🐍 You’ve got your Python app running locally. Now how do you put it online for free?
These 5 platforms let you deploy at no cost — perfect for personal projects, demos, and early experiments:
🤗 1. Hugging Face Spaces
- Ideal for AI apps with Gradio or Streamlit
- 2 CPU cores, 16 GB RAM, 50 GB disk on free tier
- Sleeps after 48h of inactivity
📊 2. Streamlit Community Cloud
- Great for dashboards and data apps
- Your GitHub repo is the source of truth — push = automatic deploy
- Sleeps after 12h with no traffic
🎨 3. Render
- For Flask or FastAPI backends
- Deploy from GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket
- Sleeps after 15 min of inactivity (wake-up ~1 min)
⚡ 4. Modal
- For AI backends, agents, and MCP
- $30/month in free credits
- Infrastructure defined in pure Python
🐍 5. PythonAnywhere
- For Flask and Django apps, everything from the browser
- 512 MiB disk, 100 CPU seconds
- Great for learning without configuring servers
💡 Explanation in a nutshell#
“Deploy” is the process of taking an app running on your computer and making it accessible from the internet. These platforms make that process almost as simple as uploading a file, with no need to manage servers or pay for cloud infrastructure.
More information at the link 👇
Also published on LinkedIn.
