- Free allowance
- Free tier, quoted: '1 App Replica (0.5 GB memory)', 'Free Tier PostgreSQL Database', 'Custom Domains & SSL', 'Zero-downtime Deploys'.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- retention-clampeda Free app 'Sleeps after 30 days' without a deploy, and the free database stops at 10,000 rows and 2 connections, which a real workload reaches first.
- Evidence
- documented7 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | Free tier, quoted: '1 App Replica (0.5 GB memory)', 'Free Tier PostgreSQL Database', 'Custom Domains & SSL', 'Zero-downtime Deploys'. The free database is capped at '10k Rows' and '2 connections'. Paid Standard is 'USD 10/mo' for 0.2 GB, scaling to 'Up to 384 GB' of replica memory and '10+ (Horizontal)' replicas. unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; free-forever |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - retention-clamped (binding) a Free app 'Sleeps after 30 days' without a deploy, and the free database stops at 10,000 rows and 2 connections, which a real workload reaches first. source
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| Identity | card a credit card required at signup on every plan, the free tier included: the pricing page states 'A credit card is required at signup for all plans. Free Tier usage is not charged.' The authorisation amount is not stated; whether debit or prepaid is accepted is not stated; no phone or ID step is stated |
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| Egress | Standard production bandwidth is included with the provisioned resources, with no per-GB price and no numeric allowance published; a fair-use policy applies to extremely high-volume egress, and the page recommends Dedicated Ingress at USD 250/mo for massive data transfer. |
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| Retention | a Free app 'Sleeps after 30 days' without a deploy, and the free database stops at 10,000 rows and 2 connections, which a real workload reaches first. |
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| Interface | cli, ssh the gigalixir CLI (macOS, Linux, Windows); SSH and a remote console on every plan; no REST API page was found |
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| Tooling | the gigalixir CLI installs with a one-line script; SSH and a remote console are available on every plan |
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| Composes with | an Elixir or Phoenix app plus a 10,000-row Postgres on one free tier is a complete small backend with no charge; the free replica publishes no vCPU number, so sizing it needs a run rather than a table. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | Aggregator claim checked: free-for.dev says 'one free instance that never sleeps and a free-tier PostgreSQL database limited to 2 connections, 10,000 rows'. The 'never sleeps' half is wrong: the vendor table says Free 'Sleeps after 30 days' of no deploy and only Standard never sleeps. The aggregator omits the card requirement at signup, which is the identity cost that decides whether this is reachable. vCPU is not published for the free replica and is null rather than guessed. |
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