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Service Type Storage Limitations
Amazon DynamoDB ⚠️ Proprietary NoSQL 25 GB ⚠️ Payment method required
Amazon RDS ⚠️ Proprietary RDBMS ⚠️ Only free for 1 year
Azure SQL Database MS SQL Server ⚠️ Only free for 1 year
👉 Clever Cloud PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis 256 MB (PostgreSQL) Max 5 connections (PostgreSQL)
ElephantSQL PostgreSQL 20 MB 5 concurrent connections
Fly.io PostgreSQL 3 GB ⚠️ Credit card required, limited outbound traffic, no way to avoid accidental overage fees
Google Cloud Firestore ⚠️ Proprietary NoSQL 1 GB ⚠️ After the first year there's no way to avoid accidental overage fees
Heroku Postgres (discontinued) 😭 PostgreSQL 10K max rows
IBM Cloud Cloudant ⚠️ Proprietary NoSQL 1 GB Deleted after 30 days of no activity
IBM Cloud Db2 Db2 200 MB ⚠️ "users are asked to re-extend their free account every 90 days by email. If you do not re-extend, your free account is cleaned out a further 90 days later"
MongoDB Atlas MongoDB 512 MB
OpenShift Developer Sandbox MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL 15 GB ⚠️ Expires after 30 days (can resubscribe for free but not extend subscription), pods are automatically deleted after 12 consecutive hours of runtime
Oracle Cloud Oracle Database 20 GB each per two databases ⚠️ Payment method required
Redis Enterprise Redis 30 MB
Scalingo PostgreSQL 128 MB Max 10 connections
⚠️ Payment method required after 30 day trial
👉 Supabase PostgreSQL 500 MB Paused after 1 week inactivity
2 GB transfer limit
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apfromiit commented Feb 12, 2024 •
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https://freedb.tech

Limits on FreeDB Free Tier:

1 MySQL Database
50 MB Storage
MAX Connections 200

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nullxx commented Feb 13, 2024

https://freedb.tech

Limits on FreeDB Free Tier:

1 MySQL Database 50 MB Storage MAX Connections 200

filess.io has less free limitations

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apfromiit commented Feb 13, 2024 •
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https://filess.io

Limits on Filess Free Tier:

1 MySQL Database
10 MB Storage
MAX Connections 3

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nullxx commented Feb 13, 2024

https://filess.io

Limits on Filess Free Tier:

1 MySQL Database 10 MB Storage MAX Connections 3

I think the max is for concurrent connections, not for total connections.

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apfromiit commented Feb 13, 2024 •
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https://filess.io

Limits on Filess Free Tier:

1 MySQL Database 10 MB Storage MAX Connections 3

I think the max is for concurrent connections, not for total connections.

I agree. The number of maximum concurrent connections (3) is crucial because we frequently encounter the 'Too many connections' error as the limit could be easily reached.

@erfelipe
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Unfortunately ElephantSQL left the free plan. He can leave the table/list and the others can join.

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Taewan-P commented Mar 9, 2024

Planetscale is also leaving the free plan. (Hobby plan)

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Ziul commented Mar 11, 2024

@Taewan-P Planetscale is deprecating the hobby plan: https://planetscale.com/docs/concepts/hobby-plan#overview

@sebastianrm83
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Neon has 3GB of PostgreSQL on their free tier.

This worked fine. Thanks :)

@sosolidkk
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ElephantSQL is terminating all services by the end of January 2025.

End of life announcement

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ExVault commented Mar 23, 2024

Redis Enterprise is 30 max connections.

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nmsderp commented Mar 24, 2024

you should add vercel db, its free

@atowersc
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Hey! Look at filess.io. They have a free plan
and they have the following DBMS:

  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • MariaDB

excellent choice for free

Now It's 10MB free storage + limited connections(<5)

❤️

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devesh-anand commented May 5, 2024 •
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planetscale.com

Discontinued.

2 good options that are free in 2024:

  1. Upstash
  2. Turso

My personal suggestion is Turso. It is SQLite, but does the job perfectly. The free tier is very generous.

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nice list

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salman0ansari commented Jun 27, 2024 •
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Litegix.com

Mongo, postgres, redis, maria, sql db

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Hi bmaupin,

The row on ElephantSQL has been updated with the information on its ensuing End of Life in Jan 2025. Please review and integrate this revision (#17) in the main repository.

Sayan (sayan-github)
[ sayan2405@gmail / sayan2405@hotmail.com ]

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HGStyle commented Jul 18, 2024 •
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Found out the worst plan https://freemysqlhosting.net/ (5Mb free 👎 )

@ahmedmonemegy
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Is there any Microsoft SQL server free host, for development purpose?

@Walidadebayo
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db4free.net

MySQL

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planetscale.com

Discontinued.

2 good options that are free in 2024:

  1. Upstash
  2. Turso

My personal suggestion is Turso. It is SQLite, but does the job perfectly. The free tier is very generous.

For anyone looking into solutions for Java, Turso does not have an SDK and does not support JDBC. Putting this out there to save someone from finding that out. The best you'll get is libsql/libsql-client-java but as of right now it is not on Maven and is not actively maintained.

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reiyua commented Aug 12, 2024

ElephantSQL is shutting down, no more signups and will be completely defunct January 27th, 2025.

https://www.elephantsql.com/blog/end-of-life-announcement.html

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kistaaa commented Aug 20, 2024

https://pockethost.io/ PocketBase Hosting

@nielpattin
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For anyone looking into solutions for Java, Turso does not have an SDK and does not support JDBC. Putting this out there to save someone from finding that out. The best you'll get is libsql/libsql-client-java but as of right now it is not on Maven and is not actively maintained.

@kyle1elyk
I should have read this sooner. Anyway, do you recommend any for the Java Maven project? I'm doing some library management stuff

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For anyone looking into solutions for Java, Turso does not have an SDK and does not support JDBC. Putting this out there to save someone from finding that out. The best you'll get is libsql/libsql-client-java but as of right now it is not on Maven and is not actively maintained.

@kyle1elyk I should have read this sooner. Anyway, do you recommend any for the Java Maven project? I'm doing some library management stuff

@neilfranci Unfortunately I gave up on a free solution, and went with a Heroku deployment. $7 a month to deploy a Quarkus Java app, and a free 5MB MySQL add-on which is enough for my use case. My only other lead was the Azure SQL free tier but I had issues signing up

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@neilfranci Unfortunately I gave up on a free solution, and went with a Heroku deployment. $7 a month to deploy a Quarkus Java app, and a free 5MB MySQL add-on which is enough for my use case. My only other lead was the Azure SQL free tier but I had issues signing up

@kyle1elyk I see it can use HTTP. Maybe that is the last one I have to use because none of the others have a better free option.

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I don't know if anyone mentioned it but Vercel allows to create a PostgreSQL database and it's accesible from anywhere IIRC

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I don't know if anyone mentioned it but Vercel allows to create a PostgreSQL database and it's accesible from anywhere IIRC

Yeah, it's Neon in the back. I'm also using Neon, but I never thought vercel would have it.

@EmmettScot
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I am also using it.

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Azio0 commented Apr 8, 2025 •
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aiven.io offers 1, 5gb of MySQL storage with backups, IP whitelist ability and multi user account for free, for ever. I've used them for my project for the last 5 months without issue.

aiven.io

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