Checked November 1, 2026
Free tier limits 2026
Free tier limits for 24 developer tools and APIs, grouped by category: what each free plan includes, what happens at the limit, and a link to the vendor's own page. Tools with a TeaserTrack pricing page link to a full free tier table there.
Limits checked on against each vendor's pricing page or docs. Where a vendor does not state a limit, we leave it out.
Databases and backends: free tier limits
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| Tool | Free tier | At the limit | Source |
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 SupabaseSupabase free tier limits 2026 | Free plan: 2 active projects, each with a 500 MB database, 1 GB of file storage, 5 GB of egress and 50,000 monthly active users; projects pause after 1 week idle. | Free projects are paused after 1 week of inactivity. The 2 project limit counts every organization where you are an Owner or Administrator. | Supabase pricingSupabase billing docs |
| FirebaseFirebase free tier limits 2026 | Spark plan: no payment method, 50K Auth MAU, Firestore with 1 GiB stored and 50K reads a day, Hosting with 10 GB stored; Cloud Storage now needs Blaze. | No-cost quotas apply per project. On Spark you lose read and write access to Cloud Storage, including the default bucket, unless the project moves to Blaze. | Firebase pricingCloud Storage plan change FAQ |
 NeonNeon free tier limits 2026 | Free plan: no card, 100 projects, each with 100 CU-hours, 1 GB of storage (20 GB per account), 10 branches and 5 GB of egress a month. | Running out of CU-hours or egress suspends compute until the next billing period. Neon says none of the free limits delete your data, and the free plan is permanent, not a trial. | Neon pricing |
Auth: free tier limits
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| Tool | Free tier | At the limit | Source |
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| ClerkClerk free tier limits 2026 | Hobby plan: no card, 50,000 monthly retained users per app, unlimited apps, 3 dashboard seats and 3 social connections; no MFA. | Above 50,000 monthly retained users you have to upgrade to Pro. Clerk gives a one-month grace period so the app keeps working. | Clerk pricing |
| Auth0Auth0 free tier limits 2026 | Free plan: up to 25,000 monthly active users, unlimited social connections, 5 organizations and 1 enterprise connection; no card to sign up. | Not stated | Auth0 pricing |
Hosting and deployment: free tier limits
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| Tool | Free tier | At the limit | Source |
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 VercelVercel free tier limits 2026 | Hobby plan: personal, non-commercial use only, 1 seat, 1M CDN requests, 100 GB of data transfer, 1M function invocations and 4 hours of Active CPU a month. | Hobby cannot buy more usage. When you reach a limit, you wait until 30 days have passed before you can use that feature again. | Vercel pricingVercel Hobby plan docs |
| NetlifyNetlify free tier limits 2026 | Free plan: 300 credits a month for 1 member; a production deploy costs 15 credits and bandwidth 20 credits per GB, with hard limits that never bill. | Free limits are hard monthly caps that never incur costs. Going over pauses the account until the next billing cycle, and if one project goes over, every project on the account is paused. For scale: 300 credits cover 20 production deploys, or 15 GB of bandwidth, if nothing else uses credits. | Netlify pricing |
 RailwayRailway free tier limits 2026 | Free Trial: a one-time $5 credit for 30 days, no card. Then the Free plan: $1 of usage a month, 1 project, 3 services, 1 vCPU and 0.5 GB RAM per service. | After 30 days, or once the $5 is spent, the Free Trial reverts to the Free plan. | Railway pricingRailway plans docsRailway free trial docs |
| Render | Free web services with 512 MB RAM and 750 instance hours per workspace a month; they spin down after 15 minutes without traffic. Free Postgres (1 GB, 1 per workspace) expires 30 days after creation. | When the hours run out, free services are suspended until the next month. Render says not to use free instances for production. | Render pricingRender free instances docs |
| Cloudflare Workers | 100,000 requests a day and 10 ms of CPU time per invocation. KV: 100,000 reads and 1,000 writes a day, 1 GB. D1: 5M rows read and 100,000 written a day, 5 GB. Workers Paid starts at $5 a month. | Daily limits reset at 00:00 UTC. Over the KV limit, further operations of that type fail with an error. | Cloudflare Workers pricing |
Email: free tier limits
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| Tool | Free tier | At the limit | Source |
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 ResendResend free tier limits 2026 | 3,000 emails a month, at most 100 a day, 3 domains, 30 day data retention and 1,000 marketing contacts. Pro is $20 a month for 50,000 emails. | Sends over the daily or monthly quota fail with a 429 error and are not queued; the Free plan has no overage billing. | Resend pricingResend account quotas and limits |
Analytics: free tier limits
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| Tool | Free tier | At the limit | Source |
