ripienaar/free-for-dev

This repository, called free-for.dev, is a curated reference list of online services with permanent free tiers useful to developers, especially people working on infrastructure, system administration, and DevOps. The README explains the purpose: many companies offer free starter plans, but discovering them and comparing them takes time, so this list collects them in one place so a developer can make an informed choice without trial-and-error signup. Practically, the repository is the source for a long Markdown document grouped into sections. The table of contents shows the breadth, with categories including major cloud providers' always-free limits, cloud management, analytics, APIs and machine learning, artifact repositories, backend-as-a-service and low-code platforms, content delivery, continuous integration and deployment, content management, code quality, error tracking, managed databases, design tools, DNS and domain services, email, feature flags, generative AI, infrastructure-as-a-service, IDEs, log management, monitoring, payments, search, security, source code hosting, storage and media, testing, web hosting, remote desktop, and more. The README defines the inclusion rules: only as-a-service offerings, the free tier must be permanent rather than a trial, and services that limit security features such as TLS to paid plans are excluded. You would use this repository when you are starting a side project, evaluating tools, or trying to keep your stack costs at zero, and you want a single index of credible free options. Contributions arrive through pull requests; the README notes the list has been built by 1600+ people. The site is delivered as HTML.