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Your first device online today, for free
The Thinger.io community cloud is where students, makers and developers all over the world meet the platform. Open a free account, connect a board and watch its data land on a dashboard in an afternoon.
Who it is for
Everyone starts somewhere
A free, shared platform for learning, first prototypes and trying Thinger.io on your own hardware.
01 · Classrooms
Students and classrooms
Coursework, labs and final projects on a real IoT backend. Each student opens a free account, so nobody has to ask IT for a server.
- Lab sessions
- Final-year projects
- Thesis prototypes
02 · Makers
Makers and hobbyists
A weather station, a greenhouse, a garage door. Connect the board on your bench, then read it or switch it from your phone.
- Home projects
- Weather stations
- Weekend builds
03 · Evaluation
Developers evaluating
Try the console, the device libraries and the REST API on your own hardware before choosing a platform. They are the ones production runs on.
- Proof of concept
- API integration
- Platform shortlist
From day one
Connect, record, visualize, integrate
A free account is the real console. Five steps take a board from first sketch to your own app.
An ESP32 sketch using the Thinger.io client library.
The device view in the console: online, a temperature reading and an LED switched on.
A data bucket charting a day of temperature, with its latest rows and an export button.
A dashboard with a temperature gauge, a humidity value, an LED button and a line chart.
A curl request with a bearer token reading the bucket, and its JSON reply.
The console, the libraries and the API are the same ones that run in production. Nothing you learn here is throwaway.

LEARN BY CONNECTING SOMETHING REAL
Docs and community
You are not learning alone
The same docs our customers use, a forum full of people on the same boards, and the source of every device library.
- DocumentationGuides for every board and feature, down to the REST API reference. Read the docs (opens in a new tab)
- Community forumAsk, share a project and find people with the same hardware. Visit the forum (opens in a new tab)
- Open source librariesClient libraries and examples for every board, open on GitHub. Browse the code (opens in a new tab)
When you take it to production
The same platform, on an instance of your own
Carries over
- Your firmware and devices
- Your dashboards
- The REST API and tokens
- Everything you learned
Adds
- A dedicated instance in your region
- Room for a fleet, storage sized to your plan
- Alarms, rules and endpoints
- White label, with your own customers
- Managed for you by Thinger.io
Your data can always leave through the REST API or a CSV export.
Deployment modes
One platform, four ways to run it
Most projects start here and grow into a private cloud instance.
| CloudThis page | Private Cloud | On-Premise | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Learning, first prototypes and makers | Products and fleets in production | Policies that keep data inside your own perimeter | Strict security, compliance and contractual requirements |
| Infrastructure | Shared community cloud | A dedicated instance per customer | Your own servers and network | Isolated infrastructure designed for the project, ours or in your cloud |
| Operations | Managed by Thinger.io | Managed by Thinger.io | Operated by your IT team, with our support | Managed by Thinger.io to your requirements |
| Pricing | Free | Public plans from 49 EUR per month | Sized per project | Sized per project, custom SLA |
The platform is the same in every mode, so the choice is about who runs it, where it lives and what the contract has to guarantee.
Security
Certified processes, per device credentials
Operated by an ISO 27001 certified company. Even on a free account, every device has its own credential and every API call a scoped token.
Next step
Connect your first device today
Open a free account, follow the quick start for your board and have a dashboard moving before the coffee gets cold. When the project grows, Private Cloud is one plan away.
