Flat pricing. No account. No usage meter.
Netlify meters usage on bandwidth and build minutes, so the same site can cost different amounts month to month. shiply.now has no usage meter: the price on the card is the price you pay, and your agent ships in a single call.
The short version: pick shiply.now when you want a predictable bill and an agent that publishes in one HTTP call. Pick Netlify for a mature build pipeline, a rich plugin ecosystem, and an established team.
A usage meter vs a flat line
This is the one thing to understand. Netlify is a metered host: its paid plans bill on bandwidth and build minutes (see netlify.com/pricing), so a busy month is a bigger month. shiply.now removes the meter entirely.
Free, $8, or $24 a month — that is the whole number, whether the site gets ten visitors or ten thousand on its best day. There are no metered overages, so you can ship something, watch it spike, and still know exactly what you owe. See the full pricing breakdown for what each tier includes.
A spike — or an attack — can't change your bill
Every site you publish is served from Cloudflare's edge, which mitigates DDoS attacks automatically and unmetered, on every plan. Attack and CDN traffic is absorbed at the edge and never billed to you — so the flat price is a hard ceiling. A viral day or a bot flood moves your traffic, not your invoice.
It is worth being precise about Netlify here, because the story changed. In a widely-discussed 2024 incident, a developer was billed $104,500 for a simple static personal site after roughly 60TB of traffic over four days on a long-time free account. The charge was reduced, then waived after the story went viral — a discretionary courtesy, not a cap. In response, Netlify's CEO said publicly they were changing defaults so free sites never incur overages.
So today Netlify's free tier hard-caps: a site pauses rather than running up a bill. That is a genuine fix, and credit where it is due. The structural difference that remains is on the paid plans, where usage is metered and overage can be billed if you opt into automatic recharge. shiply.now takes a different stance across the board: the flat price is the cap, on every tier, with no meter to opt out of.
The head-to-head
Every row is a real, factual difference — not a feature-count contest.
The one-call difference: shiply.now publishes in a single HTTP call from Claude Code or Cursor with no account — Netlify ships through git, the CLI, or drag-and-drop, all of which still want an account and, for most projects, a build.
| Feature | shiply.now | Netlify |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Pricing model | Flat $0 / $8 / $24 | Usage-metered |
| Predictable bill | Varies with usage | |
| Metered axes | None | Bandwidth + build minutes (netlify.com/pricing) |
| Spike / attack traffic | Absorbed at Cloudflare's edge — never billed | Mitigated, but served traffic counts toward metered usage on paid plans |
| Free tier | ✓ (now hard-capped — sites pause) | |
| Account required to deploy | ||
| Publishing | ||
| Publish method | One HTTP call from your agent | git push, CLI, or drag-and-drop + account |
| Build step | Yes (metered build minutes) | |
| Agent / MCP | Write-enabled, 40+ tools — agent deploys directly | Account + build pipeline in the way of a one-call deploy |
| Hosting | ||
| Custom domains | ||
| Real databases | D1 + Neon Postgres | via add-ons / integrations |
| Build plugins / CI ecosystem | Single-file edge functions | Mature — plugins, build hooks, deep CI |
| Handoff | ||
| Sell / transfer a finished site | ✓ marketplace | |
Your agent publishes in one HTTP call
No git remote to wire up, no account to create first, no build to wait on. Your agent POSTs once and the site is live at a real URL the moment the call returns — then a single click claims it to keep it forever.
- No account needed to start — claim it later in one click
- No build step — files go live as they land
- Works from MCP (40+ write-enabled tools), the CLI, or raw HTTP
The number on the card is the number you pay
Metered hosts add up bandwidth and build minutes, so a busy month becomes a more expensive one. shiply.now is a flat monthly price with no meter, so the line stays flat no matter how the traffic moves.
- Flat $0 / $8 / $24 per month, in USD
- No metered overages — ever
- A viral day changes your traffic, not your invoice
Your agent gets full write access — secrets stay safe.
The agent keychain lets the AI store and use secrets — API keys, database credentials, tokens — without ever logging them to output. Combined with a write-enabled MCP and Workers Lite edge functions, your agent goes from zero to a live, production-grade site in one call.
Encrypted agent keychain
Store API keys and secrets per site. The agent retrieves and uses them; they never appear in tool output or logs.
Write-enabled MCP — 40+ tools
Publish sites, manage databases, attach domains, send email — not read-only. Full docs at /docs.
Per-site variables + Workers Lite
Inject environment variables per site and run edge functions on Cloudflare Workers — no build step, no cold-start delay.
One call, live URL, no account
The agent POSTs once and gets back a real URL. No account needed to start — claim it in one click to keep it forever.
When Netlify is the better choice
Netlify is a strong, mature product, and for a real set of projects it is the right call. Here is where it wins.
Reach for Netlify when your project lives in its build pipeline — heavier frameworks, build hooks, deploy previews per branch, and a deep CI/CD flow that you want to configure once and forget. That is a workload it has refined over many years.
Its plugin ecosystem is another real advantage: a large library of build plugins, integrations, and community modules that slot into the deploy step. And for an established team that wants granular environments, role-based access, and a familiar long-running pipeline, Netlify is a proven, well-supported choice.
shiply.now is built for a different moment: an agent that needs to ship a site to a real URL right now, on a flat bill, without an account or a build pipeline in the way. If that is the job, the rest of this page is for you.
Publish a site in one call.
No account needed. Live at a real URL in a single request.