Being entrepreneur is a hassle game, you lunch are project you might hit it you might get hit by it, someone gonna get hit and it’s probably you, at least don’t spend your money on it when it hit you! here’s a list of free cloud services and hosting solutions, database solutions and many services that will help you bootstrap your startup and bootstrap your idea from thin air to magic Moses style. so jump in and enjoy the table:
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| Name & What is it | Free Service (limitations) |
| edgeDB – raise and backed by $15M capital at serious A. offers relational DB solutions | – 1/4 compute unit (1/16 vCPU, 1/2 GiB RAM) – Up to 1GB of disk space – Data encrypted at rest |
| nocodb provide a DB exel like experience for nocode | – 5 free users – 5 req per sec – 1GB storage – 10k rows/workspace |
| Clerk offers cloud auth service | – first 10K MAU free – afterwards it’s 0.02 per 1 user |
| nhost is a DB manager that is backed by a $3M seed capital and provide DB solutions. | – 1 GB database – 1 GB storage – 5 GB egress – Functions |
| Supabase is a database as a service, specifically relational SQL database. you’ll outsource your scaling and growth of your startup to supabase rather than having large devops or sre teams to manage bunch of kubernetes or whatever services you’ll use to large scale databases. it’s good for early day startups because it’s free to a pretty large scale of monthly users. | – 50,000 monthly users (user that interact with the api once). – 500MB database space – 5GB bandwith – 1GB file storage – “unlimited” api calls |
| Digital ocean is a cloud service provider, mainly for what others call EC2 here are called droplets. DigitalOcean provides hosting, db management and other services at scale. Dev friendly and easy to startup your own server. it is good if you have static site, otherwise upgrade to $3-$4 of your own personal server. | – free plan inc. 3 static site – 1GB – https – your own custom domain! – global CDN – DDOS mitigation – unlimited team members |
| Google Drive Provides free cloud storage up to 15GB, you can see more cloud storage options in this table online. And this table as well will help you find free cloud storage. | – up to 15GB free cloud storage |
| AWS Ec2 Free tire – is the largest and most popular cloud service solutions with a lot of different types of cloud services, sometime more than needed. it provides you with servers for free, but the limitations are up to 12 months. | – free EC2 services(which are servers) – up to 12 months |
| Neon Backed by $150M capital and backed by microsoft, provides cloud hosting solutions, serverless, autoscaling and more cloud services. | – 0.5GB (pretty small project) – 0.25 CU for DB + 1GB RAM – 2 CU – no other limitations which is good. |
| Appwrite backed by almost $100M, provides backend as a service. and provides nice free tire. it’s good if you wanna focus your development on other things like the UI/FE/client and wants to build quick backend to prove your concept. | – ulimtied projects – 10GB bandwith – 2GB storage – 750K execution – 75K monthly active users – non removeable “appwrite” copyright – 1db, 3 buckets, 5 functions per project. |
| Sentry.IO is a monitoring cloud service for web application, client side development. it allow you to be aware of javascript errors occurring in the browser and also monitor how the users experience your web application. | – free monitoring of js errors up to 30 days backlog. – alert and notification – one user |
| hotjar is a service that help you monitor and understand how users experience your product or service. it provide heat maps, recording, survey, feedbacks | – unlimited heathmap – Recordings of user sessions (deleted after free trail once you see them once) – Basic filters – Dashboards – Highlights |
| Twillio – provides varoius community services from sms, verification, emails(sendgrid), serverless, voice calls and more | – emails 100/p/day – first 1,000 sms free per month – format & validate phones – free! – serverless: first 1,000 functions free – free assets hosts – files etc. |
| Amazon SES, it’s AWS email service, it’s limited but long term | – 3k msgs each month – first 12 months |
| ServersSTMP – is a email service providers. | – 6,000 emails per month for free |
| Resend is an email service focus on developers, it is backed by 14 investors with $3M. | – up to 100 emails a day – up to 3k emails a month – 1 domain – 1 day data retention |
| SendLayer, email service | – first 200 free emails |
| Postmark is an email service, acquired by “activeCampaign” which is backed by $240M capital raised. | – very limited, 100 emails a month(!) |
| Zoho is India base company with valuation of $1B without raising capital. | – they provide credits for 10k first free emails |
