Compute

Cloudflare · Workers Free

SQLite-backed Durable Objects on the Workers Free plan, with SQL and key-value storage APIs: 100,000 requests, 13,000 GB-s of duration, 5 million rows read and 100,000 rows written a day, and 5 GB of storage per account.

• 100Krequests / day
• 3.61 GB-hcompute / day
• 5 GBstorage

• Can't bill you
• No card

Cloudflare · Workers Free

Durable workflows with 3,000 steps a day, 1 GB of state storage and 3-day state retention; invocations share the Workers daily request limit.

• 3Ksteps / day
• 100Krequests / day
• 10 msCPU time per step

• Can't bill you
• No card

cron-job.org · Free

Unlimited cron jobs under fair use, each calling a URL as often as once a minute with a 30-second timeout and up to 64 KB of response read; a job that fails more than 25 times in a row is disabled.

• Unlimitedcron jobs per account
• 1 minshortest cron interval
• 30 srequest timeout per run

• Can't bill you
• No card

Inngest · Free

50,000 executions and 500,000 events a month with 5 concurrent steps; execution pauses at the quota until you upgrade.

• 50Kexecutions (runs + steps) / month
• 500Kevents / month
• 5concurrent steps

• Can't bill you
• No card

Trigger.dev · Free

$5 of usage credit a month with 20 concurrent runs and 10 schedules; tasks stop running once the credit is used until you upgrade.

• 5 USDmonthly usage credit / month
• 20concurrent runs
• 10schedules

• Can't bill you
• No card

Hatchet · Pay-as-you-go (no card)

Hatchet Cloud's pay-as-you-go plan without a card: 2,000 task runs and 2,000 events a day, 2,000 worker slots, 10 workers, 10 cron jobs, 1 tenant, 3 users and 1-day run history; over the limit, tasks are dropped and new ones return errors. Adding a card raises this to 1M runs and 1M events a month, billed beyond that.

• 2Ktask runs / day
• 2Kevents / day
• 2Kworker slots (concurrent task runs)

• Stops at the limit
• No card

Cloudflare · Workers Free

100,000 requests a day with 10 ms of CPU time per invocation and 5 Cron Triggers per account; requests over the daily limit fail.

• 100Krequests / day
• 10 msCPU time per invocation
• 5Cron Triggers per account

• Can't bill you
• No card
• Blocked in China

Modal · Starter

$30 of compute credit every month on the Starter plan; a payment method must be on file and usage beyond the credit is billed.

• 30 USDmonthly compute credit / month
• 1 TBegress / month
• 5deployed crons

• Card required

Val Town · Free

100,000 runs a day, crons as often as every 15 minutes and 1 minute of wall time per run; on the Free plan every val is public.

• 100Kruns / day
• 15 minshortest cron interval
• 1 minwall-clock time per run

Oracle Cloud · Always Free

Arm Ampere A1 VMs totalling 2 OCPUs and 12 GB RAM plus two AMD micro VMs, 200 GB block storage and 10 TB egress a month; idle instances may be reclaimed.

• 1.5K hAmpere A1 OCPU-hours / month
• 12 GBmemory
• 2Ampere A1 OCPUs

• Can't bill you
• Pauses after 7 idle days
• Card required

Amazon Web Services · AWS Free Tier (Always Free)

Always Free covers 1 million requests and 400,000 GB-seconds a month; new accounts also get $100 credit (up to $200), and the no-charge Free plan closes after 6 months unless upgraded.

• 1Mrequests / month
• 111.1 GB-hcompute / month
• 100 USDFree Tier credits at sign-up

• Commercial use
• Bills overage

Fly.io · Free Trial

New organizations get a trial of 2 total VM hours or 7 days, whichever comes first; apps stop when it ends unless a card is added.

• 2 hcompute
• 4 GBmemory
• 2vCPU

• Can't bill you
• No card

Microsoft Azure · Consumption plan free grant

180,000 vCPU-seconds, 360,000 GiB-seconds and 2 million HTTP requests free per subscription each month on the Consumption plan; sign-up needs a card, apps scaled to zero incur no usage charges, and usage beyond the grant is billed.

• 100 GB-hcompute / month
• 2Mrequests / month
• 50 hvCPU time / month

• Commercial use
• Bills overage
• Card required

Microsoft Azure · Flex Consumption free grant

Flex Consumption grants 250,000 executions and 100,000 GB-s a month per pay-as-you-go subscription; the legacy Consumption plan grants 1 million and 400,000 GB-s.

• 250Kexecutions / month
• 27.8 GB-hcompute / month

• Commercial use
• Bills overage
• Card required

Google Cloud · Free Tier

2 million requests, 180,000 vCPU-seconds and 360,000 GiB-seconds a month with request-based billing; needs a billing account and overage is billed.

• 100 GB-hcompute / month
• 2Mrequests / month
• 50 hvCPU time / month

• Bills overage
• Card required

Google Cloud · Free Tier

3 Cloud Scheduler jobs free every month per Cloud Billing account, shared by all its projects and counted per job, not per run; a billing account with a payment method is required, and each job beyond the free three is billed at $0.10 per 31 days.

• 3free jobs per billing account
• 1 minshortest cron interval

• Commercial use
• Bills overage
• Card required

Google Cloud · Free Tier

One e2-micro VM running all month in us-west1, us-central1 or us-east1, with 30 GB of standard persistent disk and 1 GB of egress.

• 730 he2-micro hours / month
• 0.25vCPU
• 30 GBstorage

• Bills overage
• Card required

Amazon Web Services · Free plan

New AWS accounts get $100 in Free Tier credits at sign-up, plus up to $100 more for completing activities, to spend on EC2 and other services on the Free plan, which ends after 6 months or when the credits run out. Six instance types (t3.micro, t3.small, t4g.micro, t4g.small, c7i-flex.large, m7i-flex.large) are marked Free tier eligible.

• 100 USDFree Tier credits at sign-up
• 6Free tier eligible instance types

• Deletes after 270 days
• Commercial use restricted
• Can't bill you

Railway · Free Trial

A 30-day trial with a one-time $5 credit; afterwards the account reverts to the Free plan with $1 of credit a month.

• 1 GBmemory
• 2vCPU
• 5 USDone-time trial credit

• Deletes after 30 days
• Can't bill you
• No card

Microsoft Azure · 12 months free services

New Azure customers get 750 hours a month each of the B1s, B2pts v2 (Arm) and B2ats v2 (AMD) burstable VM sizes, Linux or Windows, for 12 months from sign-up; each has 1 GiB of memory. New subscriptions can no longer deploy B-series v1 sizes such as B1s. A free account must move to pay-as-you-go within 30 days to keep the hours, and usage beyond them is billed.

• 750 hburstable VM hours per eligible size / month
• 1 GBmemory
• 2vCPU

• Commercial use
• Bills overage
• Card required