๐Ÿดโ€โ˜ ๏ธ The free-tier bible โ€” rent-free servers, GPUs, storage, data, mail and domains

:shopping_cart: No bills, no trials, no card โ€” 51 things the internet normally charges for

Card asked for, nothing charged ยท figures off the vendorโ€™s own label ยท opened 7 Oct 2026

Every button pays out. The slot is taped over for a reason.

The ten with the biggest allowances

  1. Oracle Always Free โ€” 2 OCPU / 12 GB ARM, 10 TB egress a month
  2. Kaggle โ€” 30 GPU hours a week
  3. Cloudflare R2 โ€” 10 GB, egress free
  4. Cloudflare Pages โ€” unlimited bandwidth
  5. Turso โ€” 500M rows read a month
  6. Grafana Cloud โ€” 50 GB of logs
  7. Tailscale โ€” unlimited devices
  8. EU.org โ€” a free subdomain: your DNS, a few daysโ€™ wait
  9. catbox โ€” 200 MB a file, permanent
  10. SDF.org โ€” a shell account since 1987

:coin: What people pay for these, and where they pay $0

a 2-core VM                   $5-12/mo   ->  $0
object storage with egress    $5-9/mo    ->  $0
a managed Postgres            $15/mo     ->  $0
30 GPU hours a week           $50/mo     ->  $0
2,000 CI minutes              $0.008/min ->  $0
                            coin slot: taped over

:control_knobs: Nine buttons โ€” :desktop_computer: compute ยท :brain: brains ยท :file_cabinet: storage ยท :delivery_truck: delivery ยท :card_file_box: data
:gear: build ยท :postbox: mail & names ยท :chart_increasing: watch ยท :spider_web: network

:hammer_and_wrench: What actually lands the Oracle box

Three pollers that keep trying until your ARM box lands:

Oracleโ€™s own pages: go Pay-As-You-Go and the free box stays uncharged ยท try another availability
domain and leave the fault domain unpinned ยท an idle box gets reclaimed.

:receipt: Before you press

:card_index_dividers: Take the whole shelf โ€” the free-for-dev list, 139kโ˜…

Half of what is folded below is not on that list at all.

๐Ÿ“š The full list โ€” 56 services, what you get, and the card question
Service What you get Card
Oracle Always Free 2 OCPU / 12 GB ARM, 200 GB block + 20 GB object, 10 TB egress yes, nothing charged
GitHub Codespaces 120 core-hours a month no
Cloudflare Workers 100,000 requests a day no
Google Cloud an e2-micro running 24x7, one of three US regions yes
Kaggle 30 GPU-hours + 20 TPU-hours a week phone number
Cloudflare Workers AI 10,000 neurons a day no
Groq free tier, 14,400 requests a day on 8b no
Google AI Studio the free Gemini tier no
Modal $30 of compute a month no
Upstash Vector 1 GB no
Qdrant Cloud 1 GB no
Hugging Face free Hub, Spaces and inference credits no
Cloudflare R2 10 GB, 1M writes, 10M reads, no egress fee yes, nothing charged
Backblaze B2 10 GB + egress free to 3x stored no
catbox 200 MB a file, permanent no
0x0.st 512 MiB, curl-friendly no
gofile big files, links expire no
Cloudflare Pages unlimited bandwidth, 500 builds a month no
jsDelivr CDN for npm and GitHub, no bandwidth cap no
CacheFly 100 GB a month on the free dev account no
Gumlet 250 GB video + 30 GB images a month no
Neon 100 projects, 1 GB and 100 CU-hours each no
Turso 100 databases, 5 GB, 500M rows read no
Supabase 500 MB, 50k monthly users no
Cloudflare D1 5 GB no
CockroachDB 50M request units, 10 GiB no
MongoDB Atlas M0, 512 MB no
Upstash Redis 256 MB, 500k commands no
GitHub Actions 2,000 minutes a month private, unlimited public no
CircleCI 6,000 credits a month no
Azure Pipelines 10 parallel jobs for open source no
healthchecks.io 20 cron checks no
Cloudflare Email Routing unlimited inbound on your domain no
Zoho Mail 5 users, 5 GB, web only no
Resend 3,000 emails a month no
Brevo 300 emails a day no
EU.org a real domain, manual approval no
is-a.dev a developer subdomain no
Letโ€™s Encrypt wildcard TLS, free forever no
deSEC free DNS with DNSSEC no
FreeDNS free subdomains from a pool no
Grafana Cloud 50 GB logs, 50 GB traces a month no
New Relic 100 GB a month ingest no
Sentry 5,000 errors a month no
UptimeRobot 50 monitors no
Tailscale 6 users, unlimited devices no
ZeroTier 10 devices no
Cloudflare quick tunnel a public URL with no account no
ngrok 1 static domain no
SDF.org a UNIX shell account since 1987 no
GitGuardian free up to 25 developers no
freellm.sh 153 free models across 18 providers, each labelled with its catch no
Mailflare unlimited custom email domains, self-hosted on Resend or SES no
is-a.dev a free name.is-a.dev subdomain, 24-72h review no
DigitalPlat free domains on .qzz.io, .dpdns.org, .us.kg no
js.org free name.js.org for GitHub Pages projects no

Which vendor page did I read wrong? Name it โ€” the shelf gets fixed.

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