ripienaar/free-for-dev
A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
The project lists 441 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #100 in the weekly ranking the week of Jun 28, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a curated list of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services offering free tiers relevant to DevOps and infrastructure developers.
- Saves time by aggregating and maintaining an opinionated, security-conscious catalog of free cloud and developer service tiers.
- Use for discovering free cloud resources and tools to prototype and deploy infrastructure without upfront costs.
- Use for evaluating free-tier options for continuous integration, monitoring, and cloud management solutions in development projects.
- Use for finding free API, data, and machine learning services to integrate into applications without incurring expenses.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
No license detected
No license file detected by GitHub: unless the project grants one elsewhere, the default is all rights reserved.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
- Warning: No license file detected by GitHub: unless the project grants one elsewhere, you generally have no permission to use, modify or distribute the code.
- No GitHub releases; pin a commit or tag instead of a release.
General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score
From the README
Developers and Open Source authors now have many services offering free tiers, but finding them all takes time to make informed decisions.
This is a list of software (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.) and other offerings with free developer tiers.
The scope of this particular list is limited to things that infrastructure developers (System Administrator, DevOps Practitioners, etc.) are likely to find useful. We love all the free services out there, but it would be good to keep it on topic. It's a grey line sometimes, so this is opinionated; please don't feel offended if I don't accept your contribution.
This list results from Pull Requests, reviews, ideas, and work done by 1600+ people. You can also help by sending Pull Requests to add more services or remove ones whose offerings have changed or been retired.
NOTE: This list is only for as-a-Service offerings, not for self-hosted software. To be eligible, a service must offer a free tier, not just a free trial. The free tier must be for at least a year if it is time-bucketed. We also consider the free tier from a security perspective, so SSO is fine, but I will not accept services that restrict TLS to paid-only tiers.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
15.2K+1.5K
Open issues
12-5
Compared with peers in Education
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch | 78.3K | +1.6K | 75 | 1 day ago |
| mnfst/awesome-free-llm-apis | 12.8K | +754 | 75 | — |
| luongnv89/claude-howto | 46.9K | +440 | 75 | 161 days ago |
| github/awesome-copilot | 41.0K | +251 | 75 | — |
| ripienaar/free-for-dev | 141.8K | — | 45 | — |
| tmrts/go-patterns | 28.3K | — | 17 | — |
| Category median | 41.0K | +597 | 75 | — |
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