Glitch alternatives after project hosting ended: where your project goes now
Quick answer
Glitch no longer hosts projects: its May 22, 2025 post says “On July 8, 2025 Glitch project hosting and user profiles will be shut down,” and on November 1, 2026 glitch.com redirects to its blog. A static project moves to a static host; a Node.js server needs one such as Render, Railway, or Fly.io.
Free plan: no credit card, 1 published page, 50 form entries a month shown.
On this page
- What happened to Glitch, and what's left
- Getting your Glitch project's code back
- Is your Glitch project static or a Node.js server?
- Static Glitch projects: hosts compared
- Node.js Glitch projects: hosts compared on free tier and sleep
- Which host for which Glitch project
- The static case on Convika
- Frequently asked questions
- Sources
Glitch no longer hosts projects. Its announcement of May 22, 2025 says “On July 8, 2025 Glitch project hosting and user profiles will be shut down.” On November 1, 2026, glitch.com and every address under it, the dashboard and the editor included, redirect to blog.glitch.com. A project address such as hello-webpage.glitch.me answers with HTTP 410 and “Glitch project hosting is no longer available.”
Where your project goes depends on what it is: a static site of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files, or a Node.js server. This page covers what Glitch said and what's left of it, getting your code back, and hosts for each kind of project, with their free tiers side by side.
Glitch's blog and glitch.com were read on November 1, 2026, between 15:11 and 15:12 JST, Glitch's asset hosts and mail record at 15:56 JST, and each alternative's own pricing page and docs the same day, between 15:13 and 15:26 JST. A page's own date is given where it has one. Prices are in US dollars.
What happened to Glitch, and what's left
| Date | What Glitch said or did | Source |
|---|---|---|
| May 22, 2025 | Announced the end of project hosting and user profiles. The dashboard, with “access to download all of your code for your projects,” stays “through the end of 2025.” New Glitch Pro subscriptions stop at once; current ones are honored until July 8, with refunds for unused time | Important changes are coming to Glitch |
| May 22, 2025 | Redirects for project subdomains: “Make sure your redirects are set up before December 31, 2025. (We'll make sure they stay active at least through the end of 2026.)” | The same post |
| July 8, 2025 | Project hosting and user profiles shut down | The same post |
| July 23, 2025 | “Glitch users can still access their project dashboards to download projects or set project redirects until the beginning of 2026.” | Until we meet again |
| November 1, 2026 | glitch.com, glitch.com/dashboard, and glitch.com/edit/ answer with a 307 redirect to blog.glitch.com; hello-webpage.glitch.me answers 410; support.glitch.com and help.glitch.com don't connect; the asset hosts cdn.glitch.global and cdn.glitch.com don't resolve, and cdn.glitch.me answers 410 | Checked with curl and dig, 15:11 to 15:56 JST |
What's left is the blog, and its newest post is the team's goodbye of July 23, 2025. Glitch promised the redirects “at least through the end of 2026” and says nothing about after. If a link, a bookmark, or a printed QR code still points at a glitch.me address, change it to the new one before the end of 2026.
Glitch's own announcement named the platforms it pointed people to: “platforms like Fly.io, Deno, GitHub Pages, Val Town, Netlify, Digital Ocean, and so many more.”
Getting your Glitch project's code back
Glitch's download window has closed. Downloads were in the project dashboard “until the beginning of 2026,” per Glitch's July 23, 2025 post, and on November 1, 2026 glitch.com/dashboard redirects to the blog. Glitch's blog names no other way to get code out. The migration guide the May 2025 post said Glitch was “working on preparing” isn't among its posts, and the forum it pointed to, support.glitch.com, doesn't connect. The same post named support@glitch.com, but glitch.com publishes no mail server (MX) record.
Where a copy may still be:
- Your own computer or Git host. A download you made in 2025, or a repository you pushed the project to.
- The Wayback Machine, for a public page. The Internet Archive keeps pages as visitors saw them. For
hello-webpage.glitch.me, its availability API returns a copy saved on July 5, 2025, 3 days before Glitch's hosting ended. Openhttps://web.archive.org/web/2025/https://yourproject.glitch.me/, with your project's name, to land on the nearest 2025 copy, then save the page and the files it loads.
A Node.js server's code, such as server.js and package.json, is only in the copies you made. The Wayback Machine saw what the server sent to browsers, not the code that ran it.
