Does Google offer free website hosting? What's free in 2026

Yes. Google's Sites help, read on November 13, 2026, says “You can create a website to share info with others,” and Google counts Sites among “Google's free consumer apps.” Blogger and Firebase Hosting host for free too: Blogger offers “a blogspot.com domain.” Firebase's pricing page lists its Spark plan as “No-cost” with “No payment method needed,” including 10 GB of Hosting storage. What Google doesn't give is a free domain name. Its Google Domains page says that when Google's sale to Squarespace closed on September 7, 2023, “all Google Domains users became customers of Squarespace.”

Every quote, price, and quota here was read on November 13, 2026, on Google's own help pages, docs, and pricing pages, listed under Sources. Firebase and Google Cloud prices are in US dollars.

Every Google option in one table

Google Sites: free, on a sites.google.com address

Google's Sites help walks through making a site with no plan to choose: open Google Sites, pick a template, edit it, and click Publish. The Workspace FAQ sets paid Workspace apart from “Google's free consumer apps.” A published site lives at a sites.google.com/view/ address.

• Your own domain. The custom domain help says “You can use a custom domain for a site published on Google Sites” and “You can connect up to five custom domains to one site.” The domain needs a subdomain: “Your URL must include a subdomain, like "www".”
• HTML code. Sites takes HTML, CSS, and JavaScript through Insert > Embed > Embed code (embed help). The code runs in a box on a Sites page, or as a Full page embed. The help names no way to upload a whole .html file as a page.

The page Is Google Sites free? covers business use, forms, and the domain steps in detail.

Blogger: free, on a blogspot.com address

Blogger's home page says “Get a blogspot.com domain or buy a custom domain with just a few clicks,” and names no price or paid plan. You sign in to Blogger with a Google Account, click New blog, and “Choose a blog address or URL” (Create a blog).

• Your own domain. Blogger's custom domain help says “When you buy a domain from a domain provider, you can set up your domain and manage its settings in Blogger,” with a CNAME record pointing a subdomain such as www at ghs.google.com.
• HTML. A blog's design changes through Theme > Edit HTML (design help). Blogger is built for posts, not for uploading a finished page.

Firebase Hosting's Spark plan: free up to its quota

Firebase's pricing page lists 2 plans: “No-cost (Spark plan)” and “Pay as you go (Blaze plan).” Spark says “No payment method needed.” Firebase's Hosting quickstart says Hosting “can be used with your own custom domain or on your project's subdomains at no cost on web.app and firebaseapp.com.”

Past the free transfer, a Spark site goes offline. Firebase's Hosting usage page, last updated November 12, 2026, says “we offer a short grace period but then your sites will be disabled,” and they stay off “until the start of the next month.” The quota is shared: “Your Hosting quota is project-level, not site-level or channel-level.” The page Is Firebase Hosting free? covers each limit.

Cloud Storage static websites: a free tier, a paid load balancer

Google Cloud's static website guide, last updated November 10, 2026, hosts “a static website for a domain you own” from a Cloud Storage bucket. It says “Cloud Storage doesn't support custom domains with HTTPS on its own,” so the guide adds an external Application Load Balancer, and it lists both “Cloud Storage” and “Cloud Load Balancing” as billable.

Cloud Storage's part can be free. Google Cloud's Free Tier includes “5 GB-months of regional storage (US regions only) per month” and “100 GB of outbound data transfer from North America to all region destinations (excluding China and Australia) per month,” in us-east1, us-west1, and us-central1. You use it from a Cloud Billing account. Serving your domain over plain HTTP needs no load balancer, though browsers mark such a site as not secure.

Does Google give you a free domain?

No. Google no longer runs a domain registrar of its own. Its Google Domains page says “On 15 June 2023, Google entered into a definitive agreement with Squarespace,” that “all Google Domains users became customers of Squarespace” when the sale closed on September 7, 2023, and that “As of 10 July 2024, all domains have migrated to Squarespace.”

3 Google routes still sell you a domain, each paid:

• Google Sites, through Workspace. The custom domain help says “You can purchase a new domain for Google Sites through a Google Workspace plan,” and “The default subscription plan is Business Standard.”
• Blogger. Its home page offers to “buy a custom domain.”
• Google Cloud Domains. Its FAQ, last updated November 10, 2026, says “you can continue to search and register for new domains using Cloud Domains,” and “the registrar of record is Squarespace.”

Every free Google option above gives you Google's own address instead: sites.google.com, blogspot.com, web.app, or firebaseapp.com.

How much does a Google website cost?

Google sets Workspace prices by country. Read from Japan on November 13, 2026, its pricing page listed Business Starter at ¥800, Business Standard at ¥1,600, and Business Plus at ¥2,500 per user a month, each with “No cost for 14 days.” Your country's page shows your price. Sites is in every plan's feature table, and it costs nothing without one.

