The Prerender extension is now generally available (GA) for all Netlify users. The legacy prerendering feature is now deprecated with limited support.
Once set up, this extension automatically serves pre-rendered HTML to crawlers, agents, and preview services, while regular site visitors continue to receive your standard JavaScript application.
Prerendering ensures your app’s content is discoverable to AI agents, SEO crawlers, and preview services, such as for social media previews.
Prerendering is designed for apps that use JavaScript to generate page content instead of serving most or all content in HTML, such as for single-page applications (SPAs) built with frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular.
For a deeper dive on prerendering and the new extension, check out our latest blog post.
Does my project need prerendering?
Not sure if your web project needs prerendering?
Find out using our prerendering checker tool and your project URL.
Set up the Prerender extension
To try out the Prerender extension, install it from the Netlify extensions library.
If you have the legacy prerendering feature enabled, disable it in your site’s settings.
Learn more about setting up this extension from our Prerender extension documentation.
Deprecating the legacy prerendering feature
The legacy built-in prerendering feature is now deprecated and will gradually shut down and stop working.
Here is the deprecation timeline:
| Date | Impacted plans |
|---|---|
| January 20, 2026 | The feature will be disabled for customers on Free plans (either legacy or credit-based) or the legacy Starter plan. |
| February 17, 2026 | The feature will be disabled for customers on the Personal plan or the Pro plans (legacy or credit-based) |
| March 17, 2026 | The feature will be disabled for Enterprise and all other specialized plans. |
Note: Some customers on paid plans have a customized setup in which the legacy feature acted as a proxy to external prerendering vendors. Please reach out to Netlify Support for help on your next options.