Free trial
Combine filters →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.
37 providers offer a free trial rather than a free tier, listed alphabetically. Across 28 countries, commonest entry price $5 to $15 a month. 16 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.
- ApisCP
Self-hosted hosting platform and control panel from Apis Networks, licensed per server and aimed at providers running their own fleet.
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- Civo
British Kubernetes-first cloud that charges for worker nodes only, with control planes included and data transfer unmetered.
- Cleavr
Server provisioning and deployment service for PHP and Node applications, driving servers rented from major clouds or any VPS the customer brings.
- 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.
- Cloudways
Cloudways provisions and manages servers on other people's infrastructure — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS and Google Cloud — through its own control panel.
- cPanel
Hosting control panel installed on a server the operator supplies, licensed per server and priced by the number of accounts it manages.
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- 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.
- DirectAdmin
Web hosting control panel installed on a server you supply, licensed per server with per-account pricing options.
- 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.
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- Fastmail
Email, calendar and contacts on a customer's own domain, sold per mailbox with a choice of data residency.
- fortrabbitOne we like
Managed hosting platform for developers since 2012, runs on AWS capacity in Ireland and the US.
- Framer
A visual website builder that hosts and publishes what it designs, with a built-in content model.
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- Hatchbox
Hatchbox is a deployment platform for Rails, Ruby and Node applications on servers the customer rents, billed per managed server rather than per application.
- HostimOne we like
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.
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- 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.
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- Mittwald
German managed hosting platform with per-project containers, a control plane called mStudio, an official CLI and a public REST API.
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- NearlyFreeSpeech.NETOne we like
Shared hosting metered by what a site consumes rather than sold by the plan.
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- Plesk
Hosting control panel licensed per server, managing sites, domains, mail, databases and WordPress on Linux and Windows machines the customer supplies.
- Ploi CloudOne we like
Managed application platform from the team behind the Ploi server-management panel, running customer apps on rented UpCloud infrastructure.
- Proton Mail
Encrypted email on a customer's own domain, from a Swiss company that sells privacy as the product.
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- RunCloud
RunCloud is a server management control panel for PHP and WordPress stacks, installed as an agent on a VPS the customer brings.
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- Scalingo
French platform-as-a-service with git-push deploys, buildpacks, managed databases and review apps, running only in French regions.
- ServerPilot
ServerPilot installs and maintains a PHP stack on an Ubuntu server the customer brings, billed per server and per application.
- 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.
- SpinupWP
SpinupWP is a control panel that configures and manages a WordPress-tuned server stack on an Ubuntu machine the customer brings.
- Squarespace
Squarespace is a design-focused website builder that combines templates, hosting, and content tools.
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- UberspaceOne we like
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.
- 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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- World4You
Austrian hosting provider from Linz, a subsidiary of United Internet, selling shared webhosting, WordPress hosting, email and servers.
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- Xserver
Japanese rental server company selling managed shared hosting, with WordPress tooling, automatic backups and free SSL included across the range.
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- ZeropsOne we like
Czech container platform running applications and managed services on rented infrastructure in Prague, billed by resources consumed rather than by plan tier.