free-tier.hub — catalog changes

1000 services: the final wave

Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT

The final push: the catalog hit 1000 services. Wave 9 (+100). The VPN block is 71 entries: added ByeDPI, SpoofDPI, Green Tunnel, PowerTunnel (DPI bypass), Xray panels (Marzban, 3X-UI, Remnawave, V2RayA), Ceno Browser, Yggdrasil, cjdns, wgcf, Opera VPN, AdGuard DNS, DNS0.eu. Plus open science (arXiv, Semantic Scholar, Crossref, PubMed, CORE, Unpaywall, Zenodo, OSF, figshare, Dataverse), data infra (Weaviate, Chroma, Milvus, Typesense, OpenSearch, QuestDB, Loki, VictoriaMetrics, SigNoz, Jaeger), private mail (SimpleLogin, addy.io, Firefox Relay, Mailfence), the OSS toolbox (Wireshark, Nmap, Ghidra, Neovim, rclone, restic, Ventoy, Scribus, Natron), gamedev (itch.io, GDevelop, Defold), fonts and icons (Fontshare, Fontsource, SVG Repo) and feedback boards (Canny, Fider, Astuto).

900 services: DPI bypass and 15 more VPN tools

Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Wave 8 (+100). The VPN catalog grew to 56 entries: Shadowsocks, V2Ray, NaiveProxy, Clash Verge Rev, v2rayN, NekoBox, Hysteria, OpenVPN — and, crucially for censorship-heavy regions: zapret and GoodbyeDPI (DPI bypass without a VPN), Snowflake, dnscrypt-proxy, NextDNS, Control D, Quad9. Plus 25 public APIs (Weatherbit, NewsAPI, GIPHY, Tenor, Pixabay, ipapi, Fixer, DummyJSON), open-source media (FFmpeg, VLC, Kdenlive, HandBrake, Krita, darktable, Navidrome, Stirling PDF), office (Overleaf, Typst, Pandoc, Zotero), time trackers (Toggl, Clockify), education (OpenLearn, Saylor, OpenStax, Gutenberg, Internet Archive) and security tooling (crt.sh, DNSDumpster, ANY.RUN).

800 services: 15 more VPNs and a B2B block

Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Wave 7 (+100). The VPN list grew to 41 entries: Riseup VPN, Hotspot Shield, I2P, Mihomo (Clash Meta), Hiddify, wg-easy, Algo VPN, Pritunl, SoftEther, OpenConnect, Firezone, Cloudflare Zero Trust (50 users free), Nebula, OpenZiti, tinc. B2B: HubSpot, Zoho CRM, Bitrix24, monday, Jira, Confluence, Wrike, Ahrefs Webmaster Tools, Search Console, Semrush, Klaviyo, Buffer, Microsoft Clarity (uncapped), Wave, Invoice Ninja, CapRover, Dokploy, Baserow, ToolJet, Datadog, Rocket.Chat, Mattermost, Zulip and more.

700 services: 20 new VPNs, self-hosting and an API tail

Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Wave 6 (+100). The headline is the VPN block: Betternet, Speedify, VPNBook, VPN Gate, Psiphon, Tor, Amnezia VPN, Outline VPN, WireGuard, OpenVPN Access Server, ZeroTier, Twingate, NetBird, Headscale, Radmin VPN, Hamachi, Xray, sing-box, Lantern, Ultrasurf — 26 VPN entries in total now. Plus public APIs (PokéAPI, TVmaze, Jikan, Last.fm, Genius, Spotify, MusicBrainz, NASA, USGS, OpenSky, wttr.in), self-hosting classics (Jellyfin, Immich, PhotoPrism, Pi-hole, AdGuard Home, Portainer, Proxmox, NetBox, Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, mailcow, Listmonk) and open databases (PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite). New "VPN for $0" collection.

Exactly 600 services + an aurora background

Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Wave 5 (+100): a Chinese and Asian expansion — MiniMax, 01.AI, StepFun, iFlytek Spark, Tencent Hunyuan, Skywork, ModelScope, OpenCSG, SenseNova, Baidu AI Studio, OpenI, Rakuten AI, AMD Radeon Cloud plus Alibaba/Tencent/Huawei cloud trials. A B2B block: tawk.to, Cal.com, Metabase, Superset, Freshdesk, Kit (10k subscribers), DeepL, Cloud Run, Lambda, DynamoDB, SageMaker Studio Lab, Doppler, Infisical and more. Verified against the aifree.dev catalog: Runware, EmberCloud, Helyx, Mixedbread, Agnes. Plus an animated aurora background: three blurred orbs breathing behind the interface.

