On the new Netlify free plan they burned all 300 credits in under two days with tiny traffic from frequent builds, pausing every site.
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A score out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews, so a handful of glowing reviews can’t beat a product many people like.
54% Positive44% Negative
Customers find Netlify easy to use and praise a generous free plan, with git-push deploys that just work for static and Next.js sites.
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Upgraded to Netlify Personal at 9 a month but still only gets 1000 credits, which frequent deploys burn through quickly.
A static site on the Netlify free plan burned 180 credits quickly because each git push cost 15 credits, leaving only 59 credits before a shared QR-coded URL goes live.
Says the Netlify free tier is no longer worth considering because the credit system allows only about 20 deploys a month before the site stops; helped a friend move to Cloudflare Pages.
Calls Netlify new credit system bad, with 15 credits per deploy against 300 credits free and 2000 on a 10 dollar plan; moving to GitHub Pages.
After years on Netlify free they upgraded to Pro at 20 but were charged 44 because git contributors with a mismatched email count as members, and support refused to explain or downgrade.
Moved off Netlify because the new credit system charges 15 credits per deploy and traffic, and the site goes dark when credits run out.
Netlify changed its pricing so that every action, including production deploys, now consumes credits; the user found the free trial of the alternative worse than Netlify.
Left Netlify after finding that its password-protected site feature for an under-construction domain costs a premium.
Netlify was great until credits made deploys feel costly, so they now think twice before pushing code.
A static site of about 200 daily visitors on the Netlify free tier got a 104,500 dollar bandwidth bill from a DDoS and support first offered only a 95 percent discount.
Netlify shows 75MB of 100GB used, but only the fine print reveals 55 dollars per extra 100GB on the so-called free tier.
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What do customers say about Netlify?
Customers find Netlify easy to use and praise a generous free plan, with git-push deploys that just work for static and Next.js sites. The main downsides are billing surprises, especially the credit-based pricing where frequent deploys use up the allowance, plus support that was slow or silent after account suspensions.
Is Netlify worth it?
Of the 46 reviews with a clear verdict, 54% are positive, 2% mixed and 43% negative. The praise mentioned most is easy to use. The most common complaint is hidden fees.
What do people like about Netlify?
The praise reviewers mention most: easy to use (12 reviews), reliable (10 reviews) and good free plan (9 reviews). For example: Deployed a React app 15 times in two weeks using only 13 of 300 free build minutes and calls Netlify amazing.
What are the most common complaints about Netlify?
The complaints reviewers mention most: hidden fees (10 reviews), upsells (10 reviews) and poor support (7 reviews). For example: Left Netlify after finding that its password-protected site feature for an under-construction domain costs a premium.
What does the signal score of 65 mean?
It's how well reviewed Netlify is, out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews: a service needs plenty of them, compared with the most-reviewed services here, to reach the high 80s and 90s. It's worked out from reviews only, needs at least 5 of them, and updates as new ones come in.
What are the specs of Netlify?
Category: Static & frontend hosting. Free plan: Yes.
Where do these Netlify reviews come from?
86 are quotes from Reddit, each linked to the original. Customer reviews are checked for spam before they appear. Every review, written here or quoted, is read as positive, mixed or negative.