Free compute in October 2026: new backends and temporary VMs
October's free-tier check: Railway SSH VMs, Neon's backend, Vercel Drives, and corrections to Modal, Lightning and Freestyle credits and limits.
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Free compute
Dated checks of free VPS hosting, databases, serverless platforms and AI compute, with quotas, billing boundaries and corrections kept visible. Start with the maintained guide for the current shortlist.
Free compute guide
Choose by workload, then check recurring allowances, billing limits and the date of the provider checks. The monthly posts below are dated records of changes and corrections.
Monthly changes
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Free compute in September 2026: changed limits and corrections
September 2026 free-tier changes: Deno cuts, D1 hard limits, agent sandboxes and corrections to Freestyle, Browserless, Firebase and Axiom.
Free compute in August 2026: GPU notebooks and agent tools
August 2026 free VPS, databases, GPU notebooks and agent sandboxes, with a dated catalogue of quotas and links to later corrections.
Free compute in July 2026: VPS limits, sandboxes and AI
July 2026 free-tier changes: Oracle VM limits, Deno migration, agent sandboxes and GPU options, with trials separated from recurring allowances.
Free compute for side projects: June 2026 free-tier guide
A June 2026 snapshot of free VPS hosting, databases, serverless platforms and AI compute, including the limits behind the offers.