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 PostHogPostHog free tier limits 2026 | Free plan: no card, every month 1M analytics events, 5K session recordings, 1M feature flag requests and 100K exceptions, with unlimited team members. | Usage stops at the free tier limits: extra events are permanently dropped and feature flags return a default quota limited response. | PostHog pricing |
 Plausible AnalyticsPlausible Analytics free tier limits 2026 | No free plan for Plausible Cloud: every plan starts with a 30-day free trial, no credit card. Community Edition is free to self-host under AGPLv3. | Over the pageview tier for two months in a row, you are asked to upgrade; a week later dashboards lock until you do, while stats keep being collected. | Plausible pricing (home page)Plausible subscription plans docsPlausible Cloud vs Community Edition |
AI coding tools: free tier limits
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| Tool | Free tier | At the limit | Source |
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| GitHub CopilotGitHub Copilot free tier limits 2026 | Copilot Free: 2,000 completions a month, entry level models with auto model selection, and limited chat and agent use; free for verified students. | Free users are limited to 2,000 completions a month. Paid plans have unlimited completions and spend GitHub AI Credits on chat and agent work. | GitHub Copilot plansGitHub Copilot plans docsFree Copilot Pro for teachers and maintainers |
 CursorCursor free tier limits 2026 | Free plan: limited agent and chat requests, with no published number, and no third-party models such as Claude, GPT or Gemini. | When the allowance runs out you can wait for the weekly reset, buy prepaid credit or upgrade. | Cursor pricingCursor models and pricing docsCursor for students |
| Claude CodeClaude Code free tier limits 2026 | No free tier for Claude Code: the Free Claude plan does not include it. Pro, from $17 a month billed yearly, is the cheapest plan that does. | On Pro and Max, usage resets five hours after your first message and again each week. You can turn on usage credits or move to API billing instead of waiting. | Claude pricingClaude API pricingHow usage and length limits work |
| OpenAI Codex | Included in ChatGPT Free for quick coding tasks; no limit published. Cheapest paid plan: ChatGPT Go, $8 a month. | Not stated | Codex pricing |
| Zed | Personal plan, free forever with your own API keys or external agents. Cheapest paid plan: Pro, $10 a month with $5 of tokens and unlimited edit predictions. | Not stated | Zed pricing |
| JetBrains AI | AI Free: unlimited completion, 3 AI credits every 30 days; not in IntelliJ IDEA without Ultimate, PyCharm without Pro, or Android Studio. Cheapest paid plan: AI Pro, $10 a month ($100 a year), 10 credits a month. | Not stated | JetBrains AI plans |
| Google Antigravity | Individuals $0: uncapped tab completions, basic weekly rate limits on agents. Cheapest paid plan: Through Google AI Pro or Ultra (prices not on the Antigravity page). | Not stated | Antigravity pricing |
LLM APIs: free tier limits
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| Tool | Free tier | At the limit | Source |
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| Gemini APIGemini API free tier limits 2026 | Free input and output tokens on the Flash and Flash-Lite models, within rate limits. Gemini 4 Argon is not on the free tier, and Google uses free tier data to improve its products. | Not stated | Gemini API pricing |
| Mistral APIMistral API free tier limits 2026 | Free mode is the default for new accounts: no credit card, API keys, and included monthly usage with rate limits meant for evaluation and prototyping. Mistral shows the exact limits only after login. | Not stated | Mistral usage limits docsMistral subscriptions docs |
| Claude APIClaude API free tier limits 2026 | No free tier. New users get a small amount of free credit to test the API. | Not stated | Claude API pricing |
| OpenAI APIOpenAI API free tier limits 2026 | No free tier for text tokens. The moderation model is free, and file search includes 1 GB of free storage. | Not stated | OpenAI API pricing |
FAQ
Which free tiers can I use for a commercial project?
Vercel is the clear exception: its Hobby plan is for personal, non-commercial use only. Render says not to use free instances for production. The other vendors here do not state a commercial use rule on their pricing pages, so check their terms before you launch.
Which free tiers pause or stop when idle?
Supabase pauses free projects after 1 week of inactivity, Neon scales compute to zero after 5 minutes idle, and Render spins free web services down after 15 minutes without traffic. Netlify pauses the whole account when it goes over its monthly credits.
Do these free tiers need a credit card?
Neon, Clerk, Auth0, PostHog, Railway's Free Trial and Firebase Spark say no card is needed. Auth0 asks for card verification only for a custom domain. Where a vendor's page does not say, we leave it out.
How often are these limits checked?
Every limit on this page was copied from the vendor's own pricing page or docs on November 1, 2026. Free tiers change often, so the source for each row is linked; confirm there before you rely on a limit.