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TodayMay 2026

Ship a real product on $0/mo.

A curated directory of free-tier services for indie developers. Hosting, databases, auth, email, analytics — every entry has the actual numbers and the gotcha you'd warn a friend about.

Browse 76 servicesOr start from a curated stack
Today's leadersMay 2026

What we'd reach for first.

One opinionated pick per category. The rest of the catalog is ranked behind it.

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Vercel

Next.js-native hosting with edge functions and previews on every push.

100 GB bandwidth/mo, unlimited static sites, 100k edge invocations/day

Hosting2026-05
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Supabase

Open-source Firebase: Postgres + auth + storage + realtime in one box.

500 MB Postgres, 1 GB storage, 50k MAU, 2 free projects

Database2026-05
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Clerk

Drop-in auth with prebuilt UI — magic links, social, MFA, organizations.

10k MAU free, social + email/password + magic link, no SSO

Auth2026-05
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Resend

Developer-first transactional email with React Email components.

3k emails/mo, 100/day, 1 verified domain

Email2026-05
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PostHog

Product analytics + session replay + feature flags + A/B in one OSS suite.

1M events/mo, 5k session recordings/mo, unlimited feature flag requests

Analytics2026-05
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Sentry

The standard for error tracking + performance + replays.

5k errors/mo, 50 replays/mo, 10k performance units/mo, 1 user

Error tracking2026-05
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Cloudflare R2

S3-compatible object storage with zero egress fees.

10 GB storage, 1M Class A ops/mo, 10M Class B ops/mo, free egress

Storage2026-05
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GitHub Actions (cron)

Schedule any job with `on: schedule` — free for public repos.

2k minutes/mo on private repos, unlimited on public

Jobs & queues2026-05
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Supabase Realtime

Postgres CDC + broadcast + presence — included with Supabase.

200 concurrent connections, 2M messages/mo (shared with project)

Realtime2026-05
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Meilisearch

OSS Algolia alternative — fast, easy, self-hostable.

Cloud free trial; or self-host free forever

Search2026-05
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Cloudflare

CDN, DNS, WAF, bot protection — the most generous free tier on the internet.

Unmetered CDN, free SSL, free DDoS protection, unlimited DNS records

CDN / DNS2026-05
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GitHub Actions

CI/CD baked into GitHub — unlimited minutes for public repos.

2k minutes/mo private, unlimited public, 500 MB packages

CI / CD2026-05
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Cloudflare Registrar

Domains at wholesale — no markup, ever.

At-cost pricing (no free domains, but no renewal price hikes)

Domain2026-05
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Stripe

The default payments API — no monthly minimum, pay per transaction.

No monthly fee; 2.9% + $0.30 per successful card charge (US)

Payments2026-05
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Toss Payments

Korea's developer-friendly PG — modern API, no setup or monthly fee.

No monthly fee; ~2.7–3.3% per card transaction (KRW)

Payments2026-05
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Groq

Stupidly fast LPU inference for Llama/Mixtral/Qwen — generous free tier.

Generous daily token quota across multiple open models, free API key

AI / LLM2026-05
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Better Stack Uptime

Beautiful status pages and uptime monitoring with on-call.

10 monitors at 3-min intervals, 1 status page, basic alerting

Uptime2026-05
StacksMay 2026

Pre-wired combinations.

Whole architectures that hold together at $0/mo — picked so you don't have to compare twelve hosting options before writing the first line of code.

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Indie SaaS

$0/mo + ~$10/yr domain

Ship a paid product alone, on weekends, without paying for infrastructure until you have customers.

VercelSupabaseResendPostHogSentry+1 more

Static Blog / Docs

$0/mo + ~$10/yr domain

A personal blog, changelog, or docs site that costs nothing and survives a front-page Hacker News hit.

Cloudflare PagesCloudflare Web AnalyticsGitHub Pages

AI Side Project

$0/mo + ~$10/yr domain

An LLM-backed weekend project (chatbot, summarizer, agent) you can hand to friends without a credit card.

VercelSupabaseGroqCloudflare Workers AIPostHog
BrowseMay 2026

By category.

Sixteen categories, every one with at least one production-viable free option.

Hosting08
Database12
Auth07
Email05
Analytics07Error tracking05Storage05Jobs & queues09Realtime05Search05CDN / DNS05CI / CD08Domain04Payments06AI / LLM05Uptime07