VPS Gratis (2026)¶

Mana yang masih bisa dipake buat host AI agent gratis di 2026.

Spoiler: Oracle Cloud paling generous (24GB RAM forever). AWS Free Tier 12 bulan. Sisanya trade-off.

Ringkasan cepat¶

Provider	RAM	Disk	Bandwidth	Durasi	Catatan
Oracle Cloud	24GB ARM	200GB	10TB/bln	Forever	Approval tricky, ARM only
AWS Free Tier	1GB	30GB	100GB	12 bulan	x86, gampang setup
Google Cloud	1GB	30GB	1GB/bln	Forever (e2-micro)	US region only
Fly.io	256MB x 3	3GB	160GB	Forever	Free tier sekarang shared
Railway	shared	shared	shared	$5 credit/bln	Bagus untuk tier kecil
Render	512MB	shared	100GB	Forever (web), spin down	Sleep after 15min idle
Koyeb	512MB	shared	shared	Forever	Lumayan reliable
Hetzner	4GB	40GB	20TB	$4.49/bln	Bukan gratis tapi cheap

Detail per provider¶

Oracle Cloud Always Free ⭐ Most Generous¶

Yang lo dapet (forever): - 4 ARM Ampere A1 cores - 24 GB RAM (bisa split ke 4 instance) - 200 GB block storage - 10 TB outbound/month

Pros: - Resource paling besar di antara semua free tier - Punya public IP - Full root access - Ubuntu / Oracle Linux / AlmaLinux

Cons: - Approval susah. Oracle aggressive flag akun baru sebagai potential fraud. Bisa decline / suspend tanpa peringatan. - ARM architecture (Ampere). Beberapa Python wheels & Docker images ga support ARM, butuh build dari source. - Idle reclaim — kalo instance idle ga ada CPU usage, bisa di-reclaim Oracle. - Support buat free tier minimal.

Cocok buat: - Telegram bot (CPU usage spike pas chat, idle moderate) - Discord bot - Selfhosted LLM proxy (kalo punya quantized model) - Web scraping (kalo bukan terus-terusan)

Sign up tips: - Pakai credit card valid (debit/virtual sering decline) - Jangan pake VPN / Tor saat sign up - Region: Singapore atau Tokyo paling deket dari Indonesia - Verify email + phone

Link: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/

AWS Free Tier (12 months)¶

Yang lo dapet (12 bulan pertama): - 750 jam/bulan t2.micro / t3.micro - 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU - 30 GB EBS storage - 100 GB outbound/month

Setelah 12 bulan: - t3.micro ~$8.50/bulan - Storage masih dihitung - Total ~$10/bulan ongoing

Pros: - x86 architecture (semua software support) - Industry standard, docs lengkap - Banyak service ekstra free (S3 5GB, Lambda 1M req/bln, dll) - AWS CLI mature

Cons: - Kebatas 12 bulan, abis itu charged - RAM cuma 1GB — agent dengan banyak history bisa OOM - Disk cuma 30GB

Cocok buat: - Belajar VPS / Linux dasar - Bot kecil yang ga butuh banyak RAM - Backup target (S3)

Sign up tips: - Wajib credit card valid - Set budget alert di Billing Dashboard (alert kalo > $1) - Disable services yang ga dipake (jangan biarin running)

Link: https://aws.amazon.com/free/

Google Cloud (e2-micro forever)¶

Yang lo dapet (forever): - 1x e2-micro instance (0.25-1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM) - 30 GB standard persistent disk - 1 GB outbound/month (kecil banget) - Region: us-east1, us-west1, us-central1 (US only)

Pros: - Forever free (selama Google policy ga ganti) - x86, full software compat - GCP services lain ada free tier (BigQuery 1TB query, Cloud Functions 2M invocations)

Cons: - Region US only — latency dari Indonesia ~250ms (bot Telegram OK, tapi web tidak) - Outbound cuma 1 GB/bln — bot Telegram bisa habis kalo banyak media - RAM 1 GB ketat

Cocok buat: - Bot kecil dengan traffic rendah - Worker yang trigger by event (cron, webhook)

Sign up tips: - Wajib credit card valid - Aktifkan "Always Free" di account settings - Pilih region us-west1 (Oregon) buat latency paling rendah dari Asia

Link: https://cloud.google.com/free

Fly.io¶

Yang lo dapet (forever): - 3 shared-cpu-1x VMs (256 MB RAM each) - 3 GB persistent storage - 160 GB outbound/month

Pros: - Deploy via Dockerfile / Procfile (kayak Heroku) - Auto-scaling - Multi-region edge

Cons: - RAM 256 MB per VM — kecil. Bot Python dengan LLM SDK bisa habis di startup. - Free tier udah lebih restrictive dari sebelumnya (used to be 3 always-on) - Cold start kalo VM scale down

Cocok buat: - Bot yang stateless / minimal state - API server kecil

Tips: Pakai distroless image, minimize deps.

