Best free storage with no credit card (2026)
Every service below has a renewable free tier you can start using without entering a credit card. They are ranked by our free-value score, which weighs stored capacity and egress against the caps attached. We only list services whose no-card free access is confirmed in our data.
How these scores work
No credit card required
Ranked by free-value score. Every tier here renews rather than expiring.
| # | Service | Main constraint | Score |
|---|
| 1 |  Cloudflare R2 / KVObjects, snapshots, manifests, and small hot config near Workers. | R2 storage 10 GB/month | 6.6/10 |
| 2 |  GitHub repositoryMarkdown, JSON configs, snapshots, and artifacts owned by technical users. | 2,000 Actions minutes/month | 6.5/10 |
| 3 |  Pinata IPFSIPFS pinning service with a friendly UI and API for uploading and managing files, offering a free 1GB plan. | 1GB storage monthly | 6.2/10 |
| 4 |  ImageKit.ioImage and video optimization, transformation, and CDN platform with a forever-free plan offering 20GB bandwidth and 3GB DAM storage per month. | 20 GB bandwidth/month | 6.1/10 |
| 5 |  FilebaseS3-compatible object storage backed by decentralized networks (IPFS), with a free 5GB plan and free object egress. | 5 GB storage cap | 5.9/10 |
| 6 |  Supabase StorageFiles and assets next to Supabase auth/database. | 1 GB file storage | 5.7/10 |
| 7 |  Tigris DataGlobally distributed S3-compatible object storage with zero egress fees and a free tier of 5GB plus monthly request allowances. | 5 GB storage/month | 5.7/10 |
| 8 |  Hugging Face DatasetsUser-owned dataset repos for exports and structured artifacts. | 100 GB free private storage | 5.6/10 |
| 9 |  CloudinaryImage and video storage, transformation, and CDN delivery platform with a forever-free plan of 25 monthly credits and no credit card required. | 25 monthly credits | 4.3/10 |
| 10 |  Google Drive appDataFolderHidden app-specific storage inside the user's Google Drive account. | API rate limit: 1M units/min per project | 3.5/10 |
| 11 |  Puter.jsKeyless, serverless object storage you call straight from the browser — each end user stores files on their own Puter account, so the developer pays nothing at any scale. | ~0.5-1 GB per user | 3.0/10 |
| 12 |  Cloudflare R2S3-compatible object storage with ZERO egress fees and a free tier of 10 GB storage plus 1M Class A and 10M Class B operations each month. | 10 GB free storage (monthly) | 7.7/10 |
| 13 |  Telnyx Cloud StorageDistributed S3-compatible object storage with zero egress fees and a recurring monthly free tier. | 10 GiB storage allowance | 7.1/10 |
| 14 |  Backblaze B2S3-compatible always-hot object storage with a free tier and no credit card required to start. | 10 GB free storage (monthly) | 6.9/10 |
| 15 |  BytescaleFile storage platform with on-the-fly image, video, and audio transformation APIs and a global CDN. | 14-day trial | 2.7/10 |
One-time credits & programs
Kept separate from the ranking above: these are trial credits or eligibility-gated programs that eventually run out or require qualification, not renewable free tiers.
StorjDecentralized, S3-compatible object storage distributed across thousands of nodes worldwide.