Tiiny Host Alternatives for Static Sites (2026)

The best Tiiny Host alternatives in 2026 depend on which free limit you hit first. Netlify Drop and Cloudflare Pages are the closest drag-and-drop swaps and include your own domain for free; Statpio is the one whose free plan includes a working contact form, visitor statistics and a password; GitHub Pages and Surge suit people comfortable with Git or a terminal. If you mostly share PDFs, decks or a small PHP page, Tiiny Host's own paid plans may still be the simplest answer.

Disclosure: this guide is published by Statpio, one of the tools compared. We link every competitor fact to its official source. Every price and limit below was checked on the vendor's official pages on 10 November 2026.

Why do people look for a Tiiny Host alternative?

Tiiny Host turns a file into a link, and its free plan is deliberately small: as of November 2026, its plan limits give a free account 1 active project, 3 MB per project (0.5 MB for a PDF), 3 uploads a day, 5,000 visits and 5 GB of bandwidth a month. Several common next steps need a paid plan:

• Removing the banner and seeing statistics: the Tiiny Host branding bar comes off, and the analytics dashboard opens, from the Tiny plan at $9 a month or $60 a year (branding bar, analytics, Tiiny Host pricing).
• Your own domain and a password: custom domains (5 on Solo) and password protection start on Solo, at $18 a month or $156 a year (what each plan offers, pricing).
• A contact form: Tiiny Host's help center says forms don't work "on their own" and points to formsubmit.co, a separate free service (Do you support forms?). Its Pro plan ($38 a month) adds email capture, a gate visitors pass by verifying an email address, which is not a contact form (email capture, pricing).
• The free plan's house rules: a free account has to be logged into at least once every three months, and a page with a password input field or a redirect script is published only as a preview link, which comes down after an hour (how long free links last, why a project shows as a preview).

What does Tiiny Host still do well?

Plenty, for the job it was designed for. It takes HTML, ZIP, PHP and PDF files and "almost all popular image, raw image, document, powerpoint and excel file formats" (Tiiny Host pricing page), and Solo can stop visitors downloading or printing a PDF (what each plan offers). Tiny and up run small PHP, Python and Node.js apps (server code on Tiiny Host), which Statpio, GitHub Pages and Surge can't (GitHub Pages docs, Surge). GitHub deploys work on every plan, within the plan's file size limit (3 MB per project on Free), for repositories up to 75 MB (GitHub deploys, plan limits). For a PDF, a pitch deck or a menu, Tiiny Host is hard to beat on simplicity.

How do the Tiiny Host alternatives compare?

Sources, as of November 2026: Tiiny Host plan limits, pricing, plan features, forms and how it works; Netlify pricing, credit plans, how credits work and Netlify Drop; Cloudflare Pages limits, Direct Upload, Web Analytics, Access on Pages and Workers pricing; GitHub Pages limits, site visibility and browser uploads; Surge pricing and analytics. Statpio figures come from the pricing page.

Is Netlify Drop a good Tiiny Host alternative?

It's the closest like-for-like swap. Netlify Drop takes "your project folder or zip file", and "No Git repository is needed" (Netlify Drop docs). You can even drop before you have an account: the address is then protected with a temporary password until you claim it by signing up. As of November 2026, the Free plan includes custom domains with SSL, Netlify says its free plan "can be used for commercial projects and businesses", and its forms service is "free and unlimited for all credit-based plans" (Netlify pricing, Netlify vs Vercel guide, how credits work).

The catch is credits. Free has a hard limit of 300 a month, a production deploy uses 15 and bandwidth 20 per GB, so the allowance covers at most 20 deploys or 15 GB of bandwidth, not both, and less once web requests (2 credits per 10,000) are counted (Netlify pricing). When it runs out, every project on the account pauses with a "Site not available" page (how credits work). Statistics on Free cover only the current or past day, and password protection needs Pro at $20 a month (credit plans, Netlify pricing). New Free projects created since 19 August 2026 show a "Powered by Netlify" badge by default, which you can switch off (badge docs). More in our Netlify alternatives.

Best for: a small site on your own domain for free, with a form and a few updates a month.

Is Statpio a good Tiiny Host alternative?

Yes, if what you upload is a website rather than a single file and you want the form, the statistics and the password without paying first. Statpio's Free Forever plan hosts 1 website on a free *.onstatpio.com address with SSL: you drag a ZIP of the site, with index.html at the top, onto the dashboard. It includes:

• Form capture: any <form method="POST"> without an action attribute is saved to your Messages inbox, behind a visible Cloudflare Turnstile check and a honeypot Statpio adds itself, up to 250 submissions per website a month. A form builder makes a form without code, and new messages arrive as browser notifications.
• Cookieless analytics: visitors, pages, referrers, channels, countries and devices, from a small script Statpio adds to every page (check whether your jurisdiction requires visitor consent).
• Password protection for the whole site, on every plan.

