Curated Free Developer Stack & Hidden Gems
Hand-picked tools with perpetual free tiers for hosting, storage, AI, and developer leverage. Every quota verified—zero credit card surprises.
Cloudflare Pages
Fast, secure edge frontend hosting with unlimited bandwidth, custom domains, and preview deploys.
Cloudflare Workers
Ultra-low latency V8 isolate edge serverless compute running across 300+ global locations.
Cloudflare D1
Serverless SQLite database distributed at the edge with automatic replication and read caching.
Cloudflare R2
S3-compatible distributed object storage with zero egress fees.
Cloudflare DNS & WAF
Industry-standard 1.1.1.1 authoritative DNS, DDoS mitigation, and free SSL certificates.
Cloudflare Workers AI
Run serverless open-source models directly on Cloudflare GPUs at the edge (DeepSeek R1, Llama 3.3, Qwen, Mistral).
Groq Cloud
LPU inference engine delivering 500+ tokens/second on Llama 3.3 70B and Mixtral.
Google Gemini 2.5 Flash
Multimodal foundation model with 1M context window and high reasoning capability.
GitHub Free
Unlimited public/private Git repositories, GitHub Actions CI/CD, and package registry.
Supabase
The Open Source Firebase alternative: Postgres, pgvector, Auth, Storage, and Realtime.
Neon Serverless Postgres
Serverless PostgreSQL with instant branching and scale-to-zero compute.
Upstash Serverless Redis & QStash
Serverless Redis and HTTP-based message queue for background tasks and rate limiting.
Resend
Modern email API for developers with React Email component templates.
Excalidraw
Virtual collaborative whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like architecture diagrams.
Squoosh
Client-side image compression tool powered by WebAssembly (WebP, AVIF, MozJPEG).
Ray.so
Generate beautiful, shareable code snippet screenshots with clean gradients or dark backing.
Bundlephobia
Inspect the cost of adding an npm package to your JavaScript bundle before installing.
Oracle Cloud Always Free ARM
Up to 4 Ampere A1 ARM cores, 24 GB RAM, and 200 GB block volume that never expires.
Turso (libSQL)
Distributed SQLite database powered by libSQL with sub-millisecond edge replicas.
TiDB Serverless
Autonomous MySQL-compatible serverless database with built-in vector search.
MongoDB Atlas M0
Fully managed document database with search and aggregation pipelines.
Convex
Reactive backend-as-a-service with automatic real-time sync and TypeScript schema.
Backblaze B2
S3-compatible cloud object storage with free bandwidth alliance to Cloudflare.
ImageKit.io
Real-time image and video optimization CDN with automatic WebP/AVIF delivery.
Deno Deploy
Serverless JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly runtime across 35 edge regions.
Fly.io
Deploy app servers and full Docker containers close to your users on bare metal.
Koyeb
Serverless deployment platform with native Docker support and built-in global mesh.
Cerebras Cloud
Wafer-scale AI inference delivering up to 1,800 tokens/second on Llama 3.1 8B.
Mistral AI Platform
Cutting-edge European open-weights and commercial models (Mistral Small, Pixtral, Codestral).
Hugging Face Inference API
Instant serverless API access to 100,000+ open-source machine learning models.
OpenRouter Free Models
Unified gateway providing free access to DeepSeek, Gemma, and community open-weights models.
WhatsApp Cloud API
Official Meta cloud API for sending and receiving WhatsApp business messages.
Webhook.site
Instantly test, inspect, and mock incoming HTTP webhooks, requests, and payloads.
Svix Webhooks
Enterprise-grade webhooks-as-a-service with retry mechanisms, security signatures, and portal.
Pusher Channels
Hosted real-time WebSockets infrastructure for notifications, chats, and live metrics.
Cloudflare Web Analytics
Privacy-first, cookie-free web analytics measuring Core Web Vitals and pageviews.
Sentry
Application performance monitoring, crash diagnostics, and error tracking.
Better Stack Uptime
Uptime monitoring, incident alerts via email/SMS, and public status page.
Axiom
Serverless log management and event intelligence with unlimited queries.
Mixpanel
Product event analytics tracking funnels, retention, and user cohorts.
DevDocs.io
Unified documentation browser for 100+ languages, libraries, and frameworks with offline mode.
Regex101
Interactive regular expression tester with live explanation, substitution, and benchmarking.
Can I Use
Up-to-date browser support tables for modern desktop and mobile web standards.
JSON Hero
Clean, interactive JSON visualizer that makes navigating large payloads effortless.
Crontab Guru
Interactive cron schedule expression editor and human-readable explanation calculator.
TinyPNG
Smart lossy WebP, PNG, and JPEG compression algorithm preserving transparency.
SVGOMG
Web GUI for SVGO to optimize vector graphics and strip bloat without visual quality loss.
Bruno API Client
Fast, open-source API client that stores collections in plain text files inside your Git repo.