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Free technology software and services with verified free tiers — limits, card requirement and upgrade trigger for each.
Free backup software for business verified October 2026: Veeam Community Edition (10 workloads), Veeam Agent Free, Duplicati, Restic, Kopia, BorgBackup, UrBackup, rclone, Proxmox Backup Server, Bacula, Backblaze B2 (10 GB), IDrive (10 GB), Google Drive, OneDrive, Time Machine, File History, Cobian Reflector, AOMEI, EaseUS — licences, limits, commercial-use terms. Macrium Reflect Free retired.
Free uptime monitoring and status page tools verified October 2026: UptimeRobot (50 monitors), Freshping (50 checks, 1-min), Site24x7, HetrixTools, Instatus, Checkly, Better Stack, StatusCake, Cronitor, Healthchecks.io, Atlassian Statuspage, Uptime Kuma, Gatus, Upptime, Cachet — monitor caps, intervals, subscribers, paid steps. Pingdom trial-only.
Free domain, DNS and SSL tools verified October 2026: Cloudflare Free (DNS, SSL, CDN), Let’s Encrypt, ZeroSSL, deSEC, Hurricane Electric, Namecheap FreeDNS, Bunny DNS, No-IP, Duck DNS, EU.org, Cloudflare Registrar, Porkbun — record caps, DNSSEC, certificate limits, paid steps. Freenom defunct; Google Domains gone; Route 53 paid; NS1 trial.
Free antivirus and endpoint security for small business verified October 2026: Microsoft Defender (built in), Bitdefender Free, Comodo, Malwarebytes Free, ClamAV, Wazuh, CrowdSec, OSSEC, osquery, Velociraptor, Cloudflare Zero Trust (50 users), Chrome Enterprise Core — commercial-use terms, platforms, licences, paid steps. AVG excluded (no commercial use); Kaspersky US ban; Sophos Home trial.
Free business email hosting verified October 2026: Zoho Mail Forever Free (5 users, custom domain), Proton, Gmail, Outlook.com, Tuta, Infomaniak, ImprovMX, Cloudflare Email Routing, Forward Email, Mail-in-a-Box, mailcow — users, storage, IMAP, sending limits, paid steps. Migadu, Purelymail, Mailbox.org trial-only; Yandex unverified.
Free AI assistants and chatbot builders verified October 2026: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Mistral, Copilot, Perplexity free tiers; Tidio (50 conversations, 10 seats), Botpress (100), Landbot (100), Typebot (200), Crisp (2 seats), ManyChat (25 contacts), Zapier Chatbots (2 bots), Dialogflow ES, Rasa Developer Edition — caps, models, seats, branding, paid steps.
Free video conferencing tools verified October 2026: Zoom Basic (40 min, 100 people), Google Meet (60 min), Microsoft Teams (60 min), Webex (40 min), Zoho Meeting, Jitsi, Jami, BigBlueButton, Brave Talk, Dialpad (dial-in), Whereby, Discord, Slack huddles — time caps, participants, recording, breakout rooms, paid steps. GoTo trial-only; Skype and Around gone.
Free password managers for teams verified October 2026: Bitwarden (2-user free org), Passbolt CE, Vaultwarden, Psono (self-host), Proton Pass, KeePassXC, Zoho Vault, Enpass, LastPass, Google and Apple Passwords — device, sharing and TOTP rules, licences, paid steps. Dashlane free discontinued; 1Password, Keeper, NordPass excluded.
Ten free helpdesk and ticketing tools — FreeScout, osTicket, UVdesk, Tidio, HubSpot Service, Help Scout, Zoho Desk, Spiceworks, Crisp, HESK — with agent and conversation caps, card requirement and the cheapest paid step. Verified October 2026.
Eleven free cloud storage options for business — MEGA (20 GB), Google Drive (15 GB), Box, Icedrive, Koofr and pCloud (10 GB), OneDrive, Proton Drive and Sync.com (5 GB), Dropbox (2 GB), Nextcloud (self-hosted) — with limits, card requirement and the cheapest paid step. Verified October 2026.
Eleven free project management tools — ClickUp, Trello, Jira, Plane, OpenProject, Notion, Wrike, Todoist, Taiga, Asana, Basecamp — with seat and board caps, storage, card requirement and the cheapest paid step. Verified October 2026.