Cloud Service Providers Free Tier Overview

Comparing the free tier offers of the major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud etc.

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1. AWS
2. Azure
3. Google Cloud
4. Oracle Cloud
5. Alibaba Cloud
6. IBM Cloud
7. DigitalOcean
8. Hetzner Cloud
9. Render
10. Netlify
11. JFrog
12. Salesforce
13. OpenShift
14. Linode
15. Container Hosting Service
16. Cloudflare
17. OVHcloud
18. Tencent Cloud
19. Vercel
20. Zeabur

1. AWS

Homepage: AWS Free Tier

Always Free

• Amazon DynamoDB (NoSQL): 25 GB of storage
• AWS Lambda (FaaS): 1 Million free requests per month
• Amazon SNS: 1 Million publishes

2. Azure

Homepage: Azure Free Tier

Free for Limited-time

• US$200 credit for 30 days
• Popular services free for 12 months

Always Free

• 54+ other services free always

3. Google Cloud

Homepage: Google Cloud Free Tier

Always Free

• Compute VM: 0.25 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (only on us-west1, us-central1 and us-east1)
  • 30 GB of standard persistent disk
  • 1 GB of network egress (except China and Australia) - in premium tier
  • 200 GB of network egress to any region in standard tier. (Comes with increased latency of around 20%.)
• BigQuery (SQL): 1 TB of querying per month and 10 GB of storage each month
• Cloud Storage: 5 GB-months of regional storage (US regions only) per month

4. Oracle Cloud

Homepage: Oracle Cloud Free Tier

Free for Limited-time 30 day free trial

• US $300 credit for 30 days
• Up to eight instances across all available services
• Up to 5 TB of storage

Always Free

• Compute: (Note- 1 Oracle OCPU = 2 vCPUs)
  • 2 AMD-based VMs: 1/8 OCPU = 0.25 vCPU with 1 GB RAM each
  • 4 Arm-based VMs: 24 GB RAM total, 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB memory hours per month
• 2 Block Volumes Storage, 200 GB total
• 10 GB Object Storage - Standard
• 10 GB Object Storage - Infrequent Access
• 10 GB Archive Storage
• 10TB of network data egress/month per originating region
• Resource Manager (managed terraform)
• 5 OCI Bastions
• 2 Oracle Autonomous Databases incl. Oracle Application Express (APEX), Oracle SQL Developer etc., each with 20GB storage
• NoSQL Database with 25GB storage per table, up to 3 tables
• 4 Load Balancers: 1 Flexible (10Mbps) and 3 Network
• Monitoring and Notifications

5. Alibaba Cloud

Homepage: Alibaba Cloud Free Trial

Try Over 40 Products for Free Worth $450-$1300 USD.

Now up to 12 Months Usage for Elastic Compute Services.

6. IBM Cloud

Homepage: IBM Cloud Free Tier

Free for Limited-time

• US$200 credit for 30 days

7. DigitalOcean

Homepage: DigitalOcean

Free for Limited-time

• $100 credit for 60 days from do.co/hf100

8. Hetzner Cloud

Homepage: Hetzner Cloud

Free for Limited-time

• sometimes they give away free credits

9. Render

Homepage: Render

Free for Limited-time

• sometimes they give away free credits

Always Free

• static site hosting
• web service
• Redis
• PostgreSQL
• 0.1vCPU, 512MB of RAM, 100GB bandwidth, running time of 750 hours per month

10. Netlify

Homepage: Netlify

Free for Limited-time

• sometimes they give away free credits

Always Free

• static site hosting

11. JFrog

Homepage: Jfrog Free Tier

Free for Limited-time

• Self-Hosted 30 day trial

Always Free

2GB Storage 10GB Transfer/month 2,000 CI/CD Minutes/month

12. Salesforce

Homepage: Salesforce Free Tier

Free for Limited-time

• Your FREE 30-Days Trial Now!

Always Free

When you download Listware for Salesforce, you are given 1,000 free credits which you can use during a free 30-day trial of the app.

13. OpenShift

Homepage: Interactive Learning Portal

Try out Openshift 4 cluster for free

Openshift 4: Try Openshift 4 cluster for free

14. Linode

Homepage: Linode

Free for Limited-time

• US$100, 60-day free trial requires valid credit card. free-credit-100

15. Container Hosting Service

Homepage: Container Hosting Service

Currently Free

• Container Hosting Service Try Open Source Container Hosting Service for free

16. Cloudflare

Homepage: Cloudflare

Always free on basic plan:

• NS server with DNS delegation
• 10GB R2 - S3 compatible object storage
• D1 - serverless SQL database
• CDN for delegated domains
• SSL offloading
• Web Application Firewall
• Workers & Pages - serverless functions

17. OVHcloud

Homepage: OVH

Free for Limited-time

200€ or equivalent on all public cloud ressources for 30 days

Always free

• Mongo DB 512 MB (with replication): https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/mongodb/

18. Tencent Cloud

Homepage: Tencent Cloud

Multiple alternative server locations for hosting in Asia: Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Singapore, Bangkok, Jakarta, Silicon Valley, Frankfurt, Mumbai, Virginia, São Paulo, Toronto

Free for Limited-time

• $300 voucher, 30-day trial

Always Free

• Elastic Network Interface (ENI)
• Virtual Private Cloud (VOC)
• Auto Scaling (AS)
• VPN connections

19. Vercel

Homepage: Vercel

Always free

• Support for 35+ Frameworks
• Fast Globally (Edge Network)
• Automatic CI/CD (Git Integration)
• Functions (Serverless, Edge)
• Starter Database (KV, Postgres)
• Web Analytics

20. Zeabur

Homepage: Zeabur

Always free

• Serverless functions and static sites
• 10GB outbound data transfer per month

Always free for developer plan

• 100GB outbound data transfer per month
• US$ 5 usage fee per month