# Netlify

> Git-based hosting for sites and web apps, priced by monthly credits

Netlify builds and hosts websites and web apps pushed from Git, the command line, drag and drop or an AI agent, and serves them from a global CDN with a private preview link for every change. It adds serverless functions, a Postgres database, file storage, forms and a gateway to AI models. Plans are priced by a monthly allowance of credits that deploys, bandwidth, compute and web requests use up.

- **Category:** Web Hosting
- **Made by:** Netlify (since 2014)
- **Website:** https://www.netlify.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

Netlify has a free plan. Paid plans start at $9 per month for 1 member.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** 300 credits a month as a hard limit, one member, custom domains with SSL, functions, database, blob storage and unlimited deploy previews. Sites pause when credits run out.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | 300 credits a month that cannot be exceeded, one member, one concurrent build, and 1-day observability and analytics. |
| Personal | $9 per month for 1 member | 1,000 credits a month, smart secret detection, 7-day analytics and priority email support. Extra credits are $5 for 500. |
| Pro | $20 per month for unlimited members | 3,000 credits a month, private org repos, shared env variables, 3 concurrent builds. 10,000 credits is $63 a month, 20,000 is $126. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Sold through sales: 99.99% SLA, enterprise network tier, faster builds, SSO and SCIM, log drains and 24/7 support. |

Read from https://www.netlify.com/pricing/ on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Netlify before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Free Open Source plan for non-commercial projects** (Other savings): Projects with an OSI-approved or Creative Commons license and a code of conduct can apply for 10,000 credits a month, unlimited members and free production deploys. Source: https://www.netlify.com/open-source/

## Key features

- **Deploy from Git, CLI, AI or a folder:** Projects deploy on every push from GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket, from the Netlify CLI, by drag and drop, or from an AI agent, with one-click rollbacks.
- **Deploy Previews:** Every pull request and branch gets its own preview URL where reviewers can leave visual feedback, and new projects stay private until you publish them.
- **Agent Runners:** AI agents such as Claude, Codex and Gemini can be asked to fix, update and ship code from the dashboard, with 1 to 50 concurrent runs by plan.
- **Functions, database and storage:** Serverless and edge functions, Netlify Database (a managed Postgres database) and blob storage for files and images run beside the site.
- **AI Gateway:** Calls major AI models without managing your own API keys, billed through credits at 180 credits per $1 of model cost.
- **Forms, identity and image CDN:** Collects form submissions without a backend, signs up and authenticates site users, and resizes and serves images on demand.

## Good for

- Developers deploying front-end frameworks and static sites from Git
- Teams that want a preview link on every pull request
- Side projects small enough to fit in 300 free credits a month
- Non-commercial open source projects, through the free Open Source plan

## Worth knowing

- Deploys, bandwidth, compute and requests all draw on monthly credits: 15 per production deploy and 20 per GB of bandwidth.
- When an account's credits run out its sites pause until the next cycle, unless auto recharge ($5 for 500 on Personal, $10 for 1,500 on Pro) is turned on.
- Free and Personal allow one member; private organization repos and shared env variables start at Pro, and extra concurrent builds are $40 a month.
- SSO, SCIM, a 99.99% uptime SLA, log drains and 24/7 support are on the Enterprise plan only.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Netlify hosts sites and web apps you push from Git, with a private preview link for every change and functions, a database and forms beside them. It's made for people who write code, not for a WordPress blog set up in one click. The free plan really works for a small site, but every deploy and gigabyte uses credits, and when they run out the site pauses.

- **Value for money: B.** Graded against its own alternatives, since it hosts sites built elsewhere: Personal is $9 a month with no intro price to expire, so the second year costs what the first did. That's under Cloudways' $11 and far under Kinsta's $30. Extra credits are $5 for 500, and a team needs Pro at $20.
- **Free plan and trial: B.** A real free plan: custom domains with SSL, functions, a database and unlimited deploy previews, with 300 credits a month. A small personal site fits. A busy one doesn't, and it pauses when the credits run out rather than billing you.
- **Features: B.** Against its own alternatives it covers the whole job: deploys from Git, the command line, a folder or an AI agent, preview links with feedback, rollbacks, functions, Postgres, file storage, forms and user sign-ups. Just know it's for sites built in code.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Dropping a folder in works, but most of it assumes you build sites in code and push them from Git, and credits are one more thing to keep an eye on.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** A web dashboard with no app on record, plus a command-line tool. It hooks into GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Slack, and AI agents such as Claude, Codex, Gemini and Cursor can ship code through it.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Netlify's own pages on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among web hosts

- Netlify's GPA of 2.8 is higher than 23 of the 23 other web hosts we grade.
- It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 23 of 23) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $9 a month, against a middle price of $9 for the category: 11 of the 22 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4, and no tool on the category's chart scores higher without costing more.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Netlify you would be making an AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.8 is higher than 23 of the 23 other web hosts we grade. It costs $108 a year.

- You could make: Forms: an app builder makes this well.
- You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket among them, and has an API.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Slack, Claude, OpenAI Codex, Gemini, Cursor

**Tags:** Public API, AI features, AI agents, Forms

## Alternatives

- [Cloudways](https://toolgpa.com/tools/cloudways): Managed cloud hosting on DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS or Google. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cloudways-vs-netlify)
- [Kinsta](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kinsta): Managed WordPress hosting priced by sites, visits or bandwidth. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kinsta-vs-netlify)
- [Hostinger](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hostinger): Shared, WordPress and cloud hosting run from its own hPanel dashboard. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hostinger-vs-netlify)
- [Replit](https://toolgpa.com/tools/replit): Cloud platform where an AI agent builds, hosts and publishes apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/netlify-vs-replit)
- [v0](https://toolgpa.com/tools/v0): Vercel's AI agent for building and deploying full-stack web apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/netlify-vs-v0)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026:

- https://www.netlify.com/pricing/
- https://www.netlify.com
- https://docs.netlify.com/manage/accounts-and-billing/billing/billing-for-credit-based-plans/credit-based-pricing-plans/
- https://www.netlify.com/about/
- https://www.netlify.com/open-source/

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/netlify
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