The Free Stack
The best free tiers and near-free tools for indie builders. 37 tools across 9 categories.
37 tools
☁️ Hosting
Static + serverless hosting. 100GB bandwidth, 6000 build mins. Hobby plan is free.
Static hosting with 100GB bandwidth, 300 build mins. Serverless functions included.
$5 credit monthly. Deploy any Docker container. No cold starts.
Static sites free. Web services from $0 with 750hrs runtime. PostgreSQL $0 with 1GB.
Run full-stack apps close to users. 3 shared VMs free. Pay-as-you-go after.
Unlimited bandwidth for static sites. Workers free tier with 100k requests/day.
🗄️ Databases
Postgres with 500MB database, 50MB file storage, 2GB bandwidth. Auth + realtime included.
MySQL-compatible serverless DB. Free tier discontinued in 2024.
Serverless Postgres. 0.5GB storage, 100 compute hrs, branching included.
SQLite on the edge. 500 databases, 9GB storage, 1B row reads. Ultra-low latency.
512MB shared cluster. Perfect for prototyping and small apps.
🔐 Auth
Complete auth with 10,000 MAU free. Social login, MFA, organizations included.
Open-source auth library. Self-hosted. No limits. Works with any database.
Open-source auth for TypeScript. Self-hosted. Framework-agnostic.
25,000 MAU free. Enterprise-grade auth with SSO, MFA, passwordless.
✉️ Email & Communication
100 emails/day free. Modern email API for developers. React email templates.
100 emails/day free via Twilio. SMTP and API delivery.
Transactional email for SaaS. 1,000 contacts free. Great onboarding sequences.
300 emails/day. Marketing + transactional in one platform. Unlimited contacts.
📊 Analytics
Privacy-first analytics. Self-hosted option is completely free. No cookies.
Open-source Google Analytics alternative. Self-host for free. Clean dashboard.
1M events/month free. Product analytics, session replay, feature flags, A/B testing.
Real-time analytics API. 1,000 API reqs/day, 10GB processed data.
🤖 AI & LLMs
Free LLM API. Ultra-fast inference for open models. No rate limits on free tier.
Gemini 2.5 Flash free tier. 1,500 requests/day. 1M token context.
$5 free credit. Run open-source models: Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek.
Cheapest paid API. V3 at $0.27/1M input tokens. No free tier but costs pennies.
Free credits on signup. GPT-4.1 Nano at $0.10/1M tokens. Pay-as-you-go.
💳 Payments
🛡️ Monitoring
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