Free Tier Limits
Exact limits of every free plan in one place. "Free" doesn't mean unlimited. We track API call caps, storage limits, bandwidth quotas, seat restrictions, and gotchas like credit card requirements or automatic upgrades across 91 services.
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Free plans
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Categories
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Limits tracked
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Vercel
Bandwidth100 GB/mo
Serverless Exec100 GB-h/mo
Builds6000 min/mo
Team Members1 (Hobby)
ProjectsUnlimited
⚡ Commercial use requires Pro ($20/mo). Hobby is personal only.
Pricing page →S
Supabase
Database500 MB
Auth MAU50,000
Storage1 GB
Edge Functions500K invocations
Realtime200 concurrent connections
Projects2
⚡ Projects pause after 7 days of inactivity.
Pricing page →N
Neon
Storage512 MiB
Compute191.9 hours/mo
Branches10
Projects1
⚡ Compute auto-suspends after 5 min idle.
Pricing page →P
PlanetScale
Free tierNone — removed April 2024
⚡ No free tier. Cheapest plan is Scaler at $39/mo.
Pricing page →A
Auth0
MAU7,500
Social Connections2
Machine-to-Machine1,000 tokens
⚡ Only 2 social providers on free. Adding Google + GitHub = done.
Pricing page →P
PostHog
Events1M/mo
Session Replays5,000/mo
Feature Flags1M requests/mo
Surveys250/mo
S
Sentry
Errors5,000/mo
Performance10,000 transactions
Replays50/mo
Team Members1
R
Railway
Free trial$5 credit (one-time)
⚡ Not a free tier — it's a trial. After $5 spent, must upgrade to Hobby ($5/mo).
Pricing page →C
Cloudflare Pages
RequestsUnlimited
BandwidthUnlimited
Builds500/mo
SitesUnlimited
Workers100K requests/day
C
Convex
Documents1M
Storage1 GB
Bandwidth1 GB/mo
Function callsUnlimited (subject to rate limits)
F
Fly.io
VMs3 shared-cpu-1x
Memory256 MB per VM
Bandwidth160 GB/mo
Volumes1 GB
⚡ Free VMs auto-stop after 30 min idle. Need credit card on file.
Pricing page →C
Cloudflare R2
Storage10 GB
Class A ops1M/mo
Class B ops10M/mo
EgressFree (zero egress fees)
⚡ No free custom domain — must use R2.dev URLs or Workers.
Pricing page →O
OpenAI
Free tierNone — pay per token
GPT-4o mini$0.15/1M input tokens
GPT-4o$2.50/1M input tokens
⚡ No free tier. Rate limits increase with usage tiers ($5 → $50 → $100 spent).
Pricing page →A
Anthropic
Free tierNone — pay per token
Claude Haiku$0.25/1M input tokens
Claude Sonnet$3/1M input tokens
⚡ No free tier. Build tier requires $5 prepayment.
Pricing page →S
Snyk
Projects5
Tests200/mo
Container tests100/mo
⚡ Free for open-source only. Private repos need Team plan ($25/dev/mo).
Pricing page →G
GitHub Actions
Build minutes2,000/mo (Linux)
Storage500 MB artifacts
Concurrent jobs20
⚡ macOS minutes cost 10x (200 min/mo effective). Windows costs 2x.
Pricing page →D
Datadog
Hosts5
Metrics100
Retention1 day
APMNot included
⚡ Free tier is almost unusable. 1-day retention means no historical analysis.
Pricing page →G
Grafana Cloud
Metrics10,000 series
Logs50 GB/mo
Traces50 GB/mo
Users3
⚡ Generous free tier but alerting limited to 100 alert rules.
Pricing page →I
Inngest
Function runs50,000/mo
Steps500,000/mo
Concurrency5
⚡ Steps count separately from runs. A function with 10 steps = 10 step credits.
