Tiiny Host Alternatives: Prices, Free Limits and API Compared
Tiiny Host is the closest competitor to hdply, and it is a good product: drag a file or a zip, get a link, no build step, plenty of file types. If you have landed here from a Tiiny Host search, the fair thing to say first is that for many people it is exactly right. This page is for the cases where its limits or its prices do not fit. All numbers were taken from Tiiny Host's own help center on 2026-09-08 and will drift; check their pricing page before you decide.
Tiiny Host's free tier and prices
Per their help center, a free account gets 1 project, a 3 MB upload limit per project (0.5 MB for PDFs), 5,000 visits and 5 GB of bandwidth per month, free SSL, Tiiny Host branding on the page, and no custom domain. You can upload a single HTML file, a PDF, images, or a whole site as a zip.
Paid plans: Tiny at $9/month or $60/year (25 MB per project, 10,000 visits), Solo at $18/month or $156/year (75 MB, 100,000 visits, API access), Pro at $38/month or $372/year (10 GB across the account, 500,000 visits), and Pro Max at $89/month or $888/year. The API is available on Solo plans and above.
Where the shape does not fit
- One free project. The moment you want a second page online — a proposal and a portfolio — you are on a paid plan.
- $9/month is the first step. That is fine for a business; it is a lot for a personal page that gets 40 visits.
- API only from $18/month. If you want an agent or a script to publish for you, the free and Tiny tiers do not offer it.
Alternative 1: hdply
hdply is narrower on purpose — one HTML file per site, no zips, no PDFs — and cheaper because of it. A free account holds 6 sites at 1 MB each, with a browser editor and version history. Light is $1/month (or $10/year) for 25 sites and removes the "Made with hdply" badge; Pro is $7/month (or $70/year) for unlimited sites. You can try it with no account at all: paste HTML on the homepage and the link is live for an hour.
The REST API and the MCP server are included on every plan, including free, and there is deliberately no delete endpoint — an agent with deploy rights cannot destroy a site. We did not find an MCP integration documented for Tiiny Host at the time of writing.
What you give up: multi-file uploads, PDFs and other document types, custom domains, and anything over 1 MB. If your "site" is a folder or a PDF, Tiiny Host is the right tool and hdply is not.
Alternative 2: Netlify Drop
Drag a folder, get a URL, no account for the first deploy. Handles multi-file sites well and the free plan is broad. The catch for quick sharing: without an account the URL is password-protected until you claim it, and unclaimed sites are eventually deleted. See the Netlify Drop comparison for the details.
Alternative 3: GitHub Pages
Free, custom domains with HTTPS, and a proper history of every change — if you already use Git. If you do not, it is a version control system standing between you and a link. Covered in GitHub Pages alternatives.
Side by side
| Tiiny Host | hdply | Netlify Drop | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free sites | 1 | 6 | Unlimited, with account |
| Free upload limit | 3 MB / project | 1 MB / page | Not per-file; plan-wide credits |
| Try without an account | No | Yes (1-hour link) | Yes (password-protected until claimed) |
| Zip / multi-file | Yes | No | Yes |
| PDF hosting | Yes | No | As a file in the folder |
| Custom domain | Paid plans | No | Yes |
| First paid tier | $9/month | $1/month | $9/month |
| API | Solo ($18/month) and up | All plans, plus MCP | Yes |
| Edit in the browser | Re-upload | Yes | No |
When Tiiny Host is the better choice
Choose Tiiny Host if you host PDFs, presentations or other documents; if your site is a zip with images and several pages; if you need a custom domain on a simple host; or if you want one service for every kind of file you share. Those are real strengths, and the pages you would put on hdply are a subset of what Tiiny Host can take.
Moving a single page over
Download your HTML, inline any linked CSS and JS, make sure images point at absolute URLs, and paste it into the new host. Keep the old link live for a while with a small redirect page if it was shared.
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