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Submit to free-for.dev

A community-maintained list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS services with genuine free tiers for developers, mirrored on a website. Getting added exposes an infrastructure-oriented product to developers comparing free plans.

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free-for.dev at a glance

Pricing
Free
No price details on their site when we checked.
Link type
Nofollow
The canonical list at https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev renders service links (e.g. azure.microsoft.com pages) with rel="nofollow" (checked 2026-09-23)
Review
Manual review
Link back required
No
Account required
Yes
Domain Rating
DR55
Domain Rating by Ahrefs, checked Sep 24, 2026. A score of the whole site’s backlinks, not a Google metric.
Tranco rank
#500,503
Research top-sites ranking. Lower is more popular.
Who browses it
Developers, sysadmins and DevOps practitioners hunting for free tiers
Last checked

How to submit to free-for.dev

  1. Open the free-for.dev submission page

    This is the page makers use to add a product.

  2. Create an account

    free-for.dev asks you to sign up before you can submit.

  3. Have your assets ready

    Name, tagline, description, logo and screenshots. The checklist below covers what to prepare so you can fill the form in one go.

  4. Fill in the form carefully

    Pick the most specific category the form offers and write the description for the people who browse free-for.dev (Developers, sysadmins and DevOps practitioners hunting for free tiers), not for search engines.

  5. Wait for review

    A person reviews submissions, so it can take a while. Once it’s live, check the link on your listing points to the right page.

Tips for free-for.dev

  • Only as-a-service offerings qualify, not self-hosted software
  • You need a real free tier (not a trial), lasting at least a year if time-limited
  • Services that keep TLS behind a paid plan are rejected
  • Keep it relevant to infrastructure developers; the maintainer is opinionated about scope

From free-for.dev’s own guidelines and pages, in our words.

What to prepare

The basics every directory asks for, plus what matters most for developer tool directories.

  • Product name and a one-line tagline (about 60 characters)
  • A short description (1–2 sentences) and a longer one (a short paragraph)
  • Square logo, at least 256×256 px, PNG or SVG
  • 2–3 screenshots at a consistent size
  • The exact page you want the link to point to
  • Pricing model (free, freemium or paid) and a contact email
  • Links to your docs and a quick-start or install command
  • Your GitHub or GitLab repo, if public
  • Supported languages, frameworks and platforms
  • Pricing for the API or hosted tier, including free limits

Is free-for.dev worth it?

Good for discovery, not link equity

Links from free-for.dev listings carry rel="nofollow", so they pass little or no ranking value. Submit if its audience matches yours: the value is visitors and being findable where people browse.

  • Domain Rating by Ahrefs: 55 (strong). That's the strength of links to the whole site, not a promise about what your listing passes on.
  • Tranco rank #500,503: a smaller site, near the end of the top 1 million.
  • A person reviews submissions, so expect a wait and a real quality bar.
  • Free to list, so the only cost is your time.

This verdict is worked out from the facts above with fixed rules (link type, review, price, Domain Rating by Ahrefs, Tranco rank), not paid for. The directory has no say in it.

Questions about free-for.dev

Is free-for.dev free?

Yes. Listing on free-for.dev is free. We checked on Sep 23, 2026.

Does free-for.dev give a dofollow link?

No. Listing links on free-for.dev are nofollow, so they pass little ranking value. They can still send visitors. Evidence: The canonical list at https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev renders service links (e.g. azure.microsoft.com pages) with rel="nofollow" (checked 2026-09-23).

How do I submit to free-for.dev?

Submit at https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev. You need an account first. A person reviews each submission before it goes live. Tip: Only as-a-service offerings qualify, not self-hosted software.

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Sources

The pages we opened on Sep 23, 2026 to write this page.