free-for-dev

Developers and Open Source authors now have a massive amount of services offering free tiers, but it can be hard to find them all in order to make informed decisions.

This is list of software (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.) and other offerings that have free tiers for developers.

The scope of this particular list is limited to things infrastructure developers (System Administrator, DevOps Practitioners, etc.) are likely to find useful. We love all the free services out there, but it would be good to keep it on topic. It's a bit of a grey line at times so this is a bit opinionated; do not be offended if I do not accept your contribution.

You can help by sending Pull Requests to add more services. Once I have a good set of links in this README file, I'll look into a better layout for the information and links (help with that is appreciated too).

If you're not inclined to make PRs you can tweet me at @ripienaar

Source Code Repos

• https://bitbucket.org/ - Unlimited public and private git repos for small teams
• https://github.com – Free for an unlimited number of public repositories
• https://about.gitlab.com/ - Unlimited public and private git repos with unlimited collaborators

Tools for teams & Collaboration

• http://www.hall.com/ - Free for unlimited users with some feature limitations
• https://www.flowdock.com/ - Chat and inbox, free for teams of 5 or less
• https://slack.com - Free for unlimited users with some feature limitations
• https://hipchat.com - Free for unlimited users with some feature limitations
• https://gitter.im - "Chat, for GitHub". Free for public rooms.
• https://kato.im - Team Chat & Collaboration, free for unlimited users with some feature limitations

Code Quality

• https://landscape.io/ - Code Quality for Python projects, free for Open Source
• https://codeclimate.com/ - Automated code review, free for Open Source
• https://houndci.com/ - Comments on github commits about code quality - free for Open Source
• https://coveralls.io/ - Display test coverage reports - free for open source
• https://scrutinizer-ci.com/ - Continuous inspection platform - free for Open Source
• https://codecov.io/ - Code coverage tool (SaaS) free for 1 private project and no restrictions for public repos

CI / CD

• https://codeship.com/ - 100 private builds / month, 5 private projects. Unlimited for Open Source
• https://circleci.com – Free for one concurrent build
• https://travis-ci.org – Free for public Github repositories.
• http://wercker.com/ - Free for public and private repositories
• https://drone.io/ - CI platform that includes browser testing, free for Open Source
• https://semaphoreci.com/ - 100 private builds / month. Unlimited for Open Source.
• http://www.shippable.com/ - Free for 1 build container, private and public repos, unlimited builds.
• https://snap-ci.com - Free for public repositories, 1 build at the time
• Comparison of Continuous Integration services

Security and PKI

• https://www.globalsign.com/en/ssl/ssl-open-source/ - Free SSL certs for Open Source projects
• https://www.startssl.com/ - Free SSL certs
• https://auth0.com/ - Hosted free for development SSO
• https://getclef.com/ - A new take on auth, unlimited free tier for anyone not using premium features
• https://ringcaptcha.com/ - Tools to use phone number as id, available for free

Management Systems

• https://opbeat.com/ - Release, deploy, monitor. Free for 3 users

Log Management

• https://papertrailapp.com/ - 48 hours search, 7 day archive, 100MB/month
• https://logentries.com/ - Free up to 5GB/month with 7 day retention
• https://www.loggly.com/ - Free for a single user, see the lite option
• http://sematext.com/logsene - Free for 1M logs, unlimited retention

Analytics

• http://www.splunk.com/en_us/products/splunk-cloud.html - Upload 5GB of data per day up to 28GB of total data stored

Monitoring

• https://www.thousandeyes.com - Network & user experience monitoring. 3 locations, plus 20 data feeds of major web services free.
• https://www.datadoghq.com/ - Free for up to 5 nodes
• http://www.stackdriver.com/ - Free for up to 10 nodes/services
• https://keymetrics.io/ - Free for 2 servers with 7 days data retention
• http://newrelic.com/ - Free with 24 hour data retention
• https://nodequery.com/ - Free basic server monitor up to 10 servers
• https://www.pingdom.com/free/ - 1 site free
• https://www.opsgenie.com/ - Alert management with mobile push. 600 free alerts for 2 users a month
• https://www.runscope.com/ - Monitor and log API usage. Single user 10,000 request/month free
• http://www.circonus.com/ - Free for 20 metrics
• https://uptimerobot.com/ - Website monitoring, 50 monitors free
• https://www.statuscake.com/ - Website monitoring, unlimited tests free with limitations
• http://www.boundary.com/ - Free 1 second resolution for up to 10 servers
• https://ghostinspector.com/ - Free website and web application monitoring. Single user, 100 test runs per month
• http://java-monitor.com/ - Free monitoring of JVM's and uptime
• http://sematext.com/spm - Free for 24h metrics, unlimited number of servers, 10 custom metrics, 500K custom metrics data points, unlimited dashboards, users, etc.

Crash / Exception handling

• https://rollbar.com/ - Exception and error monitoring, free for prototypes and personal projects
• https://bugsnag.com/ - Free for up to 2000 errors a month after the initial trial
• https://airbrake.io/ - Free for 1 project, 1 user, 2 errors per minute, 2 day retention
• http://getsentry.com/ - Sentry tracks app exceptions in realtime, has a small free plan

Search

• https://swiftype.com – hosted search solution (API and crawler). Free for a single search engine with up to 1000 documents. Free upgrade to Premuim level for open-source projects.

