Astro Pricing in 2027: Is Astro Free, and What Does a Site Cost?

Every figure below comes from the vendor's own pricing page, checked on November 13, 2026, and from two Astro sites we measured: our own homepage, rebuilt in Astro to compare it with Next.js, and The Accountant Quits, a client site we moved from Webflow to Astro. If you're still choosing where the content lives, our Astro CMS guide compares the options first.

Is Astro free?

Yes. Astro is released under the MIT License, which lets anyone use, copy, modify and sell work built with it, with one condition: keep the copyright notice in the code. Every feature ships in the free package, and nothing is charged per site.

Since January 2026, Cloudflare has owned the company behind Astro and pays its core team. The license stayed MIT, and Astro still deploys to any host.

What you pay for on an Astro site

An Astro site has six possible cost lines. Most marketing sites pay for three or four of them.

Astro hosting costs in 2027

An Astro site is static by default: the build turns every page into an HTML file, and any host that serves files can serve it. Hosting only gets metered when you add server features, like a form handler or pages rendered per request, through an adapter.

Cloudflare: $0 for a static site

Cloudflare's docs state that requests to static assets are free and unlimited, and they don't count toward the request allowance. A static Astro site therefore costs nothing to host there at any traffic level. Server features use Workers: the free plan allows 100,000 requests a day, and Workers Paid starts at $5 a month for 10 million.

Netlify: credits that run out

Netlify bills everything in credits. A production deploy costs 15 credits, bandwidth 20 credits per GB, and requests 2 credits per 10,000. On the Free plan the 300 credits are a hard limit, and when they run out every site on the account is paused and shows "Site not available" until the month resets. Deploys are the line people miss: 20 deploys a month uses the whole Free allowance before a single visitor arrives.

Vercel: Pro for any company site

Vercel's Hobby plan is generous on usage, and its terms limit it to personal, non-commercial use. A company website belongs on Pro, at $20 a month per developer seat. Pro includes a $20 usage credit, 1 TB of transfer a month and unlimited free Viewer seats, so a marketing site rarely pays more than the seat.

What our homepage costs to host on Astro

Our own site is built with Next.js and hosted on Vercel. To compare the two frameworks, we rebuilt our homepage in Astro, the test behind our Astro vs Next.js guide. The Astro copy builds in 5.4 seconds on a laptop, and a full homepage visit, scrolled to the bottom, transfers 749 KB over 84 requests, measured on November 13, 2026.

GA4 counted 2,887 sessions and 3,846 page views on our site between October 14 and November 13, 2026. Analytics misses visitors who block it, so we doubled the page views for planning: about 7,700. If every one of them were a cold homepage visit on the Astro copy, the site would transfer about 5.8 GB and serve about 650,000 requests a month. That is a worst-case calculation from each host's published rates, not a bill we were charged.

What a client site on Astro costs to host

The Accountant Quits, a podcast and media site we moved from Webflow to Astro, is hosted on Vercel with its content in Sanity. We measured its homepage on November 13, 2026: a full visit, scrolled to the bottom, transfers 1.68 MB over 37 requests from the site's own domain. Episode images load from Sanity's CDN, so they count against the CMS plan and leave the hosting bill alone.

A full homepage visit is the worst case; most visits load less and reuse files the browser already cached. The table counts how many worst-case visits each plan covers in a month, calculated from each host's published rates.

Here is what the client pays each month to keep the site live:

On both sites, traffic barely moves the bill. The plan rules matter more: who's allowed on the free tier, and what happens on the day a limit is hit.

CMS costs for an Astro site

Astro doesn't ship a CMS, so the second bill depends on who edits the site. If only developers touch content, Markdown files in the code repository cost nothing. Once marketers edit pages, you need an editing interface, and that's where seats come in. Our Sanity pricing breakdown covers Sanity's plans and overages in full.

Our own site has more than 180 pages on Sanity's Free plan and uses 13% of its monthly CDN quota.

If you're new to it, what Sanity is and how it works explains the model before you look at seats.

Paid themes, Astro DB and Astro Studio

Three things show up when people search Astro pricing, and none of them is the framework.

Themes. The Astro themes directory lists free and paid themes side by side. Paid bundles start around $99 for lifetime access to a theme author's collection. A theme saves design time on a blog or a docs site; the B2B sites we build get their own design, so a theme ends up as a starting point at best.

Astro Studio. Astro's hosted database service, launched in 2024, shut down the same year after the company found no path to a profitable business. New databases stopped on October 1, 2024.

