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<p>Regroup directory by use; descriptions rewritten in house style</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 05:59, 8 September 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Free Tier Services Directory ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Free Tier Services Directory ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A directory of hosted <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">software and infrastructure </del>services that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">offer a genuine </del>free <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tier</del>, organised by what <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they </del>do<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. It </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">meant for small organisations</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">independent projects </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">anyone building without a budget, for whom knowing which tools are free to start on is a practical part of not being locked to a single large vendor</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A directory of hosted services that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">are </ins>free <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to start on</ins>, organised by what <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a small organisation actually needs to </ins>do<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">: put a site online, send email, collect responses, store files, add AI, measure what </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">happening</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">keep the plumbing between them working</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This is </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">curated subset </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[https://free-</del>for.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dev/ free-</del>for<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.dev]</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">covering </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ten sections most relevant to ALT</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">TEXT's work: 437 services in total, snapshotted on 7 September 2026</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Everything listed has a standing free tier rather than </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">trial. 437 services across ten subject pages.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Free tiers are not charity. They are the top </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a pricing funnel, and the allowance is set where it stops being cheap for the provider and starts being expensive </ins>for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">you</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">That is fine, and often the right trade </ins>for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a small organisation</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but it is worth knowing which of these you could leave if </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">terms changed. The open-source and self</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hostable entries are the ones where that answer is easiest</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=== Sections ===</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=== Sections ===</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Free tier: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Generative AI</del>]] &amp;mdash; <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">21 </del>services. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Model APIs</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">image and audio generation</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">inference platforms</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Free tier: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Websites and publishing</ins>]] &amp;mdash; <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">40 </ins>services. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hosting</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">content management</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">publishing tools</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Free tier: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">APIs, data and machine learning</del>]] &amp;mdash; <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">150 </del>services. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Public and freemium APIs</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">datasets</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">speech</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">vision and model hosting</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Free tier: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Email</ins>]] &amp;mdash; <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">72 </ins>services. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sending</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">newsletters</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">forwarding</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">testing, validation</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Free tier: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Email services</del>]] &amp;mdash; <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">73 </del>services. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Transactional and bulk sending</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">forwarding</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">inbox testing</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">validation</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Free tier: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Images, video and files</ins>]] &amp;mdash; <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">56 </ins>services. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Storage</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sharing</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">image CDNs</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">media processing</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Free tier: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Storage </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">media processing</del>]] &amp;mdash; <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">50 </del>services. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Object storage</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">file delivery</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">image</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">audio and video processing</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Free tier: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Data sources </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">reference APIs</ins>]] &amp;mdash; <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">56 </ins>services. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Location, reference data</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">news</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">markets</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">weather</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Free tier: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Forms and surveys</del>]] &amp;mdash; <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">34 </del>services. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Form builders </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">back-ends that accept submissions without a server</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Free tier: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Developer tooling</ins>]] &amp;mdash; <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">55 </ins>services. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">API clients, mocks, webhooks, scraping, JSON </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">SQL tools</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Free tier: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Analytics and statistics</del>]] &amp;mdash; <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">34 </del>services. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Web and product analytics</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">including </del>privacy-preserving <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">alternatives</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Free tier: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Measuring without surveilling</ins>]] &amp;mdash; <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">39 </ins>services. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Analytics</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with the </ins>privacy-preserving <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">options first, and consent tooling</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Free tier: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Design </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">user interface tools</del>]] &amp;mdash; <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">33 </del>services. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Design tools</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">icons</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">illustrations</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">colour and UI resources</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Free tier: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Forms </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">surveys</ins>]] &amp;mdash; <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">35 </ins>services. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Form back ends</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hosted builders</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">surveys</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">signatures</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Free tier: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Web hosting</del>]] &amp;mdash; <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">25 </del>services. