Best free tier for compute

Serverless functions run on Cloudflare’s global edge POPs with 100k requests/day free and no egress fees; pay-as-you-go at $5/mo after.

Bandwidth

unlimited

Requests

100k requests/day

Paid from

$5/mo

Serverless Python/containers with $30/mo recurring free credits; scales to zero; GPUs included.

Bandwidth

unlimited

Requests

$30/mo recurring free credits (CPU + GPU containers)

Paid from

$0/mo

Edge Functions run on Vercel’s Edge Network with 100k invocations/day free; Hobby tier is non-commercial only.

Bandwidth

100 GB/month

Requests

100k edge function invocations/day

Paid from

$20/mo

Managed Deno runtime on a global edge network — 1M requests/month + 100 GiB egress free, with no cold starts; paid Pro at $20/mo.

Bandwidth

100 GiB/month

Requests

1 million requests/month

Paid from

$20/mo

Wasm-based edge compute (Compute) on Fastly POPs — free trial credit then pay-per-million-requests; no forever-free tier.

Bandwidth

pay-as-you-go after trial

Requests

Free trial $50 credit; pay-per-request after

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