Netlify Pro costs $20 a month for unlimited members and 3,000 credits. What credits buy, the April changes, and worked costs against Vercel.
By Veracity Media Network · Published 2026-04-23 · Updated 2026-09-27
Netlify charges a monthly plan that includes a budget of credits. Every production deploy, gigabyte of bandwidth, batch of web requests and hour of compute uses credits from that budget.
| Plan | Price | Credits a month | Members |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 300 | 1 |
| Personal | $9 | 1,000 | 1 |
| Pro | $20 | 3,000 | Unlimited |
| Pro, larger budgets | $33 to $126 | 5,000 to 20,000 | Unlimited |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Custom |
Netlify's credit-based plans are Free ($0, 300 credits a month), Personal ($9, 1,000 credits) and Pro, which starts at $20 a month for 3,000 credits and unlimited team members. Pro can be raised to 5,000 credits for $33, 10,000 for $63, 15,000 for $95 or 20,000 for $126 a month, and unused credits roll over for one month on the 5,000-credit tier and above. [1]
When the credits run out, Netlify does not send a surprise bill. It pauses your sites until the next month, unless you buy more credits or turn on automatic top-ups.
We first published this page in April 2026 as a news piece about Netlify's April 14 pricing change. We rewrote it in September 2026 as a full guide, rechecked every figure against official pages, and kept the April details in their own section below.
A production deploy uses 15 credits, compute 10 credits per GB-hour, bandwidth 20 credits per GB, web requests 2 credits per 10,000, and AI inference 180 credits per $1 of model provider cost. Netlify Forms submissions, Deploy Previews and branch deploys are free, and failed deploys and rollbacks do not use credits. [2]
On Pro, 3,000 credits cost $20, so one credit is worth about two-thirds of a cent. Automatic top-ups on Pro cost the same: $10 for 1,500 credits. In dollars, that makes:
| Usage | Credits | Cost on Pro |
|---|---|---|
| 1 production deploy | 15 | $0.10 |
| 1 GB of bandwidth | 20 | $0.13 |
| 1 million web requests | 200 | $1.33 |
| 1 GB-hour of compute | 10 | $0.07 |
And here is what a full month of credits buys if you spend it on one thing only:
| Plan | Bandwidth only | Production deploys only |
|---|---|---|
| Free (300 credits) | 15 GB | 20 |
| Personal (1,000) | 50 GB | 66 |
| Pro (3,000) | 150 GB | 200 |
| Pro, 20,000 credits | 1,000 GB | 1,333 |
Deploys count on the Free plan
Twenty production deploys use the Free plan's entire 300 credits, before a single visitor arrives. If you deploy often, test on Deploy Previews, which are free, and deploy to production less often.
When a team's monthly credits are used up, all its web projects are paused and visitors see a "Site not available" page. Paused projects do not receive web requests or form submissions, and new production deploys cannot run. Teams can enable auto recharge to keep projects active. [3]
Auto recharge costs $5 for 500 additional credits on Personal and $10 for 1,500 additional credits on Pro. [4]
Auto recharge is turned off by default, and it is not available on the Free plan. [5]
Any credits remaining from auto recharge roll over for future months. [6]
The pause protects you from surprise bills, but it also takes a business site offline. For anything that earns money, turn on auto recharge and set a limit you are comfortable with.
On April 14, 2026, Netlify made team seats on Pro credit plans unlimited, where it had charged $20 per seat including active Git contributors. It changed bandwidth from 10 to 20 credits per GB, compute from 5 to 10 credits per GB-hour and web requests from 3 to 2 credits per 10,000, and made form submissions free on all credit plans. Legacy plans were not changed. [7]
For teams, the seat change was the big saving: a 5-person team went from $100 to $20 a month. For traffic, the change went the other way. The same 3,000 Pro credits used to buy 300 GB of bandwidth and now buy 150 GB.
If your account started before September 4, 2025, you may still be on a legacy plan, which these credit rules do not cover.
Accounts created on or after September 4, 2025 use credit-based plans. Existing accounts on legacy Free, Starter or Pro plans can choose to move, and the switch cannot be reversed. [8]
The examples assume each page view loads 1 MB of files through 20 requests, 60 production deploys a month (about three a working day) and a little serverless compute. Your own numbers will differ, so use the credit table above to swap in yours.
A company website with 50,000 page views a month
| Usage | Credits |
|---|---|
| 50 GB of bandwidth | 1,000 |
| 1 million web requests | 200 |
| 60 production deploys | 900 |
| 10 GB-hours of compute | 100 |
| Total | 2,200 |
This fits within Pro's 3,000 credits: $20 a month for the whole team. On Personal, you would need 1,200 extra credits, bought as three top-ups for $15, for a total of $24 with only one member. Pro is the better deal here.
