Free Developer Resources
A curated collection of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and other services offering free tiers for developers. Find the best free tools to build, deploy, and scale your projects.
Free tier limits, verified against the vendor
DatedCurated lists go stale quietly — Auth0's free tier moved from 7,500 to 25,000 monthly active users and Clerk's from 10,000 to 50,000 while the blurbs stayed put. These categories carry the actual quotas in a comparable table, each row dated and linked to the pricing page it came from.
Browse by Category
Explore free developer tools organized into 10 major groups
Cloud & Infrastructure
117+ resources · 7 categories
Cloud providers, hosting, DNS, CDN, and infrastructure services
Development Tools
145+ resources · 8 categories
Source control, CI/CD, code quality, IDEs, and developer utilities
Backend & Data
243+ resources · 6 categories
APIs, databases, messaging, storage, and backend services
Security & Auth
61+ resources · 3 categories
Security, authentication, authorization, and privacy
Monitoring & Analytics
111+ resources · 5 categories
Monitoring, logging, crash reporting, analytics, and session recording
Design & UI
155+ resources · 4 categories
Design tools, UI kits, fonts, maps, and visual inspiration
Collaboration & Management
241+ resources · 6 categories
Team tools, project management, CMS, and communication
Mobile & Low-code
18+ resources · 3 categories
Mobile distribution, Flutter, low-code platforms, and app building
AI & Learning
32+ resources · 2 categories
Generative AI, education, career development resources
Other Resources
114+ resources · 11 categories
Miscellaneous tools, game dev, blogging, and more
Cloud providers, hosting, DNS, CDN, and infrastructure services
Source control, CI/CD, code quality, IDEs, and developer utilities
APIs, databases, messaging, storage, and backend services
Security, authentication, authorization, and privacy
Monitoring, logging, crash reporting, analytics, and session recording
Design tools, UI kits, fonts, maps, and visual inspiration
Team tools, project management, CMS, and communication
Mobile distribution, Flutter, low-code platforms, and app building
Generative AI, education, career development resources
Miscellaneous tools, game dev, blogging, and more
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