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Free allowance
USD 0 a month: one web app, up to 2 consoles, 100 CPU seconds a day, 512 MB of private file storage, outbound internet to a whitelist of sites only, no SSH
Verdict
fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
Cost
free tier
Identity
emailno card, no phone
Binding limit
volume-quota100 CPU seconds a day; 512 MB of private file storage
Evidence
documented4 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness
stale on 2026-11-24checked 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
Free tierUSD 0 a month: one web app, up to 2 consoles, 100 CPU seconds a day, 512 MB of private file storage, outbound internet to a whitelist of sites only, no SSH
unit seconds; metered on wall-clock; the metered unit is CPU seconds, not wall clock; the table is headed 'CPU allowance'
Pricenone stated
Limits
  • volume-quota (binding) 100 CPU seconds a day source
  • volume-quota (binding) 512 MB of private file storage source
  • per-ip-shaping outbound internet limited to a whitelist of sites source
no SSH on the free plan; the console is in the browser
Bindingvolume-quota 100 CPU seconds a day is the first wall; a single build or a pandas import can spend it.
Identityemail an email address and a password. The pricing page offers the Beginner plan at USD 0 with no card, and no card or phone field appears in the plan description. No hold exists because no payment method is taken.
Egressthe free plan reaches 'Specific sites via HTTP(S) only' through a whitelist; bandwidth is listed as 'Low' with no number
Retentionnot stated on the pricing page; the free plan includes 512 MB of private file storage with no expiry published there
Interfacessh a web app and a browser console; no SSH on the free plan
ToolingWSGI and Flask or Django on a shared host; a scheduled task slot that is disabled on free
Composes with100 CPU-seconds a day and no always-on task, so nothing runs unattended
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
NotesThe free tier is real and permanent, and it is a web host. Without SSH and without general outbound access it cannot be a VPN node, a monitor that calls out, or a build machine.
Evidence notedocumented every figure is from the vendor's own pricing table read, including the empty SSH cell and the whitelist link. That the signup form asks for nothing beyond email is an inference from the plan description, not a read form.
Parsed numbers
  • price USD 0 10 hours a day / month
  • price USD 0 / month
  • has-free-tier 1
  • volume-quota 512 MB
Evidence 4
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-06www.pythonanywhere.com/pricing/free plan: 100 CPU-seconds a day, 512 MB of private file storage, 1 web app, max_always_on_tasks = 0
2026-10-22www.pythonanywhere.com/pricing/the pricing table was read on 2026-10-22: 'CPU allowance: 100 seconds' on the Beginner ($0/month) column against 5,000 seconds on Developer, 'Private file storage: 512MB' on Beginner against 5GB, and 'Consoles: Up to 2'
2026-10-24www.pythonanywhere.com/pricing/quoted table cells in the Beginner column: '100 seconds' under 'CPU allowance', '512MB' under 'Private file storage', 'Up to 2' under 'Consoles (Python, Bash, etc...)', and 'Specific sites via HTTP(S) only' under 'Access to external internet sites'
2026-10-24www.pythonanywhere.com/pricing/quoted: 'SSH access to your account via ssh.pythonanywhere.com' appears with no mark in the Beginner column, while paid columns carry one
More fields 13
shape{"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"disk_gib": 0.5,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}
billing modelfree
session cap{"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "consoles are capped at two concurrent, not by time"}
persistent storage{"included_gib": 0.5,"price_gib_month": "not offered","durability": "private file storage","survives_stop": true,"survives_destroy": false,"max_retention": "while the account is active"}
network out{"allow_outbound": false,"allow_inbound_listen": false,"ports": "one web app behind the vendor's front end","static_ip": false,"ipv6": null,"per_session_bytes": null}
free tier kindalways-free
ps{"gib": 0.5,"price": "512 MB on free, 5 GB on Developer","durability": "private file storage","on_stop": true,"on_destroy": false,"retention": "while the account exists"}
net{"out": true,"in": true,"ports": "HTTP through the web app","static_ip": false,"ipv6": null,"allowance": "bandwidth is 'Low' on free"}
shape note512 MB of file storage; no RAM or vCPU published for the free plan
termindefinite
m10h usd0.0
m24h usd0.0
price arithmeticUSD 0 a month; the paid Developer plan is USD 10 a month
Unknown values 2
  • per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
  • reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed