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Vercel

Vercel

The platform for frontend developers

nextjsreactdeployment
$0/month
Personal & non-commercial use
Deployments: Unlimited
Bandwidth: 100 GB/month
Function Execution: 100 GB-hours
Build Minutes: 6000 minutes
Neon

Neon

Serverless Postgres with branching

postgresserverlessdatabase
$0/month
Storage: 3 GB
Compute hours: 300 hours/month
Projects: 10
Branches: 10 per project
Databases: Unlimited
Cloudflare R2

Cloudflare R2

Object storage with zero egress fees

storages3-compatiblecdn
$0/month
Storage: 10 GB/month
Class A operations: 1 million/month
Class B operations: 10 million/month
Egress: Free
Supabase

Supabase

Open source Firebase alternative

postgresrealtimeauthstorage
$0/month
Database: 500 MB
Storage: 1 GB
Bandwidth: 2 GB
Edge Functions: 500,000 invocations
MAUs: 50,000
Clerk

Clerk

Complete user management for modern apps

authuser-managementnextjs
$0/month
Monthly active users: 10,000
Social SSO: Unlimited
Pre-built components: All
Multi-factor auth: SMS/TOTP
Resend

Resend

Email API for developers

emailtransactionalapi
$0/month
Emails per day: 100
Emails per month: 3,000
Custom domain: 1
Team members: Unlimited
Stripe

Stripe

Online payment processing

paymentsubscriptionbilling
$0/month
Transaction fee: 2.9% + 30¢
International cards: +1.5%
Currency conversion: +1%
Instant payouts: 1% fee
Dokploy

Dokploy

Open source alternative to Vercel, Netlify and Heroku

self-hostedopen-sourcepaasdocker
$0/month
Applications: Unlimited
Databases: Unlimited
Docker Support: Full
Git Integration: Yes
SSL Certificates: Let's Encrypt
Coolify

Coolify

Self-hostable Heroku/Netlify alternative

self-hostedopen-sourcepaasdocker
$0/month
Resources: Unlimited
Users: Unlimited
Git Integration: GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket
Databases: PostgreSQL/MySQL/Redis/MongoDB
Monitoring: Built-in
Cloudinary

Cloudinary

Image and video management with optimization

imagevideooptimizationcdn
$0/month
Credits: 25 monthly
Storage: 25 GB
Bandwidth: 25 GB/month
Transformations: 25,000 monthly
Cloudflare

Cloudflare

Global CDN with DDoS protection

cdnsecurityperformance
$0/month
Bandwidth: Unlimited
DDoS Protection: Unmetered
SSL Certificate: Free
Page Rules: 3
Trigger.dev

Trigger.dev

Background jobs and workflows for TypeScript

background-jobsworkflowstypescript
$0/month
Runs per month: 50,000
Concurrent runs: 10
Team members: 2
Run duration: 60 seconds
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