Our take
Pick Cloudflare if site / app teams who will stay on Free at $0 (personal / hobby) while they open a first sampled-logs row, then buy Pro at $20 / month when the zone is a professional site — or Business at $200 / month billed annually. Pick Netlify if frontend teams who will stay on Free at $0 (300 credits / month, hard limit) while they open a first Deploy log, then buy Personal at $9 / month (1,000 credits) or
Best for
Cloudflare Edge requests you expand at $0
Netlify Builds you inspect at $0
Free plan
Cloudflare $0 · / month. Personal or hobby, not business-critical
Netlify $0 · / month. Individual. 300 credits / month hard limit. No auto-recharge. Deploy from Git / API. Custom domains with SSL. Functions, Database, Blob, global CDN
Lowest paid
Cloudflare Workers (usage) $0.30
Netlify Personal $9
Next step up
Cloudflare Pro $20
Netlify Pro from $20
Runs where
Cloudflare Hosted
Netlify Hosted
Watch out
Cloudflare Free is hobby / not business-critical
Netlify Free is a 300-credit hard cap
Last checked
Cloudflare 2026-10-23 · cloudflare.com
Netlify 2026-10-23 · netlify.com/pricing
site / app teams who will stay on Free at $0 (personal / hobby) while they open a first sampled-logs row, then buy Pro at $20 / month when the zone is a professional site — or Business at $200 / month billed annually.
Read the Cloudflare pagefrontend teams who will stay on Free at $0 (300 credits / month, hard limit) while they open a first Deploy log, then buy Personal at $9 / month (1,000 credits) or Pro at $20 / month (3,000 credits, unlimited members).
Read the Netlify page
