netlify.app
Default hostname for Netlify sites.
- Card required
- No
netlify.app scores 7.4/10 for free value in Domains. The main constraint: Free provider subdomain.
Free value score
7.4 / 10Show the math
Key metrics
What you get
Free provider subdomain.
Static frontend deployment.
Gotchas
- Provider subdomain only
The free netlify.app subdomain is a provider-branded hostname, not a custom domain — your site is identifiable as Netlify-hosted.
- 300 credits/month cap
The free plan includes 300 usage credits per month covering deploys, bandwidth, compute, and web requests; exhausting them pauses all sites until the next cycle.
- 20 credits per GB bandwidth
Outbound bandwidth is billed at 20 credits per GB, draining the monthly 300-credit pool quickly on traffic-heavy sites.
- 15 credits per production deploy
Each production deploy costs 15 credits, meaning only about 20 production deploys per month are possible before the free credit pool is exhausted.
- Single concurrent build
Free tier allows only 1 concurrent build; simultaneous commits queue rather than building in parallel.
- 1 free team member seat
The free plan is limited to 1 member; additional paid seats require upgrading to Pro ($20/month for unlimited members).
- 1-day observability history
Logs, analytics, and observability data are retained for only 24 hours on the free plan, limiting debugging and monitoring capability.
- No smart secret detection
Automatic detection and blocking of secrets committed to code is a Personal/Pro feature not available on the free tier.
- No private org repo support
Connecting Netlify to GitHub organization-owned private repositories requires a Pro plan or higher.
- Limited WAF and firewall
The free plan includes only basic/limited web application firewall and rate limiting (code-based rules only, no UI-based rules).
Sources
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"By default, your site deploys are available at a URL using the Netlify subdomain mysitename.netlify.app."
https://docs.netlify.com/manage/domains/domains-fundamentals/understand-domains/ -
"Free $0 forever — Build and deploy free forever ... Add Custom domains with SSL ... 300 credit limit / month"
https://www.netlify.com/pricing/ -
"Bandwidth 20 credits per GB ... Web requests 2 credits per 10k requests ... Production deploys 15 credits each ... Compute 10 credits per GB-hour"
https://www.netlify.com/pricing/ -
"The free plan is always free, with hard monthly limits that cannot be exceeded or incur any costs."
https://www.netlify.com/pricing/ -
"Exactly on X-mas eve 2025 that number doubled as we crossed 10 million the same year Netlify turned 10 years old."
https://www.netlify.com/blog/10-million-developers/
