Free VPS hosting
Free VPS hosting without hiding the expiry date
Compare durable free VM allowances separately from signup credits and trials. Every offer below is tied to a provider with current VPS data, and every paid fallback stays on that provider's pricing page.
What qualifies
Free offer evidence joined to current VPS plans
A provider appears only when its source-qualified offer can fund or supply a VM and the current deployment dataset contains VPS plans for that provider. Static hosting does not become a free VPS merely because the same company also sells virtual machines.
Ongoing allowance
Durable free VM offers
Durable means the VM allowance does not end on a signup-credit deadline. It does not mean unlimited capacity, guaranteed stock, no reclamation, or zero charges outside the allowance.
Durable free VM allowance
Google Cloud
Free Tier and $300 Free Trial
- Duration
- Always Free allocation is perpetual; $300 trial credit expires after 90 days.
- Payment method
- Card required
- First limit
- The 1 GB monthly outbound allowance is exceeded by a 10 GB reference workload.
- Paid VPS reference
- No current paid VPS price can be ranked
Durable free VM allowance
Oracle Cloud
Always Free compute
- Duration
- Always Free resources are perpetual; trial credit is $300 for 30 days.
- Payment method
- Card required
- First limit
- For a quiet app, idle reclamation risk arrives after seven days below all published thresholds.
- Paid VPS reference
- No current paid VPS price can be ranked
Trials and promotional balances
A temporary credit is not free VPS hosting
These offers can be useful for a migration test, demo, or evaluation. They are separated because the VM becomes billable or stops when the credit or trial boundary arrives.
Temporary VPS credit
Akamai Cloud
$100 promotional credit
- Expiry
- Credits expire during a specified trial period, but the current offer does not publish the duration.
- Payment method
- Card required
- First limit
- The trial-period deadline is likely to arrive before a $5 Nanode consumes $100, but the current duration is unpublished.
- Paid VPS reference
- Nanode 1GB at $5.00 a month
Still unclear: The current $100 offer does not publish the trial duration.
Temporary VPS credit
Amazon Web Services
AWS Free Plan
- Expiry
- Free Plan lasts up to 6 months with $100 signup credit and up to $100 earnable credit.
- Payment method
- Card required
- First limit
- The fixed six-month deadline arrives even if credit remains.
- Paid VPS reference
- Nano-0.5GB Linux with public IPv4 at $5.00 a month
Time-limited VPS trial
Kamatera
30-day free trial
- Expiry
- $100 credit expires after 30 days.
- Payment method
- Card required
- First limit
- The 30-day deadline arrives before one $4 Basic server consumes $100.
- Paid VPS reference
- Basic at $4.00 a month
Temporary VPS credit
Vultr
Campaign-dependent promotional credit
- Expiry
- Campaign-dependent credit is valid for up to 30 days.
- Payment method
- Card required
- First limit
- Day 30 is the only campaign-independent numeric boundary.
- Paid VPS reference
- vc2-1c-0.5gb-v6 at $2.50 a month
Still unclear: Campaign amount is not constant. The current public pricing page returned HTTP 403 during verification, so no scalar paid escape was asserted.
No-card VPS check
No no-card VPS offer is confirmed in this set
Every source-qualified VM offer above currently records a card requirement. A missing or unclear card field would be shown as unknown; it would not be promoted into this answer. Account, identity, region, and capacity checks can still apply after a card is accepted.