Skip to content
DevTrackAcademyFree Tools
Shelf 01102 free tiers

Major Cloud Providers

Services in Major Cloud Providers that offer an ongoing free tier for developers. Limits change often — confirm on the provider's pricing page before you build on one.

Spot something outdated? Fix it upstream ↗
7/7
  • App Engine — 28 frontend instance hours per day, nine backend instance hours per day
  • Cloud Firestore — 1GB storage, 50,000 reads, 20,000 writes, 20,000 deletes per day
  • Compute Engine — 1 non-preemptible e2-micro, 30GB HDD, 5GB snapshot storage (restricted to certain regions), 1 GB network egress from North America to all region destinations (excluding China and Australia) per month
  • Cloud Storage — 5GB, 1GB network egress
  • Cloud Shell — Web-based Linux shell/primary IDE with 5GB of persistent storage. 60-hour limit per week
  • Cloud Pub/Sub — 10GB of messages per month
  • Cloud Functions — 2 million invocations per month (includes both background and HTTP invocations)
  • Cloud Run — 2 million requests per month, 360,000 GB-seconds memory, 180,000 vCPU-seconds of compute time, 1 GB network egress from North America per month
  • Google Kubernetes Engine — No cluster management fee for one zonal cluster. Each user node is charged at standard Compute Engine pricing
  • BigQuery — 1 TB of querying per month, 10 GB of storage each month
  • Cloud Build — 120 build-minutes per day
  • Google Colab — Free Jupyter Notebooks development environment.
  • Kaggle — Jupyter Notebooks with 4 CPU cores and 30 GB RAM computational environment without any weekly usage limits. With Phone number verification, 1 Nvidia Tesla P100 GPU or 2x Nvidia Tesla T4 GPU can be added with a usage limit of 30 GPU hours/week for free. With Identity verification - 1 TPU v3-8 with 96 CPU cores and 330 GB RAM is available with a usage limit of 20 hours/week for free. Check Technical Specifications for more details.
  • ChromeRemoteDesktop — Free remote desktop app with practically no limit on the number of devices, owned by Google, so needs a Google account.
  • Google AI Studio — Get free access to Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3 Flash and Gemma 4 models. The free tier for Flash offers 5 requests per minute, 20 requests per day, and 250k input tokens per minute. Meanwhile the free tier for Gemma 4 offers 30 requests per minute, 14.4k requests per day, but (only) 16k input tokens per minute.
  • Full, detailed list — cloud.google.com/free
  • CloudFront — 1TB egress/month, 10M HTTP requests, and 2M Function invocations/month
  • CloudWatch — 10 custom metrics and alarms, 1M API requests, 5GB of log data ingestion and 5GB of log data archive
  • CodeBuild — 100min of build time/month
  • CodeCommit — 5 active users, 5k repositories/account, 50GB storage/month and 10K requests/month
  • CodePipeline — 1 active pipeline/month
  • DynamoDB — 25GB NoSQL DB
  • Lambda — 1 million requests/month
  • SNS — 1 million publishes/month
  • SES — 3.000 messages/month (6mo)
  • SQS — 1 million messaging queue requests
  • Full, detailed list — aws.amazon.com/free/

Microsoft Azure

azure.microsoft.com

Visit
  • Compute
    • 2 AMD-based Compute VMs with 1/8 OCPU and 1 GB memory each
    • 2 Arm-based Ampere A1 cores and 12 GB of memory usable as one VM or up to 2 VMs
    • Instances will be reclaimed when deemed idle
  • Block Volume — 2 volumes, 200 GB total (used for compute)
  • Object Storage — 10 GB
  • Load balancer — 1 instance with 10 Mbps
  • Databases — 2 DBs, 20 GB each
  • Monitoring — 500 million ingestion data points, 1 billion retrieval datapoints
  • Bandwidth — 10 TB egress per month, speed limited to 50 Mbps on x64-based VM, 500 Mbps * core count on ARM-based VM
  • Public IP — 2 IPv4 for VMs, 1 IPv4 for load balancer
  • Notifications — 1 million delivery options per month, 1000 emails sent per month
  • Full, detailed list — oracle.com/cloud/free/
  • Cloudant database — 1 GB of data storage
  • Db2 database — 100MB of data storage
  • API Connect — 50,000 API calls per month
  • Availability Monitoring — 3 million data points per month
  • Log Analysis — 500MB of daily log
  • Full, detailed list — ibm.com/cloud/free/