Pricing page →L
Linear
MembersUnlimited
IssuesUnlimited
IntegrationsAll
⚡ Free plan is genuinely unlimited for small teams — rare in project management.
Pricing page →C
Coolify
Self-hostedUnlimited (free)
ServersUnlimited
ApplicationsUnlimited
⚡ Cloud version is $5/mo per server. Self-hosted is fully free.
Pricing page →M
MongoDB Atlas
Storage512 MB
Shared RAMYes
Connections500
⚡ M0 free tier is shared and can be slow. No backups on free.
Pricing page →H
Hugging Face
ModelsUnlimited public
SpacesUnlimited (CPU)
Inference APIRate-limited
Private reposUnlimited
⚡ GPU Spaces start at $0.60/hr. Inference API has strict rate limits on free.
Pricing page →M
Modal
Free credits$30/mo (Starter)
Concurrent containers10
GPUsPay-per-second (e.g. A10G ~$1.10/hr)
⚡ $30/mo free credits don't roll over. Container start latency billed too.
Pricing page →R
Replicate
Free tierLimited free runs on public models
BillingPer-second of GPU usage
T4~$0.000225/sec ($0.81/hr)
A100 80GB~$0.001400/sec ($5.04/hr)
⚡ Cold starts billed. Custom models on dedicated hardware are pricier.
Pricing page →G
Groq
Free tierYes — rate-limited dev tier
Llama 3.1 8B$0.05/M input, $0.08/M output
Llama 3.3 70B$0.59/M input, $0.79/M output
⚡ Free tier rate limits are aggressive — fine for dev, not prod.
Pricing page →C
Cursor
Hobby planFree, 2-week Pro trial
Slow requestsLimited free completions
Pro plan$20/mo, 500 fast premium requests
⚡ Free tier is essentially a teaser. Pro requests run out fast on Claude/GPT-4.
Pricing page →T
Tinybird
Storage10 GB
Processed data1,000 GB/mo
API requests1,000 req/sec
WorkspacesUnlimited
⚡ Build plan is free forever, but workspace pauses after long inactivity.
Pricing page →P
Polar
Setup fee$0
Transaction fee4% + $0.40 per transaction
Merchant of recordIncluded (handles VAT/tax)
⚡ MoR fees are higher than Stripe (2.9%+30¢) but you skip tax compliance work.
Pricing page →K
Knock
Notifications10,000/mo on Developer (free)
ChannelsAll (email, SMS, push, in-app, Slack)
WorkflowsUnlimited
⚡ Email/SMS providers (SendGrid, Twilio) billed separately — Knock just orchestrates.
Pricing page →L
Liveblocks
MAU5,000 (Starter free)
Connections100 simultaneous
Storage1 GB
⚡ MAU counts every unique user that connects — anonymous viewers count too.
Pricing page →M
Mux
Free trial$20 credit on signup
Encoding$0.04/min (smart encoding)
Streaming$0.00096/min/viewer
Storage$0.003/min/mo
⚡ No real free tier — only signup credit. Streaming costs scale with viewers.
Pricing page →C
Cloudinary
Credits25/mo (free)
StorageCounts as credits (1 credit = 1 GB)
BandwidthCounts as credits (1 credit = 1 GB)
Transformations1 credit = 1,000 transformations
⚡ Credit system is opaque — a single asset can burn storage, bandwidth, AND transformation credits.
Pricing page →B
Better Auth Cloud
LibraryFree, open source (self-host)
Cloud (early access)Roadmap — not GA yet
⚡ Better Auth itself is free OSS. Hosted Cloud product is in early access — pricing TBD.
Pricing page →S
Sanity
Documents10,000
Users20
API CDN requests100,000/mo
Assets5 GB
Bandwidth10 GB/mo
⚡ Free tier limits to 2 datasets and 3 roles. Real B2B usage hits Team plan ($15/user/mo).