Exactly 500 services + accent fix and new tricks

Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Wave 4: +102 services — API tools (Alpha Vantage, CoinGecko, TMDb, RAWG, WeatherAPI, httpbin, webhooks), git hosting (GitLab, Codeberg, Gitea), cloud IDEs and completion (Theia, Tabby, Refact, CodeGeeX), icons (Iconify, Lucide, Simple Icons), media processing (DaVinci Resolve, Clipchamp, Adobe Podcast, Civitai), learning (Exercism, SQLBolt, Learn Git Branching), security (Shodan, urlscan, SSL Labs), files (WeTransfer, GoFile, Snapdrop) and more. Fixed accent selection in the dark theme. New tricks: a back-to-top FAB, a keyboard cheat sheet on "?", shareable favorites via #favs=, anonymous analytics enabled by a single token.

398 services, a student stack and a livelier interface

Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Added VS Code, Keycloak, Prometheus, Traefik, Caddy, CrowdSec, Wormhole, Open Library, Wikimedia API, Eleventy, Carrd, Etherpad, W3Schools, FutureLearn, Inkscape, GIMP, Google Fonts, Audacity, Shotcut, OBS Studio, Blender, Godot, Unity Personal and Thunderbird — and the project contact became real (beavennr@gmail.com). New features: related services in the card, shareable comparisons (#cmp=), a Student stack collection. Interface: smooth section and chip entrances, a sticky blurred search bar, a rotating sort caret, pressed-state feedback.

398 tag pages and a refreshed interface

Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Every tag with two or more services got its own page /tag/.html in both locales — 199 tags, from #llm (53 services) to #gpu and #selfhosted. The homepage gained a popular-tags cloud and a tags.html hub, tags joined the sections navigation, and tags on service cards now link to tag pages. The interface was refreshed: soft shadows instead of hard borders, larger radii, catalog stats as chips in the header, reworked facets and cards.

373 services and four new guides

Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT

The catalog grew to 373 services: a self-host tool block (GlitchTip, Uptime Kuma, Coolify, Dokku, Netdata, Matomo, SearXNG), free certificates (Let's Encrypt, ZeroSSL), stock photos (Unsplash, Pexels), sandboxes (Compiler Explorer, JSFiddle), testing tools (Playwright, Cypress), static generators (Hugo, Jekyll, WriteFreely), NotebookLM, CS50, roadmap.sh, MIT OpenCourseWare, Syncthing, KeePassXC and more. Four new guides in both locales: GitHub Student Pack, free GPU, free VPN and a Telegram bot on a free stack.

Final pre-deploy pack: 343 services, 65 trials

Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Added LM Studio, FigJam, Webflow, Adobe Express, an Adobe Creative Cloud trial (7 days, card required), Postman, SonarCloud, CockroachDB Cloud, Appwrite, PythonAnywhere, Have I Been Pwned, a 1Password trial (14 days), TunnelBear, CapCut, Stepik, edX, Codecademy, Codewars, LeetCode, Box, Yandex Disk, LibreOffice, CryptPad, Slack, Character.AI, Trello, WordPress.com and Proton Mail. The catalog is deploy-ready: 343 services, 22 categories, two locales.

Big expansion: 315 services, 22 categories, types and collections

Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT

11 new categories: design, analytics, CMS, testing, no-code, security, AI assistants, office & notes, learning & students, files, VPN. A new Type facet (permanent / trial / renewable) and sorting by period. Guides and collections became site sections: a guides hub and 7 ready-made stacks with progress checkboxes. Added Penpot, Canva, Photopea, the analytics crowd around PostHog, Strapi, Ghost, BrowserStack, Make, Snyk, Bitwarden, ChatGPT, Le Chat, Kimi, Notion, Obsidian, Azure for Students, freeCodeCamp, MEGA, Proton VPN and more.

English version, 252 services

Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT

The catalog is now available in English — /en/ with its own service pages, sitemap and RSS. Added MongoDB Atlas, Ollama, Amazon Q Developer, Docker Hub, Zapier, n8n and PocketBase. New tricks: F/C hotkeys on the focused row, shareable filter links, compare state that survives reloads, and print-to-PDF.

246 services: open APIs, Tailscale, Figma and guides

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Open-Meteo, Frankfurter, IPinfo, OpenWeatherMap, GitHub Actions, Tailscale, Figma, Framer and more. The site got four guides, customization settings and a welcome screen.

The catalog grew to 252 services

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Added Anyscale, BytePlus, Coze, Vercel AI Gateway, Nebius, Gladia, CodeSandbox, StackBlitz, Kilo Code, E2B, Firestore, TiDB, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, Cloudinary, New Relic, OneSignal, MailerLite and others.

New category “Domains”: 11 ways to get a free domain

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT

is-a.dev, EU.org, .pp.ua, js.org, DuckDNS, FreeDNS, No-IP, DNSExit, GitHub Student Pack and more.

New category “Aggregators” — 17 LLM routers

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT

AgentRouter, OpenRouter, Requesty, NaraRouter, APInex, Evot and other aggregators with free balances.

Chinese LLM platforms: Doubao, Qianfan, Zhipu, Moonshot

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT

The biggest daily limits in the catalog: Volcengine Arc gives up to 5M tokens per day, Qwen Code — 2000 requests per day.

free-tier.hub launched

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT

A catalog of free tiers for developers: 233 services, 11 categories, filters by card requirement and .ai domain.