Netlify Drop alternatives in 2026: 7 hosts compared on forms, stats, and domains

Netlify Drop has turned a dragged folder into a website since 2018, and it still takes “a folder, zip file, or single HTML file” with no account. What happens after the drop has changed. Since a 2024 fraud wave, an anonymous drop stays behind a temporary password until you claim it. Accounts created since September 4, 2025 are on credit-based plans, where Free runs on 300 credits a month. Teams created on or after July 28, 2026 start new projects private. Form submissions became free in April 2026, and Netlify's Free plan stores unlimited form entries. Every project pauses when the 300 monthly credits run out.

A landing page has to do more than load: an address you can share, a form that keeps what visitors send, and a way to see where they came from. The page compares Netlify Drop with 6 alternatives on those jobs, plus what takes the page offline. Details come from each vendor's own pricing pages and docs, checked on October 5, 2026. Free plans change often, so confirm before you launch.

Netlify Drop and 6 alternatives at a glance

How Netlify Drop works now

• The link has a password until you claim it. Netlify's Drop quickstart says that if you drop without signing in, “your project URL is protected with a temporary password until you claim it.” Netlify's history of Drop notes that the claim window was cut to 1 hour in January 2022. The password came after a 2024 fraud wave. Unclaimed sites are suspended, then deleted a week later.
• New teams start projects private. Teams created on or after July 28, 2026 get “Private for new projects” by default, per the project visibility docs. On Free and Personal, only the team owner can see a private project. Anyone else gets a Netlify page saying they don't have access. Select Make public before sharing the link.
• The Free plan is a credit budget. Accounts created since September 4, 2025 are on credit-based plans, and Free gets 300 credits a month. A production deploy costs 15 and bandwidth 20 per GB, so 20 deploys use the whole month. At zero, “all of your web projects (sites/apps) are paused”, per Netlify's credit docs. Visitors see a “Site not available” page, and paused projects take no form submissions until the next month or until you upgrade. The page Is Netlify free? works through what 300 credits cover for a one-page site.
• Forms became free. Netlify's April 14, 2026 pricing update made form submissions free on credit-based plans. Before that, each cost a credit.
• A drop is now a full project. Netlify's summer 2026 update lets you redeploy a drop, connect a custom domain, and drop a project that needs a build step.

Each option in a paragraph

Netlify Drop

Netlify is the strongest free option here for a page with a form, as long as you stay within the credits. Select Enable form detection under Forms, add data-netlify="true" to your <form>, then drop the folder again, because detection starts with the next deploy. Entries appear in the project's Forms tab, download as a CSV, and can go to you by email, Slack, or webhook. Custom domains with SSL are included. Web Analytics shows pageviews, unique visitors, top pages, and top sources without a script, but Netlify's pricing page lists 1 day of retention on Free and 7 days on Personal, which costs $9 a month for 1,000 credits.

Better than the others at: unlimited free form entries, and sites with many files or a build step.

Vercel Drop

Vercel launched Drop on June 12, 2026. You drag in a single HTML file, a folder, or a .zip, pick a team and project name, and it goes straight to production, so you need a Vercel account first. The free Hobby plan includes 100 GB of data transfer, 1,000,000 CDN requests, and 50,000 Web Analytics events a month, keeps 1 month of analytics data, and allows 50 domains per project. Vercel's fair use guidelines limit Hobby to “non-commercial personal use only” and count “advertising the sale of a product or service” as commercial. Hobby lists no form feature, so a form needs a service such as Formspree or a function you write. A page for something you sell needs Vercel Pro at $20 a month. Can you use Vercel's Hobby plan for a commercial site? covers what Vercel counts as commercial and free plans without that rule.

Better than the others at: pages that grow into a Next.js or other framework project.

Cloudflare Drop and Pages

Cloudflare has 2 ways to drag files in. Cloudflare Drop takes a folder or .zip with no account and gives a live workers.dev URL; claim it within 60 minutes, or Cloudflare deletes it. Pages direct upload, in the Cloudflare dashboard, takes “a zip file or single folder of assets,” up to 1,000 files of 25 MiB each. Both take a folder or a zip, so put your HTML file in a folder as index.html first. Requests to static files are free and unlimited. Cloudflare Web Analytics is free and shows referrers, countries, and devices; on Pages, turn it on in the project's Metrics tab. A Pages project takes up to 100 custom domains, and a custom domain on Workers needs the domain's DNS on Cloudflare. For a form, the Static Forms plugin hands each submission to code you write, such as a function that saves it to KV. Cloudflare's Pages docs now say “Start new projects with Workers.”

