# Droply compared with 10 other static hosts

Honest side-by-side comparisons against 10 static site and file hosts. Every claim about a competitor is taken from that competitor's own documentation and carries the date it was read, and every page names, near the top, the readers who should stay where they are. Several of these competitors are cheaper or larger than Droply and the pages say so.

## Upload-and-share hosts

The closest products to this one: you bring a finished file or a finished site and they put it on a URL.

- [Tiiny Host alternative](https://droply.host/tiiny-host-alternative): The incumbent in this category, and the same drop-a-file idea. Rollback, expiring links, a deploy-time security check and importing a site from its URL are not documented features there, and its entry tier is $9 a month against our $5.
- [Static.app alternative](https://droply.host/static-app-alternative): Cheaper than us at the entry tier and strong on content. Its own docs say a loose .html file is not accepted and React artifacts need converting to self-contained HTML first.
- [Carrd alternative](https://droply.host/carrd-alternative): A one-page site builder rather than a host: you design in its editor and cannot upload a site you already built. Cheaper than us, and the right answer for a lot of people.

## Drag-and-drop deploys

Free front doors to a much larger platform. The drop is quick; what happens to the link afterwards is the part worth reading.

- [Netlify Drop alternative](https://droply.host/netlify-drop-alternative): A genuinely good drop tool that can now build your project, redeploy and take a domain. An unclaimed drop is deleted after one hour, and its URL carries a temporary password until you claim it.
- [Cloudflare Drop alternative](https://droply.host/cloudflare-drop-alternative): The fastest way to see a folder online, with no account at all. The preview and its throwaway account both disappear after an hour unless you claim them into a Cloudflare account.
- [Vercel Drop alternative](https://droply.host/vercel-drop-alternative): Detects and builds your framework project from a drop, which is real. Every drop creates a new project, so an update lands on a new URL rather than the one you already shared.

## Developer platforms

Built around a repository and a build. Excellent at that, and a long way round if you already have the finished files.

- [GitHub Pages alternative](https://droply.host/github-pages-alternative): Free and hard to beat if your project is already a repository. Its own terms forbid using it to run a business or a SaaS, and a private Pages site requires GitHub Enterprise Cloud.
- [Vercel alternative](https://droply.host/vercel-alternative): The right home for a Next.js app with server-side code. Its free Hobby tier is for personal, non-commercial use, and Password Protection is Enterprise or a $150 a month Pro add-on.
- [Render alternative](https://droply.host/render-alternative): Free static sites, but only from a connected Git repository, with a build on every push. Hobby includes 5 GB of bandwidth and 500 build minutes, then usage is billed.
- [Firebase Hosting alternative](https://droply.host/firebase-hosting-alternative): Free, with 10 GB of storage and a custom domain at no cost. Deploying needs a Firebase project and the CLI, and the free tier caps data transfer at 360 MB a day.