Cloud services with the best free tiers

Every service in the dataset that publishes a free allowance, with what you actually get. Permanent free tiers are separated from 12-month trials in the description column — the difference matters a year from now.

List prices checked

All 54, ranked

#NameProviderEntry planNotes
1AWS CloudFrontAmazon Web ServicesFree1 TB egress and 10M requests per month, always free
2FastlyFastlyFree100 GB of bandwidth per month, permanently free
3Bunny CDNbunny.netFree14-day trial, then a $1 monthly minimum
4KeyCDNKeyCDNFree$10 of trial credit; $4 monthly minimum thereafter
5CDN77CDN77Free14-day trial with 1 TB of traffic
6AWS EC2Amazon Web ServicesFree750 hours per month of a t-class micro instance for 12 months
7Google Compute EngineGoogleFreeOne e2-micro instance per month, always free
8Azure Virtual MachinesMicrosoftFree750 hours per month of a B1s instance for 12 months
9Oracle Cloud ComputeOracleFree4 Arm cores, 24 GB RAM, and 10 TB egress per month, always free
10AWS S3Amazon Web ServicesFree5 GB of standard storage for 12 months
11Cloudflare R2CloudflareFree10 GB-month of storage, plus zero egress fees at any volume
12Backblaze B2BackblazeFree10 GB of storage, with free egress up to 3x data stored
13Google Cloud StorageGoogleFree5 GB-month always free in US regions
14Azure Blob StorageMicrosoftFree5 GB of hot block storage for 12 months
15Wasabi Hot Cloud StorageWasabiFree30-day trial; no egress or API request charges
16IDrive e2IDriveFree10 GB free, with egress included up to 3x stored data
17StorjStorjFree25 GB of storage and 25 GB of egress per month
18Scaleway Object StorageScalewayFree75 GB of egress free every month
19Oracle Object StorageOracleFree20 GB of storage, always free
20AWS LambdaAmazon Web ServicesFree1M requests and 400,000 GB-seconds per month, always free
21Google Cloud RunGoogleFree2M requests and 180,000 vCPU-seconds per month
22Azure FunctionsMicrosoftFree1M executions and 400,000 GB-seconds per month
23Vultr Cloud ComputeVultr$2.50/moNone; the $2.50 IPv6-only plan is the entry point
24Hetzner CloudHetzner$3.79/mo20 TB of traffic included with every server
25DigitalOcean DropletsDigitalOcean$4.00/mo500 GB to 1 TB of pooled egress per Droplet
26IONOS Cloud ServersIONOS$4.00/moUnlimited traffic included
27OVHcloud VPSOVHcloud$4.20/moUnmetered traffic on most VPS plans
28Gcore CDNGcore$5.00/mo1 TB per month on the free CDN plan
29Linode (Akamai Cloud)Akamai$5.00/mo1 TB of egress included on the $5 plan
30AWS LightsailAmazon Web Services$5.00/moThree months free on the smallest plan
31Cloudflare WorkersCloudflare$5.00/mo100,000 requests per day, always free
32RailwayRailway$5.00/mo$5 of usage included on the Hobby plan
33HerokuHeroku$5.00/moNone; the free dyno tier ended in November 2022
34DigitalOcean App PlatformDigitalOcean$5.00/moThree free static sites
35Contabo VPSContabo$5.50/moUnlimited traffic, throttled after 32 TB
36KoyebKoyeb$6.40/moOne free instance with limited resources
37RenderRender$7.00/moFree static sites and 750 instance hours per month
38TursoTurso$8.25/mo500 databases, 9 GB of storage, and 1 billion row reads per month
39NetlifyNetlify$9.00/moFree plan with a 300 credit monthly limit
40MongoDB AtlasMongoDB$9.00/moM0 shared cluster with 512 MB, always free
41Upstash RedisUpstash$10.00/mo500,000 commands per month
42DigitalOcean KubernetesDigitalOcean$12.00/moControl plane free on the standard tier
43AWS RDS for PostgreSQLAmazon Web Services$12.40/mo750 hours per month of a db.t-class instance for 12 months
44Azure Database for PostgreSQLMicrosoft$12.41/mo750 hours per month of a burstable instance for 12 months
45Netlify FunctionsNetlify$19.00/mo125,000 invocations and 100 hours of runtime per month
46Neon Serverless PostgresNeon$19.00/mo0.5 GB of storage and 190 compute hours per month
47Cloudflare CDNCloudflare$20.00/moUnmetered CDN bandwidth on every plan including free
48Vercel FunctionsVercel$20.00/moIncluded in the Hobby plan within usage limits
49Deno DeployDeno$20.00/mo1M requests and 100 GB of outbound data per month
50VercelVercel$20.00/moHobby plan with 100 GB of transfer per month
51SupabaseSupabase$25.00/mo500 MB database and 5 GB of egress per month
52CockroachDB CloudCockroach Labs$25.00/mo$0 basic tier with monthly request-unit and storage allowances
53PlanetScalePlanetScale$39.00/moNone; the Hobby tier was retired in April 2024
54Fastly ComputeFastly$50.00/moTrial credit only

Source: Amazon Web Services (May 2026) · Fastly (May 2026) · bunny.net (May 2026) · KeyCDN (May 2026) · CDN77 (May 2026) · Amazon Web Services (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

Questions

What is the cloud services with the best free tiers in 2026?
AWS CloudFront from Amazon Web Services tops this ranking at $0/mo. The full table below shows all 54 entries with the same measure applied to each.
How is this ranking calculated?
Every service in the dataset that publishes a free allowance, with what you actually get. Permanent free tiers are separated from 12-month trials in the description column — the difference matters a year from now. Every figure is the provider's own published list price, linked in the source column and stamped with the month it was checked.
Why is the cheapest option not always the right one?
Because a single axis never captures the whole bill. A provider with the lowest storage rate may have the highest egress rate; a model with the cheapest input tokens may be the most expensive for agentic work. The comparison pages model both sides against identical workloads, which is the check worth doing before switching.

Other rankings