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💸 A curated list of tools and X-as-a-services that have free or cheap tiers so you can get the most bang for your 💲
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# awesome-cheap-tiers

💸 A curated list of tools and X-as-a-services that have free or cheap tiers so you can get the most bang for your 💲



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# Table of Contents



## Planning



### Organizing Ideas and Work



Name | Pricing | Limits | Summary | 

------------ | ------------- | ------------- | -------------

[Trello](https://trello.com) | Free | 1 Power-Up, 10MB max, 10 team boards | A configurable kanban-style board

[Azure Boards](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/boards) | Free | Up to 5 Developers, unlimited Stakeholders | A scrum / kanban board that comes as part of Azure Devops

[Onenote](https://www.onenote.com) | Free | Up to 5 GB | Microsoft's notekeeping app, part of Office

[Evernote](https://evernote.com) | Free | Unlimited notes, no team features | Notekeeping app with organization features

[Github Project Boards](https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-project-boards) | Free | No Limits | Kanban-style cross-repo board hosted by Github and included with every Github repo



### Team Chat

Name | Pricing | Limits | Summary | 

------------ | ------------- | ------------- | -------------

[Slack](https://slack.com) | Free | 10k Message history, 10 apps, no group calls | An extremely popular IM platform with a large collection of bots and apps that help customize your chat to your workflow 

[Microsoft Teams](https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-teams) | Free | 300 Users, 2GB storage / user, no 2FA | Microsoft's IM offering with tight Office integration and a growing app marketplace

[Discord](https://discordapp.com) | Free | 8MB File Upload, 720p screen share | An IM option aimed at gamers, Discord offers excellent channel organization options with no limits to voice channels, screen sharing, or message history. Development / Work focused apps are lacking but are slowly being added



## Building



### Code Repos

Name | Pricing | Limits | Summary | 

------------ | ------------- | ------------- | -------------

[Azure Repos](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/repos) | Free | Unlimited public and private repos, up to 5 developers | A Git repo that comes as part of Azure Devops

[Github](https://github.com) | Free | Unlimited public and private repos, up to 3 developers | The definitive place for open source, comes with integrated issue tracking and basic project management

[Bitbucket](https://bitbucket.org/) | Free | Unlimited private repos, up to 5 developers | A Git repo that is part of the Atlassian suite

[Gitlab](https://about.gitlab.com/) | Free | Unlimited private repos and developers, no merge approvals | A private Git repo that comes with integrated issue tracking and chatops



### Frameworks

Name | Summary | 

------------ | -------------

[Xamarin](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/xamarin/) | Open source C# framework for apps that compiles to native Android, iOS, Mac, and UWP with maximal codesharing

[Blazor](https://github.com/aspnet/Blazor) | Open source C# framework for websites that compiles to webassembly

[Bootstrap](https://getbootstrap.com/) | Open source mobile-first web UI framework



### Authentication

Name | Pricing | Limits | Summary | 

------------ | ------------- | ------------- | -------------

[Auth0](https://auth0.com) | Free | 7000 active users, 2 social providers | Wraps OAuth options into one management layer for easy integration. Supports most social and enterprise OAuth providers, manages username-password logins for you, and allows customization with serverless rules



### Databases

Name | Pricing | Limits | Summary | 

------------ | ------------- | ------------- | -------------

[Azure Table Storage](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/tables/) | $0.045 / GB / Month, $0.00036 per 10,000 transactions | No limits | A Key-Value database that scales automatically and stores your data globally

[Azure Blob Storage](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/blobs/) | $0.0184 / GB / Month, various read / write prices | Prices increase after 50 TB / month | A No-SQL database that scales automatically and stores your data globally. Has various automatic-archive options. Cheaper to store in, more expensive to read / write.

