Tiiny Host alternatives in 2026: 9 hosts compared on what's free

Tiiny Host supports custom domains and password protection on Solo and above, from $18 a month: its help center, read on November 6, 2026, says “Custom domains are available on the Solo plan and above,” and password protection is “Available on the Solo plan and above.” Its free plan has 3 limits you notice quickly: 1 project at a time, a Tiiny Host banner on your page, and no custom domain. Free accounts also cap you at 3 MB and 5,000 visits a month, and keep your page online as long as you log in once every 3 months. Tiny, the first paid plan at $9 a month, removes the banner but keeps the other 2 limits. The page compares Tiiny Host with 8 alternatives, on the free plan first and then the cheapest upgrade. For Tiiny Host's own plans, its trial, and its free limits case by case, see Is Tiiny Host free?.

Tiiny Host's pricing page, help center, and terms were read again on November 6, 2026; its help articles carry their own dates, and the pricing page has none. The other hosts' prices and limits come from their own pricing pages and docs, checked on October 11, 2026, unless a section gives another date. Prices are in US dollars and monthly unless marked yearly. Free plans change often, so confirm before launching.

Free plans at a glance

The catches and the cheapest upgrade

Each option in a paragraph

Tiiny Host

Tiiny Host takes an HTML file, a zip, or a PDF and gives it a link. Free allows 1 project, a 3 MB upload (0.5 MB for PDFs), and 5,000 visits and 5 GB of bandwidth a month, and shows a Tiiny Host banner. Its FAQ says free links stay online “indefinitely on our free plan as long as you log into your account once every 3 months.” Tiny, at $9 a month, removes the banner and adds built-in analytics, but still allows 1 project and no custom domain. Custom domains, password protection, and API access start on Solo at $18 a month, with 5 projects. Pro, at $38 a month, adds “Capture emails,” which puts a gate in front of the project: each visitor enters a verified email address before the page opens. It isn't a form on your page. Yearly billing brings Tiny, Solo, and Pro to $5, $13, and $31 a month. Tiiny Host's Pro Max, for large files, costs $89 a month, or $74 a month billed yearly, per its pricing plans article.

Three rules from Tiiny Host's help center, read on November 6, 2026, matter before you upload:

• A free page can't hold a password field or a redirect script. “Free accounts can't host a page with a password input field, or a script that redirects visitors to another page. It publishes as a preview link instead,” per Why is my project showing as a preview?, and preview links “come down after one hour.” A sign-in page or a page that forwards visitors needs a paid plan.
• The free trial is offered to some accounts, not all. Tiiny Host offers “free trials to some accounts rather than everyone”: 7 days of Solo or Pro, started by entering card details, with no custom domains during the trial (free trial).
• A paid plan's projects go when the plan ends. “When your paid plan ends, your projects are permanently removed,” and “There's no direct downgrade from a paid plan to the free plan,” per How to switch to a free account. Download your files first, then sign up again for Free and upload them.

Is Tiiny Host free? rules what Free covers case by case, with the trial and the banner in detail.

Best for: PDFs, zip files, and large uploads on paid plans, plus password protection from Solo.

Convika

Convika hosts landing pages and keeps what happens on them. Upload an HTML file of up to 2 MB in the dashboard or paste its code, check the private preview, and publish; Claude, Claude Code, or Codex can also publish the page through Convika's MCP server. Free hosts 1 published page with no expiry date and no sign-in rule. 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 includes 10,000 pageviews and 50 form entries a month and 1 custom subdomain, such as www.yourbrand.com, with a small Convika bar at the bottom, and section 7 of the terms allows commercial use on every plan. 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. Pro costs $12 a month or $108 a year. Pro also puts a password on any page you choose: visitors see a password screen, on the convika.page address or your subdomain, and Convika sends the page only after the right password.

Best for: a landing page from ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini that has to collect signups and show where visitors came from.

Not a fit for: anything beyond one HTML page. Images go inside the file (drop the page's folder or a zip in the upload box) or at full https:// links, and PDFs or extra pages live elsewhere. Custom domains are subdomains such as www.

