Which tiiny.host alternative should you use?
It depends on what you are putting online. For PDFs, documents and files you send to clients, Droply's free plan takes uploads up to 10 MB and never expires, while tiiny.host's free limit for PDFs is 0.5 MB. For a static website on no budget, Cloudflare Pages and Netlify Drop are free and fast, but they are built for websites, not documents. If you already use git, GitHub Pages is free and dependable. And if your site fits in 3 MB, tiiny.host's free plan does the job.
| Tool | Free plan | Paid plans from | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Droply | 1 project, 10 MB, no expiry, small Droply badge | $5/month billed yearly ($8 monthly) | PDFs, files and AI-made pages you send to people |
| tiiny.host | 1 project, 3 MB uploads (0.5 MB for PDFs), tiiny.host banner | $5/month billed yearly | Small sites and PDFs that fit the limits |
| Netlify Drop | Free account; until you claim it, a dropped site sits behind a temporary password | Has a free plan | Static websites dragged in as a folder |
| Cloudflare Pages | Free account; drag and drop up to 1,000 files of 25 MiB each | Has a free plan | Static websites, if you are fine with a technical dashboard |
| GitHub Pages | Free for public repositories; sites up to 1 GB | Free | Developers who already use GitHub |
What tiiny.host's free plan includes
According to tiiny.host's own comparison page, the free plan gives you one active project, uploads up to 3 MB (0.5 MB for PDFs) and 5,000 visits a month. Free sites carry a tiiny.host banner. They stay online as long as you keep logging in to your account.
Paid plans start at $5 a month on yearly billing for one project without the banner. Password protection comes with the Solo plan, at $13 a month on yearly billing.
None of that is unreasonable. The 0.5 MB PDF limit is the one people hit first: a PDF with a few photos or a scanned page is usually bigger than that.
The alternatives
Droply: for PDFs, files and AI-made pages
Droply works the same way as tiiny.host: type a name, drop a file, and it is live at your-name.droply.page. The difference is what you can drop. A PDF opens in a viewer with page thumbnails and a download button. A video gets a player. Several files share one page, and visitors can open each one or download them all. HTML files and zipped websites work too, and you can publish straight from Claude or ChatGPT with the Droply connector.
The free plan is one project up to 10 MB with 5,000 visits a month. It stays online until you take it down; you do not have to log in to keep it alive.
What to know before you switch:
- Free projects show a small Droply badge, and they are kept out of search engines. That stops spammers, but it also means a free page will not show up on Google.
- Passwords, a custom domain and visitor analytics need the Plus plan, at $12 a month billed yearly ($16 monthly). That is close to tiiny.host's Solo plan.
- A ZIP is always treated as a website. To hand over a set of files, upload the files themselves.
Netlify Drop: a static site from a folder
Go to app.netlify.com/drop and drag in the folder that contains your index.html. You do not need an account to publish, but until you sign up and claim the site, its URL sits behind a temporary password, so it is not really ready to share until you do.
Netlify says deploys under 50 MB work best and files over 10 MB can make a deploy get stuck. It is a developer platform at heart: great for websites, with no viewer for PDFs or video.
Cloudflare Pages: free static hosting with drag and drop
In the Cloudflare dashboard, open Workers & Pages, choose Create application, then Drag and drop your files. You can upload a ZIP or a folder with up to 1,000 files, each up to 25 MiB.
You need a Cloudflare account, and the dashboard is built for developers. If you are comfortable with that, it is a solid free home for a static site.
GitHub Pages: free, if you already use git
GitHub Pages publishes a website from a GitHub repository. It is free for public repositories, sites can be up to 1 GB, and GitHub sets a soft bandwidth limit of 100 GB a month. There is no password option, and every change goes through the repository. For a side-by-side, see Droply vs GitHub Pages.
When to stay with tiiny.host
If your site is under 3 MB, you log in regularly anyway and you like its dashboard, there is no strong reason to move. Switching gives you a new link, so you would have to update anywhere you shared the old one.
Move when you hit the limits: PDFs over 0.5 MB, a site that grew past 3 MB, or a page that has to stay up while you are not logging in.
How to move a site from tiiny.host to Droply
- Find the original files you uploaded: the HTML file, the ZIP or the PDF.
- For a website with several files, check that index.html sits at the top level of the ZIP, not inside a folder. The free ZIP Inspector shows you without uploading anything.
- Go to droply.so, type the name you want and drop the file. The link works as soon as the upload finishes.
- Update the places that point to the old address. If you used your own domain, point it at Droply instead (Plus plan); see Connect your own domain.
Questions people ask
Is tiiny.host free?
Yes. The free plan includes one project, uploads up to 3 MB (0.5 MB for PDFs) and 5,000 visits a month, with a tiiny.host banner. Paid plans start at $5 a month billed yearly.
Does tiiny.host delete free sites?
Not on a timer. tiiny.host says free sites stay online as long as you keep logging in to your account.
Competitor details come from tiiny.host's comparison page, Netlify's Drop guide, Cloudflare's direct upload docs and GitHub's Pages limits, checked on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so check before you buy.