Free cloud sandbox stack

Learn a hyperscaler without a bill: the sign-up credit and the always-free allowance side by side.

3 roles2 with no end date1 of 3 need no card

Role	Pick	What you get
Sign-up credit Try paid services for a few weeks.	Sign-up credit Google Cloud Free Trial Google Cloud · 3 months · card needed $300 credits, 90 days	$300 credits, 90 days
Always-free allowance What keeps running after the credit ends.	Always-free allowance Google Cloud Free Tier Google Cloud · No end date · card needed 1 TiB BigQuery + e2-micro	1 TiB BigQuery + e2-micro
Edge functions Cheap public endpoints in front of it.	Edge functions Workers Free plan Cloudflare · No end date · no card 100,000 requests a day	100,000 requests a day

Limits side by side

Sign-up credit

Google Cloud Free Trial

Credits: $300 Welcome credit · Duration: 90 days · Payment method: Required at sign-up · After: Always-free tier continues

Always-free allowance

Google Cloud Free Tier

BigQuery: 1 TiB queries, 10 GiB storage / month · Compute Engine: 1 e2-micro VM in us-west1, us-central1 or us-east1 · Cloud Run: 2 million requests / month · Cloud Storage: 5 GB-months (US regions) · Firestore: 1 GiB, 50,000 reads / day · Pub/Sub: 10 GiB of messages / month

Edge functions

Cloudflare Workers Free plan

Requests: 100,000 / day · CPU time: 10 ms per invocation · KV reads: 100,000 / day · KV writes: 1,000 / day · KV storage: 1 GB