“This list results from Pull Requests, reviews, ideas, and work done by 1600+ people. — R.I.Pienaar, README”
You know that feeling when you start a side project and spend 2 hours Googling 'free PostgreSQL hosting' only to find services that were free 3 years ago? Or you sign up for a 'free tier' that expires in 14 days. Cloud providers bury their free offerings in pricing pages, and what was free last quarter might cost $50/month now. You waste more time hunting for free tiers than building.
Think of it as a community-maintained catalog, not a search engine. You browse by category — 'Managed Data Services' or 'CI and CD' — and see every service with a verified free tier. Each entry lists exactly what you get free: '1 non-preemptible e2-micro, 30GB HDD' for Google Compute, or '2 million invocations per month' for Cloudflare Workers. The maintainer enforces rules: no trials masquerading as free tiers, no services that gate TLS behind paywalls, and everything must be SaaS/PaaS/IaaS (no self-hosted software).
If you're a backend engineer, DevOps practitioner, or solo founder building side projects without a budget, this is your reference sheet. It's built for infrastructure-focused developers who need free compute, storage, monitoring, and tooling. Not for you if you're looking for self-hosted alternatives (see awesome-selfhosted instead) or consumer-facing free services.
Yes — bookmark it now. With 120k stars and 11 years of active maintenance (last commit April 3, 2026), this isn't another abandoned 'awesome list.' The strict curation rules and security requirements make it genuinely useful, not just a link dump. One caveat: always verify the free tier directly with the provider before building on it, since pricing changes faster than PRs get merged.
Deep-dive insight, Easy and Pro modes, plus action playbooks — the full breakdown is one tap away.