Best free tier for open-source

Open-source search engine (GPLv3) you can self-host with unlimited records; Typesense Cloud offers a 14-day free trial, then paid hosted plans. Fast, typo-tolerant, and tunable relevance.

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n/a

Requests

unlimited on self-hosted; Typesense Cloud has a 14-day trial (no forever-free)

Paid from

$9/mo

400 compute minutes/month free on GitLab SaaS; unlimited CI on self-hosted runners (open-source). Built-in Docker + Kubernetes integration and a single .gitlab-ci.yml.

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n/a

Requests

unlimited on self-hosted runners

Paid from

$29/mo

Free for public open-source repos (unlimited); 10,000 one-time credits for private builds — credit-based, no recurring free minute quota for private work.

Bandwidth

n/a

Requests

unlimited on public open-source repos

Paid from

$69/mo

Open-source search engine (MIT) you can self-host with unlimited documents and queries; Meilisearch Cloud no longer offers a forever-free tier (free trial only). Sub-50ms typo-tolerant search.

Bandwidth

n/a

Requests

unlimited on self-hosted; Meilisearch Cloud free tier deprecated

Paid from

$30/mo

Unlimited free minutes for public repos; 2,000 minutes/month on private repos with 1 concurrent job — the de-facto CI for open source, native to GitHub.

Bandwidth

n/a

Requests

1 concurrent job

Paid from

$4/mo

Error tracking + session replays + performance monitoring — 5k errors and 50 replays free forever; open-source self-host option.

Bandwidth

5k errors/month

Requests

5k errors + 50 replays + 10k performance events/month, 1 user

Paid from

$26/mo

Open-source Node.js headless CMS — fully free to self-host; Strapi Cloud has a 14-day trial then paid, no forever-free cloud tier.

Bandwidth

n/a

Requests

Open-source self-host free (MIT); Strapi Cloud 14-day trial

Paid from

$15/mo

TypeScript-first headless CMS — open-source and fully free to self-host with Next.js; Payload Cloud has a trial, no forever-free cloud tier.

Bandwidth

n/a

Requests

Open-source self-host free (MIT); Payload Cloud trial

Paid from

$35/mo