Better than the others at: traffic, with no cap on static requests, and a public link with no account for the first hour.

GitHub Pages

GitHub Pages publishes HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files “straight from a repository,” free, with a custom domain, including a bare yourbrand.com. On GitHub Free the repository must be public, so anyone can read your HTML. Sites can be up to 1 GB, with a soft limit of 100 GB of bandwidth a month. GitHub's usage limits say Pages is not for running “your online business, e-commerce site, or any other website that is primarily directed at either facilitating commercial transactions or providing commercial software as a service (SaaS).” GitHub Pages commercial use covers what that includes. It's a static host, so a form needs an outside service, and the Pages docs describe no visitor stats.

Better than the others at: version history through Git, and free hosting on a bare domain for open projects.

Tiiny Host

Tiiny Host takes an HTML file, a zip, or a PDF and gives it a tiiny.site link. Signing up for its free plan “takes an email address and nothing else.” The free plan allows 1 active project, a 3 MB upload, and 5,000 visits and 5 GB of bandwidth a month, with a Tiiny Host banner. Its FAQ says free links stay online “as long as you log into your account once every 3 months.” Built-in analytics and banner removal start on Tiny at $9 a month, custom domains on Solo at $18, and on Pro at $38, “Capture emails,” which is an email gate in front of the page rather than a form. Tiiny Host alternatives compares its plans with 8 other hosts.

Better than the others at: PDFs, zips, and large uploads on paid plans.

Static.app

Static.app has no free plan, only a 7-day trial with no card: 1 site and 50 MB on a free subdomain. Starter costs $6 a month, or $5 a month billed yearly, for 2 sites, 500 MB, custom domains, forms, website analytics, and unlimited traffic.

Better than the others at: low-cost paid hosting with forms and analytics from the first tier.

Convika

Convika hosts landing pages and keeps what happens on them. In the dashboard, upload an HTML file of up to 2 MB or paste its code, check the private preview, and publish; Claude, Claude Code, or Codex can also save the page through Convika's MCP server. The dashboard button Add a form to my page puts in a form that stores entries, emails you each one, and exports them as a CSV. The dashboard shows visits, referrers, UTM campaigns, devices, countries, and button clicks for the last 90 days. Free covers 1 published page, 10,000 pageviews a month, 50 form entries a month, and 1 custom subdomain such as www.yourbrand.com, with a small Convika bar at the bottom. Free includes 10,000 pageviews a month. At 10,000 in a month editing pauses, and 7 days later the page stops until the month ends or you upgrade. In a workspace created before October 23, 2026 (Japan time), this starts on November 1, 2026. Past 50 entries, the form keeps taking them, and they show once you're on Pro. Pro costs $12 a month.

Weaker than the others at: anything beyond one HTML page. Images, PDFs, and extra pages have to live somewhere else, and a bare yourbrand.com isn't set up for you. Analytics tools such as Google Analytics send data only on Pro and above. Publishing needs a free account.

To see your page on Convika before signing up, drop the .html file or paste its code below. You get a preview link that works for 3 minutes. Search engines are told not to index it, and the page's scripts and forms stay off. It isn't published yet: sign up free and keep the page, and it moves into your account with its scripts running. To keep form entries, add a form from the dashboard. The same box is on the free HTML publishing tool.

Adding a form to a host without one

Cloudflare, GitHub Pages, and Vercel serve your HTML but don't store form entries for you. There are 3 ways to fix that.

• A form service. Formspree's free plan takes 50 submissions a month across unlimited forms, keeps them for 30 days, and emails you each one. Paste its endpoint into your form's action.
• Code on Cloudflare. The Static Forms plugin passes each submission to a Pages Function you write. That function can save the entry to KV or send it on.
• A host with a form. Netlify stores unlimited entries while your credits last. Convika lists 50 a month on Free, keeps the ones past that for Pro, and shows which sites and campaigns sent them.

The guide How to make the signup form on your AI-made page work walks through each option step by step.

Which one to pick

• You need a public link right now, with no account: Pick Cloudflare Drop. Claim the link within 60 minutes to keep it.
• You only need someone to see the page on their phone right away: A link with no account is enough. Drop the file into Convika's upload box to get a link in seconds that works for 3 minutes. Pagelive's link lasts 7 days. The guide How to share an HTML file as a link compares that with an email attachment or a Drive link.
• The page needs a form and you redeploy a few times a month: Pick Netlify Drop. Count your deploys against your 300 monthly credits. Turn off the “Powered by Netlify” badge in your project settings if it is on.
• You expect a lot of traffic and will add your own form service: Pick Cloudflare.
• It's a personal, non-commercial page: Pick GitHub Pages or Vercel Hobby.
• You're sharing a PDF, a zip, or a portfolio rather than a landing page: Pick Tiiny Host.
• The page collects signups, and you want to see which sites and campaigns sent them: Pick Convika Free. It has no credit budget, but a page stops 7 days after 10,000 page views in a month. Move to Pro at $12 a month to see entries past 50 a month, or to keep the page up past that many views.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best free alternative to Netlify Drop?

