Netlify Pricing Calculator

How Netlify pricing works in 2026

Netlify switched to credit-based pricing in September 2025. The Pro plan costs $20/month and includes 3,000 credits. Every resource you consume draws from that credit pool. Bandwidth costs 20 credits per GB; CDN requests cost 2 credits per 10,000; serverless function compute costs 10 credits per GB-hour; and production deploys cost 15 credits each. When you exhaust the 3,000 included credits, you pay roughly $0.0067 per additional credit — the same rate as the base plan.

Before September 2025, Netlify's legacy pricing was simpler: 100 GB of bandwidth and 300 build minutes included, then fixed overage rates. The new credit model unifies all resources under one currency but makes costs harder to reason about upfront — which is exactly why this calculator exists.

What surprises teams about Netlify costs

The two line items that catch teams off guard are production deploys and bandwidth on high-traffic apps. Each production deployment costs 15 credits ($0.10). That sounds trivial until you count CI deploys: a team shipping 100 times per month spends 1,500 credits ($10) just on deploys — half of the included Pro allocation, before a single user visits the site.

Bandwidth is the second shock. At 20 credits per GB, a site transferring 300 GB per month uses 6,000 credits — double the Pro included amount — on bandwidth alone. At $0.0067/credit, that's ~$20 in overage before any compute or request charges. Sites with heavy images or video previews hit this wall fast.

Netlify pricing examples

Marketing site (10k visitors/mo): ~25 GB bandwidth (500 credits) + 250k CDN requests (50 credits) + 20 deploys (300 credits) = 850 credits. Well inside the Pro 3,000 included — $20/month flat, no overage.

Side-project SaaS (50k visitors/mo, 400k API calls): ~200 GB bandwidth (4,000 credits) + 12M CDN requests (2,400 credits) + function compute (variable) + 40 deploys (600 credits) ≈ 7,000+ credits. Overage of ~4,000 credits = ~$27. Total: ~$47/month.

Growing SaaS (250k visitors/mo): Bandwidth alone hits ~1,000 GB (20,000 credits). At $0.0067/credit, that's ~$134 in bandwidth credits on top of the $20 base. Total: $150+/month, with function compute and request credits on top.

How this calculator works

The calculator translates your workload into Netlify credit consumption: bandwidth credits from page views × page weight, request credits from total CDN hits (page views × assets per page + API calls), function compute credits from invocations × duration × memory, and deploy credits from monthly deploy count. It then shows how many credits fall within the 3,000 included and what the overage costs.

Caveats

Credit-based pricing is new as of September 2025 and may be revised. Confirm current credit rates at netlify.com/pricing. Forms, Netlify Identity, background functions, and split testing all consume credits separately and are not modeled here.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Netlify cost per month?

Netlify Pro costs $20/month and includes 3,000 credits. Most small marketing sites and low-traffic apps stay within those credits and pay only the $20 base. Apps with significant traffic, frequent deploys, or heavy serverless usage will see overage charges on top.

How does Netlify credit pricing work?

Every resource you use on Netlify is priced in credits: bandwidth (20 credits/GB), CDN requests (2 credits/10k), function compute (10 credits/GB-hour), and deploys (15 credits each). The Pro plan includes 3,000 credits at $20/month. Additional credits cost roughly $0.0067 each — the same per-credit rate as the base plan.

Is Netlify free for hobby projects?

Netlify's Free plan includes 300 credits per month. At 20 credits/GB of bandwidth, that covers up to 15 GB of transfer plus some deploys and function usage. A low-traffic personal site or portfolio typically fits within the free tier.

Netlify vs Vercel pricing — which is cheaper?

For most SaaS workloads, both platforms land in a similar price range at moderate traffic. Netlify's credit model can be harder to predict. Vercel's main advantage is that it includes 1 TB of bandwidth on the Pro plan; Netlify's 3,000 credits translate to roughly 150 GB of effective bandwidth on Pro before overage kicks in. For bandwidth-heavy apps, Vercel Pro tends to cost less; for function-heavy apps, Netlify's credit model can come out ahead.