Statpio vs Spacefast: Static Site Hosting Compared

Spacefast is Automattic's new host for what AI assistants make: pages, sites and full apps with a database, on a free plan that covers 20 sites with their own domains. Statpio hosts static websites with the business layer built in: a form inbox, visitor statistics, a hosted blog and a client portal. Pick Spacefast if you are building an app, need a database or server code, or want many small sites and private sharing for little or nothing. Pick Statpio if you want a business website that collects enquiries and shows where its visitors come from without building either, or if you hand finished sites over to clients.

Disclosure: this guide is published by Statpio, one of the tools compared. We link every competitor fact to its official source. Every Spacefast fact below was checked on Spacefast's own pages on 11 November 2026, two days after its launch was announced. Several of its features are marked Beta in its own pricing table, so its plan rules and limits can change.

How do Statpio and Spacefast compare at a glance?

Sources: Spacefast's pricing page, pricing and limits docs, FAQ, stats docs, domains docs and page for agencies, as of November 2026; Statpio facts from the pricing page and the feature list.

What does each one cost?

Spacefast's plans are built around the number of sites and an allowance of usage. As of November 2026, Personal is $0 with no card: 20 Spaces, 20 custom domains, one member and $1 of usage a month. Go is $5 a month for 100 Spaces and 100 domains, and Pro is $15 a month for 500 of each, "Free up to 5 members, then $15/month each" (Spacefast pricing). The included usage "Pays for every metered resource, at the listed prices" and resets every month. Go and Pro can set a spending cap, and when Personal uses its $1, new builds and Workers pause while "Deployed Spaces keep serving". Its pricing and limits docs show how little a small site uses: the median Space "Uses $0.02 of the $1 included", and one busier than 99% of Spaces uses $0.96. Some meters are free for now with a later price already listed, such as storage ("Free now; 1 GB per Space, then $0.10 per GB-month"), and that price "starts after a month's notice". If the price of a plan you already pay for goes up, "you keep your current price for at least 12 months and get at least 60 days' notice" (pricing).

Statpio prices the website, not the usage. Free Forever hosts 1 website at no cost, with the Statpio badge and no custom domain. Solo Pro costs $9 a month (or $89 a year) for 5 websites with 5 custom domains, GitHub push-to-deploy, the blog and the fuller statistics. Agency Pro ($99 a month) adds the client portal and 30 websites. Bandwidth is unmetered on every plan.

On price alone Spacefast wins: your own domain is free there and needs Solo Pro here, and its paid plans cover far more sites. What Statpio's price includes is the part you would otherwise build or bolt on: the form inbox, the visitor statistics, the blog and, for agencies, the client portal.

How do the features compare?

Publishing with an AI assistant

Both are built for it. Spacefast's home page says: "Tell Claude, ChatGPT, or any other AI to use Spacefast, and you'll get a link back right in the chat." Its summary for AI tools lists a Claude connector, a ChatGPT and Codex plugin, a Cursor plugin and a hosted MCP server. The first publish needs no account: you get "a live address plus a private claim link" (FAQ).

Statpio's connector gives Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP apps 77 tools: create and publish a site (from one of six templates or from files the assistant writes), change what is live file by file, check the site for broken links and missing titles, connect a domain, read the messages your forms received, pull a statistics report, write blog posts and handle client change requests. It is listed in Claude's connector directory. It is not in ChatGPT's directory: you add the address by hand, and as of November 2026 write actions through a custom connector are a feature of ChatGPT Business, Enterprise and Edu workspaces (OpenAI Help Center), while Spacefast installs from ChatGPT's plugin directory (Spacefast setup docs). Statpio also needs an account with a confirmed email address before the first publish.

Forms and messages

This is the clearest difference for a business website. On Spacefast a form is part of an app. Its home page says "Every Space comes with a database, so your app can keep sign-ups, scores, or orders", every plan lists "Forms with spam checks" (pricing and limits docs), and its app runtime comes with a contact starter (Zero runtime docs). Your assistant writes the form and declares the table, and you read the answers in the dashboard's database browser or in a page the app adds.

On Statpio there is nothing to write. Every ordinary <form method="POST"> on the site is captured as a message with spam protection and file uploads, and the form builder makes contact, booking-request or quote forms without code. Messages arrive in an inbox with search and CSV export, your browser can notify you of new ones, and the connector reads them as get_leads. Each website takes 250 submissions a month on Free Forever and 10,000 on Solo Pro.

Visitor statistics

Spacefast counts traffic at its edge, with nothing added to your pages: requests, views, unique visitors per day and the ten busiest paths, over 48 hours, 7 days or 30 days. Its stats docs are plain about the scope, under the heading "This is not Google Analytics": "These numbers are the edge's own accounting, and they are all you get from Spacefast." For more, a setting adds your own Google Analytics or Tag Manager tag to every page. Its pricing table also lists "Analytics (Beta)", so this may grow.

Statpio's analytics are a product of their own: a small cookieless script (about 3 KB) on every page (check whether your jurisdiction requires visitor consent), and on every plan the sources, pages, countries, devices and visitors right now. On Solo Pro and up you also get UTM campaigns, goals, funnels, Core Web Vitals, missing pages, site search terms, journeys and peak hours, with 90 days of history. Because it is a script, a visitor's blocker can stop it, which an edge count avoids. See how to read your visitors.

Privacy, passwords and review

Spacefast starts private: "New spaces are private: the URL alone doesn't grant access. Invite people, create a share link that works for anyone holding it, or make the space public" (FAQ). Reviewers can leave comments pinned to the part of the page they mean. On Statpio a site is public once it is published; a password on the whole website is available on every plan, and on Agency Pro clients send change requests from their portal. If most of what you publish is drafts, prototypes or internal reports for a few people, Spacefast's model fits better.

