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Best Netlify Alternatives with Free Tiers (2026)

28 free alternatives in Cloud Hosting. Sorted by pricing stability.

Current Netlify Situation

Risk Level: caution
Why: effective 2026-04-14 — Netlify changed its credit rates: bandwidth went from 10 to 20 credits per GB and compute from 5 to 10 credits per GB-hour, while web requests went from 3 to 2 credits per 10,000. The Free plan keeps 300 credits a month, so each credit buys half as much bandwidth and compute. Source ↗
Category: Cloud Hosting
Pricing Page: www.netlify.com/pricing/

Recent Pricing Changes (4)

model change effective 2026-04-14 medium impact
Netlify changed its credit rates: bandwidth went from 10 to 20 credits per GB and compute from 5 to 10 credits per GB-hour, while web requests went from 3 to 2 credits per 10,000. The Free plan keeps 300 credits a month, so each credit buys half as much bandwidth and compute. Source ↗
increased effective 2026-04-14 medium 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 ↗
restricted effective 2026-03-01 high 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No longer in force (2026-04-14).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 The per-committer charge described here is no longer in force.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 ↗
restructured effective 2025-09-04 medium impact
Restructured to credit-based pricing; sites pause on credit exhaustion Source ↗

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Recommended Migration Targets

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−1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor.

All Free Alternatives (28)

16 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 11 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.

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leapcell
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Choreo
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Deno Deploy caution discovered 2026-08-28 reduced
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Sevalla (formerly Kinsta) stable
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flightcontrol.dev stable
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Google Cloud Run
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Val Town stable
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Cloud Hosting Read and confirmed 2026-09-21
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Vercel stable
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Cloudflare Workers stable
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Railway stable
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🔗 $20 in Railway credits (disclosure)
Apply.build stable
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Cloudflare Pages
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Render caution 2026-04-23 restructured
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Qoddi stable
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Cloud Hosting Read 2026-09-24 · catalogue date 2026-07-14
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Cloudflare Durable Objects stable
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Neocities
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Cloud Hosting Read 2026-09-02 · catalogue date 2026-07-14
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−1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor.
gigalixir.com stable
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Cloud Hosting Read 2026-07-15 · tried again 2026-09-20 and did not read the page
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−1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 1 consecutive re-check attempt has failed (most recently 2026-09-20 — The provided text does not contain specific details about a free tier or its limitations. It broadly discusses Gigalixir's features and benefits but doesn't explicitly confirm or deny the existence of the previously stored free tier with its specific constraints (1 instance, 2 connections, 10,000 rows, no backups).), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor.
MDB GO
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Cloud Hosting Read 2026-09-02 · catalogue date 2026-07-17
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−1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor.
ampt.dev
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Cloud Hosting Read 2026-09-02 · catalogue date 2026-07-13
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−1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor.
GitHub Pages
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Cloud Hosting Read 2026-09-02 · catalogue date 2026-08-25
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−1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor.
dAppling Network
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Cloud Hosting Read 2026-09-02 · catalogue date 2026-07-16
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−1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor.
Northflank stable
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Cloud Hosting Read 2026-07-16 · tried again 2026-09-26 and did not read the page
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−1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 3 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-09-26 — The pricing page does not explicitly mention a free tier with the stated limits (two services, two cron jobs, and 1 database). It broadly advertises features like CI/CD, databases, and jobs, but doesn't detail a specific free offering with those constraints. It does mention 'Get started for free' and 'Book a demo', but doesn't specify what 'free' entails.), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor.
surge.sh
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Cloud Hosting Read 2026-09-02 · catalogue date 2026-07-15
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−1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor.
Daestro
Free
Cloud Hosting Read 2026-09-02 · catalogue date 2026-07-16
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−1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor.
encore.dev stable
Free
Cloud Hosting Read 2026-08-16 · tried again 2026-09-14 and did not read the page
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−1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 2 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-09-14 — The pricing page does not explicitly mention a free tier with the described features (up to 2 environments, built-in monitoring and tracing). It focuses on the core product's capabilities and offers a 'Get started' option, but doesn't detail a free plan's limitations or confirm its continued existence. The page highlights features like automated infrastructure and AI-powered development, but lacks specific free tier details.), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor.
Clever Cloud
Free
Cloud Hosting Read 2026-09-02 · catalogue date 2026-07-15
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−1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor.
Fly.io
Legacy Free
Cloud Hosting Read 2026-09-18 · catalogue date 2026-08-17
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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.
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2026-09-30
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alternative-to:Netlify
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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best free alternatives to Netlify?
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 read and catalogue dates we hold. Of those, 16 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 11 are demoted with the reason named, 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, on 2026-04-14: Netlify changed its credit rates: bandwidth went from 10 to 20 credits per GB and compute from 5 to 10 credits per GB-hour, while web requests went from 3 to 2 credits per 10,000. The Free plan keeps 300 credits a month, so each credit buys half as much bandwidth and compute. Source: https://www.netlify.com/changelog/2026-04-14-pricing-updates-april-2026/
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 4 recorded pricing changes. The most recent was on 2026-04-14: Netlify changed its credit rates: bandwidth went from 10 to 20 credits per GB and compute from 5 to 10 credits per GB-hour, while web requests went from 3 to 2 credits per 10,000. The Free plan keeps 300 credits a month, so each credit buys half as much bandwidth and compute. Source: https://www.netlify.com/changelog/2026-04-14-pricing-updates-april-2026/

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