Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Neocities
The 20 closest static web hosting alternatives to Neocities, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 3 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Neocities? The closest matches are WordPress.com, Wikidot and WordPress. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 16 ms
01 · Entity
About Neocities
Neocities neocities.org
Neocities: Create your own free website!
Create and surf awesome websites for free.
Wikidata: open-source personal web hosting service
Summary by Claude
Free static web hosting for personal websites, with an in-browser HTML editor, file uploads, custom domains and a social layer for following and discovering other hosted sites. A paid tier adds more storage and features.
- Who it’s for
- Hobbyists and individuals building personal websites
- Business model
- Freemium subscriptions and donations
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Neocities’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Neocities
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Neocities, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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WordPress.com: Everything You Need to Build Your Website
Create your WordPress website with built-in hosting, premium themes, and powerful tools. No technical setup required. Start building today—free plan available.
Very close cos 0.918 - 02
Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting
Polish wiki hosting corporation
Very close cos 0.902 - 03
Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org
Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.
Very close cos 0.901 - 04
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
Well organized and easy to understand Web building tutorials with lots of examples of how to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Python, PHP, Bootstrap, Java, XML and more.
Very close cos 0.899 - 05
American Web hosting company
Very close cos 0.898 - 06
The world's fastest framework for building websites
Hugo is one of the most popular open-source static site generators. With its amazing speed and flexibility, Hugo makes building websites fun again.
Very close cos 0.895 - 07
Cloudflare Captcha Page | Bluehost.com
web hosting company
Very close cos 0.898 - 08
Blogger.com - Create a unique and beautiful blog easily.
Publish your passions your way. Whether you’d like to share your knowledge, experiences or the latest news, create a unique and beautiful blog.
Very close cos 0.897 - 09
Codeberg.org
Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.
Very close cos 0.896 - 10
How To Make a Website – Free Website Builder | Strikingly
Strikingly is the best free website builder for anyone to create a gorgeous, mobile-friendly website easily. Quick, simple and stylish. Make your own free website today.
Very close cos 0.894 - 11
Overblog - Les meilleurs blogs et la meilleure plateforme de blog
Le portail d'OverBlog ! Le meilleur de l'info et des articles de nos blogueurs ! Créez facilement et gratuitement un blog sur OverBlog ! Forums, communautés et annuaire de blog sur OverBlog !
Very close cos 0.895 - 12
Hospedagem de Sites: Rápida, Segura e Confiável | HostGator
Hospedagem de sites rápida com IA para criar, gerenciar e crescer seu negócio. Domínio grátis e suporte 24/7. Conheça os planos.
Very close cos 0.896 - 13
Postimages — free image hosting / image upload
Provides free image uploading and hosting integration for forums. Free picture hosting and photo sharing for websites and blogs.
Very close cos 0.895 - 14
Create a blog or website for free and make money online - Altervista
Do you want to create a website for free? Find out how to do it on Altervista: open a blog or a website quickly and easily and start making money online. Altervista is free of charge forever
Close cos 0.892 - 15
web.dev
Guidance to build modern web experiences that work on any browser.
Close cos 0.892 - 16
Hostgator.com
404: Page not found. You might ensure the URL is spelled correctly, or if you followed a link here please let us know. Please try one of the links below in order to reach your desired destination.
Close cos 0.893 - 17
Free Website Builder 100% Off | Create a Free Website - SITE123
Create a free website with SITE123. No design or coding skills required. SITE123 is by far the easiest free website builder. Create your website now!
- Amazon SES
- Apache HTTP Server
- Bing Webmaster Tools
- Amazon CloudFront
- Font Awesome
- Google Ads conversion tracking
Close cos 0.890 - 18 Close cos 0.889
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FreeDNS - Free DNS - Dynamic DNS - Static DNS subdomain and domain hosting
Free DNS hosting, lets you fully manage your own domain. Dynamic DNS and Static DNS services available. You may also create hosts off other domains that we host upon the domain owners consent, we have several domains to choose from!
Close cos 0.891 - 20
Canva
online graphic design platform
Close cos 0.890
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to neocities.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Neocities uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Neocities is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Security
- hCaptcha page source: hcaptcha.com/1/api.js
- Email hosting
- Proton Mail MX mail.protonmail.ch
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:amazonses.com include:spf.improvmx.com include:_spf.pr…
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Neocities adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on neocities.org 17/20
- Google Workspace · not on neocities.org 7/20
- Google Fonts · not on neocities.org 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on neocities.org 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on neocities.org 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on neocities.org 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on neocities.org 5/20
- nginx · not on neocities.org 4/20
- Zendesk · not on neocities.org 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on neocities.org 4/20
- Amazon SES 3/20
- OpenAI · not on neocities.org 3/20
- SendGrid · not on neocities.org 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on neocities.org 3/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on neocities.org 3/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on neocities.org 3/20