# ripienaar/free-for-dev

A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

Repository: https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/free-for-dev
Homepage: https://free-for.dev/
Language: HTML
License Family: other
Topics: free-for-developers, awesome-list
Last push: 2026-08-26T11:15:36+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4186, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 135414, forks 14175 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:24.248305+00:00)

## What it is
A community-curated awesome list of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS offerings that include free tiers useful to DevOps and infrastructure developers. It is maintained via pull requests and published as a website and repository.

## Use cases
- find cloud services with free tiers
- discover free CI/CD offerings
- look up free DNS or CDN providers
- compare free-tier limits of major cloud providers
- find free monitoring and logging services
- research free developer tools before choosing a stack

## When to choose
- you want a curated, community-reviewed catalog of free-tier as-a-Service offerings
- you are a DevOps or infrastructure developer hunting for no-cost services
- you need a regularly updated reference of free cloud resources

## When to avoid
- you are looking for self-hosted open-source software rather than hosted services
- you need free trials rather than ongoing free tiers
- you need an exhaustive, unopinionated directory of all free services

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: developer-tools, cloud, documentation
- domain: developer-tools, cloud-computing, awesome-lists
- platform: -
- tags: awesome-list, free-tier, saas, paas, iaas, curated-list, devops, web-server

## Member repositories
- ripienaar/free-for-dev (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:24.248305+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:11:30.256160+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:24.248305+00:00, sha 3c7ca35c333e)
  - homepage: https://free-for.dev/ (fetched 2026-08-28T17:26:37.143443+00:00, sha b90ffef721cd)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.