Neocities is a great free static-site host. Kompozy is a content engine. Honest 2026 breakdown of the host-vs-content split and which one your bottleneck needs.
If you searched "Neocities alternative," the first honest thing to say is that Neocities may not have a real competitor for the job it does — and you may be looking for the wrong kind of tool. Neocities is a free static-website host built to revive the indie web: you hand-code a site in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, publish it on a neocities.org subdomain for free, and own it outright with no ads and no data sold to AI companies. It is excellent at that, and if a cheap, principled place to park a static site is all you want, you should probably just use Neocities.
This page exists because most people who go looking past Neocities have a different problem than hosting. I run Kompozy, so the disclosure is upfront, and the point of this comparison is to be useful, not to smear a genuinely good product. The recurring reason people leave a Neocities-shaped tool is that they built a site and then heard crickets — a static page on a subdomain gets no traffic on its own, and Neocities has no way to make content or send anyone to the site it hosts.
That is the real split. Neocities answers "where does my site live." Kompozy answers "who produces the posts and who sends people to it." One is a host; the other is a generation-and-publishing engine that turns one source asset into a week of on-brand video, images, text, blog, and newsletter across nine social platforms. They are closer to complementary than competitive — but if you only have budget or attention for one and your bottleneck is audience rather than hosting, that changes the pick.
Everything below is grounded in Neocities' real 2026 state — free and Supporter plan details verified against neocities.org on 2026-07-12 — and Kompozy pricing from ours the same day. No fabricated limitations, no straw men.
Neocities is a static-website host, launched in 2013 by Kyle Drake to bring back the free personal web after GeoCities closed. You build a site by writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript directly — there is no CMS, no database, and no drag-and-drop page builder; the "building" is coding. You edit in a browser text editor or upload via the dashboard, a command-line tool, WebDAV, or a REST API. The free plan includes 1 GB of storage, 200 GB of monthly bandwidth, and a yoursite.neocities.org subdomain, and free accounts can host HTML, CSS, JS, Markdown, XML, text, fonts, and images. The $5/month Supporter plan raises limits to 50 GB storage and 3,000 GB bandwidth and adds custom domains with SSL, a global anycast CDN, WebDAV, one-click backups, multiple sites per account, and unrestricted file types. Its ethos is central: no ads on your site, no watermarks, open-source backend, and a public pledge never to sell user data to marketers or AI companies. Discovery happens through a public site gallery and tag-based web rings that let visitors surf between related sites. That is the whole product — host, edit, own, and be discoverable within the Neocities network.
The reasons to look past Neocities are almost never about Neocities failing at hosting. They are about what hosting alone does not do. Neocities has no content generation — no copywriting, no video, no images, no carousels, no blog or newsletter drafting. It has no publishing to social platforms; it cannot post to Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, or X, and it has no scheduler. Its only audience mechanism is in-network — the gallery and web rings — which is charming but tiny next to where social discovery actually happens in 2026. It is also, by design, a hand-coder's tool. If you are not comfortable writing HTML and CSS, there is no template-driven builder to fall back on, and the free tier's file-type restrictions and 1 GB cap keep it firmly in "static site" territory rather than a full media operation. None of this is a knock — Neocities is doing exactly what it set out to do, and doing it well. But if your actual bottleneck is "I built a site and nobody comes," or "I don't produce enough content to feed the platforms that would send people here," then a static host is the wrong layer to be shopping in. That is the gap Kompozy fills, and it is why the two tools sit side by side rather than head to head.
