You can put a website online in two ways: upload or deploy files to GitHub Pages, Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, Vercel, Neocities or InfinityFree, or use a builder like Heya, Google Sites or WordPress.com. Free storage ranges from 1 GB (GitHub Pages, Neocities, WordPress.com) to 5 GB (InfinityFree) and 10 GB of deployment storage (Vercel). Here is how all 9 compare.
Heya is ours, so read its row with that in mind. Every other number comes from each company's own pages, checked on October 28, 2026.
The short answer
This table splits platforms that host files you already have from website builders that host the pages you create.
| Service | Hosting type | Free storage or size limit | Free bandwidth or credit limit | Custom domain on free plan | Paid upgrade starts at |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Pages | Static file host (Git) | 1 GB published site limit | 100 GB/month soft limit | Yes | Not stated |
| Cloudflare Pages | Static file host (Git) | 20,000 files (25 MiB max/file) | 500 builds/month | Yes (up to 100/project) | Workers Paid from $5/month |
| Netlify | File and app host (Git/AI/API) | Not stated | 300 credits/month (20 credits/GB) | Yes (with SSL) | $9/month (Personal) |
| Vercel | File and app host | 10 GB deployment storage | 100 GB Fast Data Transfer/month | Not stated | $20/month (Pro) |
| Neocities | Static file host (browser/upload) | 1 GB storage | 200 GB bandwidth | Not stated | $5/month (Supporter) |
| InfinityFree | PHP and MySQL host + builder | 5 GB disk space | Unlimited bandwidth | Yes | Not stated |
| Heya | No-code builder (HTML export on Pro Plus) | 3 sites, 5 pages/site, 200 files/site | Not stated | No (uses yourname.heya.bio) | $3/mo (Pro Lite) |
| Google Sites | No-code drag-and-drop builder | Not stated | Not stated | Supports up to five per site (free plan not stated) | Not stated |
| WordPress.com | CMS and site builder | 1 GB storage, unlimited pages | Not stated | No (paid plans only) | $2.75/month billed every 3 years |
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"Not stated" means the platform's provided documentation did not specify a figure or plan detail for that cell.
GitHub Pages hosts static sites from HTML, CSS and JavaScript in public repositories on GitHub Free. Published sites can be up to 1 GB with a 100 GB per month soft bandwidth limit. You get a github.io address or can connect a custom domain with HTTPS.
Cloudflare Pages connects to GitHub and GitLab on a Free plan that allows 500 builds per month and 1 build at a time. Each Free site holds up to 20,000 files (25 MiB per asset) and supports custom domains plus a *.pages.dev subdomain.
Netlify's Free plan costs $0 forever and deploys from AI, Git or API with custom domains and SSL. You get 300 credits per month: production deploys cost 15 credits, and bandwidth costs 20 credits per GB. The Personal plan is $9 per month for 1,000 credits.
Vercel's Hobby plan is $0 per month for personal projects. You get automatic CI/CD, a global CDN, 1M CDN requests per month, and 100 GB of Fast Data Transfer per month. Pro plans start at $20 per month for teams.
Neocities hosts static sites for free with 1 GB of storage, 200 GB of bandwidth, SSL, and an ad-free .neocities.org subdomain. You can edit HTML in your browser. The $5 per month Supporter plan gives 50 GB storage and 3000 GB bandwidth.
InfinityFree gives you 5 GB of disk space, unlimited bandwidth, PHP 8.4, MySQL 8.0, and MariaDB 11.4 with no ads on your site. Upload via FTP, install WordPress through Softaculous, and use your own domain or 25+ free subdomain extensions.
Heya is our no-code builder for small sites. The Free plan costs $0 with 3 sites, 5 pages per site at yourname.heya.bio, 68 templates, and 10 block types. Pro Plus at $15 a month lets you download your site as a ZIP of HTML, styles, fonts, and images.
Google Sites is a drag-and-drop builder with templates and an automatic grid layout. It links with Google Docs, Sheets, and Presentations and uses the same sharing permissions. You can connect up to five custom domains after verifying ownership in Google Search Console.
WordPress.com has a free plan with 1 GB of storage, unlimited pages and posts, SSL, a global CDN, and a yoursite.wordpress.com subdomain. It shows ads until you upgrade, starting at $2.75 per month when billed every 3 years or $4 per month billed annually.
Free website hosting splits into two categories depending on whether you already have website files. If you write HTML, CSS, and JavaScript or use a static site generator, file hosts like GitHub Pages, Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, Vercel, and Neocities take your code and put it online. Need a database and PHP? InfinityFree lets you upload files over FTP or install WordPress and over 400 scripts through Softaculous.
If you don't want to touch code or files, builders like Heya, Google Sites, and WordPress.com give you a visual editor and handle the hosting when you hit publish. Heya bridges both: you can build visually with 68 templates and host for $0 at yourname.heya.bio, or use Pro Plus at $15 a month to download a ZIP with an index.html per page, styles, fonts, and images to drop onto any static file host.
