What each project costs us to host

Every dollar we spend on Netlify, split across our client and internal projects over the last three billing months. Almost all of it comes from one thing: how often we publish updates to each site.

The ranking

Total spend by project

Three months combined (May–Jul 2026). Bar length = total cost. Teal projects are driven by publishing; copper projects are driven mostly by visitor traffic.

Cost mostly from publishing site updates

Cost mostly from visitor traffic (bandwidth)

Trend

Spend per month

All projects combined. July is a part-month (Netlify's period runs 5 Jul – 4 Aug; data captured to 14 Jul), so it will keep rising.

The detail

Every project, month by month

Monthly cost in the selected currency, plus totals. Sorted by total spend.

Project	May	Jun	Jul*	Publishes	Traffic	Total

Where the money goes

What actually drives the cost

Across all projects, over the three months.

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Publishing dominates. Every time we push an update to a live site it costs 15 credits (~15c / NZ$0.26). We publish a lot, so this is ~87% of the bill. Fewer, batched deploys = lower cost.

Publishing site updates · 644 publishes87%

Visitor traffic / bandwidth · 70 GB13%

Web requests + functions · account-wide~1%

How to read this (plain English)

1.
Netlify charges in "credits." 100 credits = US$1. We convert to dollars at that rate.
2.
Each site "publish" costs 15 credits (about 15 US cents). Only successful publishes to the live site are charged — draft/preview builds and failed builds are free.
3.
Visitor traffic costs 20 credits per GB (about 20 US cents). This is why Massage Eden is copper — a June traffic spike, not publishing, drove most of its cost.
4.
NZD is approximate. Netlify bills in US dollars; your Visa is converted to NZD by the bank. Shown at 1 USD ≈ 1.70 NZD, and it excludes the bank's ~2–3% foreign-transaction fee — so real NZD charged is a little higher.
5.
Not split per project: the US$9/mo (~NZ$15) base plan fee, and small account-wide web-request/function costs (~1%). Netlify's plan also includes 1,000 free credits each month, so actual cash charged is a bit lower than the full resource value shown here.
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Accuracy: these figures rebuild Netlify's own account totals to within ~2% (4.9K / 3.1K / 3.2K credits for May / Jun / Jul).