restructureddiscovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknownmedium impact
The free tier now offers 300 credits/month. Source ↗
model changeeffective 2026-04-17medium impact
Netlify credits-based pricing updated: bandwidth now 20 credits/GB (was 10), compute now 10 credits/GB-hour (was 5), web requests 2 credits/10K (new). Same 300 credits/month allocation but each credit buys less bandwidth and compute. Source ↗
increasedeffective 2026-04-14medium impact
Form submissions are now free across all Credit plans (including the Credit Free tier) — previously each form submission cost 1 credit. Credit Pro also gained unlimited team seats (was $20/seat per Git contributor), which effectively removes the prior CMS/Identity 'every committer becomes a $19 Pro seat' gotcha for free-tier users who ever upgrade. Source ↗
restrictedeffective 2026-03-01high impact
No longer in force (2026-04-14). Every repo committer is now charged as a full Pro seat ($19/mo) when using Netlify CMS or Identity with a private repo. Previously only users who logged into the Netlify dashboard counted as seats Reversed 2026-04-14: Netlify's pricing page now states that as of April 14th, credit-based Pro plans no longer charge for any seat. The per-committer charge described here is no longer in force. Source ↗
restructuredeffective 2025-09-04medium impact
Restructured to credit-based pricing; sites pause on credit exhaustion Source ↗
Recommended Migration Targets
These alternatives were identified from Netlify’s pricing changes as recommended replacements.
27 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 0 are demoted with the reason named, and 1 are listed last because they are not generally available or are not a free offer. How we rank.
Left out of this list: PythonAnywhere (shares no subtype with this product), anvil.works (shares no subtype with this product), codenameone.com (none of this category's subtypes apply), domcloud.co (shares no subtype with this product), WunderGraph (none of this category's subtypes apply), YepCode (none of this category's subtypes apply), Activepieces (none of this category's subtypes apply), Back4App (shares no subtype with this product), bismuth.cloud (we have not classified this record), Claw.cloud (we have not classified this record), connectycube.com (none of this category's subtypes apply), ETLR (none of this category's subtypes apply), Flutter Flow (none of this category's subtypes apply), IFTTT (none of this category's subtypes apply), Integrately (none of this category's subtypes apply), LeanCloud (shares no subtype with this product), paraio.com (shares no subtype with this product), simperium.com (shares no subtype with this product), Alwaysdata (shares no subtype with this product), Awardspace.com (shares no subtype with this product), Bubble (shares no subtype with this product), FreeFlarum (shares no subtype with this product), Oaysus (we have not classified this record), pantheon.io (shares no subtype with this product), readthedocs.org (shares no subtype with this product), Serv00.com (shares no subtype with this product), tilda.cc (shares no subtype with this product), Versoly (shares no subtype with this product), Cloudflare Sandboxes (shares no subtype with this product), Cloudflare Dynamic Workers (shares no subtype with this product), OpenVPS (we have not classified this record). Each is still listed in its category, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.
not_a_free_offer Tier "Legacy Free" is a free tier closed to new accounts.
Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 28 free alternatives to Netlify, each listed below with its tier, category and the date we last verified it. Of those, 27 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 1 is listed last behind a stated gate. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
Is Netlify's free tier still available?
Netlify has a free tier (Free), but it's flagged as "caution" because of one specific recorded change, discovered 2026-09-07: The free tier now offers 300 credits/month. Source: https://www.netlify.com/pricing/
How many free alternatives to Netlify exist?
There are 28 free alternatives to Netlify tracked on AgentDeals across the Cloud Hosting category.
Has Netlify changed their pricing?
Netlify has 5 recorded pricing changes. The most recent was discovered 2026-09-07: The free tier now offers 300 credits/month. Source: https://www.netlify.com/pricing/
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