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- ★ qualifies
- usable as stated; the read path was probed
- caveat
- usable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- trial
- a time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- paid
- no free allowance; listed for its price
- fails: identity
- the identity required is not reachable without it
- fails: egress
- data cannot be read back out at a usable rate or price
- fails: quota
- the free allowance is too small to matter
- dead
- the offer or the service no longer exists
- self-hosted, last resort
- software or a node that the user installs, runs and maintains. Self-hosted options are listed last, because this site is for users who have no hardware.
- free tier, no free tier
- the record states a free allowance, or states that it has none
- identity email
- what a signup asks for. A question mark after it: a placeholder, not read from a source
- no card, card, card?
- a payment card is not asked, is asked, or the record does not say
- limit
- the limit that runs out first, for example request-rate or volume-quota
- evidence
- how the record is backed, strongest first: measured, documented, reported, inferred, unverified
- fresh until, stale since
- the check is inside its window, or past it, on today's date
- inherited, checked live
- inherited: the record was carried from an earlier source, and its check date is an upper bound. Checked live: the record was checked against the service. The chip filters on it
- verdict
- a judgement of the whole offer for the need of its topic. The data holds no number as a cut-off. Read the free allowance and the limits of the record, and decide for your own need
- duplicate, disagrees
- another record holds the same offer, or a sibling record states another value
Records 65
- ★ qualifiesAzure DevOps Repos (Git as bulk blob store)
Unlimited private Git repositories free per organization; each repository may be up to 250 GB; storage is NOT a billed meter - the Azure DevOps free tier...
Storagefree tieridentity anonymous?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- ★ qualifiesAzure DevOps Repos + Git LFS
No LFS storage quota is published and none is enforced in the docs.
Storagefree tieridentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- ★ qualifiesMicrosoft 365 Business Basic — nonprofit grant (300 free seats x 1 TB OneDrive)
Microsoft 365 Business Basic (Nonprofit Staff Pricing) is a 'Grant — Free up to 300 users', and every seat carries '1 TB of cloud storage per user' (OneDrive).
Storagefree tieridentity email?card?limit per-object-capevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- ★ qualifiesMicrosoft 365 / Office 365 A1 Education tenant (100 TB pooled)
100 TB (102,400 GB) free pooled storage per education tenant, spanning OneDrive + SharePoint + Exchange; pooled capacity = 100 TB base + per-license...
Storagefree tieridentity institution?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- caveatAzure Pipelines (private project, free grant)
1 free parallel job with 1,800 minutes a month and 60 minutes per job, with a 10 GB disk
CI runnersfree tieridentity cardphonelimit per-object-capevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04disagrees
- caveatAzure App Service (F1)
F1 Free Shared: 60 CPU minutes a day, 1 GB RAM, 1.00 GB storage, no SLA
Computefree tieridentity cardphonelimit retention-clampedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-05
- caveatAzure Container Apps (Consumption, Dedicated, Dynamic Sessions)
Per subscription per month: 'The first 180,000 vCPU-seconds, 360,000 GiB-seconds, and 2 million requests per subscription per month are free.'
Computefree tieridentity cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-05
- caveatAzure Container Apps Sandboxes
No sandbox-specific free allowance is published; sandbox compute bills through the same per-second Container Apps meters, whose first 180,000 vCPU-seconds...
Computefree tieridentity cardphonelimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-03
- caveatMicrosoft Foundry hosted agents (East US)
Computefree tieridentity cardphonelimit request-rateevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-17
- caveatAzure Functions
"Consumption plan pricing includes a monthly free grant of 1 million requests and 400,000 GB-s of resource consumption per month per subscription in...
Computefree tieridentity cardlimit request-rateevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-05
- caveatAzure Pipelines
One Microsoft-hosted CI/CD job with 1,800 minutes a month, plus one self-hosted job with unlimited minutes, on every Azure DevOps organisation
Computefree tieridentity cardphonelimit request-rateevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04duplicate
- caveatAzure Virtual Machines (Linux)USD 28.55/month
No free allowance for a Linux VM; the USD 200 credit is a 30-day new-account trial. The 750-hour B-series allowance on the Windows page is a separate row
Computeno free tieridentity cardphonelimit retention-clampedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-03
- caveatAzure Virtual Machines (Windows Server)
750 hours each of B2ts v2, B2pts v2 and B2ats v2 burstable VMs free every month for the first 12 months, which is one always-on machine of each family
Computefree tieridentity cardphonelimit request-rateevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-03
- caveatMicrosoft
Up to USD 200 in Startup credits immediately to start building on Azure.
Computefree tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-05
- caveatAzure for Students (and Azure for Students Starter)
$100 credit per 12 months plus free monthly amounts of 20+ services; no credit card required.
