Zeabur
Zeabur is a deploy-from-Git PaaS whose free Serverless plan ships GitHub-based serverless services on a global edge network with no card required.
- Card required
- No
Zeabur scores 3.9/10 for free value in Apps. The main constraint: Free Serverless plan: deploy unlimited projects as GitHub-based serverless services on the global edge network; no payment method required; 48h log retention. Containerized/always-on services require the paid Developer plan.
Free value score
3.9 / 10Show the math
Key metrics
What you get
No payment method required
Unlimited projects as serverless services
Global edge network delivery
Deploy directly from GitHub
Gotchas
- Auto-sleep when idle
Free plan services automatically sleep after a period of inactivity and incur cold-start latency on the next incoming request.
- 48h log retention only
Logs are retained for only 48 hours on the Free plan; Dev plan gets 7 days and Pro gets 30 days.
- No email system
Zeabur Email (transactional email sending) is completely unavailable on the Free plan; daily and monthly quotas are 0.
- No domain purchasing
Custom domain purchasing through Zeabur is locked behind the Dev plan; the Free plan cannot purchase domains.
- No database backup/import
Automated database backup export and import are not available on the Free plan; they require at least the Dev plan.
- No AI Agent (Zeabur Agent)
The Zeabur AI DevOps Agent is not available on the Free plan; it requires the Dev plan or higher.
- No log forwarding or advanced log search
Log forwarding to external sinks and advanced log search are both unavailable on the Free plan.
- No custom monitoring metrics or alerts
Custom monitoring metrics and alerting are not available on the Free plan.
- Max 1 own server manageable
The Free plan allows managing only 1 externally-owned server through the Zeabur dashboard; Dev allows 3, Pro allows 10.
- 50 MB file upload cap
Single container file uploads are capped at 50 MB on the Free plan; Dev plan raises this to 250 MB.
- No batch container file operations
Batch container file management is unavailable on the Free plan; only single-file upload is supported.
- No SLA
The Free plan includes no Service Level Agreement; uptime guarantees and priority support are absent.
- Slower build CI (2C4G)
The build CI machine is 2C4G on the Free plan, which is the same as Dev but slower than Pro/Team (4C8G).
Sources
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"The Free Plan is Zeabur's free tier, designed for personal exploration and learning. No credit card required — just sign up and start deploying."
https://zeabur.com/docs/en-US/pricing/free-plan -
"Auto-sleep — Services on the Free Plan automatically sleep after a period of inactivity. They wake up on the next incoming request, which may cause a few seconds of cold-start latency."
https://zeabur.com/docs/en-US/pricing/free-plan -
"Log retention | 48h | 7d | 30d | 90d"
https://zeabur.com/pricing -
"Today, on this symbolic date, Zeabur now serves over 5,000 individual paying customers, with a 500% year-over-year growth rate ... Zeabur has closed a $2M Seed Round ... led by 500 Global"
https://zeabur.com/blogs/our-2m-seed-round
