ship.page as a tiiny.host alternative
tiiny.host is the closest thing to ship.page on the market: drag a file or zip in, get a link out. The differences are in the defaults — accounts, caps, branding, and what happens to your link. Here's the honest breakdown.
Competitor facts verified against tiiny.host in August 2026. Where they win, we say so.
Side by side
| tiiny.host | ship.page | |
|---|---|---|
| Account required | Yes — free links live in an account you must log into at least once every 3 months, or they can be removed | No — one curl or one drag-drop, zero signup, link in seconds |
| Free upload limit | 3 MB per project (0.5 MB for PDFs — larger PDFs publish as a 1-hour preview) | 25 MB zips, 100 MB decompressed |
| Free projects | 1 active project | Unlimited drops — each on its own URL |
| Branding on free | tiiny.host banner on your page until Tiny ($5/mo, billed yearly) | None — your HTML is served byte-for-byte, never modified, on every plan |
| Search engines | Links are public; hiding from search engines needs Solo ($13/mo, billed yearly) | noindex, nofollow on every drop, always — including free |
| URL privacy | You pick a readable link name | Unguessable random subdomains; no public index or listing anywhere |
| Link lifetime on free | Indefinite, as long as the account stays active | 7 days anonymous — claim it to keep it, restore it after expiry, or never expire on Pro ($4/mo) |
| API & automation | API access from Solo ($13/mo, billed yearly) | Full REST API, MCP server for AI agents, and a GitHub Action — free, no account needed |
| Password protection | Solo and above | Not offered — unguessable URLs plus auto-expiry is the privacy model |
| Custom domains | Solo and above | Vanity subdomains on Team ($19/mo) |
| What you can upload | HTML, zips, PDFs, Office docs, images, PHP (paid plans) | Static HTML/CSS/JS — single files, folders, or zips |
Where tiiny.host wins
- Documents, not just sites: PDFs, Word, PowerPoint and Excel files are hosted as first-class viewable documents. ship.page serves static sites — if your payload is a PDF menu, they're the right tool.
- Password protection on paid plans. We deliberately don't offer it — our answer is unguessable URLs and expiry, which is weaker against a determined recipient who forwards the link.
- Free links can live forever if you log in every 3 months. Our anonymous drops expire after 7 days by design.
- PHP hosting on paid plans, and an in-browser editor. We serve static output only.
Where ship.page wins
- No account at all — not 'free account', literally none. Deploy from a browser, a curl, or an AI agent with nothing to sign up for.
- The free upload cap is 8× bigger: 25 MB zips versus 3 MB.
- No branding bar on any plan, including free. Your HTML is never modified — a hard rule, not a pricing tier.
- Privacy is the default, not an upsell: unguessable URLs, noindex on every drop, no public listing — and drops auto-expire unless you claim them.
- Built for automation from day one: REST API, MCP server for agents, GitHub Action. Their API starts at Solo ($13/mo, billed yearly).
- Pro is $4/mo — named drops, append files to a live drop, restore after expiry, uploads up to 100 MB.
The short version
If you're sharing a PDF, a Word doc, or a slide deck as a link, use tiiny.host — that's their home turf and they're good at it.
If you're deploying a static site — especially from a terminal, CI, or an AI agent — ship.page removes the account, the banner, and the 3 MB ceiling, and adds privacy defaults tiiny.host charges Solo money for.
Questions
Is ship.page really free with no account?
Yes. Anonymous deploys need no signup, no email, no card — the URL works immediately and lives for 7 days. An account only enters the picture if you want to keep, restore, or name drops.
tiiny.host's free links stay up forever. Why do yours expire?
Expiry is a feature, not a limitation: most drops are shared once and forgotten, and a link that dies can't leak later. Their 'forever' also has a condition — log in every 3 months or the account and its links can be removed. If you want permanence here, claim the drop or use a paid plan with no TTL.
Can I keep my tiiny.host-style readable link?
Readable names are a paid feature on both sides. On ship.page, Pro ($4/mo) gets you named drops that redeploy in place; Team ($19/mo) adds vanity subdomains.
Do you support PDFs or PHP like tiiny.host?
No. ship.page serves static HTML, CSS and JS exactly as uploaded. For PDF/document hosting or PHP, tiiny.host is genuinely the better fit.
Judge it in ten seconds
No account, no key, no form. One POST and the URL is live for 7 days.
terminal
curl -X POST https://ship.page/deploy \
-H "content-type: text/html" \
--data-binary @index.html