dochost vs ship.page: which one to share an HTML page with
Both turn an HTML file into a public link with no account. They differ on file size, how long a free link lasts, Markdown, and what a paid plan buys. Every ship.page figure below is from its own pages, checked on 21 October 2026.
Paste your HTML or Markdown and get a link
No account. Free links last 7 days; Pro makes them permanent.
Short answer: pick ship.page for a bigger page, a ZIP or a whole folder, or when a free link has to last a month; pick dochost when the page is Markdown, when an AI assistant should publish it for you over MCP, or when you want the page on a domain you own.
This comparison is written by dochost, so read it with that in mind. To keep it checkable, every ship.page number comes from ship.page/pricing, ship.page/html-to-link and its terms, last checked on 21 October 2026, and the rows where ship.page comes out ahead are stated as plainly as the ones where dochost does. Prices change; if a figure here disagrees with ship.page’s own page, theirs is right.
Both services start the same way: no account, no card, paste the HTML or upload the file, get a link in seconds. ship.page puts each upload on its own random subdomain of shipped.run and serves the files byte for byte. dochost publishes one page to dochost.co/d/{slug}, and renders Markdown as a styled page as well as serving HTML with its scripts running.
Publishing on dochost
- 1.
Paste your HTML or Markdown into the box above, or upload the file. No account needed.
- 2.
Pick public (7 days on Free) or private (3 days) and publish.
- 3.
Copy the dochost.co link and send it. It opens in any browser, on a phone or a laptop.
A real example
Say ChatGPT has just written you a one-file sales dashboard, about 300 KB of HTML with the chart library pulled from a CDN, and you want your manager to open it on her phone this afternoon. Either service does that for free with no signup, and anyone you send the link to can open it without an account.
Change one thing at a time and the answer moves. If the export is a folder with separate images and a 6 MB data file, ship.page is the one that takes it for free: 10 MB for a single HTML file and 25 MB for a ZIP, against dochost’s 1 MB per page on Free. If the manager will not look until next month, ship.page’s free link lasts 30 days (90 with a free account) where a free dochost link lasts 7 days.
If the page is a Markdown report rather than HTML, dochost renders it with headings, tables and code blocks; ship.page serves files as they are, so a .md file arrives as plain text. If the dashboard is regenerated every week by an agent, dochost’s hosted MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor publish and update it themselves, and ship.page’s answer is one curl request to its deploy endpoint, which needs no API key. And if the link has to stay up for good, both charge for it: ship.page Pro at $4 a month, dochost Pro at $7 a month or $59 a year.
dochost and ship.page side by side
ship.page figures from its pricing, HTML-to-link and terms pages, checked 21 October 2026. dochost figures from the limits the publish code enforces.
| dochost | ship.page | |
|---|---|---|
| Account needed to publish | No | No (the uploader asks for an email address to send a backup link) |
| What you can upload | One page: pasted or uploaded HTML or Markdown | An HTML file, a ZIP with index.html, or a whole folder |
| Free size limit | 1 MB per page | 10 MB HTML file; ZIP up to 25 MB and 100 files |
| Free link lifetime | 7 days public, 3 days private | 30 days, or 90 with a free account |
| Markdown | Rendered as a styled page | Not mentioned; files are served byte for byte |
| Where the page lives | dochost.co/d/{slug} | Its own random subdomain of shipped.run |
| Publish from code or an AI assistant | Anonymous publish API and a hosted MCP server | curl to POST /deploy with no API key, plus a GitHub Action |
| Cheapest paid plan | Pro $7/month or $59/year: permanent links, custom slug, password, 10 MB | Pro $4/month: drops never expire, update a page and keep its link, password, 100 MB ZIP |
| Top plan | Max $16/month or $135/year: 50 MB pages and a domain you own | Team $19/month: a vanity subdomain (acme--*.shipped.run) |
Pick ship.page for multi-file sites, files over 1 MB, free links that last 30 days, or the cheaper permanent plan. Pick dochost for Markdown, publishing from an AI assistant over MCP, or serving pages from your own domain.
Questions about dochost vs ship.page
Is ship.page or dochost better for a free HTML link?
For a large file or a whole folder, ship.page: its free tier takes a 10 MB HTML file or a 25 MB ZIP, and the link lasts 30 days. For a single page that only needs to be seen this week, both work with no account; dochost’s free link lasts 7 days and its free size limit is 1 MB.
How much do ship.page and dochost cost for a permanent link?
ship.page Pro is $4 a month and makes drops never expire. dochost Pro is $7 a month or $59 a year and makes links permanent, with a custom slug and password protection. ship.page also lists a Team plan at $19 a month and dochost a Max plan at $16 a month.
Can ship.page host a Markdown file as a web page?
Its pricing and HTML-to-link pages describe HTML, ZIP and folder uploads and say files are served byte for byte; Markdown rendering is not mentioned. dochost renders Markdown (GitHub-flavoured, with tables, code blocks and Mermaid diagrams) into a styled page at a link.
Can an AI assistant publish to ship.page or dochost directly?
Both have a way. ship.page accepts a single curl request to its deploy endpoint with no API key, which any agent that can run a shell command can use. dochost has an anonymous publish API and a hosted MCP server, so Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor can publish, list and update pages as tools without running commands.
Where ship.page is the better choice
- Bigger free uploads. 10 MB for one HTML file and 25 MB for a ZIP, against 1 MB per page on dochost Free.
- Multi-file sites. A ZIP or a whole folder deploys as one site, and absolute paths like /app.js work. dochost publishes one self-contained page.
- Longer free links. 30 days, or 90 with a free account, against 7 days.
- A cheaper permanent plan. $4 a month against $7 a month ($59 a year) for dochost Pro.
- Deploys from a terminal or CI. One curl command with no key, and a GitHub Action.
Where dochost is the better choice
- Markdown. Paste Markdown and get a styled page, not a text file.
- Publishing from an AI assistant. The hosted MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor publish, read back and update pages as tools. See the MCP setup.
- Your own domain. Max serves pages from a hostname you own; ship.page’s top plan offers a vanity subdomain of shipped.run.
Sources
Checked on 21 October 2026:
- ship.page pricing and limits by plan
- ship.page HTML to link
- ship.page terms of service
- dochost pricing
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Keep your links forever
Free public pages initially last 7 days; private pages last 3 days. Paid plans support permanent links; trial expiry rules differ.
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