Free Heroku alternatives — Updated October 2026
7 app hosts with a free tier.
- Render — Free web services (512 MB RAM), free Postgres and Key Value, always-free static sites. Limits: Free web services spin down after 15 minutes idle; ephemeral filesystem. Source
- Railway — Free plan: 30-day trial with $5 credits, then $1/month; no credit card required. Limits: Up to 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB RAM per service; 0.5 GB volume storage. Source
- Northflank — Sandbox tier: 2 free services, 1 free database, 2 free cron jobs; always-on compute (no sleeping). Limits: Sandbox is for testing; scale up on pay-as-you-go. Source
- Google Cloud Run — Monthly free tier (request-based billing): 180,000 vCPU-seconds, 360,000 GiB-seconds, 2 million requests. Limits: Free tier based on us-central1 pricing, aggregated per billing account; usage beyond it is billed. Source
- PythonAnywhere — Beginner account $0: one web app at your-username.pythonanywhere.com plus two consoles. Limits: Restricted outbound internet; 100 CPU-seconds/day; 512 MB storage; low bandwidth. Source
- Deno Deploy — Free plan for personal use and smaller projects. Limits: 1M requests/month; 20 GiB egress; 10 apps; 5 custom domains; 10 hr active CPU; 150 GiB-hr memory; 1 GiB KV; Sandboxes not included. Source
- Cloudflare Workers — Workers Free plan for serverless scripts and Pages Functions. Limits: 100,000 requests/day; 10 ms CPU time per invocation; KV 100k reads/day and 1 GB storage; limits reset daily UTC. Source
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