Files from Glitch's assets panel need the same rescue. Images and sounds a project loaded from cdn.glitch.global or cdn.glitch.com break on any new host: neither address resolves any more, and cdn.glitch.me answers 410 (checked 2026-11-01). Take those files from your own download or the Wayback copy and host them again. On Convika, that means a full https:// link to where you put them, or, for a small image, the file written into the HTML as a data: URL.
Is your Glitch project static or a Node.js server?
Look at the files.
- Static: an
index.htmlwith.css,.js, and image files, and nopackage.jsonthat starts a server. Any static host serves it as it is. - Node.js server: a
package.jsonwhosestartscript runs a file such asserver.jsthat callslisten. It needs a host that runs a process. - Both: a server that also sends a folder of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Its front end can go to a static host only if it calls the server by its full address and the server allows requests from another origin (CORS). Otherwise keep the two together on a Node.js host.
Static Glitch projects: hosts compared
| Host | Free plan | Custom domain on free | Form that keeps entries | What to know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netlify Free | 300 credits a month: 15 per production deploy, 20 per GB of bandwidth (pricing) | Yes, with SSL (pricing) | Yes: “free and unlimited for all credit-based plans” (credits) | Every project pauses when the credits run out (Is Netlify free?); on Glitch's list |
| Cloudflare Pages or Drop | “Requests to static assets are free and unlimited” (billing); up to 20,000 files of up to 25 MiB (limits) | Yes, up to 100 per Pages project (limits) | No; the Static Forms plugin hands each entry to code you write (Static Forms) | Drop takes a folder, a .zip, or a single .html file with no account; claim it within 60 minutes (Drop) |
| GitHub Pages | A published site up to 1 GB, with a soft limit of 100 GB of bandwidth a month (limits) | Yes, a subdomain or an apex domain (custom domains) | No; Pages is “a static site hosting service” (about) | On GitHub Free the repository must be public, and Pages isn't for “your online business, e-commerce site,” or SaaS (limits); on Glitch's list |
| Neocities Free | 1 GB of storage and 200 GB of bandwidth a month, a soft limit (supporter page) | No; Supporter, $5 a month (supporter page) | No; “free static web hosting” (home page) | No .zip, audio, video, or .wasm files on Free (Neocities free plan) |
| Render static sites | “Static sites are free to deploy on Render,” within the Hobby workspace's 5 GB of bandwidth a month (Deploy for Free, pricing) | Yes; “Custom domains” is on Hobby (pricing) | No form feature in Render's static site docs (static sites) | Useful when the project's Node.js server also moves to Render |
| Convika Free | 1 published page: 1 .html file of up to 2 MB, or pasted code; 10,000 page views a month | 1 subdomain, such as www | Yes, 50 entries a month shown, with CSV export and an email for each; later ones are kept for Pro | A small Convika bar on Free; each page one HTML file at its own path, with no server of its own |
Node.js Glitch projects: hosts compared on free tier and sleep
| Host | Free tier today | When the app sleeps | When the free amount runs out | Cheapest paid option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Render | 750 free instance hours a month per workspace; Render says “Do not use them for production applications” (Deploy for Free) | After 15 minutes without traffic; waking “takes about one minute” (Deploy for Free) | “Render suspends all of your Free web services until the start of the next month” (Deploy for Free) | A paid web service, from $7 a month, without the free instance's spin-down (pricing, Deploy for Free) |
| Railway | A 30-day trial with a one-time $5, then the Free plan's “$1 of free credit per month” (free trial) | Only with Serverless turned on: a service with no outbound traffic “is considered inactive after 5 minutes” (Serverless) | Services stop: “Trial credits exhausted … Consider upgrading to a paid plan” (pricing FAQs) | Hobby, $5 a month with $5 of usage included (plans) |
| Replit | 1 free published app on Starter (Starter plan, last modified July 29, 2026) | Replit's Starter docs don't say | “This published link will automatically go down after 30 days” (Starter plan) | Core, $20 a month (pricing) |
| Cloudflare Workers | 100,000 requests a day and 10 ms of CPU time per request; static asset requests free and unlimited (pricing, updated October 2, 2026) | Cloudflare's docs don't describe a sleep; a Worker runs on each request | Past 100,000 requests in a UTC day, “Cloudflare returns Error 1027” (limits, updated October 29, 2026) | Workers Paid, from $5 a month (pricing) |
| Fly.io | No free plan: a trial of “2 hours of machine runtime or 7 days of access, whichever comes first” (free trial, updated October 15, 2026) | Trial machines “automatically stop after running for 5 minutes” (free trial) | “Your apps will stop running” until you add a payment method (free trial) | Pay as you go; a shared-cpu-1x machine with 256 MB costs $2.19 a month running all the time in Fly.io's “lowest-priced regions” (pricing docs, updated October 30, 2026) |
| Deno Deploy | Free: 1 million requests and 20 GiB of egress a month, 5 custom domains, “For personal use and smaller projects” (pricing) | On every plan: “Idle apps automatically shut down after ~20-30 seconds” (pricing) | Deno's pricing page lists no overage rate for Free, only for Pro and up | Pro, $20 a month, for more requests and egress; idle apps still shut down (pricing) |
The pages Is Render free for production?, Railway free plan commercial use, and Is Replit free for hosting a website? go through those 3 hosts' rules in full. Cloudflare's Node.js compatibility docs, updated August 12, 2026, say “Cloudflare Workers provides a subset of Node.js APIs,” so check that your packages run there before you move an Express app.