Pricing page →S
Strapi Cloud
Free trial14 days only
Self-hosted StrapiFree, open source
⚡ Strapi Cloud has no real free tier — only trial. Self-hosted Strapi is fully free.
Pricing page →P
Postmark
Free trial100 emails/mo (developer free tier)
ServersUnlimited (sandbox)
TemplatesUnlimited
⚡ 100/mo cap is below most onboarding flows. $15/mo for 10k emails after.
Pricing page →M
Mailgun
Free trial100 emails/day for 30 days
Foundation plan$15/mo for 10k emails
⚡ Mailgun killed the permanent free tier in 2020. Now only 30-day trial.
Pricing page →A
Algolia
Records10,000 (Build free tier)
Search Units10,000/mo
IndicesUnlimited
⚡ Search Units are opaque — facet queries and multi-index can multiply usage 5x. Each product variant = separate record.
Pricing page →M
Meilisearch Cloud
Free trial14 days, then Build $30/mo
Self-hostedFree, open source (no limits)
⚡ Cloud is trial-only. Self-host on a $5 VPS for fully free indexing.
Pricing page →P
Plausible
Cloud30-day trial, then $9/mo
Self-hosted CEFree, open source
⚡ No free tier on cloud. Plausible CE (Community Edition) is fully free to self-host.
Pricing page →F
Fathom Analytics
Free trial30 days, then $15/mo (100k pageviews)
SitesUnlimited (paid)
⚡ No permanent free tier. 30-day trial then forced paid. Higher entry price than Plausible.
Pricing page →S
Statsig
Events1M/mo
UsersUnlimited team members
ExperimentsUnlimited
Feature flagsUnlimited
⚡ Generous free tier — but Warehouse Native (BigQuery integration) is enterprise-only.
Pricing page →G
GrowthBook Cloud
Users3 team members
Feature flagsUnlimited
EventsUnlimited (data warehouse native)
Self-hosted OSSFree, fully featured
⚡ Cloud free is capped at 3 seats. Pro plan is $20/seat/mo.
Pricing page →O
OpenReplay
Cloud1,000 sessions/mo (free tier)
Retention14 days
Self-hostedFree, open source
⚡ Cloud sessions cap fast. Self-hosted version is the actual free option — runs on a single VPS.
Pricing page →H
Highlight.io
Sessions500/mo (free)
Errors1,000/mo
Logs1 GB/mo
Retention30 days
⚡ Bundles errors + replay + logs in one free tier — useful but quotas are per-product.
Pricing page →D
Daily.co
Participant minutes10,000/mo (free)
Concurrent roomsUnlimited
Recording$0.01275/min after included
⚡ Recording, transcription, and HIPAA all billed separately on top.
Pricing page →L
LiveKit Cloud
Connection minutes5,000/mo
Bandwidth50 GB/mo
Concurrent participants100
Self-hostedApache 2.0 — free
⚡ Connection minutes count per participant — a 30-min meeting × 4 people = 120 minutes.
Pricing page →M
MotherDuck
Storage10 GB
Compute units10/mo
Users3
DuckDB-nativeYes (serverless)
⚡ Compute units are vague — heavy queries burn through 10 fast. Standard plan starts at $25/mo.
Pricing page →E
EdgeDB Cloud
Free trial credits$10/mo
Self-hostedFree, open source
ComputeAuto-suspends idle
⚡ Now branded Gel. Self-hosted is the real free option — Cloud is credit-based trial.
Pricing page →T
Tigris
Storage5 GB free
EgressFree (no egress fees)
Class A ops100K/mo free
Class B ops1M/mo free
⚡ S3-compatible with zero egress like R2. Smaller free quota but multi-region replication included.
Pricing page →I
ImageKit
Bandwidth20 GB/mo
Storage20 GB
TransformationsUnlimited
Custom domainAvailable
⚡ Bandwidth is the binding constraint — 20 GB lasts <1 day for any image-heavy site.