Storagefree tieridentity card?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05disagrees
- caveatMicrosoft Azure grant for nonprofits ($2,000/yr, renews)
$2,000 (USD) in donated Azure services credits per year, renewable.
Storagefree tieridentity card?card?limit per-object-capevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- caveatMicrosoft Teams (free / personal) - Gallery & Media uploads
5 GB OneDrive-backed file storage per user, BUT images and videos uploaded via Gallery/Media are explicitly NOT stored in OneDrive and have no storage limit
Storagefree tieridentity institution?card?limit per-object-capevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05disagrees
- caveatPlayFab Game Saves (Development Mode titles)
Per Development Mode title: Profile storage 2 GB, Content and configuration storage 2 GB, 5 GB UGC storage.
Storagefree tieridentity email?card?limit per-object-capevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- trialAzure Cloud Shell
A cloud-hosted shell with a persistent Azure Files share, free with an Azure account
Computefree tieridentity cardphoneevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-19
- trialMicrosoft Azure Free Account (Compute)
USD 200 of credit for 30 days plus 750 hours each of B1s, B2pts v2 and B2ats v2 burstable VMs for 12 months
Computefree tieridentity cardphonelimit retention-clampedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
- trialWindows 365 Cloud PC (Business / Enterprise)
No free tier: Windows 365 Business is a monthly subscription from a 2 vCPU, 8 GB and 128 GB configuration upward, with a time-limited free trial
Computeno free tieridentity cardlimit request-rateevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-03
- trialMicrosoft Azure free account (azure free account)
If you sign up for an Azure free account, you'll get a $200 credit that you can apply to try services that aren't in the free list, or to use more than your...
Egress and tunnelsfree tieridentity cardphonelimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-23
- trialMicrosoft Fabric trial capacity / OneLake
1 TB of data in OneLake, free for 60 days.
Storagefree tieridentity card?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- trialmicrosoft fabric trial / onelake
Store up to 1 TB of data in OneLake on a trial capacity
Storageidentity email?card?limit retention-clampedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-05
- paidMicrosoft Dev Box (closed to new customers; retiring 2028-09-18)
Not stated
Computeidentity email?card?limit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
- paidWindows 365 for Agents
No free tier: $0.40 an hour per Cloud PC on consumption, plus an optional $5 a month per Cloud PC to keep it instantly available
Computeidentity email?card?limit request-rateevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
- fails: identityAzure
why A school email address and full-time enrollment at an accredited, degree-granting institution: the FAQ requires that you 'verify your academic status through your organization's email address', the offer page says...
Computefree tieridentity institutionno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
- fails: identityAzure Research Credits
why The entry form rejects a personal address by rule - 'Must be a work or school email alias' - and requires an institution name, so an unaffiliated applicant cannot open the conversation.
Computefree tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
- fails: identityMicrosoft AI
why The geographic condition - based in or benefiting Washington State - is the failure, not the identity: an applicant outside Washington cannot meet it however strong the project.
Computefree tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
- fails: identityMicrosoft Azure credits
why There is no application route at all: an award now depends on a Microsoft product team choosing a project it already depends on, which no individual can initiate.
Computeno free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
- fails: identityMicrosoft Learn Student
why USD 150 a month of Azure credit is the largest recurring student compute grant found in this class, but it needs full-time enrollment plus an Azure for Students account, and the credit arrives only after onboarding...
Computefree tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
- fails: identityAzure for Students (free)
why Available only to full-time university students.
Egress and tunnelsfree tieridentity institutionno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-23
- fails: identityazure blob storage 'always free' 5 gb
why 5 GB per subscription with card verification, and the grant is labelled 12 months on the free-services page.
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- fails: egressAzure DDoS Protection
why No volume allowance applies: the product is a mitigation policy on a user's own Azure public IP, not a proxy with a traffic allowance.; ingress: none
Egress and tunnelsno free tieridentity cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-23
- fails: egressAzure Front Door
why No UDP allowance exists.
Egress and tunnelsno free tieridentity cardlimit write-gatedevidence inferredstale on 2026-11-23
- fails: quotaMicrosoft Dev Tunnels
why 5 GB is 0.0045 TiB, so the byte allowance fails about 220 times before 1 TiB/month.
Egress and tunnelsfree tieridentity emailno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-23
- fails: quotaAzure Artifacts
why 2 GiB free per ORGANIZATION (not per project, not per feed), then tiered per-GiB: 2–10 GiB $2/GiB, 10–100 GiB $1/GiB, 100–1,000 GiB $0.50/GiB, 1,000+ GiB $0.25/GiB.
Storagefree tieridentity card?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05disagrees
- fails: quotaazure artifacts (azure devops)
why 2 GiB free per organization, and publishing is blocked at the limit: 'Once your organization reaches the storage limit, you won't be able to publish new artifacts.' Supports…
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05disagrees
- fails: quotaAzure Blob Storage always-free tier
why 5 GB LRS hot block storage, with 20,000 read and 10,000 write operations per month, free for 12 months.
