Free tier: Websites and publishing

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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

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

Hosting and site builders

  • 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.
  • Awardspace.com — Web hosting with PHP and MySQL, a free short domain and no adverts.
  • boomurl — Publishes static files — HTML, Markdown, images, PDFs or a whole folder — to an HTTPS URL without a build step.
  • Bubble — Visual builder for web and mobile applications without code. Free with Bubble branding on the result.
  • dAppling Network — Decentralised hosting for Web3 front ends, focused on uptime and tamper resistance.
  • DigitalOcean — Three static sites free on the App Platform starter tier.
  • FreeFlarum — Community-funded hosting for Flarum forums, free for up to 250 users. A donation removes the watermark.
  • Harvis.dev — Static hosting driven from the command line with no configuration or build step. Includes a subdomain, TLS and form handling.
  • Koyeb — Serverless application platform. The free Hobby plan gives 550 compute hours a month on a 512 MB instance.
  • MDB GO — Hosting for one project with 500 MB of memory and SFTP access. Containers expire after two weeks.
  • Mirin — Hosting for React, Vue and Svelte component sites, with visual editing for non-developers.
  • Neocities — Static hosting in the spirit of early personal web pages. 1 GB of storage and 200 GB of bandwidth.
  • Netlify — Builds, deploys and hosts static sites and applications. Free tier is metered in credits, roughly 30 GB of bandwidth a month.
  • PandaStack — Hosting in several shapes — static sites, containers and databases — with a free tier on each.
  • pantheon.io — Managed Drupal and WordPress hosting with automated deployment. Free for development sites.
  • Qoddi — Application platform in the mould of Heroku, with a free tier for small services.
  • readthedocs.org — Documentation hosting with versioning and PDF export, free for open projects. Widely used for software manuals.
  • render.com — Unified platform for sites and applications, with free TLS, a global CDN and automatic deploys from Git.
  • Revdoku — Publishes files, reports and small sites directly from an AI assistant such as ChatGPT or Claude.
  • 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.
  • SourceForge — Long-running host for open-source project downloads and pages.
  • surge.sh — Static publishing from the command line. Unlimited sites with custom domain support.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Versoly — Website builder aimed at software products. Unlimited sites, 70-plus blocks and custom CSS on the free plan.

Publishing tools

  • Mintlify — Documentation platform for APIs, with hosted, componentised pages and a free tier for small projects.
  • Publora — Publishing API that posts or schedules to ten social networks from a single call.
  • 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.

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