24 production tools with their free-tier limits
7 jobs, from AI builders to monitoring. Each limit comes from the vendor's own pricing page or docs, linked on the tool's page.
AI builders
Chat-to-app tools people start in before they take a project to production.
Hosting
Where your app lives once it leaves the AI builder preview.
Vercel
Git-connected hosting with a global CDN, serverless functions and preview deployments for every push. The default target for Next.js and v0 projects, and it also deploys Vite apps exported from Bolt or Lovable.
Free Hobby plan: $0/month, 1 developer seat
Netlify
Static and serverless hosting with deploy previews, functions, forms and a CDN. Popular for Vite/React SPAs exported from AI builders.
Free Free plan: $0 forever with a 300-credit monthly limit
Cloudflare Pages
Static site hosting on Cloudflare's network with Git integration, unlimited preview deployments and optional Functions (which run on Workers).
Free 500 builds/month, 1 build at a time
Render
Hosting for long-running web services (Node, Python, Rails and more), static sites, Postgres and Redis-compatible Key Value. Useful when your app has a real backend server, not just a front-end.
Free Free web services: 750 free instance hours per workspace per monthDatabase
Managed Postgres, SQLite and document stores with free tiers.
Supabase
Hosted Postgres with auth, storage, realtime and edge functions in one project. It is the backend Lovable and many Bolt apps connect to.
Free 500 MB database, 1 GB file storage, 5 GB egress plus 5 GB cached egress
Neon
Serverless Postgres that scales to zero when idle, with database branching. Works with any Postgres client or ORM (Prisma, Drizzle).
Free Up to 100 projects, no credit card required
Turso
Hosted SQLite-compatible databases. Lightweight enough to give every user or tenant their own database.
Free $0/month, no credit card required
Firebase (Cloud Firestore)
Google's app platform: Firestore document database, Auth, Hosting and Cloud Messaging. Common in apps built with Firebase Studio.
Free Spark plan: no payment method neededAuth
Sign-up, login, sessions and social sign-in without writing it from scratch.
Clerk
Drop-in authentication and user management with prebuilt sign-in, sign-up and profile UI components. Bills on monthly retained users instead of raw sign-ups.
Free Hobby: free, no credit card required
Auth0
Okta's hosted identity platform: universal login, social and passwordless sign-in, organizations and enterprise connections.
Free Free plan: up to 25,000 monthly active users, no credit card to sign up Supabase Auth
The auth service built into every Supabase project: email/password, magic links, OAuth providers and anonymous sign-ins, tied directly to Row Level Security.
Free 50,000 monthly active users on the Free plan
Better Auth
An open-source TypeScript authentication framework that runs inside your own app and database. Plugins add 2FA, passkeys, magic links, organizations, SSO and more.
Free Open-source library: no per-user fees when self-hostedPayments
Taking money: payment processors and merchants of record.
Stripe
The standard payments API: cards, wallets, subscriptions (Billing), hosted Checkout and no-code Payment Links.
Free No setup or monthly fees; you pay per successful transaction
Lemon Squeezy
A merchant of record for digital products and SaaS. It collects and remits sales tax and VAT for you, and handles subscriptions, license keys and checkout.
Free No monthly feePolar
A developer-focused merchant of record for subscriptions, one-off sales and usage billing, with publicly posted rates.
Free Starter plan: no monthly feeSecurity
Catch leaked keys, vulnerable dependencies and attacks before users do.
GitHub Secret Scanning Push Protection
Blocks git pushes that contain recognized secrets (API keys, tokens, private keys) before they land in your repository.
Free Push protection for users is on by default for every GitHub.com accountGitleaks
An open-source command-line tool that scans git repositories, files and history for hardcoded secrets. Can run locally, as a pre-commit hook or in CI.
Free Open source and free to run
Snyk
Scans your dependencies (SCA), source code (SAST), infrastructure-as-code and containers for known vulnerabilities, with IDE, CLI and Git integrations.
Free Free plan for individual developers and small teams Cloudflare (Free plan)
Put Cloudflare's proxy and DNS in front of your domain for DDoS mitigation, a CDN and a free SSL certificate, whichever host you use.
Free DDoS mitigation and global CDNMonitoring
Know when it breaks: errors, uptime, logs and product analytics.
Sentry
Error monitoring and tracing. See the stack trace, the browser and the release behind every crash your users hit.
Free Developer plan: free for one user
PostHog
Product analytics, session replay, feature flags, error tracking and surveys in one tool, with a free allowance that resets every month.
Free 1M analytics events, 5K session recordings, 1M feature-flag requests per monthUptimeRobot
Pings your site, API or port on a schedule and alerts you when it goes down. Includes a basic public status page.
Free 50 monitors at a 5-minute interval
Better Stack
Uptime monitoring, status pages, logs and Sentry-compatible error tracking on one platform.
Free 10 monitors and heartbeats, 1 status page