Same category, two billing philosophies: one counts credits, the other counts plans plus itemised overages.
TL;DR
Netlify prices in credits: Free at $0 with 300 credits a month, Personal at $9 with 1,000, Pro at $20 with unlimited members and credit pools from 3,000 to 20,000, Enterprise on quote with a 99.99% SLA. Vercel prices plans and usage: Hobby at $0, Pro at $20 a month including a $20 usage credit, Enterprise on quote with SCIM, managed WAF rulesets and multi-region failover. Both run the same job — Git-driven front-end deployment — and the difference is whether the bill scales with team size or with requests, storage and edge features.
Netlify's free tier deploys from AI agents, Git, CLI or drag-and-drop, stays private until published, gives unlimited deploy previews, custom domains with SSL, serverless functions, Netlify Database, blob storage, firewall traffic rules with basic rate limiting, a global CDN and Agent Runners — all inside 300 credits a month. Personal at $9 adds smart secret detection, one-day observability, priority email support and 1,000 credits. Pro at $20 a month explicitly comes with unlimited members and tiered credit pools from 3,000 to 20,000, plus private organization repos, shared environment variables, three-plus concurrent builds and 30-day analytics. Enterprise is custom with a 99.99% SLA, an enterprise network tier and high-performance builds.
Vercel's Hobby plan is free with Fluid compute, DDoS mitigation, traffic and performance insights. Pro at $20 a month includes a $20 usage credit, a flat-rate CDN with traffic-spike protection, advanced spend management, team collaboration with free viewer seats and cold-start prevention. Enterprise is custom with guest and team access controls, SCIM and directory sync, managed WAF rulesets, multi-region compute and failover and a 99.99% SLA. Usage beyond the credit is itemised: firewall rate-limit requests cost $0.50 per million after 1 million included, ISR reads $0.40 per million after 1 million included, bulk redirects $50 a month per 25,000 and blob storage $0.023 per GB after 1 GB included. Vercel states all prices are in USD before VAT, GST and similar taxes.
| Feature | Netlify | Vercel |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Free: 300 credits a month, unlimited deploy previews, custom domains with SSL, agent runners | Hobby: $0 with Fluid compute, DDoS mitigation and traffic insights |
| Entry paid | Personal $9/month: 1,000 credits, secret detection, priority email | Pro $20/month: includes a $20 usage credit, flat-rate CDN |
| Team pricing | Pro $20/month with unlimited members | Pro $20/month with free viewer seats for collaboration |
| Metering model | Credit pools: 300, 1,000, then 3,000-20,000 by tier | Plan price plus itemised add-ons per feature |
| Metered add-ons | Credits cover usage; the tier sets the monthly allowance | Firewall $0.50 per 1M requests (1M included); ISR reads $0.40 per 1M (1M included) |
| Storage pricing | Blob storage listed as an included plan feature, metered through credits | Blob $0.023 per GB after 1 GB included |
| Enterprise | Custom: 99.99% SLA, enterprise network tier, high-performance builds | Custom: SCIM, managed WAF rulesets, multi-region failover, 99.99% SLA |
| Developer workflow | Deploy from AI agents, Git, CLI or drag-and-drop with one-click rollbacks | Durable Orchestration, sandboxed environments, deployment environments and WAF |
Pick Netlify if
Pro at $20 with unlimited members means adding reviewers and developers does not move the bill, and the $9 Personal tier is the cheapest paid entry either platform offers. The credit pools put a ceiling on monthly usage that is easy to predict before an invoice arrives.
Pick Vercel if
The $20 Pro plan arrives with $20 of usage credit, and itemised add-ons — firewall requests, ISR reads, blob storage — make a spike visible per feature instead of pooling it into credits. Teams that already live in Vercel's ecosystem get free viewer seats, spend management and a clear ladder to an SLA-backed Enterprise tier.
We collected no independent reviews, ratings or user quotations for Netlify or Vercel in this run. Prices and allowances come from netlify.com/pricing and vercel.com/pricing fetched October 2, 2026; Vercel states its prices are USD before VAT and GST, and Netlify's page did not display an equivalent tax note.
The headline numbers converge: Netlify Pro is $20 a month with unlimited members, Vercel Pro is $20 a month including a $20 usage credit. Below that, Netlify sells a $9 Personal tier and metered credits; Vercel meters add-ons such as firewall requests at $0.50 per million on top of the plan.
Both are free to start. Netlify's Free plan gives 300 credits a month with unlimited deploy previews, custom domains with SSL, functions and blob storage. Vercel's Hobby plan publishes no credit allowance on its pricing page — it includes Fluid compute, DDoS mitigation and traffic insights, with overages itemised on paid tiers.
On Netlify, usage draws down the monthly credit pool: 300 free, 1,000 on Personal, 3,000 to 20,000 across Pro tiers. On Vercel, Pro carries a $20 usage credit and then bills per feature — $0.50 per million firewall requests after 1 million included, $0.40 per million ISR reads after 1 million, and $0.023 per GB for blob storage after 1 GB.
Yes. Netlify's Free tier covers custom domains with SSL, unlimited deploy previews and a global CDN within 300 credits a month; Vercel's Hobby plan deploys with Fluid compute, DDoS mitigation and traffic insights. Both are the standard starting point for side projects.
Both quote custom contracts. Netlify's Enterprise tier lists a 99.99% SLA, an enterprise network tier and high-performance builds; Vercel's adds SCIM provisioning, managed WAF rulesets, multi-region compute and failover, a 99.99% SLA and advanced support.
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