Which host for which Glitch project
- A static site you edit often: Netlify Free or Cloudflare Pages. GitHub Pages if you keep the files in Git, within its rules on commercial use.
- A hand-made personal site with no bar or ads: Neocities Free.
- One HTML page with a signup or contact form, and visitor stats: Convika's Free plan.
- A small Express app or a bot that people use now and then: Render's free web service, which sleeps after 15 minutes and wakes in about a minute.
- A Node.js app that must answer at once all day: a paid Render web service from $7 a month, Railway Hobby at $5 a month with $5 of usage included, or Fly.io, paid as you go.
- An API or webhook handler with short requests: Cloudflare Workers or Deno Deploy on their free plans, once your packages run there.
- A demo you'll show for a few weeks: Replit's free published app, which goes down after 30 days.
The static case on Convika
Convika hosts landing pages, one HTML page each, with the form and the visitor stats built in. A Glitch project that was one index.html, with its CSS and JavaScript inside the file or loaded from https:// addresses that still work, can move as it is. Images and sounds from Glitch's assets panel can't: host them again first, as Getting your Glitch project's code back describes. If the CSS and JavaScript are separate style.css and script.js files, ask ChatGPT or Claude to put them inside index.html first.
- Upload or paste. Click Upload an HTML file in the dashboard, up to 2 MB, or paste the code. Click Publish page, choose Public, then Next; the first time, click Publish free.
- A form with no server. If your Glitch server only saved what a form sent, Add a form to my page does that job: Convika stores each entry, emails it to you, and exports a CSV. Free shows 50 entries a month and keeps later ones for Pro.
- The same address after each change. Upload the new file under Update from an HTML file and publish that version. The link and any QR code keep working; How to update an AI-made page without changing its URL has the steps.
- Visitor stats. You get visits, referrers, UTM campaigns, devices, countries, and button clicks for 90 days.
- Your own subdomain. The page can go on 1 custom subdomain, such as
www.yourbrand.com.
Free includes 1 published page and 10,000 page views a month, with a small Convika bar at the bottom. Once your pages reach 10,000 in a month, editing and analytics pause, and 7 days later the pages stop until the month ends or you upgrade. This applies from sign-up to a workspace created on or after October 23, 2026 (Japan time), and from November 1, 2026 to one created before then. Pro removes the bar and costs $12 a month.
What Convika can't take: a Node.js server, or a site built from a folder of files. A Convika page's scripts and libraries from an https:// CDN run on every plan, and images go in by full https:// link. On Free, a script's fetch and XHR requests reach only the page's own address; on Pro and MAX, they also reach the analytics tools Convika supports and up to 20 hosts you list for your own ad network in the page's settings. So on Free, a front end that calls its own API at another address won't reach it; that project goes, with its server, to the hosts in the tables above.
Drop the .html file right below or paste its code to see your page on Convika before signing up. You get a private preview link that works for 3 minutes, with the page's scripts and forms off until you keep it with a free account. The same box is on the free HTML publishing tool.
Frequently asked questions
Is Glitch shutting down?
Yes, Glitch shut down project hosting and user profiles on July 8, 2025, as its May 22, 2025 announcement said it would. Downloads and redirects stayed in the dashboard until the beginning of 2026. On November 1, 2026, glitch.com redirects to the Glitch blog.
Does Glitch still work?
No, Glitch no longer runs projects. A project address such as hello-webpage.glitch.me answers with HTTP 410 and “Glitch project hosting is no longer available,” and glitch.com, the dashboard, and the editor all redirect to blog.glitch.com. Glitch said redirects set up before December 31, 2025 would “stay active at least through the end of 2026”; this page didn't test one.
