Netlify pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Netlify (netlify.com) is a hosting platform. Flat plans with credits spent on bandwidth, compute and deploys. Free plan: 300 credits/mo (~15 GB bandwidth).
What Netlify costs
- Entry plan: $9/mo
- Small app: $20/mo
Plan compared: Personal: $9, 1,000 credits. Cheapest paid plan per month (per seat where plans are seat-based).
Netlify price hikes
- Netlify moved to credits and shrank its free plan · Sep 5, 2025
New accounts moved to credit-based plans: the free plan went from 100 GB of bandwidth to 300 credits (about 15 GB), and Pro's monthly credits were later cut from 5,000 to 3,000.
Cheaper alternatives to Netlify
At the entry plan, Netlify costs $9/mo. 6 hosting platforms cost less:
- Fly.io: $2.19/mo (Smallest Machine, 256 MB)
- Railway: $5/mo (Hobby: $5 incl. $5 usage)
- Heroku: $5/mo (Eco: $5 for 1,000 dyno hours)
- Cloudflare Workers: $5/mo (Workers Paid, $5 minimum)
- DigitalOcean Apps: $5/mo (512 MiB shared container)
- Hetzner Cloud: $7.49/mo (CPX02: 1 vCPU, 1 GB (EU))
Netlify alternatives: 6 cheaper hosting platforms compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Apr 14, 2026 · Price cut: Credit-based Pro stopped charging per seat.
- Sep 20, 2025 · Limits cut: Pro's credit allotment cut from 5,000 to 3,000 a month while top-up packs got cheaper.
- Sep 5, 2025 · Free tier cut: New accounts moved to credit-based plans: the free plan went from 100 GB of bandwidth to 300 credits (about 15 GB), and Pro's monthly credits were later cut from 5,000 to 3,000.
Sources
Pricing page: netlify.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Small app: 100 GB at 20 credits/GB plus compute and deploys comes to about 2,800 credits, which fits Pro's 3,000. Existing accounts could stay on legacy plans.