Cloudflare Drop is best for a public link with no account, Cloudflare Pages is best for heavy traffic, and Convika is best for a page with forms and visitor stats. Cloudflare Drop serves the page for 60 minutes and keeps it if you claim it in that time. Cloudflare Pages has no limit on requests to static files. Convika's Free plan includes both forms and visitor stats, with a Convika bar and 50 form entries a month shown. For unlimited free form entries, Netlify itself is still the only option here.

Is there a Netlify Drop alternative with forms?

Convika is the only alternative here that stores form entries on a free plan without another service. Of these 7 options, only Netlify and Convika store form entries on the free plan by themselves. Netlify offers unlimited entries on its credit-based plans. Convika shows 50 entries a month, emails each entry to you, and keeps later ones for Pro. Static.app includes forms from Starter at $6 a month. Tiiny Host has no form, though its Pro plan at $38 a month can ask for an email address before the page opens. On Cloudflare, GitHub Pages, and Vercel, use a form service such as Formspree, or write the code yourself.

Can I use Netlify Drop without an account?

You can drop files without an account, but the URL has a temporary password until you log in or sign up and claim it. Netlify cut the claim window to 1 hour in January 2022. Teams created on or after July 28, 2026 start new projects private, so after claiming, select Make public before sharing. Cloudflare Drop gives a public workers.dev link with no account, deleted after 60 minutes unless you claim it.

Why does my Netlify Drop site ask for a password or say I don't have access?

A password means the drop is not claimed yet, while a message saying you do not have access means the project is private. Log in or sign up to claim the drop. On Free and Personal, only the team owner can see a private project. Open the project and select Make public.

Netlify Drop vs Vercel Drop: which is easier?

Netlify Drop is easier for a single HTML file you keep changing. You can drop the file without an account, and dragging the updated folder onto the project's drop zone puts it live. Each re-drop uses 15 of the Free plan's 300 monthly credits. You still sign in to claim the drop, because its URL has a temporary password until you do, and select Make public if your team starts projects private. Vercel Drop needs a Vercel account and asks for a team and project name before it deploys. Each drop creates a new project, so later changes go through a connected Git repository or the Vercel CLI, as detailed in Vercel's comparison. Vercel's free Hobby plan is for non-commercial use only. Convika's Free plan keeps 90 days of visit stats, where Netlify Free's Web Analytics shows the current and past day, and it has no credit budget; a Free page stops only 7 days after the month's views reach 10,000.

Is Netlify Drop still free?

Yes, Netlify Drop is still free within a budget. The Free plan is $0 with 300 credits a month. Each production deploy uses 15 credits, each GB of bandwidth uses 20, and every 10,000 web requests use 2. Form submissions cost nothing. When the credits run out, every project on the account shows “Site not available” and takes no form submissions until the next month, or until you upgrade to Personal at $9 a month for 1,000 credits.

Does Cloudflare Pages have forms?

Cloudflare Pages does not store form entries. The Static Forms plugin passes each submission to a Pages Function you write, which can save it to KV or forward it. Without code, point the form at a service such as Formspree, whose free plan takes 50 submissions a month, or host the page somewhere with a built-in form.

Which free host shows where visitors came from?

Convika, Cloudflare, and Netlify all show where visitors came from on their free plans. Convika shows referrers, UTM campaigns, devices, countries, and button clicks, with form entries per campaign, for 90 days on Free. Cloudflare Web Analytics is free and shows referrers, countries, and devices. Vercel Hobby counts 50,000 Web Analytics events a month and keeps 1 month of data. Netlify's Web Analytics lists top sources, but Free keeps 1 day of data. The GitHub Pages docs describe no visitor stats, and Tiiny Host's analytics start at $9 a month.

Can I try Convika without an account?

Yes, you can try Convika without an account as a preview. Drop an HTML file or paste the code into the box on this page or on the free HTML publishing tool. You get a link that works for 3 minutes, with the page's scripts and forms off. Publishing on a Convika address or your own subdomain needs a free account; sign up from the preview, and the page moves into your account.