Vercel vs Netlify vs Cloudflare Pages Pricing 2026

Vercel, Netlify and Cloudflare Pages are the three hosts a solo developer reaches for when deploying a frontend or full-stack app in 2026. Their headline prices look alike, but the bill is driven by bandwidth, requests and serverless compute, which the three meter in very different ways. This article verifies the plans on 2026-10-11, explains the biggest 2026 change (Vercel's flat-rate CDN), and prices the same 1 TB month on each. For Vercel alone, see the Vercel pricing 2026 breakdown.

1. Headline plans and free tiers

Host	Free tier	Entry paid	Usage model
Vercel	Hobby: 100 GB transfer, 1M CDN requests, 1M function invocations/mo[1]	Pro $20/mo (1 developer seat, $20 credit)[1]	Flat-rate CDN tier; metered compute, storage, builds[1][2]
Netlify	Free: 300-credit limit/mo[3]	Personal $9/mo (1,000 credits); Pro $20/mo, unlimited members (from 3,000 credits)[3]	Credits for deploys, compute, bandwidth and requests[3]
Cloudflare Pages	500 builds/mo; static assets free and unlimited[4][5]	Workers Paid $5/mo minimum (functions)[4]	Functions metered; static assets free[4]

Vercel Pro and Netlify Pro both start at $20 a month, but they treat teammates differently: Vercel's $20 covers one developer seat and adds $20 per extra developer, with viewers free, while Netlify Pro covers unlimited members^[1][3]. Cloudflare does not sell a Pages seat at all; its paid layer is Workers Paid at a $5 monthly minimum per account, which covers serverless functions while static hosting stays free^[4].

2. Where the bill comes from: bandwidth, requests and compute

• Vercel: on Pro, the Flat Rate CDN replaces per-GB transfer billing with capacity tiers. Pro includes 1M CDN requests and 1 TB of transfer; the next tiers are $20 a month (10M requests, 50 TB), $100 (50M) and $300 (150M). A one-day spike does not change the bill; sustained overuse moves you up a tier the next cycle^[2]. Functions bill separately at $0.128 per Active CPU hour and $0.60 per million invocations^[1].
• Netlify: everything draws on credits. Bandwidth is 20 credits per GB, compute 10 credits per GB-hour, web requests 2 credits per 10,000 and each production deploy 15 credits. Extra credits cost $5 per 500 or $10 per 1,500 with auto-recharge enabled^[3].
• Cloudflare: requests to static assets are free and unlimited; only Workers compute is metered, with the $5 plan including 10M requests and then $0.30 per additional million^[4].

The asymmetry used to be stark: more static traffic cost more on Vercel and Netlify and nothing on Cloudflare. Vercel's flat-rate CDN narrows that gap for Pro teams up to 1 TB a month, and its higher tiers make large traffic predictable. Netlify still meters bandwidth through credits, so a viral static page burns allowance there.

3. What does 1 TB of static traffic a month cost?

One terabyte (1,000 GB) of static delivery and under 1M requests, platform plan plus bandwidth, before any serverless functions:

Host	How it is billed	Monthly
Cloudflare Pages (Free)	Static assets free and unlimited[4]	$0
Vercel Pro	Included Flat Rate CDN tier: 1 TB, 1M requests[2]	$20
Netlify Pro	1,000 GB × 20 credits = 20,000 credits[3]	Pro on the 20,000-credit tier (price shown in Netlify's tier picker), or $20 plus about $113 in credit packs

Cloudflare is free at this volume. Vercel Pro is a flat $20 as long as requests stay within its included 1M; heavier request counts move you to the $20 tier for 10M requests, for $40 in total^[1][2]. On Netlify, 1 TB consumes 20,000 credits, the top Pro credit tier; Netlify does not print that tier's price on the static page, and covering the 17,000 credits above Pro's included 3,000 with $10 packs of 1,500 would add about $113^[3]. Roll hosting into your monthly budget with the AI stack cost calculator.

4. Seat cost vs usage cost

Host	Entry paid / mo	Annual (1 seat)	3 developers
Cloudflare Workers Paid	$5[4]	$60	$5 (account-level)
Netlify Personal	$9[3]	$108	Not a team plan
Netlify Pro	$20[3]	$240	$20 (unlimited members)
Vercel Pro	$20[1]	$240	$60 ($20 + 2 × $20)

For a solo developer who needs paid features but light usage, Cloudflare Workers Paid at $5 a month is the lowest committed cost, and Netlify Personal at $9 is the cheapest of the frontend-focused hosts. For a team, Netlify Pro's flat $20 for unlimited members beats Vercel, where each developer seat costs $20 but viewer seats are free^[1][3].

5. Decision guidance

• Static or static-export site at any traffic: Cloudflare Pages. Static assets are free and unlimited.
• Next.js app with server functions, solo: Vercel Pro. $20 a month now includes 1 TB of CDN transfer and $20 of usage credit.
• Lowest committed paid cost, solo: Cloudflare Workers Paid at $5 a month, or Netlify Personal at $9.
• Team needing paid features: Netlify Pro ($20 flat, unlimited members) beats Vercel Pro ($20 per developer seat).
• Traffic spikes you cannot predict: Cloudflare (static is free) or Vercel's Flat Rate CDN (a spike day does not change the bill).

Re-verify each pricing page before committing; usage rates and tiers change. For the backend layer, see Railway vs Render vs Fly, and for the month-one picture, the AI Stack Cost Calculator.

All pricing figures verified against official pricing pages and docs on 2026-10-11.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Vercel cost in 2026?

Vercel Hobby is free for personal projects with 100 GB of Fast Data Transfer and 1M CDN requests a month. Vercel Pro costs $20 a month and includes one developer seat, unlimited free viewer seats, $20 of usage credit and a Flat Rate CDN tier covering 1M CDN requests and 1 TB of data transfer. Extra developer seats are $20 a month each, and larger CDN tiers cost $20, $100 or $300 a month. Verified on vercel.com/pricing and Vercel's docs on 2026-10-11.

Vercel vs Cloudflare pricing: which is cheaper?

For static sites Cloudflare is cheaper, because requests to static assets are free and unlimited on every plan, including the free one. Cloudflare's paid Workers plan starts at $5 a month with 10M requests included. Vercel Pro is $20 a month, and since its Flat Rate CDN reached general availability that $20 now covers 1 TB of transfer and 1M CDN requests, with spikes inside a month not changing the bill. Vercel is cheaper than it used to be, but not cheaper than free.

Does Cloudflare Pages really have unlimited bandwidth?

For static assets, yes. Cloudflare's Workers pricing states that requests to static assets are free and unlimited, and Pages limits cover builds (500 a month on the free plan), file counts (20,000 per site on free) and a 25 MiB file-size cap rather than bandwidth. Vercel Pro includes 1 TB of transfer in its flat-rate CDN tier, and Netlify charges 20 credits per GB of bandwidth against a monthly credit allowance.

What do the free tiers include?

Vercel Hobby includes 100 GB of Fast Data Transfer, 1M CDN requests, 1M function invocations and 4 hours of Active CPU a month. Netlify Free has a 300-credit monthly limit covering deploys, compute, bandwidth and requests. Cloudflare's free plan serves static assets without limit, allows 500 Pages builds a month and 100,000 Workers requests a day. All three are no-expiry tiers suitable for personal projects.