What is the best free alternative to Glitch?
The best free alternative depends on the project. For a static site, Netlify Free stores form entries within 300 credits a month, Cloudflare Pages serves static files with no cap on requests, and Neocities suits a hand-made personal site. For a Node.js server, Render's free web service runs it at no cost but sleeps after 15 minutes without traffic. For one HTML page with a form and visitor stats, Convika's Free plan includes both, with a small Convika bar.
Can I still download my Glitch project?
No, not from Glitch. Glitch's July 23, 2025 post kept downloads in the dashboard “until the beginning of 2026,” and the dashboard now redirects to the blog. Look for a download you made earlier or a Git repository you pushed to. For a public static page, the Wayback Machine may have a copy of what visitors saw. Images and sounds from Glitch's assets panel have to come from those same copies, because Glitch's asset addresses no longer serve them.
Do my glitch.me links still work?
No, a glitch.me address answers with HTTP 410 unless you set up a redirect. Glitch asked for redirects to be set up before December 31, 2025, and said “We'll make sure they stay active at least through the end of 2026.” Update links and QR codes to the new address before then.
Is there a free Glitch alternative for Node.js?
Yes, several hosts run Node.js for free with limits. Render's free web services get 750 instance hours a month and sleep after 15 minutes without traffic. Railway gives a 30-day trial with $5, then $1 of credit a month. Cloudflare Workers allows 100,000 requests a day on a subset of Node.js APIs, and Deno Deploy's free plan allows 1 million requests a month. Fly.io has only a trial.
Is there a Glitch alternative that doesn't sleep?
Yes. Cloudflare's docs describe no sleep for Workers, even on the free plan: a Worker runs on each request, up to 100,000 requests a day. Railway services sleep only when Serverless is turned on, and Hobby costs $5 a month with $5 of usage included. A paid Render web service, from $7 a month, has none of the free instance's spin-down. Render's free web services sleep after 15 minutes without traffic, and Deno Deploy shuts idle apps down after about 20 to 30 seconds on every plan.
Where can I host a static Glitch site for free?
Netlify Free, Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Pages, Neocities, and Render all host static files for free. Netlify Free also stores form entries, within 300 credits a month. Convika takes a project that is one HTML file and adds a form that keeps entries. Both GitHub Pages on GitHub Free and Neocities Free have rules to check first: a public repository, and an allowed list of file types.
What did Glitch recommend instead?
Glitch's May 22, 2025 announcement named “platforms like Fly.io, Deno, GitHub Pages, Val Town, Netlify, Digital Ocean, and so many more.” It also promised a guide to moving projects, which doesn't appear among the posts on its blog as of November 1, 2026.
Is Glitch Pro still available?
No, Glitch stopped new Glitch Pro subscriptions on May 22, 2025. Current subscriptions were honored until July 8, 2025, and Glitch said it would refund unused time.
Sources
Every page below was read on November 1, 2026, between 15:11 and 15:56 JST.
- Glitch: Important changes are coming to Glitch, by Anil Dash, May 22, 2025 (read 2026-11-01)
- Glitch: Until we meet again, July 23, 2025 (read 2026-11-01)
- glitch.com, glitch.com/dashboard, glitch.com/edit/, and
hello-webpage.glitch.me, opened with curl (read 2026-11-01, 15:11 to 15:12 JST) - Wayback Machine availability API, copy of July 5, 2025 (read 2026-11-01)
- Render: Deploy for Free, static sites, and pricing (read 2026-11-01)
- Railway: free trial, plans, Serverless, and pricing FAQs (read 2026-11-01)
- Replit: Starter plan, last modified July 29, 2026, and pricing (read 2026-11-01)
- Cloudflare Workers pricing, updated October 2, 2026; limits, updated October 29, 2026; Node.js compatibility, updated August 12, 2026 (read 2026-11-01)
- Cloudflare Pages limits, static assets billing, Static Forms, and Cloudflare Drop (read 2026-11-01)
- Fly.io free trial, updated October 15, 2026, and pricing docs, updated October 30, 2026 (read 2026-11-01)
- Deno Deploy pricing (read 2026-11-01)
- Netlify pricing and how credits work (read 2026-11-01)
- GitHub Pages limits, what GitHub Pages is, and custom domains (read 2026-11-01)
- Neocities: Become a Supporter and home page (read 2026-11-01)
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