ripienaar/free-for-dev
A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev
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Developers and open-source authors now have many services offering free tiers, but finding them all takes time to make informed decisions. This is a list of software (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.) and other offerings with free developer tiers. The scope of this particular list is limited to things that infrastructure developers (System Administrators, DevOps Practitioners, etc.) are likely to find useful. We love all the free services out there, but it would be good to keep it on topic. It's a grey line sometimes, so this is opinionated; please don't feel offended if I don't accept your contribution. This list results from Pull Requests, reviews, ideas, and work done by 1600+ people. You can also help by sending Pull Requests to add more services or remove ones whose offerings have changed or been retired. [](https://www.trackawesomelist.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev) NOTE: This list is only for as-a-Service offerings, not for self-hosted software. To be eligible,…
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- free-for.dev
- Table of Contents
- Major Cloud Providers
- Cloud management solutions
- Source Code Repos
- APIs, Data, and ML
- Artifact Repos
- Tools for Teams and Collaboration
- CMS
- Code Generation
- Code Quality
- Code Search and Browsing
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What this repository does
A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev
Repository facts
- Owner
- ripienaar
- Primary language
- HTML
- Stars
- 141,239
- Forks
- 15,110
- Open issues + pull requests
- 16
- License
- Not reported — inspect the license file
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- master
- Created
- 2015-03-18T21:06:26.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-30T10:20:21.000Z
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