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Services in Storage and Media Processing that offer an ongoing free tier for developers. Limits change often — confirm on the provider's pricing page before you build on one.

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AndroidFileHost

androidfilehost.com

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Free file-sharing platform with unlimited speed, bandwidth, file count, download count, etc. It is mainly aimed for Android dev-related files like APK build, custom ROM & modifications, etc. But seems to accept any other files as well.

Zero-knowledge E2EE file sharing with client-side AES-256-GCM encryption and zero server-side data access. Free uploads for files up to 5GB with max expiry up to 3 days through the website, CLI or API.

borgbase.com

borgbase.com

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Simple and secure offsite backup hosting for Borg Backup. 10 GB free backup space and two repositories.

cloudinary.com

cloudinary.com

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Image upload, powerful manipulations, storage, and delivery for sites and apps, with Ruby, Python, Java, PHP, Objective-C, and more libraries. The free tier includes 25 monthly credits. One credit equals 1,000 image transformations, 1 GB of storage, or 1 GB of CDN usage.

AI based cloud storage with free up to 20 GB, three devices, 5 GB referral bonus (90 days account inactivity).

Temporary file delivery for agents and automation. Free tier includes 10 deliveries every 24 hours with API, MCP, and CLI access.

Dropshare

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Zero-knowledge file sharing. End-to-end encrypted file sharing with AES-256-GCM encryption, client-side processing, and zero server-side data access. Free uploads for files up to 1GB with no data collection.

Provides APIs for embedding media in a webpage, responsive image scaling, and extracting elements from a webpage. Free for up to 5,000 URLs/month at 15 requests/second

Ente

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Ente is an end-to-end encrypted cloud for photos, videos and 2FA secrets. Can also be self-hosted along with a generous forever free-tier of 10GB. For free tier users, only single replica of data is kept.

Zero-knowledge encrypted file sharing. AES-256-GCM browser-side encryption ensures files are encrypted in-browser before upload. No account required for sender or recipient. Self-hostable (MIT open-source). Free tier includes unlimited uploads with no file size restrictions.

2 GB storage of files. A file is auto-deleted after one download. REST API to interact with the storage. Rate limit one request/minute.

freetools.site

freetools.site

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Free online tools. Convert or edit documents, images, audio, video, and more.

getpantry.cloud

getpantry.cloud

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A simple JSON data storage API perfect for personal projects, hackathons, and mobile apps!

Free file sharing and storage platform can be used via web-based UI & also API. unlimited file size, bandwidth, download count, etc. But it will be deleted when a file becomes inactive (no download for more than ten days).

Image and video hosting, processing and streaming via CDN. Provides generous free tier of 250 GB / month for videos and 30 GB / month for images.

hyperserve.io

hyperserve.io

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Video backend API for developers: accept any format your users upload, transcode to MP4, and deliver globally via CDN. The free tier includes 50 videos, 1 GB per file, and 250 GB bandwidth per month.

ImageEngine

imageengine.io

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ImageEngine is an easy to use global image CDN. Sub 60 sec setup. AVIF and JPEGXL support, WordPress-, Magento-, React-, Vue- plugins and more. Claim your free developer account here.

Image CDN with automatic optimization, real-time transformation, and storage that you can integrate with existing setup in minutes. The free plan includes up to 20GB of bandwidth per month.

ImgBB

imgbb.com

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ImgBB is an unlimited image hosting service. Drag and drop your image anywhere on the screen. 32 MB / image limit. Receive Direct image links, BBCode and HTML thumbnails after uploading image. Login to see the upload history.

Imgbot

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Imgbot is a friendly robot that optimizes your images and saves you time. Optimized images mean smaller file sizes without sacrificing quality. It's free for open source.

imgen

jitbit.com

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On the fly image generation API (text over background, logo) for opengraph images, free, no watermark, CDN

imgix

imgix.com

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Image Caching, management and CDN. Free plan includes 1000 origin images, infinite transformations and 100 GB bandwidth

internxt.com

internxt.com

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Internxt Drive is a zero-knowledge file storage service based on absolute privacy and uncompromising security. Sign up and get 10 GB for free, forever!

Image optimization for website performance as a service, free plan up to 1 MB file size

LibreQR

libreqr.com

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Free QR code generator focused on privacy and no tracking. Free to use with no data collection.

MConverter

mconverter.eu

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Convert files in bulk. Supports many formats, including AVIF and JXL. Extract image frames from videos. Compress PDFs. Free for 15 files per 24h, up to 100 MB each, processed in batches of eight.

nitropack.io

nitropack.io

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Accelerate your site's speed on autopilot with complete front-end optimization (caching, images and code optimization, CDN). Free for up to 5,000 pageviews/month

MantleDB

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Anonymous JSON storage for scripts and tiny apps. No signup required; uses Master AID for updates and Read-Only RID for public fetching. Free tier includes 1 bucket (1MB limit) with a 72h inactivity scavenger policy.

Encrypt, share, copy, and move all your cloud storage files from one place. The basic plan provides unlimited file transfer with 250 MB max. file size and allows five encrypted files

packagecloud.io

packagecloud.io

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Hosted Package Repositories for YUM, APT, RubyGem and PyPI. Limited free plans and open-source plans are available via request

Pinata IPFS

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Pinata is the simplest way to upload and manage files on IPFS. Our friendly user interface and IPFS API make Pinata the easiest IPFS pinning service for platforms, creators, and collectors. 1 GB storage free, along with access to API.

Graph and share your data. The free tier includes unlimited public files and ten private files

You can use Podio with a team of up to five people and try out the features of the Basic Plan, except user management

Ultra-secure cloud storage for files and key documents. Free plan offers 5gb of storage space.

QRtracer

qrtracer.io

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Free QR code generator with built-in scan analytics, bulk generation & brand customisation, focused on reliability without any ads.

QuickChart

quickchart.io

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Generate embeddable image charts, graphs, and QR codes

reSmush.it is a FREE API that provides image optimization. reSmush.it has been implemented on the most common CMS such as WordPress, Drupal, or Magento. reSmush.it is the most used image optimization API with more than seven billion images already treated, and it is still Free of charge.

Smart Image CDN with on-the-fly image optimization and resizing. The free tier includes 500 MB of storage and 2 GB of bandwidth.

SlingSite

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Create all the optimized versions of your images and videos. For Free. In bulk. For each image, you get the following formats: AVIF, WEBP and JPG in the three selected resolutions (desktop, tablet, mobile) For videos, you get: WebM (codec VP9), MP4 (codec HEVC aka H.265) and MP4 (codec AVC aka H.264) plus the cover image with the first frame.

End-to-End cloud storage service. 5 GB of free storage

API to compress and resize PNG and JPEG images, offers 500 compressions for free each month

transloadit.com

transloadit.com

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Handles file uploads and encoding of video, audio, images, documents. Free for Open source, charities, and students via the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Commercial applications get 2 GB free for test driving

twicpics.com

twicpics.com

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Responsive images as a service. It provides an image CDN, a media processing API, and a frontend library to automate image optimization. The service is free for up to 3GB of traffic/per month.

uploadcare.com

uploadcare.com

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Uploadcare provides the media pipeline with the ultimate toolkit based on cutting-edge algorithms. All features are available for developers absolutely for free: File Uploading API and UI, Image CDN and Origin Services, Adaptive Delivery, and Smart Compression. The free tier has 3000 uploads, 3 GB traffic, and 3 GB storage.