Free cloud sandbox stack
Learn a hyperscaler without a bill: the sign-up credit and the always-free allowance side by side.
Updated 20h ago
3 roles2 with no end date1 of 3 need no card
01 Sign-up credit
Try paid services for a few weeks.
Google Cloud
Google Cloud Free Trial$300 credits, 90 days
Card3 months
- Credits$300 Welcome credit
- Duration90 days
- Payment methodRequired at sign-up
Swap Sign-up credit
02 Always-free allowance
What keeps running after the credit ends.
Google Cloud
Google Cloud Free Tier1 TiB BigQuery + e2-micro
CardNo end date
- BigQuery1 TiB queries, 10 GiB storage / month
- Compute Engine1 e2-micro VM in us-west1, us-central1 or us-east1
- Cloud Run2 million requests / month
Swap Always-free allowance
03 Edge functions
Cheap public endpoints in front of it.
Cloudflare
Workers Free plan100,000 requests a day
No cardNo end date
- Requests100,000 / day
- CPU time10 ms per invocation
- KV reads100,000 / day
Swap Edge functions
Limits side by side
Sign-up credit
Google Cloud Free Trial
Credits$300 Welcome creditDuration90 daysPayment methodRequired at sign-upAfterAlways-free tier continuesSign up
Always-free allowance
Google Cloud Free Tier
BigQuery1 TiB queries, 10 GiB storage / monthCompute Engine1 e2-micro VM in us-west1, us-central1 or us-east1Cloud Run2 million requests / monthCloud Storage5 GB-months (US regions)Firestore1 GiB, 50,000 reads / dayPub/Sub10 GiB of messages / monthSign up
Edge functions
Cloudflare Workers Free plan
Requests100,000 / dayCPU time10 ms per invocationKV reads100,000 / dayKV writes1,000 / dayKV storage1 GBSign up
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