Free 2026 Pricing Netlify Credit System

Vercel vs Netlify Cost Calculator

Enter your team size, bandwidth, and usage to see exact monthly costs on both platforms. Find out which is cheaper for your specific workload in 2026.

Plan Tier

Vercel Hobby = personal use only. Commercial products require Pro plan. Netlify Free allows commercial use.

Team Size (seats)

1 seat

15101520

Monthly Bandwidth (GB)

50 GB

1GB10GB50GB250GB1TB5TB

Deploys per Month

52050200500

Function Invocations/Month

500K

0100K1M10M100M

SSR pages, API routes, Edge functions

Primary Framework

Runs in your browser. No data stored.

Vercel

Hobby (Free)

per month

Plan cost $0

Bandwidth overage $0

Edge requests overage $0

Total $0/mo

100 GB bandwidth included

Netlify

Free

per month

Plan cost $0

Bandwidth (credits) $0

Deploys (credits) $0

Total $0/mo

300 credits/mo free

Framework note

Resource Limits — Your Plan

Resource	Vercel	Netlify

Feature Comparison

Feature	Vercel	Netlify
Commercial use (free tier)
Next.js native support
Edge Functions / CDN
Built-in forms
Analytics included	Pro add-on
ISR / On-demand revalidation		Limited
Bandwidth overage rate	$0.15/GB	$0.066/GB
Preview deployments
Concurrent builds (Pro)	12	3
Billing model	Per resource	Credit-based

When to Choose Each Platform

Choose Vercel when

Building with Next.js — native integration, ISR, App Router
High bandwidth site (1 TB Pro included vs ~300 GB Netlify)
Heavy SSR / Edge Function usage
Teams needing 12 concurrent builds
Predictable overage pricing ($0.15/GB)

Choose Netlify when

Building commercial products on free tier
Static sites — Astro, Hugo, Jekyll, Gatsby
Need built-in form handling
Low-deploy, low-bandwidth workloads
Simpler deployment workflows without Next.js complexity

Also Consider — Cloudflare Pages

Cloudflare Pages — Free Unlimited Bandwidth

Free plan includes unlimited bandwidth, unlimited requests, unlimited builds. Commercial use allowed. If bandwidth cost is your main concern, Cloudflare Pages eliminates it entirely.

Unlimited bandwidth (free) Commercial use (free) Limited Next.js SSR

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Full Pricing Reference — 2026

Vercel

Hobby (Free) — personal only

Bandwidth: 100 GB included

Edge Requests: 1M

Function CPU time: 4 hrs/mo

Build: 1 concurrent

Commercial use NOT allowed

Pro — $20/seat/month

Bandwidth: 1 TB included → $0.15/GB overage

Edge Requests: 10M → $2/1M overage

Function CPU: 40 hrs → $5/hr overage

Build: 12 concurrent

ISR: Unlimited reads + writes

$20 monthly usage credit included

Netlify (Credit System — Sep 2025)

Free — 300 credits/month

Bandwidth: 10 cr/GB → ~30 GB

Deploys: 15 cr each → ~20 deploys

Functions: included in credits

Commercial use allowed

Pro — $20/seat/month + 3,000 credits

3,000 credits/seat/mo included

Bandwidth: 10 cr/GB → ~300 GB

Deploys: 15 cr each → ~200 deploys

Extra credits: $1.50 per 100 credits

Effective bandwidth overage: ~$0.066/GB

Credit conversion

1 production deploy = 15 credits

1 GB bandwidth = 10 credits

1M function requests = 75 credits

100 extra credits = $1.50

Frequently Asked Questions

No. Vercel Hobby (free tier) is explicitly for personal, non-commercial use only. Using it for commercial products violates Vercel's Terms of Service and can result in account suspension without warning. If you are building a product that generates revenue or is used in a business context, you must use Vercel Pro ($20/seat/month). Netlify Free, by contrast, allows commercial use on its free plan.

In September 2025, Netlify replaced their old model (100 GB bandwidth + 300 build minutes) with a unified credit system. Every action consumes credits — 1 GB of bandwidth costs 10 credits, a production deploy costs 15 credits, and 1 million function requests costs 75 credits. Free accounts get 300 credits per month, Pro accounts get 3,000 credits per seat per month. Extra credits can be purchased at $1.50 per 100 credits. Legacy accounts created before September 4, 2025 remain on the old model.

Vercel is built by the creators of Next.js and provides the most complete support — ISR, App Router, Server Components, Partial Prerendering, and all experimental Next.js features work first-class on Vercel. Netlify supports Next.js well for most standard use cases but lags on bleeding-edge features. If you are using Next.js with ISR, React Server Components, or the App Router heavily, Vercel is the better choice. For standard Next.js with mostly static pages and API routes, Netlify works fine.

Vercel Pro overage is $0.15 per GB — significantly cheaper than Netlify's effective $0.55 per GB (100 extra credits at $1.50 = 10 GB bandwidth). Vercel also includes 1 TB bandwidth on Pro before any overage, while Netlify Pro's 3,000 credits effectively covers around 300 GB. For high-bandwidth sites, Vercel Pro is dramatically more cost-effective. For low-bandwidth static sites under 300 GB per month, both are similar in total cost.

Yes — for static sites and basic SSR, Cloudflare Pages offers unlimited free bandwidth with commercial use allowed, making it the cheapest option by far. The tradeoff is more limited framework support compared to Vercel for advanced Next.js features, and a different deployment model. For projects that do not need advanced ISR or App Router features, Cloudflare Pages eliminates bandwidth costs entirely and is worth serious consideration before committing to Vercel Pro or Netlify Pro.

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