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Both cost about the price of a coffee. One is a community you hand-code a page into; the other hands you a finished design, your own domain, and a site that's live this afternoon.
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 — hand-code a personal page and be part of a community that still browses other people's sites on purpose. Lemonade Host is for a site that has to look finished and be live today: pick a design, change the words, publish on your own domain, and get on with the rest of your week. Neither is wrong. They're answering different questions.
At a glance
| Feature | Lemonade Host | Neocities |
|---|---|---|
| Time to live | Same day — pick a design, change the words, publish | Same day, if you write the HTML yourself |
| Visual editor and templates | Included on every site | A code editor in the browser |
| Forms, bookings and a cart | Included and working — no second account | Not part of the product |
| Your own domain | +99¢/mo ($1.98/mo all-in) | Supporter tier, ~$5/mo |
| Price | 99¢/mo, billed $11.88/yr | Free ($0) |
| Ten landing pages | $9.90/mo — ten sites at 99¢ | $0 on their subdomains; Supporter tier for domains |
| Room for a real site | 1 GB, and 250 GB of traffic a month | ~1 GB and ~200 GB a month, free tier |
| Ways to publish | Editor, zip upload, Git, CLI, or an AI assistant | Browser code editor, browser upload |
| AI publishing | Yes — MCP server | Not offered |
| 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
They're answering a different question, and they answer it well — worth saying plainly.
Neocities is built around indie-web culture — browsing other members' sites, following them, a live feed of what people are publishing. If being part of that scene is the point of the page, that's where the page belongs.
You can publish a page for $0, forever, on a neocities.org address, with roughly 1 GB of storage and about 200 GB of bandwidth a month. If the address doesn't matter to you, that's a real offer.
You can type HTML straight into Neocities' own editor without leaving the tab. If writing the tags yourself is the fun part, that's exactly what it's built for.
Neocities has been running since 2013, and much of the modern indie-web scene grew up around it. If that lineage is part of what you want, it's theirs and nobody else's.
Our side
$1.98 a month puts your site on your own address with the padlock already there — the same plan everyone gets, not a step up to a different tier.
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.
Start from a template, change the words and pictures in your browser, and publish — with a contact form, bookings and a cart already wired in. Or connect a Git repo and publish on every push, if that's more your speed.
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, hand-coded in their editor. Lemonade Host suits a site that has to look finished to a stranger: a portfolio, a salon, a cafe, a landing page. Pick a design, change the words, publish on your own domain — or push from a Git repo, a CLI, or an AI assistant if you'd rather.
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 code editor or a direct file upload. Lemonade Host gives you a visual editor, a zip upload, a Git repo, a CLI, and an MCP server for AI assistants.
For a small personal page you're happy to hand-code, yes — roughly 1 GB of storage and about 200 GB of bandwidth a month, at $0, on a neocities.org address. Here you start from a finished design, change the words in your browser, and publish on your own domain for $1.98 a month all-in, with forms, bookings and a cart already working.
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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An introductory rate that renews two to three times higher.
The same job, billed a plan per site, and a site you can't take with you.
Designer templates at roughly twenty times the price per site.
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