Cloudflare Pages is fast, generous and backed by one of the world's largest networks. It's also a developer tool: forms mean writing Functions, access control means configuring Zero Trust, and every edit is a new upload. If you want a Cloudflare Pages alternative built around editing and running an HTML site in the browser, here is how htmlhost compares.
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Cloudflare: "Requests to static assets are free and unlimited." A genuine strength.
Pages has no page editor; Direct Upload projects need a fresh upload for any change.
Cloudflare's Static Forms plugin intercepts submissions; you code what happens to them.
Choose Cloudflare Pages (or Workers) if you're a developer who wants unlimited static bandwidth, Git builds, Functions and the rest of Cloudflare's platform. Choose htmlhost if you want to publish HTML from the browser, edit it visually or with AI later, receive form messages without code, and protect a site with a password. Free: 3 sites, 500 MB of storage, 50 form messages a month, 10 AI edits a day, sites that never expire by default.
The steps a typical person follows on each platform, from a finished HTML file to a live page.
Highlighted cells mark the stronger option for publishing and editing HTML sites. Ties are left plain.
| Feature | htmlhost | Cloudflare Pages |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Free: 3 sites, 500 MB of storage, 50 form messages a month, 10 AI edits a day, sites that never expire by default. | Unlimited sites, seats, static requests and bandwidth; 500 builds a month. |
| Paid plan | Pro is a $12/month or $120/year pass with no auto-renewal: unlimited sites, 10 GB, unlimited custom domains, password protection, 5,000 form messages a month and 3,000 AI edits a month. | Paid Workers and Cloudflare plans add builds, files and Functions capacity. |
| Browser upload | Paste HTML or drop files, a folder or ZIP; update the same site any time. | Drag and drop in the dashboard: a ZIP or folder, up to 1,000 files of 25 MiB each. Can't switch to Git later. |
| File limits | Files up to 25 MB on Free, 100 MB on Pro; 500 MB / 10 GB storage. | 25 MiB per file; 20,000 files per site on Free (100,000 on paid plans). |
| Editing a live page | Visual editor, code editor and AI Edit in the browser. | No page editor; edit locally and deploy again. |
| Forms | Forms deliver to a dashboard inbox and email with a built-in spam trap: 50 form messages a month on Free, 5,000 form messages a month on Pro with file attachments, Google Sheets and webhooks. | No form inbox. An official Static Forms plugin lets you write a Pages Function to handle submissions. |
| Password or access control | A simple site password, included in Pro ($12/month). | Cloudflare Access (Zero Trust, free up to 50 users). The built-in toggle protects preview deployments only. |
| Git builds and Functions | No Git builds or server code. | Git integration, builds, Functions and the wider Cloudflare platform (KV, D1, R2). |
| Custom domains | $5/yr each on Free; unlimited and included on Pro. | Free, up to 100 per project on the Free plan. |
| Redirects | Up to 200 rules per site, managed in the dashboard or a _redirects file. | A _redirects file in your project. |
| Analytics | Built in: 7 days on Free, up to 90 on Pro. | Cloudflare Web Analytics can be enabled for a project. |
| Product direction | Static HTML hosting with editing, forms and AI is the core product. | Cloudflare's docs say "Start new projects with Workers." |
Cloudflare Pages details as published on its official pages, checked ; plans change, so check the linked sources before you buy. htmlhost figures are read from the plan limits and pricing the app enforces.
Cloudflare's free plan is famously generous: unlimited sites, seats, requests and bandwidth for static content, and 500 builds a month. Single files can be up to 25 MiB and a free site can hold 20,000 files.
It's designed for people who already think in deployments. You create an application inside the Workers & Pages dashboard, choose Git or Direct Upload, and every change produces a new deployment. Drag-and-drop uploads are capped at 1,000 files, can't compile a functions folder, and Cloudflare notes that a Direct Upload project can't be switched to Git integration later.
htmlhost is shaped around the site rather than the deployment: the published site is an editable project, so most changes happen in the editor and go live with Publish.
Cloudflare has no form inbox. Its official Static Forms plugin intercepts submissions from forms marked with a data-static-form-name attribute and hands them to your Pages Function, where you decide what to do: store them in KV, call an email API, and so on. That requires a Functions setup, which drag-and-drop projects can't compile.
Restricting access goes through Cloudflare Access, part of Zero Trust (free for up to 50 users). The one-click access policy in Pages protects preview deployments only, not your pages.dev or custom domain; protecting production needs an Access application configured separately.
On htmlhost, forms work on every plan with an inbox, email delivery and a spam trap, and Pro adds a simple password per site. If a Pro pass ends, sites stay online at their htmlhost.co addresses.
Cloudflare's Pages documentation now opens with a question: "Are you sure you want to use Pages? Workers supports most Pages use cases and offers a broader feature set… Start new projects with Workers." Workers static assets carry the same 20,000-file and 25 MiB limits on Free.
For developers that's a richer platform. For someone who just wants an HTML page online, it's another layer of choices before the first publish.
Unlimited static bandwidth on a free plan, a free custom domain, Git builds, and serverless code at the edge with storage products alongside. If you're a developer and your site gets heavy traffic, Cloudflare is a superb home and htmlhost doesn't pretend otherwise.
Yes. Cloudflare's free plan includes unlimited sites, seats, static requests and bandwidth, with 500 builds a month, 25 MiB per file and 20,000 files per site. Pages Functions requests count toward the Workers free quota.
There's no form inbox. Cloudflare publishes a Static Forms plugin for Pages Functions that intercepts submissions so your code can store or forward them. htmlhost forms deliver to a dashboard inbox and email without code.
Through Cloudflare Access, which is identity-based and free for up to 50 users. The access policy toggle in Pages protects preview deployments only; protecting the production domain needs a separate Access application. htmlhost Pro includes a simple site password.
Cloudflare's own documentation recommends starting new projects with Workers, which supports most Pages use cases. If you only need to publish and edit HTML, htmlhost avoids that decision entirely.
Edit your files locally, then push to Git or upload a new deployment. With Direct Upload you re-upload the project. On htmlhost you edit the live site in a visual or code editor, or with AI, and press Publish.
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