What it lacks next to Tiiny Host: Free Forever shows a Statpio badge and has no custom domain, an upload can be at most 25 MB, and Statpio hosts websites, not single files (a PDF goes inside the site's ZIP and gets its own address). It runs no server code, so PHP won't work. Your own domain needs Solo Pro at $9 a month or $89 a year, with 5 websites, 5 custom domains, GitHub deploys, a staging address to try a new version first and no badge. Bandwidth is unmetered and commercial use is allowed on every plan. Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor can publish through Statpio's AI connector on any plan, where Tiiny Host's MCP server needs Solo and an API key (Tiiny Host MCP). Our guide on how to host an HTML website free, with forms and analytics walks through the setup.

Best for: a small business, event or personal site that needs a contact form and visitor numbers from day one.

Is Cloudflare Pages a good free Tiiny Host alternative?

For traffic, nothing here is more generous: "On both free and paid plans, requests to static assets are free and unlimited" (Pages Functions pricing). You can drag a ZIP or a folder into the dashboard, up to 1,000 files of 25 MiB each (Direct Upload), and the Free plan allows 100 custom domains per project (Pages limits). Web Analytics is free, uses no cookies and is switched on in one click for a Pages project (Cloudflare Web Analytics, enabling it on Pages).

What you give up: there's no form inbox, because Cloudflare's Static Forms plugin hands each submission to code you write. There's no password setting either. The built-in access policy protects preview deployments only, and putting the live site behind Cloudflare Access sign-in takes a manual Zero Trust setup (preview deployments, known issues). A root domain such as example.com has to move its nameservers to Cloudflare, though a subdomain can use a CNAME (custom domains). Cloudflare's Pages docs also now say "Start new projects with Workers"; our Cloudflare Pages alternatives page explains what that means.

Best for: a site that may get a lot of visitors, where a separate form service is acceptable.

Can GitHub Pages replace Tiiny Host?

For personal, open-source and organizational project pages, yes; for running an online business, a shop or a SaaS, no (GitHub's terms for Pages). GitHub Pages is free in public repositories, supports custom domains with HTTPS, and serves sites up to 1 GB with a soft bandwidth limit of 100 GB a month (GitHub Pages limits). But the files live in a GitHub repository, and GitHub says Pages "is not intended for or allowed to be used as a free web-hosting service to run your online business, e-commerce site", or a SaaS product. There are no forms, statistics or passwords (What is GitHub Pages?), and a site from a private repository is still public (creating a Pages site).

Best for: a portfolio, a CV or project docs you're happy to keep public. Our GitHub Pages alternatives page covers what to do when you outgrow it.

Is Surge a good Tiiny Host alternative?

Yes, if you're comfortable typing one command. Install it with npm, then surge publishes a folder, and a single HTML file passed instead "is published on its own, as the domain's index.html" (Surge publishing docs). As of November 2026, the Free plan includes unlimited projects and domains, custom domains with automatic certificates, previews and the last 100 revisions, and Surge says there's "no bandwidth billing and no overage charge"; a project can be up to 450 MB and 10,100 files (Surge pricing). Traffic statistics are collected for every project and read in the terminal (Surge analytics docs).

Password protection and redirect rules need Pro at $30 a month (Surge pricing), there are no forms, and Surge's terms offer its surge.sh subdomains "for the purpose of testing, learning, and developing software projects" (Surge terms), so put anything that matters on your own domain.

Best for: developers and coding agents publishing a build folder.

Which Tiiny Host alternative should you pick?

• You share PDFs, decks or menus, or run a small PHP page: stay on Tiiny Host; Tiny at $9 a month removes the banner and opens the statistics.
• A free site on your own domain: Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Pages or Surge, which all include custom domains on their free plans.
• A free site with a contact form, statistics and a password: Statpio Free Forever, then Solo Pro when you want your own domain.
• A lot of traffic for nothing: Cloudflare Pages.
• You work in a terminal or with a coding agent: Surge.
• Open-source or personal pages in a public repository: GitHub Pages.

How do I move a site from Tiiny Host?

1. Download your files first. In your Tiiny Host dashboard, open the project's three-dot menu and click Download (downloading project files). On a paid plan, do it before you cancel: Tiiny Host says that when the billing period ends, "your account and projects are deleted permanently", and there's no direct downgrade to the free plan. It keeps backups for 90 days, but to get your projects back you have to subscribe to a paid plan again and then email support (cancelling).
2. Check the folder. The home page must be called index.html and sit at the top level, with its CSS, images and PDFs beside it. Zip that folder.
3. Replace the form service. If a form posts to formsubmit.co, change it for the new host. On Statpio, keep method="POST", remove the action attribute and any JavaScript submit handler, and give every field a name; Statpio adds its own spam protection.
4. Publish. On Statpio, sign up, create a website and drag the ZIP onto it. On Netlify Drop or Cloudflare Pages, drop the same folder or ZIP.
5. Connect your domain. On Statpio (Solo Pro and up), add the domain in the dashboard and create two DNS records at your registrar: a CNAME for www pointing to cname.onstatpio.com, and a CNAME for _acme-challenge.www pointing to the validation value the dashboard shows. A root domain is forwarded to www. Then remove the domain from Tiiny Host.
6. Test, then tidy up. Send a test message, open a few pages, check that the visit shows in your statistics, then delete the old project. To keep the site private while you check it, put a password on it.

If your site needs a form and statistics but not yet a domain, start on Free Forever; when you want your own domain, Solo Pro on the pricing page is the plan to compare with Tiiny Host's Solo.