[Azure Serverless SQL](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/sql-database/single/) | $0.2609 / core / hr | 4 cores, 12GB RAM | A fully-featured SQL database that auto-scales in response to demand and only charges you for your use

[mLab](https://mlab.com) | Free | 0.5GB storage | A sandbox instance of MongoDB hosted and supported by MongoDB Inc



### Email

Name | Pricing | Limits | Summary | 

------------ | ------------- | ------------- | -------------

[Sendgrid](https://sendgrid.com) | Free | 100 / day | Transactional email API with good library support and a matching Marketing email offering

[Mailgun](https://www.mailgun.com/) | Free | 10k emails / month, 100 email address validation / month | Transactional email API with an email validation sister API



### Graphics and UX

Name | Pricing | Limits | Summary | 

------------ | ------------- | ------------- | -------------

[Fiverr](https://www.fiverr.com/) | $5 and up / design | No Limits | An online marketplace of freelancers providing various services such as graphical and ux design. Most freelancers offer a $5 tier, hence the name "Fiverr"

[Figma](https://www.figma.com/) | Free | 2 members, 3 projects, 30 days version history | A browser-based UX tool with easy collaboration and code-exporting for styles



### Documentation

Name | Pricing | Limits | Summary | 

------------ | ------------- | ------------- | -------------

[Github Wikis](https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-wikis) | Free | No Limits | Markdown wiki hosted by Github and included with every Github repo

[Read the Docs](https://readthedocs.org/) | Free | Open Source projects only, no private documentation, ad supported | Automatic CI/CD for documentation hosted for free by Read the Docs

[GitBook](https://www.gitbook.com/) | Free | 2 Users, 1 Public space, 1 Private space | Git-enabled documentation editor that makes it easy for non-developers to contribute

[Azure Functions OpenAPI / Swagger](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-openapi-definition) | Free except Azure Functions pricing | No Limits | Serverless hosting of API endpoint documentation using the popular OpenAPI / Swagger format



### Metrics and Logging

Name | Pricing | Limits | Summary | 

------------ | ------------- | ------------- | -------------

[Azure Application Insights](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/monitor/) | Free | 5GB storage / month, 90 days retention | An end-to-end sampled view of user interactions that can be installed in one-click for most Azure resources

[Azure Metrics](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/monitor/) | Free | 150 MB / month | Helps capture the exact number of times a certain thing occured in your app / API

[Papertrail](https://papertrailapp.com) | Free | 50MB / month, 7 days retention | Solarwinds provided aggregated tail logs with automatic filters for non-structured logs

[Loggly](https://www.loggly.com) | Free | 200MB / day, 7 days retention, no alerts | Solarwinds provided aggregated structured logs with filters

[Logz](https://logz.io) | Free | 3GB / day, 3 days retention, 50 users, no alerts | A hosted ELK stack with Grafana with filters for structured logs



### CI / CD

Name | Pricing | Limits | Summary | 

------------ | ------------- | ------------- | -------------

[Azure Pipelines](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/devops/azure-devops-services/) | Free | 1 Hosted agent (1800 build minutes / month), 1 Self-Hosted agent | A CI / CD chain that comes as part of Azure Devops

[Bitbucket Pipelines](https://bitbucket.org/product/features/pipelines) | Free | 50 build minutes / month | Docker-based CI / CD by Atlassian



### SaaS

Name | Pricing | Limits | Summary | 

------------ | ------------- | ------------- | -------------

[Azure Search](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search/) | Free | 50 MB, 3 indexes | AI-Powered search index that integrates easily with SQL and Azure Table Stoarge

[Azure Playfab](https://playfab.com/) | Free | [No professional features](https://playfab.com/pricing/#desktop-pricing_details_professional) | Multiplayer game services in a box, incuding profiles, commerce, and leaderboards

[Microsoft Flow](https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/) | Free | No Limits | A code-free logic flow creator that connects to popular sources so that you can create flows such as "send me an email when a new mailchimp member signs up for my site"

[Moosetracks](https://moosetracks.app) | Free | 1k requests / month | API debugger by Iron Moose Development that collects API calls from your app / service for easy visualization and built-in issue analysis



## Hosting



### IaaS

Name | Pricing | Limits | Summary | 

------------ | ------------- | ------------- | -------------

[Digital Ocean](https://www.digitalocean.com) | $5 / month | 1GB RAM, 25GB SSD | Developer-focused VM provider with easy DNS setup and one-click-deploy options

[Azure Linux VMs](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/linux/) | $0.0075 / hr | 1GB RAM | Azure VM that can temporarily burst to handle higher loads

[Azure Windows VMs](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/windows/) | $0.008 / hr | 1GB RAM | Azure VM that can temporarily burst to handle higher loads



### PaaS

Name | Pricing | Limits | Summary | 

------------ | ------------- | ------------- | -------------

[Azure App Service (Free)](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/app-service/windows/) | Free | 1GB RAM, 1GB Storage, 60 minutes / day | Host your site / service straight out of Visual Studio for free on shared infrastructure