A busy content site with 500,000 page views a month
| Usage | Credits |
|---|---|
| 500 GB of bandwidth | 10,000 |
| 10 million web requests | 2,000 |
| 60 production deploys | 900 |
| 20 GB-hours of compute | 200 |
| Total | 13,100 |
The cheapest way to buy this is Pro at $20 plus seven $10 top-ups of 1,500 credits: 13,500 credits for $90 a month. A fixed 15,000-credit Pro budget costs $95. Top-up credits roll over, so leftovers lower the next month's bill a little. Bandwidth makes up three-quarters of the total.
13100 Netlify credits a month for a site with 500,000 page views
At 1 MB and 20 requests per page view, 500,000 page views use 10,000 credits of bandwidth and 2,000 of web requests. With 60 production deploys (900 credits) and 20 GB-hours of compute (200 credits), the total is 13,100 credits. On Netlify Pro that costs $90 a month with auto recharge ($20 plan plus seven $10 top-ups) or $95 on the fixed 15,000-credit budget. Rates checked on 2026-09-27.
Vercel is the usual alternative, and its pricing now differs from Netlify's in two ways: who pays for seats, and how traffic is charged.
Vercel Pro has a $20 monthly platform fee that includes one deploying seat and $20 of usage credit. Additional seats that can deploy cost $20 a month each, and read-only viewer seats are free. Pro includes the lowest Flat Rate CDN tier, with 1 million CDN requests and 1 TB of data transfer a month. [9]
Vercel's Flat Rate CDN tiers are included with Pro (1 million requests, 1 TB of data transfer), $20 a month (10 million requests, 50 TB), $100 a month (50 million, 50 TB) and $300 a month (150 million, 50 TB). Sites where media or file delivery makes up most of the bandwidth are not eligible. [10]
Applied to the two example sites, assuming Flat Rate CDN is turned on and the sites' serverless use fits Vercel's included $20 credit:
| Site | Netlify | Vercel, 1 deploying seat | Vercel, 5 deploying seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| Company website (50 GB, 1M requests) | $20 | $20* | $100* |
| Busy content site (500 GB, 10M requests) | $90 | $40 | $120 |
* One million requests is exactly Vercel's included limit. If the site grows past it, Vercel moves it to the $20 tier from the next billing cycle, which makes it $40 with one seat or $120 with five.
The pattern:
Vercel's free Hobby plan also comes with a condition Netlify's Free plan does not state.
Vercel's Hobby plan includes 100 GB of Fast Data Transfer and 1 million Edge Requests a month, and under Vercel's fair use guidelines it is restricted to non-commercial, personal use. [11]
| Your situation | Plan |
|---|---|
| A personal site or prototype with a few deploys a month | Free |
| One person with a small commercial site | Personal, with auto recharge on |
| A team, or a site that needs more than 1,000 credits | Pro |
| Several hundred GB of traffic a month | Pro with auto recharge or a larger credit budget, and price Vercel as well |
| SSO, contracts or custom volumes | Enterprise |
If Netlify fits, you can start on the Free plan and move up when your usage needs it: sign up at Netlify (affiliate link).
How much does Netlify cost? $0, $9 or $20 a month for the Free, Personal and Pro plans. Pro can be raised to $126 a month for 20,000 credits.
Is Netlify Pro per user? Not anymore. Since April 14, 2026, Pro includes unlimited team members for $20 a month.
How much bandwidth do I get? It depends on how you use your credits. On bandwidth alone: 15 GB on Free, 50 GB on Personal and 150 GB on Pro.
What happens if I go over? Your sites pause until the next month, unless you buy more credits or turn on auto recharge.
Are form submissions free? Yes, on all credit-based plans since April 14, 2026.
Sources. Netlify's pricing page, its billing documentation and its April 14 changelog, plus Vercel's pricing documentation. All checked on September 27, 2026.
Calculations. The dollar values per credit, the example sites and the Vercel comparison are our own, with the inputs stated. Where auto recharge is cheaper than a larger Pro budget, we use the cheaper option. Vercel serverless costs vary with how much your functions run, so the comparison assumes the example sites stay within Vercel's included $20 usage credit.
Changes in this edition. We turned the April news piece into a full pricing guide. We added the larger Pro credit budgets (5,000 to 20,000 credits), the pause and auto recharge rules and the September 4, 2025 legacy-plan date. We updated the Vercel comparison for its Flat Rate CDN. We removed statements about Netlify's compliance certifications and Enterprise features, which we did not recheck for this edition.
Affiliate relationships. We have an affiliate relationship with Netlify. The sign-up link under "Which Plan Fits" and the Netlify link on our review are affiliate links: if you sign up through one of them, we may earn a commission at no cost to you. Vercel pays us nothing. The comparison above shows where Vercel costs less.
Next check. By December 2026, or sooner if Netlify changes its plans or credit rates.
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