Email

• http://www.mailgun.com/ - First 10,000 emails are free
• http://mailchimp.com/ - Send 12,000 emails to 2,000 subscribers for free
• http://sendgrid.com/ - 400 emails per day for free
• http://mandrill.com/ - First 12,000 emails are free
• https://www.phplist.com/ - Hosted version allow 300 emails per months for free
• https://www.mailjet.com/ - 6,000 emails per months for free
• https://www.sendinblue.com/ - 9,000 emails per months for free

CDN and Protection

• http://www.cloudflare.com/ - Basic service is free, good for a blog
• http://www.bootstrapcdn.com/ - CDN for bootstrap, bootswatch and font awesome
• https://surge.sh - Zero-bullshit, single–command, bring your own source control web publishing CDN.

PaaS

• http://aws.amazon.com/free/ - AWS Free Tier - Free for 12 months
• https://cloud.google.com/appengine/ - Google App Engine gives 28 instance hours free, 1Gb NoSQL Database and more.
• https://www.engineyard.com - Engine Yard provides 500 free hours
• http://azure.microsoft.com/ - MS Azure gives $200 worth of free usage for a trial
• http://hpcloud.com/ - $300 credit over 90 days.
• https://appharbor.com/ - A .Net PaaS that provides 1 free worker
• https://www.heroku.com/ - Host your apps in the cloud, free for single process apps
• https://bluemix.net/ - IBM PaaS with a monthly free allowance
• https://www.openshift.com/ - RedHat OpenShift offers 3 free hosted apps
• https://bitnami.com/ - One free small app
• https://scalingo.com - Free Tier, up to 3 apps, 1 container each, combined with data store addons free tier
• https://algorithmia.com - Host algorithms for free - includes 10,000 credits (seconds of on-demand execution time) free
• https://bigml.com/ - Hosted machine learning algorithms. Unlimited free tasks for development, limit of 16MB data per task
• https://www.activestate.com/stackato/ - Enterprise-hardened Cloud Foundry PaaS from ActiveState, for private, public and hybrid cloud, free up to 20GB

IaaS

• https://exoscale.ch/ - Free resources for Open Source projects
• https://cloudant.com/ - Hosted database from IBM, free if usage is below $50/month
• https://developer.rackspace.com/ - Rackspace Cloud gives $50/month for 12 months
• https://cloud.google.com/compute/ - Google Compute Engine gives $300 over 60 days
• https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/ - Google Container Engine for run Docker containers(Alpha). Pricing: same of Google Compute Engine.

DBaaS

• https://mongolab.com/ - MongoDB as a service (500mb free)
• https://orchestrate.io/ - 1 application free
• https://redislabs.com/redis-cloud - Redis as a Service (25 mb free)
• https://www.backand.com/ - Back-end as a service (for AngularJS)
• http://www.zenginehq.com - Build business workflow apps in minutes - free for single users

STUN, WebRTC, Web Socket Servers and other Routers

• https://pusher.com. Hosted Web Sockets broker. Free for up to 20 simultaneous connections and 100k messages a day.
• stun:stun.l.google.com:19302 - Google STUN
• stun:global.stun.twilio.com:3478?transport=udp - Twilio STUN
• https://www.segment.com. Hub to translate and route events to other third party services. 100k events a month free.

Issue tracking / Project management

• https://www.atlassian.com/opensource/overview - Free Jira etc for Open Source projects
• https://kanbanflow.com/ - Board based project management. Free (premium version with more options).
• https://trello.com/ - Board based project management. Free
• https://waffle.io/ - Board based project management solution from your existing GitHub Issues. Free for open-source.
• https://huboard.com/ - Instant project management for your GitHub issues. Free for open-source.
• https://taiga.io/ - Project management platform for startups and agile developers. Free for open-source.
• https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/buy/open_source_incloud.jsp - Free hosted YouTrack (InCloud) for FOSS projects (private projects free for 10 users: https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/buy/)
• https://github.com - In addition to its git storage facility, github offers basic issue tracking
• https://asana.com - Free for private project with collaborators.

Storage and Media Processing

• https://www.aerofs.com/ - P2P file syncing, free for up to 30 users
• http://cloudinary.com - Image upload, powerful manipulations, storage, and delivery for sites and apps, with libraries for Ruby, Python, Java, PHP, Objective-C and more. Perpetual free tier includes 7500 images/month, 2gb storage, 5gb bandwidth.

IDE and Code Editing

• https://c9.io - IDE in a browser. Incorporates an Ubuntu virtual machine and in-browser terminal access. Integrates with github and bitbucket, but also adds SFTP and generic Git access.
• https://koding.com - IDE in a browser. Features: Full sudo access - VMs hosted on Amazon EC2 - SSH Access - Real EC2 VM, no LXCs/hypervising - Custom sub-domains - Publicly accessible IP - Ubuntu 14.04 - IDE/Terminal/Collaboration
• https://www.nitrous.io - Private Linux instance(s) with interactive collaboration {More Details}

Analytics, Events and Statistics

• https://www.librato.com/ - Event/Data collection service with analysis and graphs. Limited plan for free.
• https://google.com/analytics/ - Google Analytics
• http://sematext.com/search-analytics - Free for up to 50K actions/month, 1 day data retention, unlimited dashboards, users, etc.

Other Packs

• https://education.github.com/pack - As long as you're a student at a recognized university

Docker Related

Alternate container hosting

• https://quay.io/ - Unlimited free public containers

Vagrant Related

Vagrant box indexes

• https://atlas.hashicorp.com/boxes/search - HashiCorp's index of boxes
• http://vagrantbox.es - An alternative public box index

Data mining

• http://www.monkeylearn.com/ - Text mining in the cloud, 1,000 queries for free per month.