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Overview

What Netlify does

Netlify is a web development platform that multiplies productivity. By unifying the elements of the modern decoupled web, from local development to advanced edge logic, Netlify enables a 10x faster path to much more performant, secure, and scalable websites and apps.

What people use it for

  • Hosting static sites and frontend frameworks with global CDN delivery
  • Deploy previews on every pull request
  • Serverless functions alongside a static site
  • Netlify Database and Blob storage for small application state

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The honest half

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Netlify.

  • The free tier is an individual account with 300 credits; team members require the Pro plan at $20 a month
  • Everything is metered in credits, so bandwidth at 20 credits per GB and production deploys at 15 credits each consume the allowance in ways a bandwidth figure alone would not show
  • Compute is billed at 10 credits per GB-hour, so server-rendered work costs more than static hosting
  • Running past the allowance means buying credit packs, at $5 for 500 on Personal and $10 for 1,500 on Pro
  • AI inference is priced by model rather than at a flat credit rate

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What people choose instead of Netlify

Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.

Pricing

What Netlify costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Starter

Free

  • 100GB bandwidth
  • 300 build minutes
  • 1 concurrent build
  • Instant rollbacks
  • Deploy previews

Pro

$19 /mo

  • 400GB bandwidth
  • 25,000 build minutes
  • 3 concurrent builds
  • Background functions
  • Analytics

Business

$99 /mo

  • 600GB bandwidth
  • 35,000 build minutes
  • 5 concurrent builds
  • SSO/SAML
  • Priority support

Enterprise

On request

  • Custom bandwidth
  • Custom build minutes
  • Unlimited concurrent builds
  • Enterprise SLA
  • Dedicated support

Capabilities

Features

  • Continuous deployment

    Continuous deployment capability

  • Instant rollbacks

    Instant rollbacks capability

  • Deploy previews

    Deploy previews capability

  • Split testing

    Split testing capability

  • Forms handling

    Forms handling capability

  • Identity/Auth

    Identity/Auth capability

  • Serverless functions

    Serverless functions capability

  • Edge handlers

    Edge handlers capability

  • GitHub

    Integration with GitHub

  • GitLab

    Integration with GitLab

  • Bitbucket

    Integration with Bitbucket

  • Azure DevOps

    Integration with Azure DevOps

Behind it

Who makes Netlify

Company
Netlify Inc
Based in
San Francisco, California, United States
Founders
Mathias Biilmann, Christian Bach
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