Alternatives to Heroku’s Free Tier

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  • To do so, you could leverage a framework which allows you to write infrastructure-as-code, such as AWS Amplify, Serverless Stack, the Serverless framework, or Pulumi. There is a bit of an overhead to learning these tools so you will need to research which one is best for your needs.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • Pulumi

    Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language. Build infrastructure intuitively on any cloud using familiar languages 🚀

  • To do so, you could leverage a framework which allows you to write infrastructure-as-code, such as AWS Amplify, Serverless Stack, the Serverless framework, or Pulumi. There is a bit of an overhead to learning these tools so you will need to research which one is best for your needs.

  • vercel

    Develop. Preview. Ship.

  • This was a great help to many people who's main concern was with small blogs built on an open source blogging platform such as Ghost or Strapi. With Heroku you could deploy your application and build a separate, static frontend (which would be hosted on a separate service, such as Netlify or Vercel). That way, you could write an article, rebuild your static site, and afterwards allow the application to hibernate. And it would be free to use.

  • redwood

    The App Framework for Startups

  • You could also get quite far by using the serverless functions that now come with (formerly) static hosting providers like Vercel, Netlify, and Gatsby Cloud. There are even complex frameworks like RedwoodJs that have been built on top of these providers.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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