Hosting · working at 10,000 users · rates as read 24 Sept 2026
On free tier, Netlify is $0 forever and Render is $ 0 /mo + compute (Hobby). On cheapest paid plan, Netlify is $9 /month (Personal) and Render is $ 25 /mo + compute (Pro). On rate above what's included, Netlify is $5 / 500 additional credits on Personal, $10 / 1,500 on Pro and Render is 5 GB included per month then $0.15 per GB. StackTab sells neither of these and takes no referral fee on either: it scores them. Every figure was read off the named company's own page on or since 2026-09-18; the URLs and the dates are at the foot of this page, and a job re-fetches each one on a schedule and fails when a figure is no longer on the page it came from.
2 compared · 3 criteria, identical for every column · every competitor figure read off that company's own page · last verified 2026-09-18
| Service | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| NetlifyThe other Jamstack host, priced per member rather than per project.verified 24 Sept 2026netlify.com/pricing | $ | $ | price not publishedPro |
| RenderPredictable instance sizes: the closest thing left to old Heroku.verified 24 Sept 2026render.com/pricing | $ | $ | $ |
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- The other Jamstack host, priced per member rather than per project.verified 24 Sept 2026netlify.com/pricing
- 1,000 users
- $
00 Free - 10,000 users
- $
2020 Pro - 100,000 users
- price not publishedPro
- Predictable instance sizes: the closest thing left to old Heroku.verified 24 Sept 2026render.com/pricing
- 1,000 users
- $
2.252.25 Hobby - 10,000 users
- $
2929 Hobby - 100,000 users
- $
7575 Professional · drifted
| Criterion | Netlify | Render |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | $0 foreverUnlimited Git contributors on public repositories. | $ 0 /mo + compute (Hobby)Free compute instances spin down when idle and cold-start on the next request. 5 GB of bandwidth included. |
| Cheapest paid plan | $9 /month (Personal)$9/month covers one member. Pro is $20 /month and covers unlimited members, which is where the arithmetic against a per-seat platform changes. | $ 25 /mo + compute (Pro)The plan fee is per user and the compute is separate: Starter $7/month, Standard $25/month, Pro $85/month, up to Pro Ultra $450/month. Scale is $ 499 /mo + compute. |
| Rate above what's included | $5 / 500 additional credits on Personal, $10 / 1,500 on ProNetlify meters in credits rather than in gigabytes and invocations, so the two platforms' overage lines are not directly comparable without converting. | 5 GB included per month then $0.15 per GBPersistent disks are $0.25/GB per month. The instance ladder is published in full, which is what makes a fixed-size deployment predictable here. |
- Free tier: what the vendor gives you at $0 a month, in its own words
- Rate above what's included: the per-unit or per-transaction rate the vendor publishes for usage beyond the plan: the figure you need to work out a bill before you commit to one
Netlify: $0 forever. Unlimited Git contributors on public repositories. Render: $ 0 /mo + compute (Hobby). Free compute instances spin down when idle and cold-start on the next request. 5 GB of bandwidth included. Read from netlify.com and render.com on 2026-09-18. Free tier here means what the vendor gives you at $0 a month, in its own words.
Netlify: $9 /month (Personal). $9/month covers one member. Pro is $20 /month and covers unlimited members, which is where the arithmetic against a per-seat platform changes. Render: $ 25 /mo + compute (Pro). The plan fee is per user and the compute is separate: Starter $7/month, Standard $25/month, Pro $85/month, up to Pro Ultra $450/month. Scale is $ 499 /mo + compute. Read from netlify.com and render.com on 2026-09-18.
Netlify: $5 / 500 additional credits on Personal, $10 / 1,500 on Pro. Netlify meters in credits rather than in gigabytes and invocations, so the two platforms' overage lines are not directly comparable without converting. Render: 5 GB included per month then $0.15 per GB. Persistent disks are $0.25/GB per month. The instance ladder is published in full, which is what makes a fixed-size deployment predictable here. Read from netlify.com and render.com on 2026-09-18. Rate above what's included here means the per-unit or per-transaction rate the vendor publishes for usage beyond the plan: the figure you need to work out a bill before you commit to one.
Netlify: The team is larger than the site. Netlify's Pro plan is $20 /month for unlimited members where per-seat platforms bill each one, so a marketing site maintained by eight people costs a fraction of what the same site costs elsewhere. Render: You would rather pick an instance size than reason about a meter. Render publishes the whole compute ladder as fixed monthly prices: $7, $25, $85, $175, $225, $450: so the bill for a service you have sized is a number you can read off the page before you deploy it.
StackTab does not sell any of these and has nothing to gain from which one you choose: it scores them. Each case below is the one that option genuinely wins.
- Netlify: The team is larger than the site. Netlify's Pro plan is $20 /month for unlimited members where per-seat platforms bill each one, so a marketing site maintained by eight people costs a fraction of what the same site costs elsewhere.
- Render: You would rather pick an instance size than reason about a meter. Render publishes the whole compute ladder as fixed monthly prices: $7, $25, $85, $175, $225, $450: so the bill for a service you have sized is a number you can read off the page before you deploy it.
Prices and limits move, and a page quoting a stale one is worth less than a page quoting none. Every source is printed here so a reader can check it against the day they are reading this, and a job re-fetches each of these URLs on a schedule and fails when a figure above no longer appears on the page it came from.
- Netlify: www.netlify.com/pricing/: Free tier, Cheapest paid plan, Rate above what's included. Read 2026-09-18.
- Render: render.com/pricing: Free tier, Cheapest paid plan, Rate above what's included. Read 2026-09-18.
Last verified 2026-09-18. https://stacktab.thecompound.tech/compare/netlify-vs-render