Yes, Runsite has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes access to static sites with global CDN delivery, limited to 100 GB bandwidth, builds of about 20 seconds per build, and €5 starting credit for new accounts, valid for 30 days.
About
Runsite is a cloud hosting platform for deploying web services, static sites, PostgreSQL databases, Redis-compatible caches, S3 object storage, scheduled jobs, and transactional email from GitHub or a Dockerfile. It provides managed HTTPS, custom domains, zero-downtime deploys, preview URLs, logs, metrics, and EU-only infrastructure.
The free offering is a perpetual static sites plan with 100 GB bandwidth, global CDN delivery, ~20 second builds, and unlimited sites. Other services are billed hourly or by consumption, with a €5 signup credit for compute and a separate pay-as-you-go model for storage and email.
- 100 GB static site bandwidth
- Global CDN for static sites
- ~20 second build times
- Unlimited static sites
- €5 signup credit
- EU-only infrastructure
- Hourly billing for compute
- Pay-as-you-go storage and email
Free Tier Value
This free tier is genuinely usable but capped: static sites are never billed, while the rest of the offer is limited by a €5 starting credit that lasts 30 days and by per-service quotas. The closest paid baseline is the €5 Starter plan, so the free tier is worth about $5/month in practical value; the no-credit-card signup and the fact that static sites stay free forever push it up, but the time limit and usage caps keep it below the paid plans.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- Access to static sites with global CDN delivery, limited to 100 GB bandwidth.
- Unlimited static sites.
- Included builds of about 20 seconds per build.
- No credit card required to start.
- €5 starting credit for new accounts, valid for 30 days.
- Access to one service of each type on credit, including one web service, one PostgreSQL database, one Redis instance, and one cron job.
- Entry plans only while using credit alone: Nano for web services and PostgreSQL, Starter for Redis and other non-Nano types.
- Static sites are never billed and never draw from your balance or credit.
See Runsite pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Nano
- vCPU
- 0.1
- RAM
- 256 MB
- Disk
- 1 GB
- Bandwidth
- 100 GB
- 0.1 vCPU
- 256 MB RAM
- 1 GB disk
- 100 GB bandwidth
- Billed hourly
- Entry plan for web services
Starter
- vCPU
- 0.5
- RAM
- 512 MB
- Disk
- 5 GB
- Bandwidth
- 1 TB
- 0.5 vCPU
- 512 MB RAM
- 5 GB disk
- 1 TB bandwidth
- Billed hourly
- Always-on, no inactivity sleep
Standard
- vCPU
- 1
- RAM
- 1 GB
- Disk
- 10 GB
- Bandwidth
- 2 TB
- 1 vCPU
- 1 GB RAM
- 10 GB disk
- 2 TB bandwidth
- Popular plan
- Billed hourly
Pro
- vCPU
- 1
- RAM
- 2 GB
- Disk
- 10 GB
- Bandwidth
- 5 TB
- 1 vCPU
- 2 GB RAM
- 10 GB disk
- 5 TB bandwidth
- Billed hourly
Pro Plus
- vCPU
- 2
- RAM
- 4 GB
- Disk
- 20 GB
- Bandwidth
- 10 TB
- 2 vCPU
- 4 GB RAM
- 20 GB disk
- 10 TB bandwidth
- Billed hourly
Business
- vCPU
- 4
- RAM
- 8 GB
- Disk
- 20 GB
- Bandwidth
- 20 TB
- 4 vCPU
- 8 GB RAM
- 20 GB disk
- 20 TB bandwidth
- Billed hourly
Pricing extracted from Runsite's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Runsite free forever?
Yes. Runsite has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
Does Runsite require a credit card?
No. You can start on Runsite's free tier without entering card details.
What happens when you exceed Runsite's free tier?
You move to a paid plan. Runsite's cheapest paid plan is Nano at $3 / month.
What is Runsite's free tier worth?
Runsite's free tier is worth about $3.00 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 52/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
