Free tier
Combine filters →A permanent free tier means something runs indefinitely without a card being charged: a small instance, a static site, a database under a quota. Be careful about free tiers, free comes without a guarantee. It might be shitty, or it might be dropped without warning. It is a marketing gig. Free hosting is a category of its own, for hosts whose free account is the product.
49 providers offer a permanent free tier, listed alphabetically. Mostly serverless, Platform as a Service and static hosting, of 14 categories in all. 21 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.
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AltervistaA free Italian hosting and blogging platform built on WordPress, running since 2000.
alwaysdataFrench managed hosting running a wide set of language runtimes on isolated Debian accounts, with a permanently free tier below the paid plans.
AppwriteOpen-source backend platform sold as a hosted service, running user functions alongside managed databases, authentication, storage and messaging.
AptibleA platform for deploying apps and managed databases on AWS infrastructure with HIPAA and SOC 2 controls enforced by default.
AWS LambdaAmazon's function-as-a-service primitive, running a handler on demand in a short-lived isolated environment and billing per invocation.
AzureMicrosoft's hyperscale cloud — hundreds of separately metered infrastructure services, with App Service as the managed application layer above them.
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Back4AppManaged Parse Server backend with an auto-generated REST and GraphQL API, plus a container platform that builds and runs Docker images from GitHub.
BoltAn AI builder from StackBlitz that turns a prompt into a web app and can publish the result on its own bolt.host hosting or push the code to GitHub for deployment elsewhere.
bplacedA German web host offering a permanent free hosting tier alongside paid PHP shared hosting plans.
ByetiFastNet's free hosting brand, running PHP and MySQL accounts on a control panel it wrote itself.
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Cloudflare WorkersCloudflare's edge compute platform, running JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and Rust in V8 isolates on the network that already serves the request.
CodeRed CloudCodeRed Cloud is a managed hosting platform for Django and Wagtail sites, run on Microsoft Azure by a Cleveland web development firm.
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Deno DeployOne we likeServerless hosting for JavaScript and TypeScript built by the Deno team, running the Deno runtime with Node and npm compatibility.
DigitalOcean FunctionsDigitalOcean Functions is a function-as-a-service platform built on Apache OpenWhisk, running short-lived handlers in several native language runtimes.
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EmergentAn AI builder that generates a full-stack application from a natural-language prompt and deploys it to its own infrastructure.
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FirebaseFirebase is Google's application platform, bundling a document database, authentication and storage with hosting that builds framework applications onto Cloud Run.
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GalaxyContainer hosting for Meteor.js, Node.js, Python and AdonisJS apps, billed by the container-hour, from Meteor Software.
GigalixirGigalixir is a platform-as-a-service built around Elixir and Phoenix, keeping hot upgrades, remote observer and distributed clustering intact.
GitHub PagesOne we likeStatic sites served from a GitHub repository, built by Actions or from a branch, free on public repositories.
Google Cloud RunGoogle Cloud Run runs any container image, scales it to zero when idle and bills per request and per resource-second.
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HelioHostA volunteer-run, donation-funded free web host with a paid tier alongside its free hosting.
here.nowStatic hosting that turns an agent's files into a live URL, with no account needed for a temporary one.
Hugging FaceMachine-learning hub whose Spaces product hosts running applications — Gradio, Streamlit or an arbitrary Dockerfile — on CPU or rented GPU hardware.
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InfinityFreeFree PHP and MySQL hosting from a Dutch company, run on iFastNet's platform.
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JimdoJimdo is a Hamburg website builder that bundles hosting, templates and AI-assisted site creation for the self-employed and small businesses.
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Laravel VaporLaravel 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.
LeapcellA serverless platform that runs apps and APIs from a git repository, with an option to switch a service to a fixed-price persistent server.
LovableOne we likeLovable 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.
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ModalServerless compute platform for Python, where functions are decorated in code and run in containers on CPU or GPU with per-second billing.
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NeocitiesOne we likeFree static site hosting for personal pages, funded by supporters rather than by advertising.
NetlifyOne we likePlatform that builds sites from a git repository and serves them from a global CDN, with serverless functions, edge functions, blob storage and a database.
NhostOpen-source backend platform built on PostgreSQL, Hasura GraphQL and serverless functions, with a managed container runtime for the customer's own services.
NorthflankBritish platform running containers, jobs and managed databases on its own cloud, in the customer's cloud account, or on a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster.
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PythonAnywhereBrowser-based Python hosting with in-browser consoles, scheduled tasks and managed web apps, sold by CPU-seconds, web workers and disk.
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QoddiManaged application platform deploying Node, Java, Go, Ruby, PHP, Python and Docker workloads with per-second billing and managed databases alongside.
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RailwayOne we likeRailway is a polyglot deployment platform with subscription plus usage billing, four regions and a build system that detects most common languages.
RenderPlatform-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.
ReplitBrowser-based development environment with hosting attached, sold around an AI agent that writes, runs and publishes the application.
RocketAn AI builder that generates a Next.js and Supabase application from a prompt, publishes it at a builtwithrocket.new or custom address, and syncs the code to a customer's own GitHub repository.
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An AI builder that generates a Next.js web app from a prompt, deploys it through a Netlify-backed hosting flow, and lets a paying customer download the code or push it to GitHub.
SevallaSevalla is a polyglot cloud hosting platform covering application hosting, database hosting, static sites, and object storage.
statichost.euSwedish static site host that clones any git repository, builds it in a Docker image of your choosing and serves the output from European infrastructure without logging visitors.
SupabaseOpen-source backend built on PostgreSQL, with authentication, storage, realtime and Edge Functions that run the customer's own TypeScript on Deno.
SurgeOne we likeStatic publishing from one command, free for the basics, running since 2014 with no visible change in ambition.
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TigrisGlobally distributed, S3-compatible object storage reached through a single endpoint, with no egress fees.
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VercelOne we likeVercel is a frontend platform for Javascript people. It's formerly known as Zeit and venture backed and high on the AI wave.
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ZeaburContainer platform that reads a git repository, works out what kind of project it is and deploys it without a configuration file.
Which of these providers is best?
Hard to say without knowing the project. A free tier matters for a side project and barely at all for a shop that loses money every minute it is down. Read a few records side by side; the guide says where to start.