Pricing page →B
Bunny CDN
Free tierNone — pay-as-you-go
Standard CDN$0.01/GB (NA/EU)
Minimum$1/mo
⚡ No free tier but pricing is among the cheapest CDN options. $1/mo minimum makes it viable for tiny sites.
Pricing page →H
Hetzner Cloud
Free tierNone — €4.59/mo (CX22) is cheapest
Trial credit€20 for new accounts
Bandwidth20 TB included on shared instances
⚡ No permanent free tier but pricing destroys all competitors. CX22 (2 vCPU, 4GB RAM) at ~$5/mo.
Pricing page →S
Scaleway
Free tierStardust (DEV1-S) used to be free, now €0.0025/hr
Object Storage75 GB free + 75 GB egress/mo
Serverless Functions1M invocations/mo free
⚡ Stardust free tier ended 2023. Object Storage and Functions still have generous free quotas.
Pricing page →O
OVHcloud
Free tierNone
Cheapest VPS~$3.50/mo (VPS Starter)
Object Storage$0.01/GB (Standard)
⚡ No free tier. Eco-line VPS is the cheapest entry point. EU data residency strong.
Pricing page →Q
Qdrant Cloud
Clusters1 free cluster
RAM0.5 GB
Storage~1GB
Self-hostedApache 2.0 — free
⚡ Free cluster has no SLA and can be paused after extended inactivity. Self-hosted Qdrant on a VPS is completely free.
Pricing page →W
Weaviate Cloud
Sandbox clustersFree, expire after 14 days
Vectors~500K on sandbox
Self-hostedBSD 3-Clause — free
⚡ Sandbox clusters delete after 14 days — only suitable for dev/demos, never production.
Pricing page →Z
Zilliz Cloud (Milvus)
Compute Units1 CU free
Memory2 GB
Storage5 GB
Self-hosted MilvusApache 2.0 — free
⚡ Zilliz free cluster may auto-pause after inactivity. Self-hosted Milvus has no limits but needs infra.
Pricing page →R
RunPod
Free tierNone — pay-per-second
Community Cloud GPUFrom $0.20/hr (RTX 3090)
Secure Cloud GPUFrom $0.79/hr (A100 SXM)
⚡ No free tier. Community Cloud is cheap but can have reliability issues. Secure Cloud costs 2-4x more.
Pricing page →T
Together AI
Signup credit$1 free
Llama 3 8B$0.10/1M tokens (pay-per-use)
Llama 3.1 70B$0.88/1M tokens
⚡ The $1 signup credit runs out in minutes on larger models. No persistent free tier after that.
Pricing page →O
OpenRouter
Free modelsSeveral models at $0 with rate limits
Signup credit$1 trial credit
Markup on paid models5% over provider price
⚡ Free models (Llama 3 8B free, etc.) are heavily rate-limited. The 5% markup on high-volume usage adds up.
Pricing page →F
Fireworks AI
Signup credit$1 free
Llama 3.1 8B$0.10/1M tokens (pay-per-use)
Rate limits1 req/sec on free tier
⚡ No persistent free tier. The $1 credit lasts very little time on production-grade models.
Pricing page →D
Dub.co
Links1,000 tracked links
Click events1,000/mo
Custom domains3
Team members3
⚡ 1,000 click events/mo is very low — any real marketing campaign will exceed this quickly.
Pricing page →H
Hatchet
Self-hostedFree, open source (MIT)
CloudNo free cloud tier — starts at $100/mo
⚡ Cloud version has no free tier. Self-host via Docker for free; managed cloud is for teams that want zero ops.
Pricing page →P
Pinecone
Storage2 GB
Vectors~2M (at 768d)
Indices1 (serverless)
Namespaces100
⚡ Free tier was removed then reinstated as serverless. Serverless free 2GB is real but single-index only — multi-index requires paid plan.
