Running a high-quality music bot on Discord requires robust infrastructure, and has become the industry standard for handling audio streaming efficiently. However, hosting a Lavalink server can quickly become expensive.

Oracle’s "Always Free" tier is currently the best option, offering a powerful VM that can run 24/7 for free.

Oracle Cloud's free tier is arguably the most generous. It includes powerful Arm-based virtual machines with up to 4 cores and 24GB of RAM, completely free for life. This is more than enough to run a high-performance Lavalink node for a large bot.

Oracle Cloud offers resources including an ARM-based VM with 24 GB RAM.

The Ultimate Guide to Free Lavalink Hosting Lavalink is the industry standard for high-performance audio streaming in Discord bots. Because audio processing is resource-intensive, many developers seek solutions to run their music bots without overhead.

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For years, Heroku was the go-to free platform. The free tier provided 512MB of RAM, 1GB of disk space, and 1,000 instance hours per month. You could deploy a Lavalink server in just a few clicks using a pre-built GitHub repository.

Once you have access to your server (via SSH), follow these steps to get it running: