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Free Vercel Alternatives
Looking for something other than Vercel (Hobby)? These 15 hosting services also have a free tier. Limits come from each vendor's own pricing page; click a date to check the source. Last updated 13 Nov 2026.
Vercel Free Tier (For Reference)
| Service | Free limits | Catch | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel (Hobby) Free tier |
| Hobby plan; team collaboration needs Pro ($20/mo). | 13 Nov 2026 |
15 Free Alternatives
| Service | Free limits | Catch | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netlify (Free) Free tier |
| Credit-based: 300 credits covers e.g. 20 production deploys, or 15 GB bandwidth. Next step up is Personal at $9/mo with 1,000 credits. | 4 Nov 2026 |
| Cloudflare Pages Free tier |
| Pages Functions count against the Workers Free quota. | 10 Nov 2026 |
| Cloudflare Workers (Free) Free tier |
| 10 ms CPU cap per request is the main constraint. | 4 Nov 2026 |
| GitHub Pages Free tier |
| Public repos only on GitHub Free; not allowed as hosting for commercial/SaaS sites. | 9 Nov 2026 |
| Render (Hobby) Free tier |
| Free instances have limitations (see Render docs); compute beyond free instances is billed. | 5 Nov 2026 |
| Deno Deploy (Free) Free tier |
| No wildcard subdomains on Free. | 5 Nov 2026 |
| Firebase App Hosting Free tier |
| App Hosting requires the pay-as-you-go Blaze plan (shown as not applicable on Spark). | 12 Nov 2026 |
| Railway (Free) Free tier |
| Free plan is usage-limited ($1 monthly credit, does not roll over). Hobby is $5/mo with $5 included usage. | 13 Nov 2026 |
| Prisma Compute (Free) Free tier |
| TypeScript app hosting co-located with Prisma Postgres; idle apps scale to zero. | 12 Nov 2026 |
| Hugging Face Spaces (Free) Free tier |
| Creating Gradio or Docker Spaces on compute now needs a paid plan (PRO from $9/month), except up to 2 ZeroGPU Gradio Spaces; free-hardware Spaces go to sleep when unused. | 6 Nov 2026 |
| Firebase Hosting (Spark) Free tier |
| The 360 MB/day transfer cap is enforced daily (about 10 GB a month), so a traffic spike can exhaust it in one day. Upgrading to Blaze keeps the same free amounts, then bills $0.15/GB. | 12 Nov 2026 |
| Cloudflare Browser Rendering (Workers Free) Free tier |
| Headless Chrome on Cloudflare; the 10-minute daily allowance is shared across all methods. Workers Paid includes 10 hours/month, then $0.09/hour. | 3 Nov 2026 |
| Val Town (Free) Free tier |
| No custom domains on Free, and email can only be sent to yourself; Pro is $21/mo. | 4 Nov 2026 |
| Upstash Box (Free) Free tier |
| Sandboxes for AI agents; boxes freeze when idle and agents use your own model provider key, billed separately by that provider. | 5 Nov 2026 |
| Google Cloud Run (Free tier) Free tier |
| Needs a Google Cloud billing account. The free tier is a monthly spending-based discount at us-central1 Tier 1 prices, shared across all projects on the billing account; usage past it is billed. | 9 Nov 2026 |
FAQ
What are the best free alternatives to Vercel?
15 other hosting services with a permanent free tier are tracked here: Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, Cloudflare Workers, GitHub Pages, Render, Deno Deploy, Firebase App Hosting, Railway, Prisma Compute, Hugging Face Spaces, Firebase Hosting, Cloudflare Browser Rendering, Val Town, Upstash Box, Google Cloud Run. Each limit is copied from the vendor's pricing page and dated.
Does Vercel itself have a free tier?
Yes: CDN requests 1M / month; Fast data transfer 100 GB / month; Function invocations 1M / month; Fluid Active CPU 4 hours / month; Provisioned memory 360 GB-hrs / month; Firewall custom rules Up to 3. Last checked 13 Nov 2026.
How do I pick a free Vercel alternative?
Start with the limit your app will hit first (for example requests, storage, emails or users), then read each service's catch. The table on this page shows both for every alternative.
See all hosting free tiers or the head-to-head comparisons.