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
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Sites searched
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Query
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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

Top 10K · #5,146 English 3 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Neocities

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

AltervistaHostGatorOverblogStrikinglyBluehostHomestead TechnologiesW3SchoolsWordPressWikidotWordPress.com

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Neocities

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Neocities, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    WordPress.com wordpress.com Top 100 English

    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.

  2. 02
    Wikidot wikidot.com Top 10K English

    Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting

    Polish wiki hosting corporation

  3. 03
    WordPress wordpress.org Top 100 English

    Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org

    Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.

  4. 04
    W3Schools w3schools.com Top 10K English

    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.

  5. 05
    Homestead Technologies homestead.com Top 10K English

    American Web hosting company

  6. 06
    gohugo.io Top 10K English

    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.

  7. 07
    Bluehost bluehost.com Top 1K English

    Cloudflare Captcha Page | Bluehost.com

    web hosting company

  8. 08
    Blogger blogger.com Top 1K English

    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.

  9. 09
    Codeberg e.V. codeberg.org Top 10K English

    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.

  10. 10
    Strikingly strikingly.com English

    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.

  11. 11
    Overblog over-blog.com Top 10K French

    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 !

  12. 12
    HostGator hostgator.com.br Top 1K Portuguese

    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.

  13. 13
    Postimages postimg.cc Top 10K English

    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.

  14. 14
    Altervista altervista.org Top 10K English

    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

  15. 15
    web.dev Top 10K English

    web.dev

    Guidance to build modern web experiences that work on any browser.

  16. 16
    HostGator hostgator.com Top 1K English

    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.

  17. 17
    Site123 site123.com English

    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!

  18. 18
    Lothar lothar.com Top 10K

    Lothar of the Webspace

  19. 19
    afraid.org Top 10K English

    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!

  20. 20
    Canva canva.com Top 1K English

    Canva

    online graphic design platform

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.

SimilarSiteSearch

Competitors by meaning, stacks from the source. Data from public homepages and DNS.

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