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Static </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">application hosting</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Free tier: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">AI tools and services</ins>]] &amp;mdash; <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">33 </ins>services. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Model access, evaluation </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">observability, notebooks</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Free tier: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Content management systems</del>]] &amp;mdash; <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">12 </del>services. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hosted and headless content management</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Free tier: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Design and visual assets</ins>]] &amp;mdash; <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">33 </ins>services. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Design tools, page builders, icons, templates</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Free tier: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Privacy management</del>]] &amp;mdash; <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">5 </del>services. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Consent management, cookie banners, privacy policy tooling.</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Free tier: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Documents and PDFs</ins>]] &amp;mdash; <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">18 </ins>services. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Generating documents</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">extracting data from them</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">=== What is and is not listed ===</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The upstream list admits only as-a-service offerings with a real free tier. Free trials do not qualify, nor does self-hosted software</del>, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a time-limited free tier must run for at least a year. Services that restrict TLS to paid plans are excluded on security grounds</del>.</div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sections not mirrored here cover ground further from ALT-TEXT's remit</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">including CI </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">CD</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">artifact repositories, log management, package build systems and remote desktop tools</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The [https://free</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for.dev/ full list] has 57 sections and about 1</del>,<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">300 entries</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">=== How to read this ===</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">An entry here is not a recommendation. </ins>The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">free allowance quoted is what the provider advertised when the page was compiled</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">providers change it without notice</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">usually downwards</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Where a service is open source or self</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hostable that is stated</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">because it changes what happens to you if the free tier disappears</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">=== Source, currency and attribution ===</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Free tiers also differ in what they cost you in other currencies</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Some are paid </ins>for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with your visitors' data, some with branding on your pages</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">some with </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lock-in that gets expensive </ins>at <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the point you outgrow the tier</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Those are noted where they are known</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">All entries and their descriptions come from [https://free-for</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dev/ free-</del>for<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.dev]</del>, a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">list maintained by R.I. Pienaar and more than 1,600 contributors </del>at <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev ripienaar/free-for-dev]</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This directory reproduces their work with light formatting changes only; it adds no independent assessment</del>.</div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Free tiers change constantly, and nothing </del>here has been verified against the providers. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Treat this as a starting point and check the linked service </del>before relying on any <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">allowance. For the current state </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the list</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">go to the source</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">=== Currency ===</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Compiled September 2026. Nothing </ins>here has been <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">independently </ins>verified against the providers. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Check </ins>before relying on any of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and treat an old page as a starting point for searching rather than as an answer</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=== See also ===</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=== See also ===</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Digital sovereignty]], [[Open-weight model]], [[AI Terminology Glossary]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Digital sovereignty]], [[Open-weight model<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]], [[Surveillance capitalism</ins>]], [[AI Terminology Glossary]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Free Tier Services]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Free Tier Services]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Digital Sovereignty]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Digital Sovereignty]]</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key my_wiki:diff:1.41:old-209:rev-222:php=table --> </table>

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<p>Free Tier Services Directory: import from free-for.dev snapshot 2026-09-07</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>== Free Tier Services Directory ==<br /> A directory of hosted software and infrastructure services that offer a genuine free tier, organised by what they do. It is meant for small organisations, independent projects and anyone building without a budget, for whom knowing which tools are free to start on is a practical part of not being locked to a single large vendor.<br /> <br /> This is a curated subset of [https://free-for.dev/ free-for.dev], covering the ten sections most relevant to ALT-TEXT&#039;s work: 437 services in total, snapshotted on 7 September 2026.<br /> <br /> === Sections ===<br /> * [[Free tier: Generative AI]] &amp;mdash; 21 services. Model APIs, image and audio generation, inference platforms.<br /> * [[Free tier: APIs, data and machine learning]] &amp;mdash; 150 services. Public and freemium APIs, datasets, speech, vision and model hosting.<br /> * [[Free tier: Email services]] &amp;mdash; 73 services. Transactional and bulk sending, forwarding, inbox testing, validation.<br /> * [[Free tier: Storage and media processing]] &amp;mdash; 50 services. Object storage, file delivery, image, audio and video processing.<br /> * [[Free tier: Forms and surveys]] &amp;mdash; 34 services. Form builders and back-ends that accept submissions without a server.<br /> * [[Free tier: Analytics and statistics]] &amp;mdash; 34 services. Web and product analytics, including privacy-preserving alternatives.<br /> * [[Free tier: Design and user interface tools]] &amp;mdash; 33 services. Design tools, icons, illustrations, colour and UI resources.<br /> * [[Free tier: Web hosting]] &amp;mdash; 25 services. Static and application hosting.<br /> * [[Free tier: Content management systems]] &amp;mdash; 12 services. Hosted and headless content management.<br /> * [[Free tier: Privacy management]] &amp;mdash; 5 services. Consent management, cookie banners, privacy policy tooling.<br /> <br /> === What is and is not listed ===<br /> The upstream list admits only as-a-service offerings with a real free tier. Free trials do not qualify, nor does self-hosted software, and a time-limited free tier must run for at least a year. Services that restrict TLS to paid plans are excluded on security grounds.<br /> <br /> The sections not mirrored here cover ground further from ALT-TEXT&#039;s remit, including CI and CD, artifact repositories, log management, package build systems and remote desktop tools. The [https://free-for.dev/ full list] has 57 sections and about 1,300 entries.<br /> <br /> === Source, currency and attribution ===<br /> All entries and their descriptions come from [https://free-for.dev/ free-for.dev], a list maintained by R.I. Pienaar and more than 1,600 contributors at [https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev ripienaar/free-for-dev]. This directory reproduces their work with light formatting changes only; it adds no independent assessment.<br /> <br /> Free tiers change constantly, and nothing here has been verified against the providers. Treat this as a starting point and check the linked service before relying on any allowance. For the current state of the list, go to the source.<br /> <br /> === See also ===<br /> [[Digital sovereignty]], [[Open-weight model]], [[AI Terminology Glossary]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Free Tier Services]]<br /> [[Category:Digital Sovereignty]]</div>

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