Stack planner

Plan a stack that stays at $0

Pick what you are building. The planner ranks official free plans with published, neutral rules and shows why, what to watch and how much room you have.

What are you building?

Start from a preset or pick each need.

Hosting
Compute
Databases
Cache & queues
Storage
CDN & DNS
Auth
Email
Realtime & push
AI models
Vector
Search
Observability
CI/CD
Analytics

Where are your users?

Constraints

Rules out plans that are non-commercial only.

Rules out plans that need a payment card.

Rules out plans that need a phone number, ID or business verification.

Rules out plans that pause inactive projects.

Rules out model APIs whose free tier trains on your inputs.

Expected usage

Optional. Add figures to check each pick against its free limits.

GB
GB
GB

Your stack

$0 a month

Every need has a free plan with no end date that fits the usage you stated.

Needs covered
7 / 7
Providers
7
Data as of
Oct 15, 2026
  • Add expected usage to check each pick against its limits
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Web app hosting

Fit81

Cloudflare

  • Free with no end date
  • Cannot bill you: the free plan has no billing
  • Among the most generous free requests
  • Never pauses idle projects

Postgres

Fit80

Prisma

  • Free with no end date
  • Cannot bill you: the free plan has no billing
  • Among the most generous free storage
  • Never pauses idle projects

Authentication

Fit78
Clerk HobbyFree forever

Clerk

  • Free with no end date
  • Cannot bill you: the free plan has no billing
  • Never pauses idle projects
  • No card needed to sign up

Transactional email

Fit80
Brevo FreeFree forever

Brevo

  • Free with no end date
  • Cannot bill you: the free plan has no billing
  • Among the most generous free emails
  • Never pauses idle projects
  • Info: Deletes free resources after 120 days without activity

Object storage

Fit77
Cloudinary FreeFree forever

Cloudinary

  • Free with no end date
  • Cannot bill you: the free plan has no billing
  • Never pauses idle projects
  • No card needed to sign up

Error tracking

Fit82
PostHog FreeFree forever

PostHog

  • Free with no end date
  • Cannot bill you: the free plan has no billing
  • Among the most generous free events
  • Never pauses idle projects

Analytics

Fit79
Amplitude FreeFree forever

Amplitude

  • Free with no end date
  • Cannot bill you: the free plan has no billing
  • Never pauses idle projects
  • Among the most generous free events

Set it up

Official commands from the providers' own setup flows.

Prisma Postgres Free
npx create-db@latest

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$0 a month

7 of 7 needs covered