Netlify Drop

Netlify Drop takes “a folder, zip file, or single HTML file” and publishes it. Without an account, Netlify's quickstart says the URL has a temporary password until you sign in and claim it (its Drop page says every drop gets “a public link you can share with anyone”), and teams created on or after July 28, 2026 start new projects private until you select Make public. Free includes custom domains with SSL and Netlify Forms, which are free and unlimited on credit-based plans: select Enable form detection under Forms, add data-netlify="true" to your form, and drop the folder again, because detection starts with the next deploy. The limit is a budget of 300 credits a month. A production deploy, including each re-drop, costs 15, bandwidth costs 20 per GB, and once the credits are gone, every project on the account shows “Site not available” until the next billing cycle. Is Netlify free? works through what 300 credits cover for a one-page site. Netlify's Web Analytics shows pageviews, unique visitors, and top sources without a script, but Free keeps only the current and past day.

Netlify Drop's page, Netlify's docs, and its pricing page were read again on November 6, 2026.

Best for: unlimited free form entries, and sites with many files or a build step.

Cloudflare Drop and Pages

Cloudflare Drop takes a folder, a .zip, or “a single .html file with any filename” with no account, and gives a live workers.dev URL; claim it within 60 minutes, or Cloudflare deletes it. “Single HTML uploads are served as the home page,” so the file needs no renaming. 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, so for Pages put your HTML file in a folder as index.html first. Requests to static files are free and unlimited, a Pages project takes up to 100 custom domains, and an account holds up to 100 Pages projects. Web Analytics is free; turn it on under the project's Metrics tab. No built-in form: the Static Forms plugin passes submissions to code you write. Cloudflare's Pages docs now say “Start new projects with Workers,” and Cloudflare Pages vs Workers compares the two.

Cloudflare Drop's page was read again on November 1, 2026.

Best for: traffic; no other free plan here has unlimited requests.

GitHub Pages

GitHub Pages publishes files from a repository, free, with a custom domain, including a bare yourbrand.com. Each account gets 1 user site, plus 1 site per repository. 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. No forms or analytics.

Best for: version history through Git and free hosting for open projects.

Vercel Drop

Vercel launched Drop on June 12, 2026: drag a file, folder, or zip into the browser, pick a team and project name, and it goes to production. Hobby is free, allows 200 projects and 50 custom domains per project, and counts 50,000 Web Analytics events a month. Vercel's fair use guidelines restrict Hobby to “non-commercial personal use only” and list “advertising the sale of a product or service” as commercial. A page that sells something needs Pro at $20 a month. Can you use Vercel's Hobby plan for a commercial site? covers what counts, from client sites to portfolios.

Best for: pages that grow into a Next.js or other framework project.

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.

Best for: low-cost paid hosting with forms and analytics included from the first tier.

Neocities

Neocities offers free static hosting with an HTML editor in the browser and drag-and-drop uploads, at an address like yourname.neocities.org. Free includes 1 site, 1 GB of storage, and 200 GB of bandwidth, and Neocities says it “will never put advertising on your site.” Free keeps 30 days of stats; custom domains, more than 1 site, and a longer stats history need Supporter, at $5 a month. Is Neocities free? covers its limits, file types, and commercial use. It hosts files only, so a form needs an outside service.

Neocities' supporter page was read again on November 1, 2026.

Best for: a personal site you build and edit by hand, with no ads.

Surge

Surge publishes a folder from the command line. With Node.js 18 or later, install it with npm install --global surge, then run surge publish in a folder that has an index.html; the first run creates an account with an email and a password in the terminal. Free includes unlimited publishing, a custom domain, and basic SSL. Professional, at $30 a month, adds unlimited projects, custom SSL, password protection, redirects, and CORS. Its pricing page lists no forms or visitor stats.

Best for: developers who want a free custom domain and publish from the terminal.

Publishing from ChatGPT, Claude, or Codex

More than one host here takes a page straight from an AI chat.

