Here’s a comparison of the most popular static website hosting services.

With static hosting I mean hosting of static HTML pages and their linked resources (CSS, JS, images, etc.).

Other than serving the static content with a global CDN, these services usually also take care of things like CI/CD builds, atomic deployments, instant cache invalidation and preview deployments, which often aren’t easy to achieve (or not achievable at all) with simpler DIY storage+CDN solutions.

Below, the feature “rewrite” usually includes the ability to have a navigation fallback for single-page applications, and custom error pages.

Server-side rendering or server functions were not considered in this comparison.

Netlify

  • ⚠️ CDN: only 6 locations on free/Pro plans, 70+ locations with very expensive High Performance Edge (enterprise plan)
  • Bandwidth: 100 GB on the free plan (then $550 / TB), 1 TB on the Pro plan (then $550 / TB)
  • ✅ Automatic hosted builds (CI/CD)
  • ✅ GitHub commit checks
  • ❌ No GitHub environments/deployments support
  • ✅ Rollbacks
  • ✅ Atomic deployments
  • ✅ Instant cache invalidation
  • ✅ Custom domain with HTTPS certificate and redirect
  • ✅ Branch/PR preview environments, also on custom domain
  • ✅ Rewrites/redirects/proxy
  • ✅ Custom response headers
  • ✅ DDoS/flood protection
  • ✅ HTTP/2
  • ❌ No HTTP/3
  • ✅ IPv6

Vercel

  • ✅ CDN: 100+ PoPs (all plans)
  • Bandwidth: 100 GB on the free plan, 1 TB on the Pro plan (then $150+ / TB)
  • ✅ Automatic hosted builds (CI/CD)
  • ✅ GitHub commit checks, environments/deployments
  • ✅ Rollbacks
  • ❓ Probably atomic deployments
  • ✅ Instant cache invalidation
  • ✅ Custom domain with HTTPS certificate and redirect
  • ✅ Branch/PR preview environments, also on custom domain
  • ✅ Rewrites/redirects/proxy
  • ✅ Custom response headers
  • ✅ DDoS/flood protection
  • ✅ HTTP/2
  • ❌ No HTTP/3
  • ❌ No IPv6

Cloudflare Pages

  • ✅ CDN: full Cloudflare network on all plans (330 cities)
  • Bandwidth: unlimited
  • ✅ Automatic hosted builds (CI/CD)
  • ✅ GitHub commit checks
  • ❌ No GitHub environments/deployments support
  • ✅ Rollbacks
  • ❓ Probably atomic deployments
  • ✅ Instant cache invalidation
  • ✅ Custom domain with HTTPS certificate and redirect
  • ⚠️ Custom domain requires Cloudflare NS
  • ✅ Branch/PR preview deployments
  • ❌ Preview deployments on custom domain must be configured manually
  • ✅ Rewrites/redirects
  • ❌ No proxied paths
  • ✅ Custom response headers
  • ✅ DDoS/flood protection
  • ✅ HTTP/2
  • ✅ HTTP/3
  • ✅ IPv6
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Render

  • ⚠️ CDN: no details available (“global CDN”)
  • Bandwidth: 100 GB on the free plan, 500 GB or 1 TB on paid plans, then $300 / TB
  • ✅ Automatic hosted builds (CI/CD)
  • ❓ GitHub commit checks, environments/deployments
  • ✅ Rollbacks
  • ❓ Probably atomic deployments
  • ✅ Instant cache invalidation
  • ✅ Custom domain with HTTPS certificate and redirect
  • ✅ PR (not branch) preview environments
  • ❌ No preview deployments on custom domain
  • ✅ Rewrites/redirects
  • ❌ No proxied paths
  • ✅ Custom response headers
  • ✅ DDoS/flood protection
  • ✅ HTTP/2
  • ✅ HTTP/3
  • ❌ No IPv6

AWS Amplify Hosting

  • ✅ CDN: full CloudFront network, 600+ PoPs in 100+ countries
  • Bandwidth: 5 GB on the free plan (12 months), then $150 / TB
  • ✅ Automatic hosted builds (CI/CD)
  • ❓ GitHub commit checks, environments/deployments
  • ✅ Rollbacks
  • ✅ Atomic deployments
  • ✅ Instant cache invalidation
  • ✅ Custom domain with HTTPS certificate and redirect
  • ✅ PR (not branch) preview environments
  • ✅ Preview deployments on custom domain (Route53 only)
  • ✅ Rewrites/redirects
  • ❌ No proxied paths
  • ✅ Custom response headers
  • ❌ No DDoS/flood protection included
  • ✅ HTTP/2
  • ✅ HTTP/3
  • ❌ No IPv6 (officially)

Azure Static Web Apps

  • ⚠️ CDN: limited locations by default, but on the paid plan you can enable the Front Door CDN (192 locations in 109 cities) for $17.52 / month
  • Bandwidth: 100 GB on the free plan, $200 / TB on the paid plan
  • ❌ No automatic hosted builds (CI/CD), a GitHub Actions workflow is required
  • ❌ No GitHub commit checks, environments/deployments
  • ❌ No rollbacks
  • ✅ Atomic deployments
  • ⚠️ Instant cache invalidation, but there’s a max age of 30 seconds by default
  • ✅ Custom domain with HTTPS certificate and redirect
  • ✅ Preview environments, to be created through the GitHub action (I think)
  • ❌ No preview deployments on custom domain
  • ✅ Rewrites/redirects
  • ❓ Unclear if proxied paths are supported
  • ✅ Custom response headers
  • ❌ No DDoS/flood protection included
  • ✅ HTTP/2
  • ❌ No HTTP/3
  • ✅ IPv6 (only with Front Door enabled)

I left out some features, like access control, form submissions, analytics, etc., which are sometimes included.

I also left out some simpler services, like GitHub Pages, DigitalOcean App Platform, Surge.sh, because they miss basic features like preview deployments or response headers. I also looked at Firebase Hosting but I find the docs incredibly confusing.