When an AI-made HTML file needs a link today

Google's free options don't fit one case: you have a finished .html file from ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, and you want a link to it now. Google Sites takes code only inside an embed box. Blogger takes it only inside a theme. Firebase Hosting and Cloud Storage take the file once you set up a Google project, and Firebase deploys from its command-line tool.

Convika takes the file as it is. Drop it into the upload box at the top of this page, up to 2 MB, or paste its code, and you get a private preview link that works for 3 minutes. Keep it with a free account and publish it. The first time, click Publish free.

• 1 published page, free. Your page goes on a convika.page address, with a small Convika bar at the bottom.
• Your own subdomain. Free connects 1 custom subdomain, such as www.yourbrand.com, with the SSL certificate issued for you.
• A form that keeps entries. Click Add a form to my page, and Convika stores each entry, emails it to you, and exports to CSV. Free shows 50 entries a month.
• 90 days of visitor stats. You get visits, referrers, UTM campaigns, devices, countries, and button clicks.
• Commercial use. Section 7 of the terms allows it on every plan, Free included.

Free includes 10,000 page views a month. Once your pages reach that in a month, editing and analytics pause, and 7 days later the pages stop until the month ends or you upgrade; Convika emails you at 80% first. Pro removes the Convika bar and costs $12 a month.

Where Google fits better: a site you want to design in Google's editor (Sites), a blog with posts (Blogger), or a multi-file site you deploy from code (Firebase Hosting). Convika hosts each page as one HTML file and runs no server code or database for it.

Frequently asked questions

Does Google offer free website hosting?

Yes. Google Sites hosts a site you build in its editor on a sites.google.com address, Blogger hosts a blog on blogspot.com, and Firebase Hosting's Spark plan hosts your own files on web.app with “No payment method needed.” All 3 connect a domain of your own, which costs extra.

Is Google Sites really free?

Yes. Google Sites works with a personal Google Account and has no plan or price; Google calls it one of its “free consumer apps.” Its help lets you connect up to 5 custom domains to a site and names no fee for it. Business email and a domain bought through Google come with a paid Google Workspace plan.

How much does a Google website cost?

A Google website costs $0 on Google Sites, Blogger, or Firebase Hosting's Spark plan. You pay for a domain from a registrar, for Firebase usage past the free quota on the Blaze plan ($0.15 per GB of transfer), or for Google Workspace, priced per user by country, if you want business email.

Does Google give a free domain name?

No. Google sold its Google Domains registrations to Squarespace in 2023, and Google's page says “all Google Domains users became customers of Squarespace.” Google's free products give you their own address instead, such as sites.google.com, blogspot.com, or web.app.

Can I get a free domain name and free web hosting from Google?

Free hosting, yes; a free domain, no. Google Sites, Blogger, and Firebase Hosting's Spark plan host at no cost on Google's addresses. A domain of your own comes from a registrar at its price, and Google Cloud Domains now registers new ones with Squarespace as the registrar.

Can I host an HTML file on Google for free?

Yes, on Firebase Hosting's Spark plan, which deploys your files from the Firebase command line, free up to 10 GB stored. Google Sites takes HTML only as embed code inside a page, and Blogger only through its theme's Edit HTML. To put a single HTML file on a link from the browser, Convika's Free plan takes the file in its upload box.

Is Firebase Hosting free?

Yes, up to its quota. The Spark plan includes 10 GB of storage and 10 GB of data transfer a month (360 MB a day on the pricing page), with a custom domain and SSL. Past the transfer quota, Firebase disables the site until the next month unless you move to the Blaze plan.

Is Blogger free?

Yes. Blogger's pages list no price or paid plan, and it publishes your blog on a blogspot.com address. You can connect a domain you buy from a domain provider.

What happened to Google Domains?

Squarespace bought all Google Domains registrations. The sale closed on September 7, 2023, and Google says that “As of 10 July 2024, all domains have migrated to Squarespace.” For a domain registered there, Google's page says “Please contact Squarespace for further help.”

Sources

• Google Sites Help: How to use Google Sites, Use a custom domain for your site, Publish & share your site, and Add Google files, videos, website content, & more (checked November 13, 2026)
• Google Workspace FAQ and Google Workspace pricing, read from Japan (checked November 13, 2026)
• Blogger, Blogger Help: Create a blog, Set up a custom domain, and Change the design of your blog (checked November 13, 2026)
• Firebase pricing, Hosting usage, quotas, and pricing, last updated November 12, 2026, and Hosting quickstart (checked November 13, 2026)
• Google Cloud: Host a static website and Free Tier usage limits, last updated November 10, 2026 (checked November 13, 2026)
• Google Domains: About the Squarespace purchase of Google Domains registrations and Cloud Domains: Squarespace purchase of Google Domains FAQ, last updated November 10, 2026 (checked November 13, 2026)