I have a bunch of pet projects on netlify free tier and I could never afford to pay this amount of money. What are some good alternatives that don't have this issue? I've already noticed cloudflare pages mentioned in these comments.
Static: Github Actions to build and deploy to BunnyCDN
Non-static: selfhosted Dokku on Hetzner
Neither is free, if you're looking for free, Github Pages or Cloudflare for static sites. Free non-static, I'm not sure there are solutions that don't have the same problem Netlify has.