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A trial is time-boxed or quota-boxed access to the real product, which makes it more informative than a free tier and less useful for anything that has to keep running. The questions worth asking are whether a card is required to start and what happens at the end — a trial that converts silently into a paid plan is a common and legal arrangement.

27 providers offer a free trial rather than a free tier, listed alphabetically. Mostly platform as a service, shared hosting and containers as a service, of 8 categories in all. 21 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.

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  • Alibaba Cloud

    Alibaba Cloud provides infrastructure, platform and serverless services spanning 32 regions with support for Linux, Windows, containers and multiple runtimes.

  • ALL-INKL.COM

    Owner-run German shared hosting and managed server provider operating from Friedersdorf in Saxony, with data centres in Dresden.

C

  • Civo

    British Kubernetes-first cloud that charges for worker nodes only, with control planes included and data transfer unmetered.

  • Clever Cloud

    French platform-as-a-service that detects, builds and runs an application from a git push, with managed databases and storage sold as add-ons.

D

  • Diploi

    Finnish platform that puts a cloud development environment and the hosting for the same application in one place, billed by the hour it runs.

  • Divio

    Divio is a Swiss platform-as-a-service that runs Dockerised applications of any stack, deployed from git.

  • Duda

    Duda is a website builder focused on agencies that manage multiple client sites.

F

  • fortrabbit

    Managed hosting platform for developers since 2012, runs on AWS capacity in Ireland and the US.

    One we like
  • Framer

    A visual website builder that hosts and publishes what it designs, with a built-in content model.

H

  • Hostim

    Hostim is a Docker-first platform-as-a-service from Germany, deploying container images, Git repositories and Compose files onto bare metal in the EU.

    One we like

L

  • Laravel Cloud

    Laravel Cloud is the official platform by Laravel Holdings — managed, scale-to-zero hosting for Laravel and Symfony applications, billed by subscription plus usage.

  • Lolipop!

    Japanese rental server from GMO Pepabo, selling shared hosting for personal and small-business sites through its own control panel.

  • lowcloud

    A Bielefeld startup that runs an application as a managed container in Germany, or operates Kubernetes inside the customer's own cloud account.

M

  • Mittwald

    German managed hosting platform with per-project containers, a control plane called mStudio, an official CLI and a public REST API.

N

  • NearlyFreeSpeech.NET

    Shared hosting metered by what a site consumes rather than sold by the plan.

    One we like

P

  • Ploi Cloud

    Managed application platform from the team behind the Ploi server-management panel, running customer apps on rented UpCloud infrastructure.

    One we like

S

  • Scalingo

    French platform-as-a-service with git-push deploys, buildpacks, managed databases and review apps, running only in French regions.

  • Shopify

    Shopify is a hosted ecommerce platform with a storefront builder and integrated checkout, sold as fixed monthly tiers plus a per-transaction card rate.

  • Sliplane

    German Docker hosting that bills for the server rather than the container, so unlimited services can share one machine, with managed Postgres and S3 storage.

  • Squarespace

    Squarespace is a design-focused website builder that combines templates, hosting, and content tools.

U

  • Uberspace

    Uberspace is a small German hosting service sitting between shared hosting and a VPS, running since 2011, with a shell account and a documented stack.

    One we like
  • Umbler

    Brazilian host selling per-application PHP hosting billed by the hour from account credit, with git deploys and one-click CMS installs.

  • Upsun

    Upsun is the PaaS formerly known as Platform.sh. Projects are described in YAML and billed per resource, on top of a per-project and per-user fee.

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  • Webslice

    New Zealand host that sells a container platform on virtual machines at a fixed monthly price and a metered serverless PHP platform built on AWS.

  • World4You

    Austrian hosting provider from Linz, a subsidiary of United Internet, selling shared webhosting, WordPress hosting, email and servers.

X

  • Xserver

    Japanese rental server company selling managed shared hosting, with WordPress tooling, automatic backups and free SSL included across the range.

Z

  • Zerops

    Czech container platform running applications and managed services on rented infrastructure in Prague, billed by resources consumed rather than by plan tier.

    One we like