| Alibaba – Alibaba is a big cloud service provider established in the Chinese market. it is backed by large founding and will probably stay strong for long term. They provide free DB and small servers for mostly static sites for at least 1 year. | – PolarDB(Relational DB) 50GB free forever – Small Server for static sites free for 12 months. – free 100sms service (not suitable for anything) |
| Brevo is a digital marketing company that raised $200M | – they provide 300 emails per day – templates – drag and rop editor |
| Render – backed by $100M+ render provide cloud service solutions and also free tire for small creators. | – 750 Free instance hours to each workspace per calendar month – host web site with custom domain |
| Cloudflare – provides mostly security protections for web application, from DDOS attack, CDN services. first plan is free, second one is $5 with much more scalable cloud services. | – 100K free requests per day! – max 10ms CPU – 100k reads per day – 1K writes/delete/list operations a day – 1GB storage files – 100 worker scripts – automatic deployment to DC around world – KV cache data for free |
| indeed is a free job posting service, you can post for free and hire talent or sponser a post and hire faster. | – free posting to hire talents |
| Hugo is a static site template provider cloud service startup backed by +$10M. it provides lots of templates and a good place for static site generators with custom domain | – 300 templates – static site generator |
| hCaptcha – is a anti bot and bot detection service. | up to 1M requests per month |
| Runmercury provide a tool for devs to develop a simple website with python and without HTML, CSS | – first mercury site free |
| Netlify is a company that helps you build, deploy, and scale modern web applications. it is backed by a recent $100M capital and valued at $2B. | – live site preview – 100GB bandwidth – 300 build minutes – Dynamic serverless functions – Static assets |
| lunchdarkly allows management of features in your app. if you want to build a new feature, lunch the project and open the feature whenever you want or to specific users. you can use lunchdarkly. | – free to up to 1k users – 1 project – 3 environments |
| Turso is SQLite managed database with the raising of managed DB’s, this one raised $7M seed round! and offer a free plan. | – 500 DB’s – 9GB DB storage – 1B rows read per month |
| Prisma simplify DB quieres to your database and make your data more accessible for better decision making. | – 60K monthly quieres – connection limit 10 – |
| contentfull provide a free remote DB | – 5 users – 2 locals – 1M API calls per month |
| Xata is a serverless DB similar to Turso/supabase. They raise $30M in round A so they have a nice backbone to lay your first project at their free tire. | – shared environment – 1 team member – 10 DB branches – 15GB storage(!) – 15GB search engine storage – 2GB file attachments – 250 AI quires per month |
| mongodb, managed and well known in the tech industry a NOSQL db provider | – free tire up to 512MB of data – limitation: it’s shared among others |
| internxt – hosting service. they alo offer free temporary email service | – free 1GB hosting |
| firebase cloud – provides hosting, domain setup, auth, live database, messaging and more with good free tier plan. | – free custom domain setup – Up to 5GB free storage – 1GB download per day – free auth system 50K monthly active users – multiple sites per project |
| shiper.app is not strongly backed but it provides a minimal host for a website which can be useful | – 250MB RAM – 0.25 CPU – 1 self host instance – apply custom domain |
| Fauna is a transactional/responsive database backed by $27M from various investors. it has limited free tire that is limited per month by resources | – 100k TROs, 50k TWOs, 500k TCOs per month (read, write and compute) – 5DB’s – 1GB storage |
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- free for dev – is a site with lots of free service, frameworks, libraries
Free services are the backbone of every entrepreneur, you don’t run your investors money to the ground without saving a few bucks, yes even if those are just few bucks. saving your money, saving your investors money means you can extract the most and the best for every dollar invested in you and your project! Come back for more services in the future!
Lior Amsalem embarked on his software engineering journey in the early 2000s, Diving into Pascal with a keen interest in creating, developing, and working on new technologies. Transitioning from his early teenage years as a freelancer, Lior dedicated countless hours to expanding his knowledge within the software engineering domain. He immersed himself in learning new development languages and technologies such as JavaScript, React, backend, frontend, devops, nextjs, nodejs, mongodb, mysql and all together end to end development, while also gaining insights into business development and idea implementation.
Through his blog, Lior aims to share his interests and entrepreneurial journey, driven by a desire for independence and freedom from traditional 9-5 work constraints.
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