Free plans disappear
GitHub Models was retired, SendGrid replaced its free plan with a 60-day trial, and PlanetScale, Xata and CockroachDB stopped offering free plans to new sign-ups.
Sources: each provider's own docs and pricing pages, October 2026
Verified free tiers
Build on free plans
you can trust.
Clearvia tracks official free tiers — limits, idle pauses, card and identity checks, commercial-use terms — with the quote behind every fact. Plan a stack that stays at $0 and know what can break before it does.
201 free plans · 140 providers · every fact quoted from the provider's own page
Live plan
$0per month
- Web app hostingCloudflare Pages FreeCloudflare
- PostgresAiven Free tier (PostgreSQL, MySQL)Aiven25%
- AuthenticationKinde FreeKinde10%
- Transactional emailResend FreeResend33%
- Object storageCloudinary FreeCloudinary2%
- Cloudflare
- Vercel
- Supabase
- Neon
- Firebase
- Resend
- Upstash
- Sentry
- PostHog
- Groq
- Qiniu
- SiliconFlow
Why it matters
Free tiers change. The fine print decides.
A free plan is only free while its rules hold. Most surprises are written down somewhere; Clearvia reads it for you.
The fine print decides
Supabase pauses free projects after 7 idle days. Vercel Hobby is for non-commercial use. Render's free Postgres databases expire 30 days after they are created.
Each fact links to the quote it rests on
Not every free plan stops at its limit
Some free tiers refuse requests at the limit; others start billing with no hard cap. Clearvia records which, so a side project never turns into an invoice.
Recorded for every plan: what happens at the limit
How it works
Facts, a neutral planner and fair warning
One catalog behind every tool, with the same rules on the web, in the API and in your agent.
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Verified facts
Every limit and rule carries a verbatim quote from the provider's own page. Machines re-check the sources; people confirm the records.
Evidence on every fact
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A neutral planner
Published, deterministic rules rank official free plans for your needs, constraints and scale. Money never moves a ranking.
Same answer everywhere
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A repository check
Drop your manifests to see which services the project depends on, what can break or bill, and safer free options.
Secrets stay in your browser
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Fair warning
Reviewed changes are classified as better or worse and published as a feed. Guard will watch your usage before you reach a limit.
Guard is coming soon
For builders and their agents
Everything you need to stay at $0
Start on the web, keep going from the command line or your coding agent.
A catalog with receipts
Fourteen categories, from hosting and databases to AI models, each fact with its source and the date it was captured.
- Free plans
- 201
- Providers
- 140
- Re-checked in 30 days
- 100%
- Changes in 30 days
- 1
Plan from the API
The planner your browser uses is a public JSON API. Agents get the same reasons, risks and headroom.
$ curl -X POST https://api.clearvia.app/api/zero/plan \ -d '{"needs":["postgres","auth"],"constraints":{"commercial":true}}' postgres → aiven-free · fit 88 auth → kinde-free · fit 90✓ zeroCost: trueMainland China aware
Reachability, ICP filing and real-name checks are recorded with evidence, including providers that operate in China.
Honest by design
Unknown when a page does not say. Freshness on every record. Referral links labelled, sponsorship kept out of rankings.
Ready for agents
Connect the MCP server at api.clearvia.app/mcp, or fetch the whole catalog as JSON with ETags. Agents get the same rankings, risks and disclosures.
Questions
Frequently asked
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