against Firecrawl's 2-request ceiling.

Neon Serverless Postgres takes it for teams that want real Postgres and built-in auth over pure SQLite-style read volume.