PythonAnywhere Beginner
PythonAnywhere Beginner is free: one web app at yourname.pythonanywhere.com, 100 CPU-seconds a day for consoles and tasks, and 512 MB of storage. Outbound internet access is limited to approved sites, and there are no custom domains or always-on tasks.
Beginner costs $0.00 a month, or $0 a year.
This is a platform subscription with usage allowances. It is not a dedicated CPU/RAM server allocation; usage charges and limits depend on the plan.
- Deployment
- Application platform
Our notes
Choosing PythonAnywhere Beginner
Who it suits
Learning Python web development, coursework and small Flask or Django demos that need a public address. You get one web app at yourname.pythonanywhere.com without setting up a server.
Compared with other PythonAnywhere plans
Beginner allows 100 CPU-seconds a day for consoles and tasks and 512 MB of storage. Developer, at $10 a month, raises that to 5,000 CPU-seconds a day, 50 times as much, plus 5 GB of disk, three web workers, a custom domain, one always-on task, 20 scheduled tasks and SSH access.
Before you sign up
Outbound internet access is limited to approved sites, so an app that calls an API not on the list will fail. There are no custom domains or always-on tasks. 100 CPU-seconds a day goes quickly when running scripts in the console, so do heavy processing elsewhere.
Worked costs
- Beginner
- $0
- Developer for a month
- $10
- Developer for a year, paid yearly
- $100
Our arithmetic from the list prices in our catalog, before tax, add-ons and any overage not shown. Hourly prices use 730 hours for a month.
Written on from the prices and limits on this page. We hide these notes if a price they quote changes. How we compare plans
Cost at a glance
What this plan costs you
- Per month
- $0.00
- Per year
- $0
Standard list price before tax, add-ons, backups or bandwidth overage.
Specifications
- Billing scope
- Free tier with fixed limits
- Deployment model
- Application platform
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How PythonAnywhere Beginner differs from its neighbours
Other tiers
- Developer is the next tier up at $10.00 a month, $10.00 more than this plan. Compared with this plan, it lists billing scope as Monthly subscription instead of Free tier with fixed limits.
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Questions
Questions about Beginner
How much does Beginner cost?
$0.00 a month, or about $0.00 a year, before tax.
What does the next tier up cost?
Developer is the next tier up at $10.00 a month, $10.00 more than this plan. Compared with this plan, it lists billing scope as Monthly subscription instead of Free tier with fixed limits.