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Netlify alternative: Faable Deploy vs Netlify

Short answer: Netlify is a frontend platform: push to Git, get your site on a global CDN with deploy previews, forms and functions for the dynamic parts. Since its move to credit-based plans, every production deploy, gigabyte of bandwidth, request and minute of compute draws from a monthly credit balance. On the Free plan, when the credits run out, every site is paused until the next cycle. Faable Deploy keeps the same Git workflow with a fixed monthly fee per project, no meters on Free and Hobby, and a free plan that keeps serving your sites. Your backend runs as a real, long-running server, Faable Auth is included, and your apps and data are hosted in the EU by a European company.

Netlify details checked against netlify.com pricing and docs in November 2026. They change often, so confirm anything decisive on their own site.

At a glance

Faable DeployNetlify
Deploy from Git, zero config✅ static sites, Node.js, Python, PHP; Dockerfile on Hobby and Pro✅ static sites and frontend frameworks
Pricing modelFixed fee per project: 0 €, 15 €, 99 €/monthMonthly credits: Free 300, Personal $9 for 1,000, Pro $20 for 3,000
What counts against the planNothing on Free and Hobby; egress beyond 100 GB on Pro15 credits per production deploy, 20 per GB of bandwidth, 10 per GB-hour of compute, 2 per 10,000 requests
When the free plan runs outDeploys are queued; going over traffic sends warnings, sites keep serving”All of your web projects are paused” until the next cycle, or you upgrade
Production deploys on freeUp to 50 a day per projectEach costs 15 of the 300 monthly credits
How your backend runsA long-running server process in a containerFunctions: 60 s synchronous, 15 min in the background; long-running servers in early access
Background workers and cron✅ workers, scheduled tasks (Hobby and Pro)Scheduled functions, limited to 30 s
Team membersNot billed per seatUnlimited on Pro
Edge firewall✅ managed rulesets + your own rules, every plan✅ traffic rules and basic rate limiting on Free; DDoS protection
Bundled identity (OAuth 2.0, OIDC)✅ Faable Auth, 15,000 MAU free❌ a second vendor
Deploy previews per branch❌✅, free of credits
Global CDN❌ served from Europe✅
Where your app runsIn the EU, operated by a European companyFunctions in Ohio (cmh) by default; EU regions selectable per function on Pro
CurrencyEURUSD

Why teams look for a Netlify alternative

Credits turn every deploy into a cost

On Netlify’s credit plans, a production deploy costs 15 credits, a gigabyte of bandwidth 20, a GB-hour of compute 10, and 10,000 requests 2. The Free plan’s 300 credits a month are about 20 production deploys, or 15 GB of bandwidth, before anything else. Paid plans can buy more credits, at $5 per 500 on Personal and $10 per 1,500 on Pro. Free has a hard limit: once the balance is spent, “all of your web projects (sites/apps) are paused”, visitors see a “Site not available” page, and new production deploys are blocked until the cycle resets.

Faable charges a fixed fee per plan, per project, never per user, and there’s no meter on Free or Hobby. The Free plan allows up to 50 deployments a day per project, and a push over the daily quota is queued, not dropped. Failed builds never count. Going over the 10 GB traffic allowance sends warnings at 80 %, 90 % and 100 %; it doesn’t take your site offline. Hobby is 15 €/month with unlimited deployments and 50 GB of egress; only Pro meters egress beyond its 100 GB. See Deploy pricing.

A backend that isn’t a function

Netlify runs dynamic code as functions: 60 seconds for a synchronous request, 30 seconds for a scheduled one and 15 minutes in the background, with 1 GB of memory by default. A long-running server option, Netlify Server, is in early access, and full-stack frameworks still run as functions.

On Faable your code runs as an ordinary server process in a Linux container: Next.js with next start, Astro, Express, Fastify, NestJS, Django, FastAPI, Flask, Laravel or plain PHP, detected and built without configuration. The only timeout is 60 seconds to the first byte, after which a response can stream for minutes (see Hosting AI agents in Europe). On Hobby and Pro, background workers run processes with no web server, and scheduled tasks run any command of your app on a cron schedule, for as long as it needs. Static sites are served directly, with no container and no cold start.

Auth is in the same subscription

Most sites on Netlify add a second vendor for sign-in, with its own bill and its own data-processing agreement. On Faable, Faable Auth is part of the plan: hosted login, social and passwordless sign-in, MFA, passkeys and machine-to-machine tokens, with 15,000 monthly active users on Free and no MAU limit on Hobby and Pro.

European by construction

Netlify deploys functions to Ohio by default, and choosing a European region is a per-function setting on Pro. Faable is a European company: your apps and data are hosted in the EU, with hosting and identity under one provider and one data-processing agreement. More in European alternatives to Vercel, Render and Railway.

When Netlify might fit better

  • Your site is static or Jamstack, with a global audience, and you want it on a worldwide CDN.
  • You rely on deploy previews for every branch and pull request. They cost no credits on Netlify; Faable doesn’t create them, though you can deploy a staging app from your own CI.
  • You use Netlify Forms or edge functions as part of your site.

Moving from Netlify

Connect the same repository, copy your environment variables, deploy, and point your domain at Faable. Static builds are served as they are; a _redirects file is handled in your framework or server instead. The step-by-step version is in Migrate from Netlify.

Get started with Faable Deploy: free, no credit card.

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