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== Free tier: Websites and publishing ==
Hosting, content management and publishing tools with a free tier — enough to put a site online, keep it edited, and hand editing to someone who does not write code.

Part of the [[Free Tier Services Directory]].

=== Content management ===
* [https://www.contentful.com/ Contentful] — Headless CMS with content delivery over an API. Free Community space for one project.
* [https://www.cosmicjs.com/ Cosmic] — Headless CMS and API toolkit. Free personal plan for individual developers.
* [https://crystallize.com Crystallize] — Headless product information manager with e-commerce support and a GraphQL API. Free tier includes unlimited items on one project.
* [https://www.datocms.com/ DatoCMS] — GraphQL-based headless CMS aimed at small sites, with a free tier covering a limited number of records and API calls.
* [https://hygraph.com/ Hygraph] — GraphQL-first headless CMS, formerly GraphCMS. Free tier for small projects.
* [https://www.prismic.io/ Prismic] — Headless CMS with a hosted editing interface and API. The Community plan is free for one user.
* [https://www.sanity.io/ Sanity.io] — Structured content platform with an open-source editing environment and a hosted real-time datastore. Generous free tier.
* [https://soloist.ai Solo] — Website generator from Mozilla that builds a small business site from a short description. Free.
* [https://squidex.io/ Squidex] — Open-source, API- and GraphQL-first CMS built on event sourcing. Free tier for small projects.
* [https://www.storyblok.com Storyblok] — Headless CMS aimed at both developers and editors, working with any modern framework. Community plan is free.
* [https://tina.io/ TinaCMS] — Open-source, Git-backed headless CMS supporting Markdown, MDX and JSON. Successor to Forestry.io.
* [https://wpjack.com WPJack] — Installs and manages WordPress on a server you already own. Free tier covers one server and two sites.

=== Hosting and site builders ===
* [https://www.alwaysdata.com/ Alwaysdata] — General-purpose hosting with 1 GB of storage, supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL and a wide range of runtimes including Python, Node, Go, Elixir and .NET.
* [https://www.awardspace.com Awardspace.com] — Web hosting with PHP and MySQL, a free short domain and no adverts.
* [https://boomurl.com boomurl] — Publishes static files — HTML, Markdown, images, PDFs or a whole folder — to an HTTPS URL without a build step.
* [https://bubble.io/ Bubble] — Visual builder for web and mobile applications without code. Free with Bubble branding on the result.
* [https://www.dappling.network/ dAppling Network] — Decentralised hosting for Web3 front ends, focused on uptime and tamper resistance.
* [https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing DigitalOcean] — Three static sites free on the App Platform starter tier.
* [https://freeflarum.com/ FreeFlarum] — Community-funded hosting for Flarum forums, free for up to 250 users. A donation removes the watermark.
* [https://harvis.dev Harvis.dev] — Static hosting driven from the command line with no configuration or build step. Includes a subdomain, TLS and form handling.
* [https://www.koyeb.com/ Koyeb] — Serverless application platform. The free Hobby plan gives 550 compute hours a month on a 512 MB instance.
* [https://mdbgo.com/ MDB GO] — Hosting for one project with 500 MB of memory and SFTP access. Containers expire after two weeks.
* [https://mirin.com Mirin] — Hosting for React, Vue and Svelte component sites, with visual editing for non-developers.
* [https://neocities.org Neocities] — Static hosting in the spirit of early personal web pages. 1 GB of storage and 200 GB of bandwidth.
* [https://www.netlify.com/ Netlify] — Builds, deploys and hosts static sites and applications. Free tier is metered in credits, roughly 30 GB of bandwidth a month.
* [https://www.pandastack.io/ PandaStack] — Hosting in several shapes — static sites, containers and databases — with a free tier on each.
* [https://pantheon.io/ pantheon.io] — Managed Drupal and WordPress hosting with automated deployment. Free for development sites.
* [https://qoddi.com Qoddi] — Application platform in the mould of Heroku, with a free tier for small services.
* [https://readthedocs.org/ readthedocs.org] — Documentation hosting with versioning and PDF export, free for open projects. Widely used for software manuals.
* [https://render.com render.com] — Unified platform for sites and applications, with free TLS, a global CDN and automatic deploys from Git.
* [https://revdoku.com/ Revdoku] — Publishes files, reports and small sites directly from an AI assistant such as ChatGPT or Claude.
* [https://shipstatic.com ShipStatic] — Static hosting designed to be driven by a command or an AI agent, with permanent free sites, HTTPS and unmetered bandwidth. Custom domains are paid.
* [https://sourceforge.net/ SourceForge] — Long-running host for open-source project downloads and pages.
* [https://surge.sh/ surge.sh] — Static publishing from the command line. Unlimited sites with custom domain support.
* [https://tilda.cc/ tilda.cc] — Visual website builder. Free tier covers one site of up to 50 pages and 50 MB, using a limited set of layout blocks.
* [https://vercel.com/ Vercel] — Builds, deploys and hosts web applications with free TLS, a global CDN and a preview URL for every push. Strong fit for Next.js and static site generators.
* [https://versoly.com/ Versoly] — Website builder aimed at software products. Unlimited sites, 70-plus blocks and custom CSS on the free plan.

=== Publishing tools ===
* [https://mintlify.com Mintlify] — Documentation platform for APIs, with hosted, componentised pages and a free tier for small projects.
* [https://publora.com Publora] — Publishing API that posts or schedules to ten social networks from a single call.
* [https://www.tiny.cloud TinyMCE] — Rich text editor you embed in your own pages. Core features are free for unlimited use.

=== Currency ===
Compiled September 2026. Free tiers change frequently and nothing here has been independently verified — check the provider before relying on any allowance described above. Entries cover services with a standing free tier, not free trials.

=== See also ===
[[Digital sovereignty]], and the other sections of the [[Free Tier Services Directory]].

[[Category:Free Tier Services]]

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