| Feature | Neocities | Kompozy | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Static website hosting | Yes | No | Neocities' core job. Kompozy is not a website host — it produces and publishes content. |
| Free tier | Yes (1 GB / 200 GB) | No | Neocities is free forever at the base tier; Kompozy is paid-only from $49/mo. |
| Custom domain | Supporter ($5/mo) | N/A | Neocities custom domains are a Supporter feature. Not applicable to a content engine. |
| AI content generation (video, image, text) | No | Yes | Neocities generates nothing; Kompozy produces 18 output formats across five buckets. |
| Multi-platform social publishing | No | Yes | Neocities publishes only your own site; Kompozy fans posts to nine social platforms plus blog and email. |
| Scheduling & autopilot | No | Yes | No scheduler on Neocities; Kompozy ships a calendar, queue, and Autopilot. |
| Blog / newsletter generation | No (you hand-code it) | Yes | Kompozy drafts Blog Articles and Email Newsletters; on Neocities you write and code the HTML yourself. |
| Brand-voice / persona governance | No | Yes | Kompozy's Persona Brief and banned-word filters keep voice consistent; Neocities has no such layer. |
| In-network discovery | Yes (gallery + web rings) | No | Neocities has a charming built-in discovery network; Kompozy drives external social discovery instead. |
| Owns the audience relationship | Partial (site visitors) | Partial (drives + can link to owned channels) | Neither is a CRM; Neocities owns the site, Kompozy owns the reach that fills it. |
| Privacy / no data sold to AI | Yes (public pledge) | N/A | A genuine Neocities strength and a core part of its identity. |
| Upload via API / CLI / WebDAV | Yes | Partial | Neocities has a clean REST API, CLI, and WebDAV; Kompozy exposes webhooks + Zapier. |
| Tier | Neocities plan | Neocities price | Kompozy plan | Kompozy price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry | Neocities Free | $0 (1 GB / 200 GB) | Kompozy Creator | $49/mo (2,500 credits) |
| Mid | Neocities Supporter | $5/mo (50 GB / 3,000 GB, custom domain) | Kompozy Pro | $299/mo (18,000 credits) |
| Top | Neocities (no enterprise tier) | N/A | Kompozy Enterprise | Custom (sales-led) |
The honest pitch is that these two are not really rivals — they are two halves. Neocities is a house you own outright; Kompozy is the marketing operation that fills it with visitors. If all you want is the house, Neocities is one of the best cheap, principled options on the web and you should just use it. But a house with no address on any map stays empty, and that is the trap most people fall into: they build a beautiful static site and then discover there is no built-in way to make content or send anyone to it.
For the creators who actually need help in 2026 — the ones whose problem is "I can't produce enough to feed the platforms that would grow my audience" — the missing layer is generation and distribution, not hosting. Kompozy takes one recording or one idea and turns it into a week of short-form video, carousels, text posts, a blog draft, and a newsletter, all in one voice through your Persona Brief, then schedules and publishes the set across every connected platform with Autopilot and a per-post review pipeline. Each post can close on your Neocities link.
So the clean way to run it: keep Neocities as the owned home, and add Kompozy as the engine that produces the content and drives the traffic. Start on Kompozy Creator at $49/mo (2,500 credits), keep your $5 Supporter site if you have one, and let the two do the jobs each is actually built for. If your bottleneck is audience, Kompozy is the half you're missing.
Not exactly — they do different jobs. Neocities hosts a static website you hand-code; Kompozy generates content and publishes it across social platforms. If your goal is to own a cheap static site, use Neocities. If your goal is to produce content and grow an audience that visits that site, that is Kompozy's job. Many creators use both.
No. Kompozy is a content generation and publishing engine, not a website host. It produces posts, video, images, blogs, and newsletters and publishes them to nine social platforms plus blog and email. For hosting a static site you own, Neocities remains the right tool.
Neocities offers in-network discovery through its public gallery and tag-based web rings, but real traffic comes from social platforms that link back to your site. Build the site on Neocities, then use a content engine like Kompozy to generate and schedule on-brand posts across nine platforms that drive people to it.
Neocities is free at the base tier (1 GB storage, 200 GB bandwidth), with a $5/month Supporter plan that adds custom domains, SSL, a CDN, and 50 GB storage. Kompozy is paid-only: Creator at $49/mo (2,500 credits) and Pro at $299/mo (18,000 credits). They are different products, so the comparison is host cost vs content-engine cost.
No. Neocities publicly pledges never to sell user data to marketers or AI companies, runs no ads on your site, and keeps its backend open source. That privacy stance is one of its strongest and most distinctive features.