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What you can actually get for free — free tiers worth using, open alternatives, and where the limits really bite.
One of These Free Postgres Tiers Deletes Your Data on a Timer
Neon, Supabase and Render all say "free". One sleeps your compute, one pauses your project, and one expires the database 30 days after you create it and then deletes it.
Your CI Is Free. Unless You Picked the macOS Runner.
Same builds, same minutes, same everything — but the runner you picked changes the bill by a factor of ten. And two settings take it to zero.