39 Developer Free Tiers in 2026: AI APIs, Hosting, VPS
- Gemini API β LLM APIs Β· AI Studio free tier with RPM/RPD limits; free-tier data may be used to improve products
- Mistral API β LLM APIs Β· La Plateforme offers a rate-limited free experiment tier
- Groq API β LLM APIs Β· groq.com/pricing now redirects to the homepage; prices only on docs/models. Free tier rate-limited by RPM/TPD; Llama 3.x moved to Enterprise
- OpenRouter β LLM APIs Β· Multi-model router; some :free models with daily request caps
- Qwen (Alibaba Model Studio) β LLM APIs Β· Alibaba Model Studio (Bailian); free token quota per model for new users; international site pricing differs
- GLM API β LLM APIs Β· Some Flash models are free
- Cohere API β LLM APIs Β· Trial key is free but rate-limited and not for production use
- Cerebras Inference β LLM APIs Β· Free tier with daily token limits
- SiliconFlow β LLM APIs Β· Chinese open-model aggregator; some small models free
- Doubao (Volcengine Ark) β LLM APIs Β· Volcengine Ark (Doubao); free token quota for new users
- Workers AI β AI & Agent Dev Tools Β· 10k Neurons per day free
- Hugging Face β AI & Agent Dev Tools Β· Hub is free; Inference Providers include small monthly free credits
- Modal β AI & Agent Dev Tools Β· Starter plan includes monthly free compute credits
- Cursor β AI & Agent Dev Tools Β· Hobby plan is free with limits
- GitHub Copilot β AI & Agent Dev Tools Β· Copilot Free with monthly completion/chat limits
- Windsurf β AI & Agent Dev Tools Β· windsurf.com/pricing now 308-redirects to devin.ai/pricing (Cognition); brand/plan mapping to verify
- Trae β AI & Agent Dev Tools Β· ByteDance AI IDE; free plan with limits
- LangSmith β AI & Agent Dev Tools Β· Free Developer plan with monthly trace limits
- E2B β AI & Agent Dev Tools Β· Sandboxes for agents; Hobby plan free with one-time credits
- Firecrawl β AI & Agent Dev Tools Β· Web scraping API; free tier with one-time credits
- Tavily β AI & Agent Dev Tools Β· Search API for agents; monthly free credits
- Pinecone β AI & Agent Dev Tools Β· Free Starter vector DB with storage caps
- Vercel β Developer Services (Hosting, DB, Edge) Β· Hobby is free but non-commercial only
- Netlify β Developer Services (Hosting, DB, Edge) Β· Free plan metered in credits
- Cloudflare Workers β Developer Services (Hosting, DB, Edge) Β· Free 100k requests/day; includes D1/KV free allowances
- Cloudflare R2 β Developer Services (Hosting, DB, Edge) Β· 10 GB storage free, zero egress fees
- Supabase β Developer Services (Hosting, DB, Edge) Β· 2 free projects, paused when inactive
- Neon β Developer Services (Hosting, DB, Edge) Β· Serverless Postgres; free tier capped on compute hours/storage
- Turso β Developer Services (Hosting, DB, Edge) Β· libSQL/SQLite; free tier capped on DB count and storage
- Render β Developer Services (Hosting, DB, Edge) Β· Free web services sleep when idle; free Postgres expires
- Upstash β Developer Services (Hosting, DB, Edge) Β· Redis/QStash/Vector free tiers metered by commands
- Firebase β Developer Services (Hosting, DB, Edge) Β· Spark free plan
- Deno Deploy β Developer Services (Hosting, DB, Edge) Β· Free tier metered by requests/bandwidth
- Resend β Developer Services (Hosting, DB, Edge) Β· Email API, 3,000 emails/month free (100/day)
- Oracle Cloud Free Tier β VPS & Cloud Servers Β· Always Free: Ampere A1 ARM 4 OCPU/24 GB; capacity hard to get, idle accounts may be reclaimed
- Amazon Lightsail β VPS & Cloud Servers Β· Some bundles free for the first 3 months
- AWS Free Tier β VPS & Cloud Servers Β· New-user credits + some always-free services (policy changed in 2025)
- Google Cloud Free Tier β VPS & Cloud Servers Β· $300 trial + always-free e2-micro (select US regions)
- Azure Free Account β VPS & Cloud Servers Β· New-user credit + 12 months of selected free services