• Tiiny Host has a GPT in ChatGPT that, in its words, can “build and host a website in one go using AI,” and it has a Chrome extension that publishes code from ChatGPT and Claude, API access from Solo, and an MCP server at mcp.tiiny.host that publishes, updates, and deletes projects. Tiiny Host's own pages disagree on how Claude signs in. Its MCP help article, updated October 13, 2026, says the server “Requires Solo or above, and an API key,” and has you add Claude's connector with “No sign-in” and the key in an x-api-key header. Its agent page, read on November 6, 2026, says the Claude connector “authenticates through your Tiiny Host account,” while tools such as Cursor use an API key.
• Convika has an MCP server that signs in with OAuth in Claude, Claude Code, and Codex, so you never paste an API key into the chat. Besides publishing, it adds a form to the page and reads the page's visits and form entries back, so you can ask Claude how many people signed up this week. In ChatGPT, Convika is not in the plugin directory: download the page as an HTML file and upload it.
• Static.app lists API and MCP access in its trial.

Landing page MCP servers compared covers 8 services, and how to publish ChatGPT HTML as a live website has the steps for a page ChatGPT made.

Tiiny Host vs Netlify Drop

Netlify Drop gives you more for free. It gives you a custom domain and a form that keeps entries, which Tiiny Host charges for or does not have. Its catch is a credit budget that pauses every project when it runs out. Tiiny Host's free plan keeps 1 project online as long as you log in every 3 months.

If the page collects signups and you want to see which sites sent them, Convika's Free plan keeps form entries and 90 days of visit stats on your own subdomain. Free includes 10,000 pageviews a month, and the page stops for the rest of the month 7 days after reaching 10,000 unless you upgrade. In a workspace created before October 23, 2026 (Japan time), this starts on November 1, 2026.

Which one to pick

• A shareable link in the next minute: Cloudflare Drop gives you a public link without an account. It deletes the page after 60 minutes unless you claim it. A Netlify Drop link requires you to sign in before you claim it. Netlify Drop alternatives compares both with the other drag-and-drop hosts.
• The page has to collect signups or inquiries on your own domain, and you want to see which sites send them, for free: Convika's Free plan, then Pro at $12 a month past 50 entries a month.
• Sharing a PDF, a zip, or a portfolio file, not a landing page: Tiiny Host.
• Only people with a password should open the page: Convika Pro at $12 a month. Tiiny Host password protection starts on Solo at $18 a month, and Surge starts on Professional at $30 a month. The guide How to password protect an HTML page compares these with Netlify, Vercel, and a JavaScript prompt.
• Someone only needs to see the page on their phone right away: a link with no account is enough. Convika's upload box gives you one 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 attachment or a Drive link.
• A site with many files and a form, redeployed a few times a month: Netlify Drop. Count each re-drop as 15 of the 300 monthly credits.
• A lot of traffic, and you'll add your own form service: Cloudflare Pages.
• A personal site you build by hand: Neocities, or GitHub Pages if you use Git.
• You work in the terminal and want a custom domain for free: Surge.
• You'd rather build the page in a visual editor than upload a file: see Carrd alternatives for AI-generated landing pages.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best free alternative to Tiiny Host?

The best free alternative depends on what your page needs to do. For a landing page that collects signups, Convika's Free plan keeps form entries and shows visitor stats on your own subdomain, with a small Convika bar. Netlify Drop offers drag-and-drop speed and free form submissions for a site with many files, but sites pause when monthly credits run out. Cloudflare Pages has no traffic limit for static files, and Neocities hosts a hand-built personal site with no ads.

Tiiny Host vs Netlify: which is better for quick, no-code static site publishing?

Either works without code; they differ in when they ask who you are, and Netlify Drop gives you more for free. Tiiny Host asks before it publishes. Its help gives the steps as “Drag your file or zip folder onto the upload page. Pick a name for your link. Click Publish.” When you aren't logged in, its upload box first shows “Please verify your email,” with a Google, GitHub or Microsoft sign-in or an email address, and the project is then live “straight away.” Netlify Drop, at app.netlify.com/drop, publishes first, with “no account required,” and you sign in or sign up to claim the project and keep it. Netlify's own pages differ on who can open a drop before it is claimed: the Drop page says “by default every project you drop gets a public link you can share with anyone,” while its quickstart says a drop made without signing in “is protected with a temporary password until you claim it.” On a team created on or after July 28, 2026, a claimed project also stays private until you select Make public. Once claimed, a project on Netlify's Free plan gets custom domains and unlimited form entries, and each re-drop costs 15 of the 300 monthly credits. Tiiny Host's free plan keeps 1 project of up to 3 MB online, with a Tiiny Host banner, as long as you log in once every 3 months. Both vendors' pages were read on November 6, 2026.

