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Updated Oct 16, 2026

Deals & free tiers for vibe coders

Ship your app for as little as possible. Below are the partner deals we can vouch for, plus the strongest free plans in every category we rank. 142 of our 171 ranked tools have a real free tier.

Disclosure: partner deals use affiliate or referral links marked rel="sponsored". We may earn a commission at no cost to you. Deals never change a score; see our methodology.

Partner deals

BoltAffiliate

20% off Bolt Pro

New Bolt users who sign up through our referral link get 20% off Bolt Pro, which lists at $25/mo for 10M tokens. Free plan: 1M tokens/mo (300K/day), hosting, Bolt branding.

Score 80/100 in AI app builders. Verified 2026-10-24.

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RailwayAffiliate

Hobby $5/mo, including $5 of usage

Deploy a repo plus Postgres, Redis and workers in one project with usage-based billing. Our referral link supports PromptToProd; we have not confirmed an extra discount for new users.

Score 80/100 in Hosting & deploy. Verified 2026-10-24.

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Best free tiers by category

The two highest-scoring tools with a free plan in each category, with what the free plan actually includes. Links go to our full review.

AI coding editors & agents

  • 100% free to use, with a set of free models that work without an account

  • included with ChatGPT Free/Go plans, with usage limits

AI app builders

  • 5 build credits/day (up to 30/mo) plus 20 Cloud credits/mo

  • 1M tokens/mo (300K/day), hosting, Bolt branding

Hosting & deploy

Databases & backends

  • 2 projects, 500 MB DB, 50K MAU, 1 GB storage (pauses after 1 week idle)

  • 100 projects, 1 GB storage per project, 100 CU-hours/project/mo

Auth

  • 50,000 monthly retained users per app

  • MIT library free to self-host; Infrastructure Starter $0

Payments

  • No monthly fee (pay per transaction)

  • no monthly fee on Starter

Email & transactional

  • 3,000 transactional emails/mo (100/day), 1,000 marketing contacts

  • up to 1,000 contacts and 4,000 sends per 30 days (Loops branding on free)

Analytics & monitoring

  • generous free tier that resets monthly (1M events, 5K replays, 1M flag requests, 100K exceptions); no credit card required on Free

  • Developer plan free forever for 1 user — error monitoring and tracing, email alerts, 10 custom dashboards, MCP access

Agent frameworks

Design & UI generation

Testing & code review

  • free Apache-2.0 framework

  • Cypress App is free MIT open source; Cloud Starter is free with 10 users, 500 recorded test results/mo and 100 cy.prompt executions/mo (no card); free Cloud upgrades available for qualified public OSS

MCP servers

  • free for all GitHub users; self-host the MIT server locally if you prefer

  • free Apache-2.0 server that runs on your machine

Agent skills

Makers: offer our readers a deal

Listing a discount or launch credits here is free and labeled as a partner deal. It never changes your score. Want more reach? A Featured listing puts a labeled card at the top of your category for 30 days.