Setup Free Tier Tool Accounts & MCP Integrations

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Summary

Setup accounts for free tier tools to maximize available resources. Reference: FREE_TIER_TOOLS.md

Current Tools (Already Using)

Service	Purpose	Status
Cloudflare	DNS, CDN, Workers	Active
Akash	Decentralized compute	Active
Infisical	Secrets management	Active
GitHub	Code, CI/CD	Active
Web3.Storage	IPFS pinning	Active

Priority 1: High Value (< 1 hour setup each)

Databases & Cache

• Supabase - PostgreSQL + Auth + Storage (500MB free)
• Neon - Serverless Postgres with branching (512MB free)
• Turso - Edge SQLite (9GB free)
• Upstash Redis - Serverless Redis (10K commands/day)

Storage

• Cloudflare R2 - 10GB free, no egress fees
• Backblaze B2 - 10GB free storage

Monitoring

• Better Stack - 10 uptime monitors
• Sentry - 5K errors/month
• PostHog - 1M events/month

Email

• Resend - 3K emails/month

Priority 2: AI Providers

• Anthropic - API credits for Claude
• OpenAI - $5 free credits
• Groq - Fast inference (free tier)
• Together AI - $25 free credits
• Google AI Studio - 60 QPM Gemini free

Priority 3: Additional MCP Servers

Configure MCP servers for agent tool access:

# Supabase MCP
claude mcp add supabase -- npx @supabase/mcp

# Cloudflare MCP  
claude mcp add cloudflare -- npx @cloudflare/mcp-server-cloudflare

# Neon MCP
claude mcp add neon -- npx @neondatabase/mcp-server-neon

# Puppeteer MCP (browser automation)
claude mcp add puppeteer -- npx @anthropics/mcp-server-puppeteer

Priority 4: Blockchain/Web3

• Alchemy - 300M compute units/month
• QuickNode - 10M credits
• thirdweb - SDK + contracts free

Total Free Resources Target

Resource	Combined Free Tier
Compute	~300K requests/day + 3 VMs
Database	~2GB SQL + 10K Redis commands/day
Storage	~25GB object storage
Email	~3K emails/month
Monitoring	Comprehensive coverage
AI	Multiple providers

Credential Storage

Store all credentials in Infisical under appropriate projects:

• alternatefutures/tools/databases
• alternatefutures/tools/monitoring
• alternatefutures/tools/ai-providers
• alternatefutures/tools/web3

Success Criteria

• All Priority 1 accounts created
• Credentials stored in Infisical
• MCP servers configured for agent access
• Agents can use tools via MCP