Cloudflare

cloudflare.com

Visit
  • Application Services — Free DNS for an unlimited number of domains, DDoS Protection, CDN along with free SSL, Firewall rules and page rules, WAF, Bot Mitigation, Free Unmetered Rate Limiting - 1 rule per domain, Analytics, Email forwarding
  • Zero Trust & SASE — Up to 50 Users, 24 hours of activity logging, three network locations
  • Cloudflare Tunnel — You can expose locally running HTTP port over a tunnel to a random subdomain on trycloudflare.com use Quick Tunnels, No account required. More features (TCP tunnel, Load balancing, VPN) in Zero Trust Free Plan.
  • Workers — Deploy serverless code for free on Cloudflare's global network-100k daily requests.
  • Workers KV — 100k read requests per day, 1000 write requests per day, 1000 delete requests per day, 1000 list requests per day, 1 GB stored data
  • R2 — 10 GB per month, 1 million Class A operations per month, 10 million Class B operations per month
  • D1 — 5 million rows read per day, 100k rows written per day, 1 GB storage
  • Pages — Develop and deploy your web apps on Cloudflare's fast, secure global network. Five hundred monthly builds, 100 custom domains, Integrated SSL, unlimited accessible seats, unlimited preview deployments, and full-stack capability via Cloudflare Workers integration.
  • Queues — 1 million operations per month
  • TURN — 1TB of free (outgoing) traffic per month.

Zoho

zoho.com

Visit

Started as an e-mail provider but now provides a suite of services, some of which have free plans. List of services having free plans :

  • Catalyst by Zoho — PaaS/full-stack cloud platform with a generous free tier
  • Zoho Apptics — Unified and actionable product analytics to monitor performance, analyze user behavior and collect feedback for mobile, web, and desktop apps with generous Free Forever plan.
  • Email — Free for 5 users. 5GB/user & 25 MB attachment limit, one domain.
  • Zoho Assist — Zoho Assist's forever free plan includes one concurrent remote support license and Access to 5 unattended computer licenses for unlimited duration available for both professional and personnel use.
  • Sprints — Free for 5 users,5 Projects & 500MB storage.
  • Docs — Free for 5 users with 1 GB upload limit & 5GB storage. Zoho Office Suite (Writer, Sheets & Show) comes bundled.
  • Projects — Free for 3 users, 2 projects & 10 MB attachment limit. The same plan applies to Bugtracker.
  • Connect — Team Collaboration free for 25 users with three groups, three custom apps, 3 Boards, 3 Manuals, and 10 Integrations along with channels, events & forums.
  • Meeting — Meetings with upto 3 meeting participants & 10 Webinar attendees.
  • Vault — Password Management is accessible for Individuals.
  • Showtime — Yet another Meeting software for training for a remote session of up to 5 attendees.
  • Notebook — A free alternative to Evernote.
  • Wiki — Free for three users with 50 MB storage, unlimited pages, zip backups, RSS & Atom feed, access controls & customizable CSS.
  • Subscriptions — Recurring Billing management free for 20 customers/subscriptions & 1 user with all the payment hosting done by Zoho. The last 40 subscription metrics are stored
  • Checkout — Product Billing management with 3 pages & up to 50 payments.
  • Desk — Customer Support management with three agents, private knowledge base, and email tickets. Integrates with Assist for one remote technician & 5 unattended computers.
  • Cliq — Team chat software with 100 GB storage, unlimited users, 100 users per channel & SSO.
  • Campaigns — Email Marketing
  • Forms — Form Creator
  • Sign — Paperless Signatures
  • Surveys — Online Surveys
  • Bookings — Appointment Scheduling