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Both cost about the price of a coffee. One comes with a subdomain and a culture; the other comes with your own domain, standard.
No mid-term price increases.*
Neocities Supporter is around $5 a month. Figures approximate — check their current pricing.
Who they're for
Neocities is a home for the indie web — a place to build a personal page and be part of a community that still browses other people's sites on purpose. Lemonade Host is infrastructure: point a domain at it, publish from wherever you already work, and don't think about it again. Neither is wrong. They're answering different questions.
At a glance
| Feature | Lemonade Host | Neocities |
|---|---|---|
| Price | 99¢/mo, billed $11.88/yr | Free ($0) |
| Custom domain | +99¢/mo ($1.98/mo all-in) | Supporter tier, ~$5/mo |
| Storage | 1 GB | ~1 GB on the free tier |
| Bandwidth | 250 GB/month | ~200 GB/month, free tier |
| Deploy methods | Git repo, zip upload, CLI, MCP/AI — four routes | Web-based editor, browser upload — no Git deploy |
| AI / MCP deploy | Yes — MCP server | Not offered |
| Build step | None required | None required |
| Support | Email, reaches a person | Community forums — no formal support channel |
Neocities figures are approximate as of mid-2026 and change without notice — check their own pricing page before deciding. Ours are exact and won't move under you.
Fair's fair
Naming this plainly is the point — these are real reasons to pick them, not a list we're padding.
Neocities is built around indie-web culture — browsing other members' sites, following them, a live feed of what people are publishing. That's a feature we don't have and aren't building.
You can publish a real site for $0, forever, with roughly 1 GB of storage and about 200 GB of bandwidth a month — no card required, ever.
You can write HTML directly in Neocities' own editor without leaving the tab — a good fit if you want to hand-code without any local tooling at all.
Neocities has been running since 2013. We're newer to the space. If years-in-market matters to your decision, that's a genuine point in their favor.
Our side
$1.98 a month gets you your own domain and SSL, in the same tier we sell — not a separate step up to a different plan.
Connect our MCP server and your assistant deploys straight to your account — alongside a Git repo, a zip upload, or a CLI command. Neocities offers none of the four.
Neocities has no Git deploy at all — everything goes through their web editor or a browser upload. We support that too, plus a repo connection that publishes on every push.
Every site, included, no extra step — a safety net a hobby project on a free tier rarely has.
Which should you choose?
Neocities suits a personal page you want to be seen making — something that lives inside their community, discoverable by other members, built in their editor or updated by hand. Lemonade Host suits a site you want to point a domain at and forget about: a portfolio, a small business page, or anything you're publishing from a Git repo, a CLI, or an AI assistant rather than typing into a browser tab.
Cost over a year
| Plan | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|
| Lemonade Host — site only | 99¢ | $11.88 |
| Lemonade Host — with custom domain | $1.98 | $23.76 |
| Neocities — free tier | $0 | $0 |
| Neocities — Supporter, with custom domain | ~$5 | ~$60 |
Neocities' Supporter price is approximate and dated to mid-2026 — confirm the current figure on their pricing page. A domain on Neocities' free tier isn't possible at any price; ours is $1.98 a month, all in.
Questions
Only on their paid Supporter tier, priced at roughly $5 a month as of mid-2026 — check their current pricing page, since it changes. The free tier is neocities.org subdomains only.
No — Neocities publishes through its browser-based editor or a direct file upload. Lemonade Host supports Git, zip upload, a CLI, and an MCP server for AI assistants.
For many small, personal sites, yes — roughly 1 GB of storage and about 200 GB of bandwidth a month, at $0. The trade-off is a neocities.org subdomain and no custom domain.
Lemonade Host, at $1.98 a month all-in. Neocities' Supporter tier that adds a custom domain runs roughly $5 a month as of mid-2026 — confirm the current figure on their pricing page before deciding.
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