Storagefree tieridentity card?card?limit per-object-capevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- fails: quotaAzure Container Registry (Basic / free 12-month Standard)
why Basic SKU includes 10 GiB storage; Standard includes 100 GiB; Premium 500 GiB.
Storagefree tieridentity card?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- fails: quotaazure container registry free standard tier
why 'Included storage' is bundled into a paid daily SKU rate, not granted free; 100 GB for 12 months then billing.
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- fails: quotaAzure DevOps Artifacts (Universal Packages)
why 2 GiB free storage per organization; Universal Packages up to 4 TiB per file.
Storagefree tieridentity card?card?limit per-object-capevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05disagrees
- fails: quotaazure devops artifacts
why 2 GiB free per org, hard block on publish at the cap, and pay-go tiers start at $2/GB for the 2-10 GiB band.
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05disagrees
- fails: quotaazure files 100 gb free
why 100 GB for 12 months only, then bills; requires an Azure subscription with card.
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- fails: quotaazure for students (2)
why $100 credit valid 12 months plus free monthly service amounts - a credit, not storage.
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05disagrees
- fails: quotaazure for students ($100 credit)
why '$100 credit to use on Azure services within 12 months', renewable annually 'as long as you're a student'. $100 is a few TB-months at best; the 12-month balance expiry is the binding limit.
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05disagrees
- fails: quotaazure for students ($100/yr, renewable)
why Genuinely renewable - '$100 credit to use on Azure services within 12 months', renewed annually 'as long as you're a student' - but it is $100, roughly 1-2 TB-months of Blob.
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05disagrees
- fails: quotaazure open datasets (as a hosting programme)
why No byte allowance or per-user quota is published; the programme hosts curated public datasets and takes contributions by emailed request, so it is not a general storage allowance
Storageidentity emailno cardevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-18disagrees
- fails: quotaazure pipelines build artifacts (as a free archive)
why Retention is configurable and a run can be marked 'retained indefinitely', but the backing storage is the Azure DevOps organization's storage, and the org's free artifacts allowance is 2…
Storagefree tieridentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-18
- fails: quotamcr (mcr.microsoft.com)
why Microsoft's public registry is pull-only for anonymous users - you cannot push, so it is not usable as a user's storage.
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- fails: quotamicrosoft 365 e5 developer sandbox
why Cut from 1 TB/user to 10 GB/user OneDrive plus a 300 GB pooled tenant cap; setup now requires a linked Azure billing account, and that requirement cannot be skipped; eligibility needs a paid Visual Studio or ISV/
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- fails: quotamicrosoft 365 e5 developer subscription (the '25 x 1 tb' myth)
why Stored volume is capped at 300 GB pooled per developer-only tenant, far below the need
Storagefree tieridentity institutionno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-05
- fails: quotaMicrosoft Azure Free Account — Blob Storage
why 5 GB LRS hot block blob with 20,000 read + 10,000 write operations, 'Free for your first 12 months'.
Storagefree tieridentity card?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- fails: quotamicrosoft mcr / registry.k8s.io (read-only public mirrors)
why Anonymous pulls work (MCR returns 200 at /v2/), but both are read-only mirrors of vendor images — no push, no account, no writable namespace.
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- fails: quotaMicrosoft Teams (free / personal)
why 5 GB free per person for files in Teams; images/videos explicitly do not count and have no storage limit; files land in the 'Microsoft Teams Chat Files' folder in the user's OneDrive.
Storagefree tieridentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05disagrees
- fails: quotamicrosoft teams essentials / m365 business paid tiers
why 10 GB per user (Essentials) or 1 TB per user (Business) but they are paid products - a trial at best.
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- fails: quotamicrosoft teams free (5 gb)
why Files are stored in OneDrive and share the same 5 GB consumer quota - not an additional pool.
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05disagrees
- fails: quotaOneDrive consumer (Microsoft account)
why 5 GB free per Microsoft account; paid tiers 100 GB / 1 TB / 2 TB.
Storagefree tieridentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- fails: quotaonedrive consumer 5 gb
why 5 GB per Microsoft account, 2,000 accounts would be needed for 10 TB - not trivially repeatable, and no documented bulk-signup path.
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- deadAzure Pipelines (public project)
why Any list still counting ten parallel jobs for public projects is describing a closed product.
CI runnersidentity cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedchecked 2026-11-03disagrees
- deadBing Search APIs
why Any list that still carries a Bing Web Search free tier is out of date, and the replacement is Grounding with Bing inside Azure AI Agents, which is a different product with a different price.
Crawlingidentity cardlimit request-rateevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
- deadazure open datasets
why Retired as a programme.
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedchecked 2026-10-21disagrees