Wow - these types of changes make it hard to justify using Netlify for static hosting if your contributing team will even possibly grow. Once you get more than 7 contributors for the codebase you have to switch to an enterprise plan ($$) is a scary cliff. What fundamentally changes in hosting costs when I get that extra team member? The pricing structure feels very illogical - are they really adding that much more value in hosting my site just because I have more contributors? Everyone knows exactly what this is - a desperate attempt for cash flow.

I left Netlify 2 months ago to go to Cloudflare pages, main reason to move was Netlify reliability issues, 500 errors, 15-30 sec response times ... Timeouts, several times per week, and everyday some weeks ... For static sites. Now with Cloudflare pages we got a nearly perfect uptime and latency according to our monitoring system. Also pricing is much lower with Cloudflare pages. Sorry if this sounds like an ad ... I just wanted to share my own story.

The price changes here are worrying - I just started planning on how I'd like to switch our frontend applications to be hosted on Netlify and now the pricing is changing from under me.

I can understand charging for developers who trigger deploys; but the whole "teams with more than 7 members must upgrade to enterprise" seems ludicrous. When did 7 people become an enterprise? The last thing I want is to get a 10x bill because an intern triggered a build in my 8 man "enterprise".

So if person X creates a Netlify site and connects it to a GitHub repo for deploys, and person Y commits to the repo, you to pay Netlify for 2 users?

And the only alternative to stay in the free tier is you have to say person Y isn't a Netlify user, meaning the build will only get triggered when person X triggers the build manually?

One suspects the money folks who approved these changes are the same who keep all of Netlify’s tiers other than the very most expensive one on a six-POP CDN for the whole world --- unlike Netlify’s competitors, each of which provides the same CDN for all its tiers. Have never understood the logic behind this on Netlify’s part, since The Power Of The Brand™ can take it only so far in an increasingly competitive marketplace. And doing this particular pricing structure change at this time, when companies are hurrying to cut costs ahead of what appears almost certain to be a slowdown, is equally weird IMHO.

8 people, at 19 per month, amounts to 8x19x12 = +-1800 a year. adding an 8th person would skyrocket that, if we take the next step up (business) at 99/m, to 8x99x12 = +- 9500 per year.

And that's not even the "enterprise" pricing.

That must be one hell of an improved workflow to increase the price with, probably at least, 400%.

Congrats to the Netlify team! Sounds like changing the customer mix will help them focus on more advanced features rather than needing to supporting the most basic of sites and hobbyists.

It's unfortunate if you're in a business where this pricing is actually expensive, but it seems like it is time for the non-business users to restart the cycle by moving onto the next startup's offering.

I wonder who’s idea it was to charge more based on information that Netlify finds by reading your git commits. Glad I switched to Render.