Astro DB. The database integration kept working with any libSQL database after Studio closed, then was deprecated in Astro 6.4 and removed in Astro 7. So "Astro DB pricing" today means the price of whichever database you connect yourself, often a libSQL host like Turso.

Three monthly bills, worked out

Each bill is the monthly cost after the site is built, with prices as of November 13, 2026. Add $20 to $200 a month for each developer who builds with an AI coding assistant.

A brochure site edited by a developer: $0 a month. Twenty static pages on Cloudflare, content in Markdown, a free or custom design. The only cost is the domain.

A marketing site with five marketers and one developer: $110 a month. Content on Sanity Growth, 6 seats at $15 makes $90; hosting on Vercel Pro is $20 for the developer seat. Stakeholders who only review pages take free Viewer seats on both. A team that can work with Sanity Free's two roles pays $20 a month, or $0 on Cloudflare.

A site with server features: $50 a month. Gated content and a lead form handled on the server, on Cloudflare Workers Paid at $5, plus Sanity Growth for three editors at $45.

Astro vs Webflow: three years of monthly costs

Webflow charges for the site plan and for the Workspace seats of the people who work in it. Our Webflow pricing guide covers every plan. For a marketing site with a CMS, here is the monthly cost at two team sizes.

With the same team, the paid Astro setup costs about what Webflow does, $110 against $119 a month. The lean setup on Cloudflare and Sanity Free removes the platform bill entirely, which is where Astro pulls ahead.

The Accountant Quits made this move with us. Its site sat on Webflow's Business plan, at $39 a month billed yearly, until the client decided to simplify how the site was managed. We moved it to Astro and Sanity on Vercel, and 118 pages went across in six days. Today the client pays about $40 a month, $20 for Vercel Pro, which also hosts its other projects, and $20 for Claude Pro at the time of writing, plus the domain. The full case study covers the stack and the editing setup.

When Astro costs more than it saves

The monthly bill is the smallest number in this guide. The build is the largest: someone has to design the content model, build every page section and wire up preview once, and our website migration cost guide prices that work for each platform move. Our Astro builds and migrations start at $5,000, or $10,000 with a redesign, the same as a Webflow project.

"Building in Astro used to be expensive because of everything you had to know first: the framework, the adapters, the CMS wiring, the deploy setup. Clients paid for that know-how. Today Claude carries most of it for $20 a month. We moved The Accountant Quits, 118 pages, in six days, and the code we ship with AI is cleaner than what we used to write by hand."

— Uros Stancic, Developer @Khod

After launch, the cost that grows is developer time. On Webflow, a marketer can design a new landing page layout in the Designer. On Astro, marketers assemble pages from the sections a developer built, and a new kind of section is a developer task. The practical rule is simple: if your team ships new page layouts every week, stay where marketers can build them; if it publishes content into layouts that rarely change, Astro's monthly costs are hard to beat.

Frequently asked questions

Is Astro free for commercial use?

Yes. The MIT License allows commercial use, including client work and sites you sell. The only condition is keeping the license and copyright notice in the code.

Does Astro have a paid plan?

No. The framework has no paid tier. Astro's attempt at paid products, the Astro Studio database, shut down in 2024, and Cloudflare now funds development.

How much does Astro hosting cost?

A static Astro site costs $0 on Cloudflare at any traffic level. A company site on Vercel needs Pro at $20 a month per developer, and Netlify's paid plans start at $9 a month. Server features on Cloudflare start at $5 a month.

Is Astro DB free?

Astro DB no longer exists as part of Astro. It was deprecated in Astro 6.4 and removed in Astro 7, so you pay whatever your chosen database host charges.

Who owns Astro?

Cloudflare, since January 16, 2026, when it acquired The Astro Technology Company. Astro stays MIT-licensed and deploys to any host.

Are Astro themes free?

Many are. The Astro themes directory lists free and paid themes, and paid bundles start around $99.

How much does it cost to build an Astro website?

A developer or agency build is the main cost. Our Astro builds and migrations start at $5,000, or $10,000 with a redesign. After launch, monthly costs range from $0 to about $110 for a marketing team, plus any AI tools your developers pay for.

Is Astro cheaper than Webflow?

Month to month, yes or close to it. Astro on Cloudflare with Sanity's Free plan costs $0 a month against $44 for a Webflow Premium site and a Core Workspace. With five marketers on paid seats, the two cost about the same, $110 against $119 a month, and on Astro a new page layout needs a developer.

Moving your site to Astro

If the Webflow plan, the seats or the bandwidth add-ons keep growing, we can move the site, the content and the rankings to Astro, starting at $5,000. Tell us who edits your site and how often you add pages, and we'll size the hosting and CMS before we build.