Hosting · replacement recipe

Go from Netlify to Cloudflare

The job: Frontend hosting (Git push deploys, Deploy previews, Serverless functions, Custom domains and SSL). Pick where you are today and where you want to land; the move below follows your pick.

From · what you pay for now
Netlify
Netlify Personal · $9/mo
Year one+$58modeled
To · your pickBest fit
Cloudflare
Free plan · $0 a month
Change where you land

The money

$9/mo today , then $0/mo

Netlify Personal

Year one, net+$58
Pays back in5.6 months

Modeled from public list prices, with your time at $50 an hour. Show the math

Does it do the job? 4 of 4 covered

  • Covered: Git push deploys
  • Covered: Deploy previews
  • Covered: Serverless functions
  • Covered: Custom domains and SSL

The work

Setup
About 1 h
Upkeep
None
Watch out
Check first: You only rely on: Git push deploys, Deploy previews, Serverless functions, Custom domains and SSL

Make the move in four steps

  1. Export from Netlify

    The deployed files of any successful deploy. Format: ZIP

    Export steps
  2. Set up Cloudflare

    Cloudflare Pages/Workers free tier; Workers Paid $5/mo.

    Details
  3. Switch links and integrations

    Point links, embeds and integrations at Cloudflare, then send a test through every one.

  4. Cancel Netlify

    Turn off renewal before your renewal date, once the new setup works. Access runs until: A downgrade to Free applies at the start of the next billing cycle….

    How to cancel Netlify
Open CloudflareHow to cancel Netlify
Modeled, not measured. Savings use public prices and planning assumptions: the bill you stop paying, minus the new tool, your upkeep time and your setup time at $50/hour, over the first 12 months. Paths marked Tested by Stackcut were run end to end by us on our own products. They're our tests, not customer results. Check the must-haves in each recipe before you switch.

The whole recipe: 3 ways out, best first

What you use

  • Git push deploys
  • Deploy previews
  • Serverless functions
  • Custom domains and SSL

Not covered

  • Form handling
  • Edge CDN
  • Split testing

Check before switching

  • You only rely on: Git push deploys, Deploy previews, Serverless functions, Custom domains and SSL
  • Export your data from Netlify before canceling

Agents: get_recipe("replace-netlify") on the Stackcut MCP server.

3 ways out, best first

Switch vendorCloudflare (free tier)Saves $58 in year one
$9/mo today → $0/mo · setup 1 h · then $108/yr · payback 5.6 mo
If your use fits the free tier (Free plan: DNS, CDN, SSL, DDoS. Workers Free: 100,000 requests/day, 10 ms CPU per invocation. R2 free: 10 GB-month storage, 1M Class A / 10M Class B ops).
Covers 100% of the core features
Cloudflare Pages/Workers free tier; Workers Paid $5/mo.
How we got this
You pay now: Netlify Personalflat price$9/mo
New cost: Cloudflare (free tier)free plan$0/mo
Difference each month$9 − $0+$9/mo
Over 12 months+$9 × 12+$108
Setup, once1 h × $50/h−$50
Year one+$108 − $50+$58
  • Not counting your time (1 h in year one): saves $108 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

Switch vendorGitHub Pages (free tier)Saves $58 in year one
$9/mo today → $0/mo · setup 1 h · then $108/yr · payback 5.6 mo
If your use fits the free tier (Published site max 1 GB; soft bandwidth limit 100 GB/month; soft limit 10 builds/hour. Not allowed as free hosting for an online business, e-commerce or commercial SaaS).
Covers 50% of the core features (not: Deploy previews, Serverless functions)
Static sites only, no server functions. Free from public repos only (private needs a paid GitHub plan); not allowed for an online business, e-commerce or SaaS. 1 GB site, 100 GB/mo.
How we got this
You pay now: Netlify Personalflat price$9/mo
New cost: GitHub Pages (free tier)free plan$0/mo
Difference each month$9 − $0+$9/mo
Over 12 months+$9 × 12+$108
Setup, once1 h × $50/h−$50
Year one+$108 − $50+$58
  • Not counting your time (1 h in year one): saves $108 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

Open sourceCoolifyCosts $1,352 more in year one
$9/mo today → $5/mo + 2 h upkeep · setup 4 h
Covers 75% of the core features (not: Serverless functions)
Self-host on your own VPS; free software.
License: Apache-2.0
How we got this
You pay now: Netlify Personalflat price$9/mo
New cost: Coolifya small server (modeled)$5/mo
Your upkeep time2 h/mo × $50/h$100/mo
Difference each month$9 − $5 − $100−$96/mo
Over 12 months−$96 × 12−$1,152
Setup, once4 h × $50/h−$200
Year one−$1,152 − $200−$1,352
  • Not counting your time (28 h in year one): saves $48 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

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