Windmill

Who it is for

For developers and small teams. It runs on the web and a computer you control. License: AGPL-3.0. It is in the Infrastructure group.

What you pay

Free plan: The open-source column says unlimited executions, 50 users, 3 workspaces, and 10 GiB of workspace object storage. The pricing page says Enterprise is from $120 a month and shows $20 a month per builder. Hosted price: The open-source edition lists unlimited executions. Enterprise is from $120 a month on the pricing page. Checked November 11, 2026. The same page shows $20 a month per builder and $10 a month per non-builder in the price breakdown. The $120 line is the Enterprise heading, not a quote this listing calculated. Run it yourself: Setup: medium. The pricing page says the open-source edition deploys on Fargate, Docker, or Kubernetes. You bring the machine. This listing did not price a server.

How to switch

• Compared with Val Town. Its price on file: Billing paused on November 10, 2026. Existing subscriptions are serviced free. A prepaid annual plan gets a partial refund. The post does not print a dollar price.

  What you give up: a SQLite database for the app and store a file or a blob. You only get part of: an HTTP endpoint that returns a response.

  Free alternatives to Val Town

How close is it?

A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.

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  Instead of Val Town7 of 7 checked features. A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.What you give up: a SQLite database for the app and store a file or a blob. You only get part of: an HTTP endpoint that returns a response.The schedules page lists webhooks as a way to run a script. That is one URL for a job, not a val that serves its own routes.The product page and the schedules page both name TypeScript as a script language.A schedule is a script or flow, arguments, and a cron expression. You can turn on a primary schedule from the script settings.The pages checked here do not list SQLite. The product page mentions data tables and DuckDB, marked alpha, which is a different engine.The pricing table lists 10 GiB of workspace object storage on the free edition. The pages checked here do not show a get-and-put API for an app's files.The free-edition list includes variables and resources. The schedules page says a handler can use the variables and resources the schedule owner can access.The product page says you can build in the web IDE, in the browser, or from a local CLI and git.

Related alternatives

Infrastructure alternatives

• Free alternatives to Auth0
• Free alternatives to Glitch
• Free alternatives to Heroku
• Free alternatives to Val Town
• Coolify: A place you run yourself for apps and databases.
• Dokku: A small PaaS on one Linux host.

Free apps in this group

• Authelia: Two-factor login in front of your apps.
• Authentik: An identity provider with an MIT core.
• CapRover: A PaaS with a web UI and Let's Encrypt.
• Cloudflare Workers: TypeScript on Cloudflare's network, with cron, D1, and R2. The free plan allows 10 ms of CPU.
• Coolify: A place you run yourself for apps and databases.
• Dokku: A small PaaS on one Linux host.
• Keycloak: Hosted login, OIDC, SAML, and a user directory.
• Kubero: A PaaS panel on Kubernetes.
• Netlify Functions: TypeScript functions, scheduled functions, and blobs. The built-in database is Postgres.
• Render: A Node web service and a cron job. Free services spin down. No object storage on the price page.
• SuperTokens: Login recipes with an Apache core.
• Vercel Functions: TypeScript functions, cron, and Blob on Vercel. Hobby cron runs once a day. No SQLite product.
• YunoHost: A server distribution with an app catalog.
• Zitadel: An identity server written in Go.

Where we looked

• https://www.windmill.dev/
• https://www.windmill.dev/pricing
• https://www.windmill.dev/docs/core_concepts/scheduling
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/windmill-labs/windmill/main/LICENSE