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

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. Fly.io
17. Cloudflare
18. OVH

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

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. Fly.io

Homepage: Fly.io

Always free on all plans:

• Up to 3 shared-cpu-1x 256mb VMs (Apps or Machines)
• 3GB persistent volume storage (total)
• 160GB outbound data transfer

17. 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

18. OVH

Homepage: OVH

Always free

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

cloud-free-tier-comparison's Issues

What about Vercel?

Vercel is a pretty big service and they do have a "Hobby" tier that is free

https://vercel.com/pricing

Repository name is too long

I feel that the name of the repository is too long. Kindly change it to something that is shorter. concise and still conveys the same meaning

JFrog seams to no longer have any Always Free offering

JFrog seams to no longer have any Always Free offering.

Yandex Cloud

https://cloud.yandex.com/en/docs/billing/concepts/serverless-free-tier

Google is no longer "always free"

It does have a period of time that you need to spend your free credit:

COOL

aThis is awsome!!! thank youu

Cloud

request to include another web service

This is really helpful, I wanted to bring to the forefront an open source web service that is free and straightforward https://container-hosting.anotherwebservice.com?gh

Add Cloudflare Pages

See https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits/

The comparable information (soft limits) for Netlify is extremely hard to find, which is making it difficult to compare.

Scaleway object storage

"Always free: 75GB object storage (S3-compatible API)"

Not anymore.

Source :
https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/?tags=storage

performance comparison

Is it possible to test the performance of these (always free) services for static site hosting?
Finding out which ones actually perform the best (fastest)?

new regions for GCP storage

Google Cloud Platform has currently on offer 5GB free storage not only in US, but also in Asia and Europe. I created PR #23 to simplify task with update.

Railway is now $5/month

Railway does not offer a free tier anymore. It's starting at $5/month.

Google Cloud and 30 GB-months standard persistent disk

The https://github.com/cloudcommunity/Cloud-Free-Tier-Comparison#3-google-cloud section says

5GB Storage (only on us-west1, us-central1, us-east1, asia-east1 and europe-west1)

but based on https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features#free-tier-usage-limits it seems it's actually 30 GB. Just beware that the "standard persistent disk" needs to be explicitly selected when creating the instance.

Heroku about to end free-tier plans

Links:

• https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/25/heroku-announces-plans-to-eliminate-free-plans-blaming-fraud-and-abuse/
• https://blog.heroku.com/next-chapter

"Our product, engineering, and security teams are spending an extraordinary amount of effort to manage fraud and abuse of the Heroku free product plans. In order to focus our resources on delivering mission-critical capabilities for customers, we will be phasing out our free plan for Heroku Dynos, free plan for Heroku Postgres, and free plan for Heroku Data for Redis®, as well as deleting inactive accounts.

Starting October 26, 2022, we will begin deleting inactive accounts and associated storage for accounts that have been inactive for over a year. Starting November 28, 2022, we plan to stop offering free product plans and plan to start shutting down free dynos and data services. We will be sending out a series of email communications to affected users."

Oracle Free Tier 4 core - 24 GB VM

Yes, oracle offers a very generous 24 GB with 4 ARM Core VM. It can be broken down into multiple smaller instances too. I am using it currently and I believe many people will find it useful!

Image from Oracle Free Tier:

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Excerpt from Oracle Always Free Resources:

Available Shapes

Micro instances (AMD processor): All tenancies get up to two Always Free VM instances using the VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro shape, which has an AMD processor.

Ampere A1 Compute instances (Arm processor): All tenancies get the first 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours per month for free for VM instances using the VM.Standard.A1.Flex shape, which has an Arm processor. For Always Free tenancies, this is equivalent to 4 OCPUs and 24 GB of memory.

Imho worth adding to readme.

Azure free tier info update

Great resource, @karentamrazyan and @cloudcommunity!

I just noticed some info that updates the Azure info in the Cloud-Service-Providers-Free-Tier-Overview repo here

Azure now has a 12-month free tier
competitive with AWS 12 month free tier

check this out:

Do any disallow Commercial use?

Do any Always Free offerings, disallow Commercial use?