Deploy websites and APIs (for free)

Personally have tried most of the platforms here. All platforms have a generous free tier, with different limitations.

Website + API + Database #

• Deta - Totally free. Something quite new that I found out, still exploring and built a couple of prototypes with it. Apparently they will have an alternative way to generate revenue.
• Fly - generous free plan, able to host three servers with Heroku style buildpacks or using docker, 3GB storage/postgres databases, no slow-startup issue
• Railway - generous free plan, able to host 2-3 postgres databases and servers
• Google Apps Script (if we consider Google Sheets as a database) (Javascript only)
• Glitch (JavaScript only)
• Render - very limited free plan, PG database expires after 90 days, not recommended

Website + API #

• Vercel - Currently most of my projects are hosted here thanks to Vercel’s generous free plan, this website is on hosted Vercel too!
• Netlify

Database + Static File Storage #

• Supabase (PostgreSQL)

Database only #

• MongoDB Atlas (NoSQL)
• Grist (Spreadsheet-like)
• Airtable (Spreadsheet-like)

Website only #

• Surge

DNS service #

• Cloudflare
  • Also has free SSL service

Online IDEs #

• CodePen
• CodeTasty
• CodeSandBox
• Gitpod
• Repl.it
• Stackblitz