Blog, versions and domains

Statpio adds a hosted blog at /blog on paid plans, written in the dashboard, with comments and feeds. Spacefast has other routes to a blog: a blog recipe your assistant builds from ("all static Astro"), a /write page to "Write one post and publish it as a blog" (changelog), and "Managed content (Beta)" in its pricing table. Both keep a version for every publish, roll back in one click and let you download the files of a kept version. Spacefast also gives each version its own address and each branch of a connected Git repository a preview link. Statpio has one staging address per website on Solo Pro and up: a new version goes there first, you share the link, and one click makes it live. For domains, Spacefast accepts the root domain itself and "reads Netlify-compatible redirect and header files" (FAQ); Statpio serves a root domain through www and does not read redirect files.

Agencies and clients

Spacefast's page for agencies is about the work around a client's site: prototypes, briefs, trackers and quote calculators shared by private link, with comments on the page. It answers its own question, "Does Spacefast replace WordPress?", like this: "No. Build the client's site in WordPress, and use Spacefast for the prototypes, briefs, trackers, and small tools around it." Clients "never add a seat", and a client's domain can point at a Space. The pages Spacefast draws for visitors, such as the access gate and the not-found page, take your logo, name, accent colour and font (customization docs) and can be replaced with your own from Pro (site pages docs); an access page without Spacefast branding is listed for Enterprise. A Space can also be moved to the client's own team when the work is done (teams docs). A portal of your own is a separate product: Spacefast Platforms lets a hosting company or an agency resell it through an API and build its own interface.

Statpio's Agency Pro is about the client's site itself. Each client gets a portal under your brand, on your own portal domain, where they read the site's messages and statistics and send change requests; you send branded reports and share links. See give your client a portal. The website itself stays in your account: Statpio cannot move one to a client's account. A 7-day trial of Agency Pro needs no card.

When is Spacefast the better choice?

• You are building an app, not a website. Saved records, server code, scheduled jobs and, in beta, sign-in for the app's own users: Spacefast runs them; Statpio hosts static files only.
• Your project needs a server or a build. Next.js with server rendering, TanStack Start and PHP are among the projects Spacefast publishes, and "Hosted builds for 30+ frameworks" and "GitHub deploys and pull request previews" are on every plan (pricing and limits docs). Statpio hosts a project's finished static files, and its GitHub deploys need Solo Pro.
• You want many sites or domains for little money. Twenty sites with their own domains on the free plan, a hundred for $5 a month, and domains registered at cost.
• You share drafts, prototypes and internal pages. Private by default, share links that can expire, comments pinned to the page, and access set page by page. Statpio has one password for the whole website.
• Several people publish, or the site changes hands. Pro is free for up to 5 members who publish, and a Space can be moved to another team. On Statpio only the website's owner publishes, and a website cannot move to another account.
• You want to publish first and sign up later. The first publish needs no account; you claim the Space afterwards to keep it.
• You need the root domain itself, redirect files, branch previews or a very large site. Statpio serves a root domain through www, reads no redirect or header files, has one staging address per website rather than a preview per branch, and takes at most 5,000 files in a publish, where a Spacefast version holds up to 20,000 on the free plan.
• Your content lives in WordPress. A Spacefast build can read from it: "A data source is a public WordPress site a build reads content from" (WordPress data sources docs), and its page for agencies says a Space "can also publish a static copy of a public WordPress site through a connected Git repository".

How do I move a site from Spacefast to Statpio?

1. Check that the site is static. Pages, styles, scripts, images and fonts move. Spacefast's FAQ says "Static sites usually move to another host as they are", while "Apps on Spacefast runtimes need code changes, and app data exports separately". Statpio does not run the server part.
2. Get the files. Use the folder you or your assistant published, or download the files of a kept version from Spacefast. Put index.html at the top of the folder and zip it.
3. Sign up for Statpio on Free Forever (free signup), confirm your email address and create a website; its address is your-name.onstatpio.com.
4. Publish. Drag the ZIP onto the website in the Statpio dashboard, or connect the connector in Claude or Cursor and say "publish these files to my-site".
5. Forms. Make each form a plain <form method="POST"> with no action and a name on every field, and remove the script that sent it to your Spacefast app; Statpio captures it. Or build the form in the dashboard's form builder and place it with one line.
6. Redirects. Statpio does not read _redirects or _headers files. List the redirects you rely on before you switch, and recreate the important ones another way, for example in the page itself, or at your registrar for a whole domain.
7. Your domain (Solo Pro and up). Add it in the dashboard and create the two CNAME records it shows for www at your DNS host (connect your domain); forward the root domain to www. They replace the records that pointed at Spacefast. Once Statpio shows the domain as active, remove it from the Space.
8. Review before showing it. Put a password on the site while you compare it with the original, send a test message through each form, then remove the password.

Which should you pick?

• A local business, a freelancer, a portfolio or an event that needs enquiries and visitor numbers: Statpio. Start on Free Forever; move to Solo Pro when you want your own domain.
• An app with users and data, a dashboard, a game with a scoreboard: Spacefast.
• Lots of small pages, prototypes or reports to share privately: Spacefast; its free plan covers 20 of them.
• A static site where the price of your own domain decides: Spacefast, where the domain is included on the free plan. Its built-in stats count views, visitors and top paths; for a form inbox or fuller analytics you add a service or a tag, or have your assistant build them.
• An agency handing finished sites to clients: Statpio Agency Pro, for the portal under your brand. For review links and prototypes around a site, Spacefast does that well, and the two can sit side by side.

If neither fits, the Spacefast alternatives page compares here.now, Netlify, Cloudflare, Vercel and GitHub Pages on the same points.