A site built with Claude, ChatGPT, or another AI tool doesn't need much to go live — it's a handful of static files. That makes free hosting genuinely realistic, not just a trial gimmick. Here's what each major option actually offers, and where the fine print matters.
What "free" actually means here
Every host on this list has a real, no-time-limit free tier for static sites. The differences that matter are: whether commercial use is allowed, how bandwidth is measured, and whether the setup assumes any technical comfort — a GitHub account, a command line, a build tool — that a design-focused free tier shouldn't require.
Cloudflare Pages
Cloudflare Pages' free tier doesn't cap bandwidth at all — a genuine standout, since every other major free static host on this list caps it somewhere. It supports up to 100 custom domains with free, automatically issued SSL, and 500 builds a month. The tradeoff for most people isn't a limit — it's that Pages is built with developers in mind: deploying means connecting a Git repository, not dragging a folder into a dashboard.
Free tier: unlimited bandwidth (fair-use policy), 500 builds/month, up to 100 custom domains with free SSL.
The catch for a non-technical user: setup assumes a GitHub or GitLab repository, not a drag-and-drop upload.
GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages hosts static sites directly from a GitHub repository, for free, indefinitely. Google's own published limits: a recommended 1GB source repository, a 1GB published site size, and a soft bandwidth limit of 100GB a month. Custom domains work, with free automatically issued SSL.
Free tier: 1GB site size, 100GB/month soft bandwidth limit, custom domain with free SSL.
The catch for a non-technical user: same as Cloudflare Pages — it's built around Git and a repository, which is an unfamiliar workflow if you've never used version control.
Vercel and Netlify's free tiers
Vercel's free Hobby plan includes 100GB of bandwidth a month but is restricted to personal, non-commercial use under its terms — a real constraint if the site is for a paying client. Netlify's free plan runs on a monthly credit system (300 credits, roughly 20 production deploys) rather than a straightforward bandwidth number, which makes it harder to predict how far it'll stretch.
Free tier: Vercel — 100GB bandwidth, non-commercial only. Netlify — 300 credits/month (~20 deploys).
The catch for a non-technical user: both platforms are built primarily for developer workflows (Git-based deploys, command-line tooling for anything beyond a basic drag-and-drop), and Vercel's non-commercial restriction specifically rules out client work.
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Which one fits an AI-generated site
For a developer comfortable with Git, Cloudflare Pages' uncapped bandwidth is hard to beat. For anyone who just wants to drag a folder of files — the export from Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini — into a dashboard and have it live, that's the gap sofast's free tier is built for: no Git repository, no command line, no non-commercial restriction to trip over if the site is for a client.
Frequently asked questions
Cloudflare Pages comes closest, with no published bandwidth cap — though like any "unlimited" claim, it's still governed by a fair-use policy for extreme cases. Every other host on this list has a defined free-tier ceiling.
Depends on the host's terms. Vercel's free Hobby plan explicitly prohibits commercial use; Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Pages, and Netlify's free tiers don't have that restriction, which matters if you're hosting on behalf of a paying client.
Support for connecting your own domain is standard across all the hosts above — what's not always included for free is the domain itself, which you buy separately from a registrar (see our guide on how to buy a domain name).
It comes down to who each platform was originally built for. Cloudflare Pages and GitHub Pages assume a developer workflow built around Git repositories; other platforms, including sofast, are built around a simpler drag-and-drop upload instead.
It varies by host — some throttle your site, some pause it until the next billing cycle, and a few (like GitHub Pages) simply email a warning rather than taking action immediately. None of them silently charge you on a true free tier; if money's ever involved, you'll be asked to upgrade first.
For a simple static site with modest traffic, yes — these aren't trial gimmicks, they're genuine production-grade infrastructure at several of these hosts. The main things to watch are the commercial-use terms and the bandwidth ceiling, not reliability itself.
No — every host listed here offers its free tier without requiring payment information up front.
Yes, since static files aren't locked to any one platform — export your files and upload them wherever you move to, the same way you uploaded them the first time.
Whichever AI tool built your site, here's exactly how to get it hosted on a plan built for this.
