Free for Developers
A curated list of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS offerings with free tiers for developers and infrastructure engineers.
What is Free for Developers?
free-for.dev is a community-maintained directory that lists SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services offering free tiers for developers and infrastructure engineers. It solves the problem of discovering and evaluating free tools for building, deploying, and managing software projects without spending hours searching across the internet.
System administrators, DevOps practitioners, infrastructure developers, and open-source authors who need to find reliable free-tier services for their projects and workflows.
Developers choose free-for.dev because it provides a centralized, curated, and up-to-date resource that saves significant research time, focuses on genuinely useful infrastructure tools, and is maintained by a large community to ensure quality and relevance.
Overview
A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev
Use Cases
Best For
- Finding free-tier cloud services for personal or small projects
- Discovering free CI/CD, monitoring, or logging tools for DevOps workflows
- Comparing always-free limits across major cloud providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure
- Locating free APIs for development, testing, or prototyping
- Identifying free source code repositories and collaboration tools for teams
- Researching free infrastructure components before committing to a paid plan
Not Ideal For
- Organizations requiring guaranteed service level agreements (SLAs) or dedicated enterprise support, as free tiers often exclude these features.
- Teams looking for interactive, API-driven service discovery with advanced filtering, sorting, or real-time data integration.
- Projects that need in-depth, hands-on tutorials, implementation guides, or reliability ratings beyond basic service listings.
Pros & Cons
Pros
With over 1,600 contributors submitting pull requests, the list is regularly updated to reflect changes in free-tier offerings, ensuring current and accurate information.
Organized into 50+ categories like CI/CD, monitoring, and APIs, making it simple to find relevant services for specific infrastructure needs without sifting through irrelevant options.
Enforces minimum standards such as one-year duration and TLS support, filtering out short trials or insecure services to provide substantive, reliable free options.
Details always-free limits for major providers including AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle, IBM, and Cloudflare, saving significant time on individual research and comparison.
Cons
The directory only lists availability and limits without assessing uptime, performance, customer support, or hidden costs, requiring users to independently verify service quality.
Hosted as a GitHub README, it lacks features like search filters, sorting, or an API, limiting dynamic use cases such as integration into automated workflows or personalized recommendations.
Reliance on community contributions via pull requests means changes to free tiers might not be reflected immediately, posing a risk of outdated information for time-sensitive decisions.
Frequently Asked Questions
Related Projects
Awesome😎 Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics
Self HostedA list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
Beginner-Friendly ProjectsA list of awesome beginners-friendly projects.
Claude CodeA curated list of awesome skills, hooks, slash-commands, agent orchestrators, applications, and plugins for Claude Code by Anthropic
Found a gem we're missing?
Open-Awesome is built by the community, for the community. Submit a project, suggest an awesome list, or help improve the catalog on GitHub.