Free APIs and Services Every Developer Should Know

There's a surprising amount of free stuff out there for developers. Here's a curated list of free APIs and services you can actually use in production (within their free tiers).

Free APIs

• JSONPlaceholder: fake REST API for prototyping
• Rest Countries: country data, no auth needed
• Open-Meteo: free weather API, no key required
• Hacker News API: public data from HN

Free hosting

• Cloudflare Pages: unlimited static sites, generous free tier
• Vercel: Next.js hosting with a great free tier
• Netlify: static + serverless functions
• GitHub Pages: free static hosting for repos

Free developer tools

• GitHub Actions: 2,000 free CI minutes/month
• Cloudflare R2: 10GB free object storage, no egress fees
• Turso: free SQLite databases at the edge
• Upstash: free serverless Redis

The catch

Most free tiers have limits. Read the fine print, but for side projects and learning, you can build a lot without paying anything.

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