Yes, Catalyst by Zoho has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes 25,000 GB-seconds of Functions free every month, 15 GB-hours of AppSail compute free every month, and 2,000 Circuits state transitions free every month.

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Catalyst by Zoho is a full-stack cloud development platform for building, testing, hosting, deploying, and optimizing applications. It provides platform-as-a-service capabilities together with backend services, serverless functions, data storage, file storage, authentication, AI/ML APIs, and DevOps tools.

The Free Tier renews its allowance every month across each service: 25,000 GB-seconds of Functions, 15 GB-hours of AppSail compute, 100,000 API Gateway requests, 300,000 Web Client Hosting requests, 5 GB of Stratus object storage, and 5 GB of Data Store, among others. New accounts also get $250 in wallet credits at signup.

  • 25,000 GB-seconds of Functions free every month
  • 15 GB-hours of AppSail compute free every month
  • 100,000 API Gateway requests free every month
  • 300,000 Web Client Hosting requests free every month
  • 5 GB of Stratus object storage free every month
  • 5 GB of Data Store free every month
  • $250 wallet credits at signup

Free Tier Value

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Signup credit$250
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Feature parity85%

This Free Tier renews a free monthly allowance across functions, AppSail compute, API gateway, web hosting, and storage, on top of the one-time $250 signup credit. No subscription price is published on the page to anchor a monthly dollar comparison, but the free tier alone covers real usage across a dozen services.

What's included in the free tier

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  • 25,000 GB-seconds of Functions free every month.
  • 15 GB-hours of AppSail compute free every month.
  • 2,000 Circuits state transitions free every month.
  • 100,000 API Gateway requests free every month.
  • 300,000 Web Client Hosting requests free every month.
  • 5 GB of Stratus object storage free every month.
  • 5 GB of Data Store free every month.
  • $250 wallet credits at signup.