Link: https://fly.io/

Railway¶

Yang lo dapet: - $5 free credit per bulan - 500 jam execution (shared CPU) - 1 GB RAM, 1 GB disk

Pros: - Deploy via GitHub repo (push to deploy) - Modern UI - Bagus untuk hobby project

Cons: - Cuma $5/bulan, kalo lebih harus bayar - $5 cukup buat low-traffic bot (~10-15 jam runtime per bulan kalo continuous) - Untuk continuous run, butuh upgrade ke $5+/bulan

Cocok buat: - Bot trigger-based (cron, webhook) - Prototype yang ga continuous

Link: https://railway.app/

Render¶

Yang lo dapet (forever): - 1x web service free - 512 MB RAM - Spin down setelah 15 menit idle (cold start ~30 detik)

Pros: - Deploy via GitHub repo - Free SSL - Background workers (paid)

Cons: - Spin down idle = bot ga responsive sampai cold start. Tidak cocok untuk Telegram bot yang harus selalu online. - Background worker bayar ($7/bulan minimum)

Cocok buat: - Static site - Web API yang ga continuous

Tidak cocok: Telegram bot (karena spin down).

Link: https://render.com/

Koyeb¶

Yang lo dapet (forever): - 1x nano instance - 256 MB RAM, 0.1 vCPU - 50 GB transfer

Pros: - Tidak spin down idle (unlike Render) - Deploy via GitHub - Multi-region

Cons: - RAM kecil banget (256 MB) - vCPU shared 0.1 = slow

Cocok buat: - Bot stateless yang ringan - Worker simple

Link: https://www.koyeb.com/

Hetzner (Cheap, bukan gratis)¶

Yang lo dapet: CX11 €3.79/bulan (~$4.30) - 2 vCPU - 4 GB RAM - 40 GB disk - 20 TB traffic

Pros: - Resource paling banyak per dolar di antara provider mainstream - Reliable, datacenter Eropa - Bisa pakai virtual credit card untuk sign up

Cons: - Bayar (tapi murah) - Region Eropa + US (no Asia)

Kalo lo punya $5/bulan budget: Hetzner > AWS > Oracle (lebih reliable approval).

Link: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud

Recommendation per kebutuhan¶

Buat AI agent personal dengan akses penuh (Kai-style)¶

Pilihan 1 (gratis, maks resource): Oracle Cloud Always Free

4 OCPU ARM + 24 GB RAM = bisa run bot + LLM proxy + database
200 GB disk = banyak space buat history, credential, log
10 TB bandwidth = ga akan habis
⚠️ Risiko: account decline / suspend

Pilihan 2 (gratis, mainstream): AWS Free Tier 12 bulan

Stabil, mainstream, full support
1 GB RAM agak sempit tapi cukup buat bot Python sederhana
Setelah 12 bulan: $10/bulan untuk t3.micro

Pilihan 3 (gratis 100%, low-traffic): Google Cloud e2-micro

Forever free
Latency US-Asia ~250ms (OK untuk Telegram, bad untuk web)

Pilihan 4 (cheap, reliable): Hetzner CX11 €3.79/bulan

Best value if you have small budget
4 GB RAM, 2 vCPU, plenty of headroom

Buat bot Telegram simple (chat only, ga butuh tool execution)¶

Railway atau Koyeb cukup
$5 credit Railway = ~3 minggu continuous run

Buat skripsi / experiment / prototype¶

Fly.io 3x VMs gratis
Cukup buat dev / staging environment

Setup di Oracle Cloud (Detail)¶

Step-by-step:

1. Sign up

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
Pakai credit card valid (untuk verifikasi, ga di-charge)
Verify email + SMS
Wait approval (kadang instant, kadang 24 jam, kadang decline)

2. Create instance

Compute → Instances → Create Instance
Image: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Shape: VM.Standard.A1.Flex
Customize: 4 OCPU, 24 GB RAM (max free tier)
Networking: public subnet, assign public IP
SSH keys: upload pubkey lo (atau generate)

3. Open ports

Networking → VCN → Security Lists → default
Add Ingress Rules:
TCP port 22 (SSH) from 0.0.0.0/0
TCP port 80 (HTTP) if needed
TCP port 443 (HTTPS) if needed

4. SSH masuk

ssh -i ~/.ssh/oracle.pem ubuntu@<your-public-ip>

5. Initial setup

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install -y python3-pip python3-venv git curl

6. Deploy agent

Ikutin Tutorial Setup dari Nol.

Tips ngirit resource¶

Pakai SQLite bukan PostgreSQL — RAM hemat
Avoid Docker kalo bisa — overhead tinggi
Streaming history — jangan load full history per call
Quantized LLM kalo selfhost — llama.cpp Q4 model muat di 4-6 GB RAM
Use systemd timer bukan cron — lebih efisien
Log rotation aktif — journalctl --vacuum-time=7d di cron

Backup strategy buat free tier¶

VPS gratis sering di-suspend tanpa warning. Backup penting:

# Daily backup ke S3 (free 5GB)
0 3 * * * tar -czf /tmp/agent-backup.tar.gz ~/agent/data ~/agent/credentials && \
          aws s3 cp /tmp/agent-backup.tar.gz s3://my-backups/$(date +%Y%m%d).tar.gz

Atau backup ke GitHub private repo (kalo data ga sensitive):

cd ~/agent && git add -A && git commit -m "auto-backup $(date)" && git push

Final verdict¶

Kalo lo serius bikin agent yang jalan 24/7:

Best free: Oracle Cloud (kalo bisa lolos approval)
Most reliable free: AWS Free Tier 12 bulan, terus migrasi
Best $5 budget: Hetzner CX11

Jangan over-rely on free tier. Worst case planning: budget $5-10/bulan, lo udah dapet VPS yang reliable. Free tier is a bonus.