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Netlify
Build, deploy and scale modern web projects
Hosting + edge + serverless functions + forms + identity. Deploys from Git. Build plugins, Edge Functions (Deno), Blob storage, Image CDN.
Pricing
| Tier | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Starter (Free) | Free | 300 credits for the month. 1 concurrent build. Small team ok. Free SSL + global CDN. |
| Personal | $9/mo | $9/month. 1,000 credits. Password-protected previews. |
| Pro | $20/mo | $20/user/month. 3,000 credits. 3+ concurrent builds. Unlimited members. Role-based access control. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom. Unlimited credits, SLA, compliance (SOC2, HIPAA), dedicated support. |
Limits
| Tier | Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | build duration max min | 25 minutes | Max single build duration |
| — | credit pricing model | Credits fungible across bandwidth (100 GB), build minutes (300), serverless invocations (125k), edge invocations (1M) | How credits convert |
| — | free ssl | included | Free SSL on custom domains |
| — | function duration sec | 26 seconds | Synchronous function max duration (background 15min) |
| pro | concurrent builds | 3 builds | Pro — concurrent builds (scales with plan) |
| pro | credits per month | 3000 credits | Pro — credits |
| starter | concurrent builds | 1 builds | Starter — concurrent builds |
| starter | credits per month | 300 credits | Starter — monthly credit budget (spans builds + bandwidth + invocations) |
Features
- Build Plugins — Customize build pipeline via plugins. Ecosystem of community plugins. · docs
- Edge Functions — Deno runtime at the edge. Request rewrites, A/B, personalization. · docs
- Extensions (Marketplace) — Integrations with 100+ services via one-click install. · docs
- Git-based Deploys — Auto-deploys from GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket. Deploy previews per PR. · docs
- Netlify Auth — Newer auth product replacing Identity. OAuth, magic links, email+password.
- Netlify Blobs — Object + key-value store accessible from Functions + Edge. · docs
- Netlify Forms — Zero-code form handling. Spam filtering, notifications, Zapier. · docs
- Netlify Functions — AWS Lambda-backed. Node, Go, Rust. Background functions, Scheduled functions. · docs
- Netlify Identity — OAuth + email auth managed. Gotrue open-source backend (forked by Supabase).
- Netlify Image CDN — On-the-fly resizing, format conversion (WebP/AVIF). · docs
- Password-Protected Previews — Password-protect deploy previews.
- Platform Primitives (Cache) — Fine-grained cache control + on-demand revalidation (Next.js + Nuxt compat).
Developer interfaces
| Slug | Name | Kind | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| edge-rt | Edge Runtime (Deno) | other | — |
| cli | Netlify CLI | cli | 18.x |
| rest-api | Netlify REST API | rest | v1 |
| sdk-js | @netlify/sdk | sdk | 0.x |
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