How this calculator works

This calculator estimates your monthly Netlify bill by combining the fixed cost of team seats with usage-based charges for bandwidth and serverless function runtime. You enter your plan, seat count, monthly bandwidth in GB, the bandwidth included in your plan, the overage rate per GB, and your function minutes; the tool returns the included portion, the billable overage, and a total. Bandwidth and function usage on hosting platforms are metered after a fixed allowance, so a traffic spike or a heavy build of server-rendered pages can move a bill from a predictable flat rate into overage territory. Seeing the seat cost and the metered cost separately makes it clear whether growth in your bill comes from headcount or from traffic, which are addressed by very different fixes.

Frequently asked questions

How is Netlify bandwidth billed?

Each plan includes a fixed bandwidth allowance per month, and usage above that allowance is billed at a per-GB overage rate. Bandwidth counts all data served to visitors, including HTML, JavaScript bundles, images, and API responses proxied through the platform.

Do serverless function minutes cost extra?

Plans include a set amount of function runtime per month, measured in execution minutes or GB-seconds depending on the function type. Once you exceed the included amount, additional runtime is billed separately from bandwidth, so a site with modest traffic but long-running or frequently invoked functions can still generate charges.

Why do team seats matter in the total?

Seats are a flat per-user, per-month charge that applies regardless of how much traffic your sites receive. For small teams with high traffic, overage usually dominates the bill; for larger teams with low traffic, seat cost often makes up most of it, which is why the calculator separates the two.