You can start building on Heya in your browser or on a phone without an account, picking from 68 templates or a blank page. Once you sign in with Google, Heya Free publishes up to 3 sites (up to 5 pages per site) at yourname.heya.bio for $0 with HTTPS, sitemap.xml and robots.txt included.
You can build with 68 templates and host on yourname.heya.bio for $0, connect 1 custom domain on Heya Pro Standard for $6 a month, or download your HTML on Pro Plus for $15 a month. Every plan lets you download a ZIP with an index.html per page, styles, fonts and images, which you can push to GitHub Pages, Cloudflare Pages or Netlify, or upload to InfinityFree.
Whether you can use your own domain name for $0 depends on the host. GitHub Pages, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages (up to 100 domains per project), and InfinityFree all let you connect a custom domain for free, and Google Sites also lets you connect up to five custom domains to a site. Stick with a free subdomain and your address will look like owner.github.io, *.pages.dev, .neocities.org, yourname.great-site.net, yourname.rf.gd, yourname.heya.bio, or yoursite.wordpress.com.
Ads and badges vary too. Neocities and InfinityFree never put ads on your actual site, though InfinityFree shows ads inside its control panel. Heya Free puts a small Made with Heya badge on your site (which comes off on the $3 a month Pro Lite plan), while WordPress.com shows ads to your visitors unless you upgrade to a paid plan starting at $2.75 per month billed every 3 years.
Free plans carry usage rules and technical caps you should check before launching. GitHub Pages forbids running an online business, e-commerce site, or commercial SaaS website, and Vercel's free Hobby plan is for personal projects with 1 developer seat. Heya includes templates made for businesses like plumbers, photographers and restaurants, while InfinityFree has the Site.pro builder for landing pages to online stores.
For storage and traffic, InfinityFree gives 5 GB of disk space and unlimited bandwidth if your site gets a few hits every month. Neocities gives 1 GB of storage and 200 GB of bandwidth, GitHub Pages caps sites at 1 GB and 100 GB of monthly bandwidth, and WordPress.com gives 1 GB of storage.
We compared nine free website hosting platforms by separating services that host existing code files from visual website builders that include hosting, evaluating each on storage, bandwidth, custom domain rules, and commercial restrictions from their official documentation. The facts come from developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits, cloudflare.com/plans/developer-platform, docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github-pages/github-pages-limits, docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github-pages/what-is-github-pages, workspace.google.com/products/sites, support.google.com/sites/answer/9068867, infinityfree.com, neocities.org, neocities.org/supporter, netlify.com/pricing, vercel.com/pricing, wordpress.com/pricing, heya.page/pricing, heya.page/docs.
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You can connect a custom domain on the free plans of GitHub Pages, Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, and InfinityFree. On Heya, building with 68 templates and hosting up to 3 sites at yourname.heya.bio is $0, connecting a custom domain you own starts on Pro Standard at $6 a month, and downloading an HTML ZIP to upload to a static host is on Pro Plus at $15 a month.
Neocities and InfinityFree never put ads on your hosted site, though InfinityFree shows ads in its control panel. Heya Free includes a small Made with Heya badge that you can remove for $3 a month on Pro Lite, and WordPress.com shows ads unless you upgrade starting at $2.75 per month billed every 3 years.
It depends on the host's terms. GitHub Pages doesn't allow online businesses, e-commerce sites, or commercial SaaS websites, and Vercel's Hobby plan is strictly for personal projects. For business sites, Heya includes 68 templates on every plan, lets you embed Calendly for bookings or Google Maps for directions, and lets you link buttons to a Google Form, Tally form, or checkout page.
InfinityFree supports PHP 8.4, MySQL 8.0, MariaDB 11.4, and 400 MySQL databases on its free plan, and it includes the Softaculous installer for WordPress and over 400 other scripts. Or you can use WordPress.com, which has a managed free plan with 1 GB of storage and unlimited pages and posts on a yoursite.wordpress.com subdomain.
All three host static sites from Git repositories for free with custom domains. GitHub Pages caps sites at 1 GB with a 100 GB per month soft bandwidth limit and forbids commercial sites. Cloudflare Pages allows 500 builds per month and 20,000 files per site, while Netlify gives you 300 credits per month where a deploy costs 15 credits and a GB of bandwidth costs 20 credits.
Heya's $0 Free plan includes up to 3 sites, 5 pages per site, and 200 files per site (up to 20 MB each) at yourname.heya.bio, with a small Made with Heya badge and Google sign-in required to publish. Removing the badge and going up to 20 pages per site starts on Pro Lite at $3 a month, and connecting a custom domain starts on Pro Standard at $6 a month.
More from Heya: Free subdomains, Get a free domain, Builders with HTML export and Guides.
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Start building your site on Heya in your browser with 68 templates and no account required, then publish up to 3 sites for $0 at yourname.heya.bio (or download your HTML files on Pro Plus at $15 a month).