They had a free “starter” plan, which began to charge you their pretty hefty traffic prices if you ever happened to cross the free limit, leading to situations

They had a free “starter” plan, which began to charge you their pretty hefty traffic prices if you ever happened to cross the free limit, leading to situations like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520776 Which probably wasn’t very good PR for them either (see the classic HN CEO response). I’m happy about this new, actually free plan, I wanted to move all my projects off Netlify when that happened but now I feel a bit more safe. Be aware you have to explicitly switch to that in your account settings, otherwise you remain on “starter” which starts to bill you.