Free tier

French managed hosting running a wide set of language runtimes on isolated Debian accounts, with a permanently free tier below the paid plans.

Open-source backend platform sold as a hosted service, running user functions alongside managed databases, authentication, storage and messaging.

Amazon's function-as-a-service primitive, running a handler on demand in a short-lived isolated environment and billing per invocation.

Microsoft's hyperscale cloud — hundreds of separately metered infrastructure services, with App Service as the managed application layer above them.

Managed Parse Server backend with an auto-generated REST and GraphQL API, plus a container platform that builds and runs Docker images from GitHub.

Atlassian's git hosting, free for up to five users and priced per user above that, sold to teams already working in Jira.

DevOps platform deploying containerised and native applications and static sites onto servers the customer owns on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure.

Cloudflare's edge compute platform, running JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and Rust in V8 isolates on the network that already serves the request.

Free, open source server control panel for PHP, Node.js and Python applications.

Self-hosting platform that installs and keeps open-source applications updated on the customer's own server, with per-app backups and single sign-on.

Open-source self-hostable PaaS installed as a control panel on servers the operator rents, with a paid cloud-hosted panel as the alternative.

A distributed SQL database for time-series and high-cardinality data, sold as a managed service and open source.

Open source server control panel built on OpenLiteSpeed for PHP and WordPress hosting.

Serverless hosting for JavaScript and TypeScript built by the Deno team, running the Deno runtime with Node and npm compatibility.

DigitalOcean Functions is a function-as-a-service platform built on Apache OpenWhisk, running short-lived handlers in several native language runtimes.

Easypanel is a server panel that turns a rented Linux box into a container platform, licensed per server rather than per application.

Encore Cloud is a backend framework for TypeScript and Go with a control plane that provisions the infrastructure it infers from the code into the customer's own AWS or GCP account.

Firebase is Google's application platform, bundling a document database, authentication and storage with hosting that builds framework applications onto Cloud Run.

Small host built around Grav, the flat-file CMS, with a free static tier below the paid plans and DirectAdmin above them.

Gigalixir is a platform-as-a-service built around Elixir and Phoenix, keeping hot upgrades, remote observer and distributed clustering intact.

Git repository hosting with pull requests, issues and CI, free on public and private repositories, priced per user above that.

Static sites served from a GitHub repository, built by Actions or from a branch, free on public repositories.

A git forge with issues, CI and a container registry, sold per user, and the same software available to run on your own machines.

Google Cloud Run runs any container image, scales it to zero when idle and bills per request and per resource-second.

GridPane is a WordPress server-management platform for agencies, provisioning and hardening servers on the customer's own cloud account.

Open source control panel for managing web servers, email, DNS and databases.

Machine-learning hub whose Spaces product hosts running applications — Gradio, Streamlit or an arbitrary Dockerfile — on CPU or rented GPU hardware.

Jimdo is a Hamburg website builder that bundles hosting, templates and AI-assisted site creation for the self-employed and small businesses.

Laravel Vapor is a serverless deployment platform for Laravel applications on AWS Lambda, sold as a flat subscription on top of the customer's own AWS bill.

Lovable is an AI-assisted low-code no-code platform that generates web app code from natural language prompts and deploys it on its own infrastructure.

Serverless compute platform for Python, where functions are decorated in code and run in containers on CPU or GPU with per-second billing.

Free static site hosting for personal pages, funded by supporters rather than by advertising.

Managed Postgres billed by compute hour, with branching, read replicas and an HTTP data API.

Platform that builds sites from a git repository and serves them from a global CDN, with serverless functions, edge functions, blob storage and a database.

Open-source backend platform built on PostgreSQL, Hasura GraphQL and serverless functions, with a managed container runtime for the customer's own services.

British platform running containers, jobs and managed databases on its own cloud, in the customer's cloud account, or on a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster.

Dutch server-management panel that provisions and maintains PHP application servers on VPS accounts the customer rents elsewhere.

Browser-based Python hosting with in-browser consoles, scheduled tasks and managed web apps, sold by CPU-seconds, web workers and disk.

Managed application platform deploying Node, Java, Go, Ruby, PHP, Python and Docker workloads with per-second billing and managed databases alongside.

Railway is a polyglot deployment platform with subscription plus usage billing, four regions and a build system that detects most common languages.

Platform-as-a-service that builds services from a git repository, with native runtimes for several languages, a Docker runtime for the rest, and managed Postgres.

Browser-based development environment with hosting attached, sold around an AI agent that writes, runs and publishes the application.

Sevalla is a polyglot cloud hosting platform covering application hosting, database hosting, static sites, and object storage.

Open-source backend built on PostgreSQL, with authentication, storage, realtime and Edge Functions that run the customer's own TypeScript on Deno.

Static publishing from one command, free for the basics, running since 2014 with no visible change in ambition.

Vercel is a frontend platform for Javascript people. It's formerly known as Zeit and venture backed and high on the AI wave.

WebAssembly runtime company whose edge platform runs applications compiled to WASM, PHP among them, close to the visitor.

Weebly is a simple website builder that bundles templates, hosting, and basic ecommerce features.

Container platform that reads a git repository, works out what kind of project it is and deploys it without a configuration file.