Render Has a Free Tier — Static Sites, Web Services, and PostgreSQL With Zero DevOps

When Heroku killed their free tier in 2022, thousands of developers needed a new home for their side projects. Most of them landed on Render. Four years later, Render's free tier is still one of the most generous in the industry — and it keeps getting better. What You Get Free No credit card required: Static sites — unlimited, with global CDN, auto-deploy from Git, custom domains Web services — 750 hours/month of free instance hours PostgreSQL — 256MB database, free for 90 days (then $7/month or create a new one) Redis — 25MB, free for 90 days Cron jobs — scheduled tasks on free instances Auto-deploy from GitHub/GitLab — push to branch, Render deploys Free TLS — automatic HTTPS on all services DDoS protection — included on all plans Instant rollbacks — one-click to previous deploy Quick Start No CLI needed. The dashboard does everything: Go to render.com → New → Web Service Connect GitHub repo Render detects your runtime (Node, Python, Go, Rust, Docker) Click Deploy Or use a render.yam