Underrated free compute: Oracle's 1,500 ARM hours/month, VS Code subs, Cloud Run and more
vincent_koc · x · 2026-11-03
vincentkoc shares a table of "free" compute developers already have access to, arguing Oracle and Visual Studio subscriptions are underrated. Highlights: Modal Starter $30/month recurring credits; GitHub Actions free for public repos with $12–$18 monthly allowances for private ones; Google Cloud Run free tier of 2M requests, 180k vCPU-seconds and 360k GB-seconds per month (50 vCPU-hours); Visual Studio subs include $50–$150/month recurring Azure Dev/Test credits (Standard $100 MSDN Platforms, $150 Enterprise); Oracle Always Free offers 1,500 OCPU-hours + 9,000 GB-hours/month (2 OCPUs/12GB plus 200GB storage), though the oft-quoted 4-core/24GB allowance conflicts with current docs; Cloudflare Workers gives 100k requests/day with 10ms CPU per invocation. The table also flags per-platform gotchas, like Oracle home-region capacity being unavailable and GitHub Actions not being a general-purpose shell.
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