Free Nodejs Hosting Service in 2025

This article will discuss free nodejs hosting services you can use to host your hobby projects.

Since the Free tier limitations of Heroku and Railway services, developers are struggling to get similar services, but there are a few services that offer free nodejs hosting. Let us see how to host nodejs app for free

Free nodejs hosting 2025

The following services I personally use for hosting my personal nodejs projects are easy and free to use with some limitations

1. Render

2. Netlify

3. Vercel

4. Glitch

Render

Render offers free nodejs hosting, you  have to connect your github account and select the repository then render will take care of everything, it will give you a subdomain so that you can utilise the web service, use it as a web hook, what ever your app is supposed to function

The drawback of its service is that it will make your app go offline if unused for some time

Netlify

Netlfiy is perfect for hosting Frontend, such as static HTML or React apps, but use can use it for hosting an express app

But the process it little bit tricky, here is the guide on how to host a simple express app on netlify
https://docs.netlify.com/frameworks/express/

Personally I use this service to host React apps

Vercel

https://vercel.com/ a free service for Hosting NextJs apps but you can use this service for hosting nodejs apps, but there are some limitations of hosting nodejs apps, moreover it is serverless functions makes the nodejs apps unresponsive for sometimes, when there is no other option left then you can try this service

Glitch

This is the last option I often use to host my apps, most of the cases the apps got suspended for no reason, also the web app's subdomain is temporary, you can use this service to test your apps as a preview

Conclusion

There might be many other services which i was not included, I personally used these service, if you know any that should be included in this list then let me know in the comments section, so that it will be useful to others