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AWS Lambda’s free tier is the best way to host your websites for free — isn’t it? When it comes to a serverless approach, everyone talks about its main benefit: the cost savings. In this blog post, I will compare AWS Lambda’s free plan to the free plans of other app hosting providers. I’m going to provide real numbers to see how much a user can get from the most popular serverless hosting platform and its competitors without even paying for it. Comparing the free plans The average size of a typical HTML page with media assets is about 3MB. I’m going to calculate how many requests for a typical HTML page that AWS Lambda, Heroku and Netlify can serve while still on their free plans. Important note : The typical HTML page with all its media assets and CSS/JS scripts must be bundled into a single file. Otherwise, there will be a lot of additional requests that will make the calculations much more complicated and lower the overall effectiveness of using the free pl...