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Cloudflare Pages alternatives

10 tools you can use instead of Cloudflare Pages, ranked by live GitHub stars and npm downloads. Vercel, Coolify and Dokploy are the most used. Stats updated 5 hours ago.

Short answer

Netlify and Vercel are the closest alternatives: both deploy sites and apps from Git and have free plans. Vercel's free plan is limited to personal, non-commercial use.

When Cloudflare Pages is not a good fit

Cloudflare Pages is a JAMstack hosting platform for frontend developers, offering Git-based automated deployments, unlimited sites and bandwidth, and hosting on Cloudflare's edge network. The Free tier includes 500 builds a month, with Pro at $20 to $25 a month for more concurrent and monthly builds.

It is a weaker choice for:

  • Projects needing more than 500 builds a month without upgrading past the free tier
  • Full-stack applications needing extensive backend infrastructure beyond static/JAMstack hosting
  • Teams wanting server-side rendering support comparable to platforms built specifically around it
Cloudflare Pages pricing, features and usage

The alternatives

Most used first.

1

Vercel

Cloud platform for deploying web apps and frameworks like Next.js, with preview URLs and serverless functions.

Pricing FreemiumPaid from $20 a month for Pro, including one deploying seat and $20 of usage creditOpen source noStars 16.4knpm a week 5.3M
View Vercel
2

Coolify

Open source, self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Heroku, Netlify and Railway for deploying apps.

Pricing FreemiumPaid from $5 a month for Coolify Cloud, connecting up to 2 serversOpen source yesStars 64.5k
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3

Dokploy

Open source, self-hostable platform as a service for deploying apps and databases with Docker.

Pricing Open sourcePaid from $4.50 a month per server for Dokploy Cloud HobbyOpen source yesStars 38k
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4

AWS Amplify

AWS's platform for building and hosting full-stack web and mobile apps, priced pay-as-you-go.

Pricing Pay as you goPaid from $0.01 per build minute (Standard instance) beyond the free tierOpen source noStars 9.6knpm a week 2.2M
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5

Netlify

Web platform for deploying sites and apps from Git, the CLI or AI agents, with functions, storage and Postgres.

Pricing FreemiumPaid from $9 a month for Personal (1,000 credits)Open source noStars 1.9knpm a week 476k
View Netlify
6

Railway

Usage-billed cloud platform for deploying apps, databases and cron jobs from GitHub or Docker images.

Pricing Pay as you goPaid from $5 a month for Hobby, including $5 of usageOpen source noStars 626npm a week 415k
View Railway
7

Fly.io

Platform for running apps and databases close to users globally, billed by the second for compute used.

Pricing Pay as you goPaid from About $1.94 a month (shared-cpu-1x, 256MB, running continuously)Open source noStars 1.7k
View Fly.io
8

Heroku

Platform-as-a-service for deploying apps as dynos, spanning classic Cedar dynos and newer Fir dynos.

Pricing PaidPaid from $5 a month (Eco dyno, Cedar)Open source noStars 886npm a week 16.3k
View Heroku
10

Render

Cloud platform for deploying web apps, APIs, databases and background jobs from a Git repo.

Pricing FreemiumPaid from $25 a month for the Pro workspace plan, plus usage-based compute, bandwidth and storageOpen source no
View Render

Cloudflare Pages and its alternatives, side by side

ToolPricingFree planPaid fromOpen sourceGitHub stars
Cloudflare PagesFreemiumYes: 500 builds a month, 1 concurrent build, 100 custom domains per project, unlimited sites and bandwidth$20-$25 a month (Pro plan)No4.7k
VercelFreemiumYes: Hobby, for personal and non-commercial use, with 100 GB of fast data transfer and 1 million function invocations a month$20 a month for Pro, including one deploying seat and $20 of usage creditNo16.4k
CoolifyFreemiumYes: self-hosting Coolify on your own infrastructure is free forever with full access to all features$5 a month for Coolify Cloud, connecting up to 2 serversYes, Apache-2.064.5k
DokployOpen sourceYes. Self-hosting is free. Dokploy Cloud is paid.$4.50 a month per server for Dokploy Cloud HobbyYes, Apache-2.0, with a proprietary license for the /proprietary directories38k
AWS AmplifyPay as you goYes: AWS Free Tier includes 1,000 build minutes, 5 GB storage and 15 GB data transfer a month for 12 months$0.01 per build minute (Standard instance) beyond the free tierNo9.6k
NetlifyFreemiumYes: 300 credits a month, with a hard limit and no option to buy more$9 a month for Personal (1,000 credits)No1.9k
RailwayPay as you goYes: a 30-day trial with a one-time $5 credit, then a free plan with $1 of credit a month (0.5 GB RAM and 1 vCPU per service)$5 a month for Hobby, including $5 of usageNo626
Fly.ioPay as you goLimited free usage may be available for small workloads; primarily pay-as-you-goAbout $1.94 a month (shared-cpu-1x, 256MB, running continuously)No1.7k
HerokuPaidNo free dyno tier; the lowest-cost Eco dyno starts at $5 a month$5 a month (Eco dyno, Cedar)No886
DigitalOcean App PlatformFreemiumYes: up to 3 apps with static sites and 1 GiB data transfer per app$5 a month (Shared Fixed instance, 512 MiB)NoNone
RenderFreemiumYes: the Hobby workspace plan, free services with 512 MB RAM and 5 GB bandwidth a month included$25 a month for the Pro workspace plan, plus usage-based compute, bandwidth and storageNoNone

Pricing facts come from each tool's official pricing page, with the checked date on the tool's own page.

Questions

What is the most popular alternative to Cloudflare Pages?

By GitHub stars, Vercel is the most used alternative to Cloudflare Pages listed on ScratchDB, with 16.4k stars.

Which Cloudflare Pages alternatives are open source?

Coolify and Dokploy are open source.

Which Cloudflare Pages alternatives have a free plan?

Vercel, Coolify, Dokploy, AWS Amplify, Netlify, Railway, DigitalOcean App Platform and Render have a free plan. The table on this page shows what each one includes.

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