Is Tiiny Host free?

Yes, Tiiny Host is free for 1 project. The Free plan allows a 3 MB upload, 5,000 visits, and 5 GB of bandwidth a month, with a Tiiny Host banner and no custom domain. Removing the banner requires the Tiny plan at $9 a month, which still limits you to 1 project. Hosting more projects and connecting custom domains start on Solo at $18 a month. Is Tiiny Host free? covers the free plan case by case.

Do Tiiny Host free links expire?

Tiiny Host links have no fixed expiry date on the free plan. Tiiny Host's FAQ states that links stay online indefinitely on the free plan “as long as you log into your account once every 3 months.”

Does Tiiny Host support custom domains and password protection?

Yes, on Solo and above. Tiiny Host's help says “Custom domains are available on the Solo plan and above. Solo includes up to 5 domains, and Pro and Pro Max include up to 15,” and password protection is “Available on the Solo plan and above.” Solo costs $18 a month, or $13 a month billed yearly. A free trial, where Tiiny Host offers one, gives “the limits and features of the plan you're trying” with one exception: “custom domains aren't available during a trial.”

Can I use a custom domain on Tiiny Host's free plan?

No, you cannot use a custom domain on Tiiny Host's free plan. The Free and Tiny plans do not support custom domains. Custom domains start on Solo at $18 a month, or $13 a month billed yearly, and include 5 domains.

Is there a Tiiny Host alternative without a banner?

Yes, several alternatives place no banner on your page on their free plans. Cloudflare, GitHub Pages, Vercel Hobby, Neocities, and Surge add no host banner to free sites. Netlify's Free plan puts a “Powered by Netlify” badge on new projects created since August 19, 2026, which you can turn off in project settings. Convika's Free plan shows a small Convika bar at the bottom of the page, and the Pro plan at $12 a month removes it.

Is there a Tiiny Host alternative with password protection?

Yes, Convika and Surge offer password protection. Convika puts a password on a page on Pro at $12 a month. Visitors see a password screen on the convika.page address or your own subdomain, and Convika sends the page only after the right password. Surge includes password protection on Professional at $30 a month. On Tiiny Host, password protection starts on Solo at $18 a month, or $13 a month billed yearly.

Can I host a single HTML file for free with my own domain?

Yes, you can host a single HTML file on your own domain for free on multiple hosts. Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Pages, Vercel Hobby, Surge, and Convika allow a custom domain on their free plans. Convika allows 1 subdomain, such as www.yourbrand.com. Tiiny Host starts custom domains at $18 a month, Neocities requires Supporter at $5 a month, and Static.app offers no free plan after its 7-day trial.

Which free host stores contact form submissions?

Netlify and Convika store form entries on their free plans without an outside service. Netlify offers unlimited submissions on its credit-based plans, while Convika shows 50 entries a month on Free and keeps later ones for Pro. Static.app includes forms starting on its $6 Starter plan. Tiiny Host's “Capture emails,” available on its $38 Pro plan, asks for a visitor's email before the page opens rather than storing entries from a form on the page.

Is Static.app still free?

No, Static.app is not free. It offers a 7-day trial with no card required. Keeping a site online after the trial ends requires a paid plan, starting with Starter at $6 a month, or $5 a month billed yearly.

How do I host an HTML file that ChatGPT or Gemini made?

Download the file or copy the code, then upload it to one of these hosts. On Convika, click Upload an HTML file in the dashboard, check the preview, and publish. On ChatGPT Plus or Pro, ChatGPT Sites can build and host the page directly from the chat, though it is not available on ChatGPT Free or Go. Read the specific walkthroughs in how to publish ChatGPT HTML as a live website and how to publish a Gemini Canvas page.