Netlify Starter Free pricing & rate limits

• Base workloads start at $0.00/mo, providing a baseline 1 GB of RAM and 100 GB of bundled egress bandwidth.
• Exceeding the 100 GB storage or bandwidth limits triggers an overage fee of $0.55/GB for network transfer and $0.05/GB for disk usage.
• Scaling RAM beyond the standard allocation costs $0.01/GB/hr, which is a common pattern for platforms running on shared AWS or GCP infrastructure.
• Enterprise-grade deployments require direct negotiation, moving away from public pricing to custom contracts that account for high-concurrency needs.

Netlify operates as a platform-as-a-service, focusing on site delivery rather than raw hardware control. Unlike raw VPS providers like Hetzner or DigitalOcean, you do not manage individual compute nodes or kernel versions here. The 1 GB RAM limit is sufficient for static sites or lightweight serverless functions, but heavy Node.js runtimes or complex middleware will quickly hit the ceiling. Because the platform abstracts away the underlying container orchestration, you cannot perform fine-tuned optimizations on the host machine. If your application architecture requires persistent background workers or high-memory state, the hourly $0.01/GB overage rate can become difficult to forecast compared to a fixed-price virtual machine.

This platform serves teams that prioritize developer velocity over infrastructure configuration. By removing the need to manage load balancers or OS patches, the platform allows engineers to focus entirely on the application layer. It remains a reliable choice for frontend-heavy projects that leverage the global edge network, provided the team keeps an eye on the high cost of bandwidth overages. High-traffic media apps or data-intensive APIs will find the $0.55/GB egress rate significantly more expensive than standard cloud object storage rates, making it best suited for lean web applications rather than high-throughput content distribution.