Pricing page →T
Temporal Cloud
Cloud trial$1,000 credit for 2 months
Self-hosted OSSFree, Apache 2.0
⚡ Cloud trial credit expires — after that, pricing is action-based and can reach $150+/mo for moderate workloads. Self-hosted is the free option.
Pricing page →N
Novu
Events/mo30,000 (free)
ChannelsAll (email, SMS, push, in-app, chat)
SubscribersUnlimited
Self-hostedFree, MIT
⚡ 30K events/mo is generous for early apps. Note: providers (Twilio, SendGrid) still billed separately.
Pricing page →U
UploadThing
Storage2 GB total
UploadsUnlimited files
Max file sizeConfigurable
⚡ 2GB fills up fast with any real user content. Pro at $10/mo is needed quickly for production apps.
Pricing page →I
Inngest
Function runs50,000/mo
Steps500,000/mo
Concurrency5
⚡ Steps count separately from runs. A function with 10 steps = 10 step credits.
Pricing page →T
Trigger.dev
Task runs50,000/mo
Concurrency5
Compute time7,500 seconds
⚡ Compute time cap is separate from run count — CPU-heavy tasks can exhaust compute budget before run count.
Pricing page →S
Stack Auth
MAU10,000
ProjectsUnlimited
Social OAuthIncluded
Email/passwordIncluded
⚡ Generous free tier but crossing 10K MAU jumps to $49/mo immediately. Self-hosted version has no limits.
Pricing page →C
Cerebras
Rate limit30 req/min
ModelsLlama 3.3 70B, Llama 3.1 8B
Token limitRate-limited
⚡ Free tier is heavily rate-limited. Production apps need paid tier for reliable throughput.
Pricing page →D
Docmost
UsersUnlimited (self-hosted)
WorkspacesUnlimited
StorageUnlimited (your infra)
⚡ Self-hosted only — no cloud version. You provide the server and Postgres database.
Pricing page →C
Cal.com
Users1
Event typesUnlimited
IntegrationsGoogle Calendar, Outlook
BookingsUnlimited
⚡ Individual plan only — teams require $12/user/mo. Cal.com branding shown on free tier.
Pricing page →T
Twenty CRM
UsersUnlimited (self-hosted)
ContactsUnlimited
FeaturesAll features included
⚡ Self-hosted is genuinely unlimited. Cloud version starts at $9/user/mo — no cloud free tier.
Pricing page →P
PGlite
UsageUnlimited
StorageBrowser/Node storage limits
Extensionspgvector, fts5, more
⚡ Runs entirely in browser or Node.js. No server costs. Limited by browser storage quotas (typically 50-100MB reliable).
Pricing page →E
Electric SQL
UsageUnlimited (self-hosted)
SyncReal-time Postgres sync
ShapesUnlimited
⚡ Sync engine is free and open-source. You still need a Postgres database (Neon free tier works).
Pricing page →L
Langfuse
Observations50,000/mo
MembersUnlimited
Retention30 days
⚡ 50K observations sounds like a lot but multi-step LLM chains can burn through it in days. Self-hosted has no limits.
Pricing page →L
Langtrace
Spans50,000/mo
Retention7 days
Members3
⚡ 7-day retention on free tier is very short for debugging production issues. Self-hosted version has unlimited retention.
Pricing page →O
Orama
Documents10,000
Indexes1
SearchesUnlimited
⚡ 10K document limit fills fast for e-commerce or content-heavy sites. Single index means one search collection only.
Pricing page →O
OpenStat
UsageUnlimited (self-hosted)
SitesUnlimited
RetentionUnlimited
⚡ Self-hosted only — you need to provision and maintain a server. No managed cloud offering.
Pricing page →B
Better Auth
UsersUnlimited
FeaturesAll core features
PluginsAll official plugins
⚡ Library, not a service — you run it yourself. No cloud version. Completely free but you handle infra, scaling, and maintenance.
Pricing page →