Square Free Takes 3.3% and Gives You a Store

No subscription, a real online store and a point of sale. The cost is entirely per transaction, which makes the maths depend on how much you sell.

Carrd Gives You Three Free Sites and No Domain of Your Own

One page, three sites, every core feature, and an address that is not yours. Carrd is the cheapest good page on the internet until you want a domain.

Netlify Gives 300 Credits a Month. Here Is What They Buy.

A hosting plan metered in credits rather than gigabytes, where a single production deploy costs fifteen and bandwidth costs twenty per gigabyte.

Framer Free Is Buildable and Explicitly Non-Commercial

Almost no page limit, almost no bandwidth, and a licence that rules out the one thing most people want to build. The restriction is legal, not technical.

Webflow Free Allows Two Pages. That Is the Entire Plan.

The most capable visual builder in this category gives away almost nothing. Two static pages is not a website, it is a demonstration of one.

WordPress.com Free Is 1GB and Someone Else's Adverts

Unlimited posts, unlimited users, one gigabyte of media, and advertising you cannot switch off. The limits sit somewhere nobody expects.

Wix Free Gives You a Whole Site, Just Not an Address

The free plan is not a trial and it does not expire. It is a complete site on an address you do not own, with advertising you did not ask for.

Nextcloud Is Free Forever If You Host It Yourself

There is no free tier and no gigabyte count. The software is free, unlimited and yours, provided you have somewhere to run it.

MEGA Gives 20GB Free. It Is Still the Biggest Allowance Here.

Twenty gigabytes free, encrypted before upload, with no card. MEGA wins the free-tier comparison on size and privacy at the same time.

Filen Is the Open-Source Drive That Will Not Read Your Files

No free-quota figure on the marketing site, a German data centre and clients anyone can audit. The absence of a number is itself the point.

pCloud Gives 10GB Free and Sells You Storage Forever

Ten gigabytes free, and a pricing model where you can buy storage once instead of renting it. The free tier tells you which half of that is the real pitch.

Sync Free Is 5GB With Real Encryption. That Is the Trade.

Five gigabytes is small. Being the only mainstream drive that encrypts even the free tier is what makes the number worth paying attention to.