Static App Hosting
AWS S3
Free tier: 5 GB of storage, 20000 GET requests, 2000 PUT requests, 15 GB data transfer per month
Pros: ACL policies, Custom rules and MIME types, Supports expiration, Multiple regions world-wide
Limitations: Free only for 12 months
Cloudflare Pages
Free tier: Unlimited sites, Unlimited requests, Unlimited bandwidth, 1 concurrent build, 500 builds per month
DocEvent
Free tier: Lets you transfer 200MB of FTP or sftp data, and 5000 operations, 5 accounts/users max
Pros: Free FTP and SFTP server, 3 regions, us-east-1, eu-west-1, ap-southeast-2
Limitations: Backend is your own S3 or S3-compatible bucket
Exceeding the free tier: You can no longer login to the FTP service if you go over your free tier allowance
Firebase Hosting
Free tier: 1GB storage, 10GB/month transfer, Custom domain and HTTPS
Pros: Includes CDN, Automatic HTTPS, Deployment versioning, URL rewriting (useful for HTML5 history API), Possible to define headers, Free web.app domain
GitHub Pages
Free tier: 1GB storage, 100GB bandwidth or 100K requests/month, 10 builds per hour
Pros: Deploy with git, Provide automatic page generator, Automatic HTTPS
Limitations: Only with GitHub
GitLab Pages
Free tier: Completely free for cloud hosted, self hosted version of Gitlab available
Pros: Use any static website generator, Custom domains
Limitations: Only works with GitLab, No automatic HTTPS
Netlify
Free tier: Unlimited sites, Custom domain, Automatic HTTPS, Open source projects get pro plan for free
Pros: Deployment with git, Custom redirect rules, Webhooks and Notifications for integration with third party services, Form handling, User authentication handling, CMS
IONOS Deploy Now
Free tier: 3 static projects with staging and 50 MB of storage each, Build workflow via GitHub Actions, No bandwith limitation, DDos protection, Geo redundancy, IPv6, Climate neutral hosting, GDPR compliant
Pros: Automatic HTTPS, Custom domains, Deploy with git, Framework auto detection
Limitations: Only with GitHub, Full LAMP support only in paid plans
Render
Free tier: 100GB outbound bandwidth per month (unlimited inbound)
Pros: Includes CDN, Deploy with git, Custom domains, Automatic HTTPS
Scaleway
Free tier: 75 GB of storage, 75GB of bandwidth
Surge
Free tier: Unlimited deployments, Unlimited bandwidth, Automatic HTTPS
Pros: Deploy from CLI, Custom 404 pages
Limitations: No custom redirects in free tier, No custom domain in free tier
Vercel
Free tier: Unlimited websites, Automatic HTTPS, Deployment with git, Analytics for 1 project, sponsorship for open source projects
Pros: Various starter templates, DNS management, Edge CDN, first-class support for Next.js
Limitations: Free tier does not allow commercial usage
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