Sorted by shape, not by brand, because names change and shapes do not. Actually free, indefinitely Static hosting with a CDN. Build minutes run out before bandwidth does. CI on public repos. Public gets far better terms…
Small side project, a few hundred real visitors a month, hosted on a plan that is free up to a point and then charges per request and per gigabyte out. This month the usage graph is about forty times normal and I have a…
The hosting platform my hobby project runs on has changed its pricing. What used to be an allowance that covered small apps indefinitely now looks like a trial credit that runs out, after which you pay for what you use.…
Account is on the newer credit based AWS free plan, the one that replaced the old twelve month free tier for accounts created from 15 July 2025. $100 in credits on signup, a bit more from the onboarding activities, and…
About to move off the no cost plan because I keep hitting the daily Firestore quota. The thing that has stopped me for two months is the asymmetry: a bug on the free tier costs me an outage, and the same bug on a paid…
Hobby projects only, on the free plan in VS Code. Completions just stopped appearing about two weeks into the month while chat carried on working for a bit longer, and nothing in the editor told me why. I reinstalled…
Small app, a few hundred users, and I keep exhausting the Firestore read quota by mid afternoon. The no cost limits on the Firebase pricing page today are 50K document reads/day, 20K writes/day, 20K deletes/day, 1 GiB…
I want one small always on box for a side project a tiny API, a database, maybe 2GB of files: and I have been burned once already by a plan that quietly turned into a bill in month thirteen. I don't mind paying…
Hit a cap twice this week on two different assistants, and neither told me how long I had to wait or how many I had left before it happened. One let me back in after what felt like a couple of hours, the other seemed to…