[Azure App Service (Shared)](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/app-service/windows/) | $0.013 / hr | 1GB RAM, 1GB Storage, 240 minutes / day | Host your site / service straight out of Visual Studio for cheap on shared infrastructure

[Azure App Service (Basic)](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/app-service/windows/) | $0.075 / hr | 1.75GB RAM, 10GB Storage | Host your site / service straight out of Visual Studio on a scalable infrastructure



### FaaS

Name | Pricing | Limits | Summary | 

------------ | ------------- | ------------- | -------------

[Azure Functions](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/functions/) | Free | 1 million executions, 400,000 GB-s | Azure hosted functions that spin up on the fly based on http / timer / queue messages

[Iron Functions](https://github.com/iron-io/functions) | Free, Self-Hosted | None | A Docker image that manages running FaaS on your own infrastructure. Supports directly importing AWS Lambdas



## Static Sites

Name | Pricing | Limits | Summary | 

------------ | ------------- | ------------- | -------------

[Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/) | Free | 1 User, 1 Concurrent Build| A popular globablly-distributed static site host that has built-in CI / CD

[Github Pages](https://pages.github.com/) | Free | 1 per Account / Org, 1 per Project, Non-Commercial | A Github hosted static site solution - just push and host. Great for project readmes

[Azure Storage Static Site](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blob-static-website) | Free except Azure Storage Pricing | No Limits | Blob stored Azure distributed static site hosting



## Scaling up



### Status Pages

Name | Pricing | Limits | Summary | 

------------ | ------------- | ------------- | -------------

[Freshstatus](https://www.freshworks.com/statuspage) | Free | Up to 250 subscribers, no scheduled reports | Status page provided as an offering from the Freshworks suite

[Cachet](https://github.com/CachetHQ/Cachet) | Self-Host | No Limits | Open source Status page with multi-language and planned downtime features



### Marketing

Name | Pricing | Limits | Summary | 

------------ | ------------- | ------------- | -------------

[Sendgrid](https://sendgrid.com) | Free | 2k contacts, 6k emails / month, 1 user | Marketing email platform with email designer and analytics, with a matching Transactional email offering

[Mailchimp](https://mailchimp.com) | Free | 7 channels, basic templates, 2k contacts | Marketing email platform with easy email designer, 1 click automations, and landing page creator

[Ghost](https://ghost.org/) | Self Host | No Limits | A popular open source publishing platform for blogs and journals

[Landbot](https://landbot.io/) | Free | 100 chats / month, 30 logic blocks, basic integrations | A chatbot bot driven landing page that directs users through to what they want to know

[GitPitch](https://gitpitch.com) | Free | Public repos only, no exporting | A git-enabled markdown-powered presentation tool



### Finances

Name | Pricing | Limits | Summary | 

------------ | ------------- | ------------- | -------------

[Waveapps](https://www.waveapps.com) | Free for accounting / invoicing / receipts, $20 / month + $4 / person for payroll | No Limits | Invoicing software with a payroll option for both employees and contractors



### Invoicing and Subscriptions

Name | Pricing | Limits | Summary | 

------------ | ------------- | ------------- | -------------

[Invoicely](https://invoicely.com) | Free | 1 User, PayPal only, no Recurring | Estimate and Invoicing tool designed for the web, hosted by ApiLayer

[Chargebee](https://www.chargebee.com) | Free | First USD $50k revenue | Subscriptions-as-a-service offering that allows users to manage their credit cards and subscriptions in a hosted page. Has coupon and free-trial features built-in.



### Support

Name | Pricing | Limits | Summary | 

------------ | ------------- | ------------- | -------------

[Purechat](https://purechat.com) | Free | Unlimited chat, 3 Users, 1 website | Livechat support chatbot that falls back to email if no one is online to answer a question



### Legal Compliance

Name | Pricing | Limits | Summary | 

------------ | ------------- | ------------- | -------------

[Termly](https://app.termly.io) | Free | 1 Policy | Automatic generator and hoster of Terms of Conditions and Privacy Policy documents

[Cookie Consent](https://cookieconsent.osano.com/) | Free | No Limits | Open source Cookie Consent banners provided by Osano

[Eversign](https://eversign.com) | Free | 5 documents / month, 1 user | Legally-binding eSignature platform with Google Drive template importing features hosted by ApiLayer