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Twilio free trial: free SMS, email and voice units for 30 days

Twilio trial accounts include product-specific free units, such as 100 SMS messages, 3,000 emails and 75 voice minutes, and expire after 30 days. Upgrading adds a fresh set of free units.

• New customers only

Twilio SendGrid: 60-day free trial, 100 emails a day

New Twilio SendGrid accounts get a 60-day free trial with up to 100 emails a day and no credit card required.

• No credit card
• New customers only

Resend Free plan: 3,000 emails a month

Resend's Free plan includes 3,000 emails a month, up to 100 a day, at no cost.

beehiiv Free plan: up to 2,500 subscribers

beehiiv's Free plan (formerly Launch) supports up to 2,500 subscribers with a website, podcast and community features, free forever with no credit card.

• No credit card

v0 by Vercel: $5 free credit for new users

New v0 users on the Free plan get a one-time $5 credit to build with Vercel's AI app builder; existing Free users keep a $5 monthly allowance.

• New customers only

Replit Starter: free plan with daily Agent credits

Replit's free Starter plan includes a daily Replit Agent allowance, limited monthly cloud credits and one published app, with no time limit.

Krea Free plan: 100 compute units a day

Krea's Free plan gives 100 compute units a day for AI image generation and editing with Krea's own models, with no credit card required.

• No credit card

Firebase Spark plan: no-cost tier with free quotas

Firebase's Spark plan is free with no payment method, including no-cost quotas for Firestore, Realtime Database, Hosting and Authentication, and unlimited use of products like Crashlytics and Cloud Messaging.

• No credit card

Supabase Free plan: 2 free projects with Postgres, auth and storage

Supabase's Free plan includes two active projects, each with a 500 MB Postgres database, 50,000 monthly active users, 1 GB file storage and unlimited API requests.

Docker Desktop: free for small businesses, personal use, education and open source

Docker Desktop is free for small businesses (fewer than 250 employees and under $10 million in annual revenue), personal use, education and non-commercial open-source projects.

Docker-Sponsored Open Source program: free Docker Team for core contributors and no pull limits

Non-commercial open-source projects on Docker Hub can apply for Docker's DSOS program: a verified badge, no rate limits on their public images, Docker Scout on up to 100 repos, and a free one-year Docker Team subscription for core contributors.

• Approval needed

Obsidian Sync and Publish: 40% off for students, educators and nonprofits

Obsidian gives students and faculty of education organizations, and people at nonprofits, 40% off its Obsidian Sync and Obsidian Publish add-on services.

• Approval needed

Notion Business plan: 30-day free trial with Notion AI

Teams on a professional email domain can try Notion's Business plan free for 30 days, including Notion AI, AI Meeting Notes, Research Mode, SAML SSO and private teamspaces.

Perplexity Education Pro: discounted Pro for verified students and educators

Perplexity offers Education Pro, its Pro plan at a discount for students and educators verified through SheerID, with learning-focused features.

• Student verification

Sublime Text personal licence: $99 one-time, with 3 years of updates

A Sublime Text personal licence is a one-time $99 purchase that includes three years of updates and keeps working after that window ends.

Typora: $14.99 one-time licence for up to 3 devices

Typora is a one-time $14.99 purchase (before tax) with no subscription; one licence activates on up to three of your own devices and does not expire.

CleanShot Basic: $35 one-time Mac licence with a year of updates

CleanShot Basic is a one-time $35 purchase for the Mac app with one year of updates and 1 GB of Cloud storage; renewing updates is optional at $19 a year.

Nova by Panic: $99 licence that never expires, with a year of updates

Panic sells its Mac code editor Nova for $99 plus tax as a licence that never expires; it includes one year of updates, with optional renewals at $49 a year.

Things 3: one-time purchase per platform, no subscription

Things 3 is a one-time App Store purchase for each Apple platform with no subscription; the Mac version is listed at $49.99 in the US and Things Cloud sync is free.

n8n Community Edition: free to self-host under a fair-code licence

n8n's Community Edition is free to self-host under the Sustainable Use License, a fair-code licence that n8n itself says is not open source; n8n Cloud is a separate paid subscription.

Immich: free, self-hosted photo and video library (AGPL-3.0)

Immich is a self-hosted photo and video management solution licensed under AGPL-3.0; the maintainers say nothing sits behind a paywall and paying is optional.

Twenty CRM: self-host free with all Pro features

Twenty's open-source CRM is free to self-host and includes all Pro features; its managed cloud plans start at $9 per user per month.

Documenso Community Edition: free self-hosted e-signing (AGPL-3.0)

Documenso's self-hosted Community Edition is listed as free forever with no usage limits and includes the full core under AGPL-3.0; enterprise features need a licence key.

Umami: free, MIT-licensed self-hosted web analytics

Umami's privacy-focused analytics is open source under the MIT licence and free to self-host, including for commercial use; Umami Cloud adds a free Hobby plan and a $20/month Pro plan.