Comparison
host0 vs here.now: apps your teammates sign in to and edit together
host0 vs here.now: both host what your agent makes. host0 apps start private and let invited teammates edit shared data; here.now has more features today.
Checked Oct 28, 2026Sources
The short answer
Choose host0 if your agent built a small app your team should sign in to and edit together, with rules for who can read and who can change the data, or if what you share should stay private and out of search until you say so. Choose here.now if you want a link without making an account, a custom domain or a server-side API key for your page today, free team workspaces, or a large free plan. Free plan, no card. Pro is $19 a month.
Choose host0 if
Recommended- Your agent built a team tool — a todo list, a tracker, a sign-up sheet — and invited teammates should edit it while everyone else only reads.
- You want each person's records to be their own, like a habit tracker anyone can use from one URL, or to see who wrote each record.
- What you share should be private until you open it, and stay out of search unless you make it public on the web.
- You publish from claude.ai or another chat sandbox and don't want an email code pasted into the chat: device login is approved in your own browser.
- You want to manage apps from Claude through an MCP server, or from a terminal with a CLI.
Choose here.now if
- You want a link before you make an account: an anonymous site lasts 24 hours, and a claim link keeps it.
- You need a custom domain today, or want to buy one from inside the product.
- Your page calls an AI model or another API with your key, which proxy routes keep on the server.
- Your team wants a free shared workspace with roles, members-only sites and auto-join by email domain.
- You want a large free plan (10 GB, files up to 5 GB) or private Drives for your agent's files.
At a glance
Which one fits depends on what you're sharing: each row marks the one that's ahead.
Better: Records with rules per action for viewers, invited members, the owner, each record's creator or a list of emails. The page knows who is signed in, and every record keeps its author's email.
Site Data with a richer schema. Each action is public, owner (your API key) or none; there is no rule for invited people or signed-in visitors.
Better: Private by default on every plan. Only you can open a new link until you invite people, open it to anyone with the link, or make it public.
Personal sites start open to anyone with the link; a password, invited emails or only you are free options. Workspace sites start members-only.
Invite people to each app by email; they sign in with an email code or Google, and removing someone cuts access on their next request. No team workspaces yet.
Better: Invite emails or a whole email domain, or set a password. Free workspaces of up to 50 members with roles and auto-join by domain.
Better: Never indexed unless you make an app public on the web. A link anyone can open stays out of search.
Gated sites are noindex. Sites open to anyone with the link are served without a noindex header, so search engines can index them.
An account first, by email code or Google. Every link has an owner from the first deploy.
Better: No account needed: an anonymous site lasts 24 hours and comes with a claim link to keep it.
A skill and a CLI publish from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex or any agent with a shell; an MCP server manages apps. Device login: nothing personal typed into the chat.
A skill, a REST API with an OpenAPI spec and a Stripe Projects provider. No MCP server or official CLI; the agent signs in with a code from your email.
Sites and folders, HTML, PDFs, images, video, audio, Markdown and text, with a viewer for files opened on their own.
Sites and folders, a viewer for single images, PDFs, video and audio, and WebAssembly apps. Files up to 5 GB.
3 MB per file and 500 MB in total. 10,000 visits a month (a soft limit: it never blocks).
Better: 10 GB of storage, 500 sites, files up to 5 GB and one custom domain.
Every deploy is a numbered version; restore any one in a click. 30 days of version history on Pro, the live version on Free.
Better: Every publish is a version on every plan: preview, restore or delete any of them.
Cookieless analytics on every app: total visits on Free, full analytics (full, 90 days) on Pro.
Better: Built-in analytics on every plan: views, estimated visitors, top paths, referrers, countries, crawlers and 404s.
Not yet. Custom domains are coming to Pro.
Better: One custom domain on Free, 5 on Hobby, 20 on Developer; domains can be bought inside here.now at the registrar's price.
Not yet: a page can't call an API with a key kept on the server. A secrets proxy and server code are on the roadmap.
Better: Proxy routes: the page calls a relative path and here.now adds your stored key on the server, streaming included. No server code.
Free plan with private links, email invites and shared data. Pro is $19 a month or $190 a year.
Free plan. Hobby is $4 a month and Developer $20 a month, for more storage, domains, Drives and vanity URLs. Workspaces are free.
here.now is hosting built for agents: tell your agent to publish and it gets a link on a here.now subdomain. It has grown into a broad platform — access control, free team workspaces, custom domains and a domain registrar, analytics, version history, Site Data for records, proxy routes for API keys, Drives for agent files and an AI editor in the dashboard. Its homepage says it powers more than 500,000 sites.
host0 covers the same last step for whatever your agent made, with fewer features and a narrower focus: small apps a team uses together. Both can store records from a static page; the difference is who the records know about. On here.now each action is open to the public, to the owner's API key, or to nobody. On host0 an app's invite list is also its data's member list: the teammates you invite sign in as themselves, can edit while other visitors only read, and every record carries the email of whoever wrote it.
Apps your team edits together
host0Better
On host0 the agent declares collections in an h0.json file, and the page reads and writes them on its own URL — no server code and no key in the page. Each action (read, create, update, delete) goes to an audience: viewers (anyone the app lets in), members (you plus the people you invited by email), the owner, each record's creator, or a list of emails. By default anyone the app admits can read and add, and only members can change or delete.
Identity comes from the sign-in. The page can ask who is visiting, and every record carries the email of the person who wrote it. So a team todo list can stay open to anyone with the link while only invited teammates tick items off, and removing someone from the invite list stops their edits on their next request. Updates arrive by polling — there's no live push yet — and the owner can export any collection as JSON.
here.now
here.now's Site Data has the richer schema: nine field types including url, email, datetime and arrays, cursor pagination, idempotency keys for retried submits, per-IP rate limits you can set per collection, and a database view in the dashboard.
Its access rules are simpler. Each action is public, owner or none, and owner means the account's API key or dashboard. Public edits and deletes need a second opt-in, after which anyone who can open the page can make them. The docs describe no rule for invited people or signed-in visitors, so a page where your teammates edit and everyone else reads isn't something the manifest can say.
Who can open the link
host0Better
A new app on host0 is private: anyone but you lands on a sign-in page. When it's ready, invite people by email, open it to anyone with the link (unlisted, never indexed), or make it public on the web so search engines can find it. Every option is on every plan.
There are no shared passwords: people sign in with a one-time email code or Google, and removing one person changes nothing for the rest. There are no team workspaces yet — sharing is per app.
here.now
A personal here.now site starts open to anyone with the link. From there it can take a shared password, an allowlist of emails or whole email domains (visitors confirm with Google or an email link), or only you — all on the free plan. Changing a site's access invalidates older grants.
Workspaces are here.now's team answer, and they're free: up to 50 members, admin and member roles, auto-join by email domain, and sites that start visible to members only. Gated sites stay out of search; sites open to anyone with the link are served without a noindex header.
Publishing from your agent
host0
Give your agent the host0 skill or CLI and say "deploy to host0". With no key yet, the agent shows a link and a short code; you approve it in your own browser and the agent receives its key, so no email address or code passes through the chat. Redeploys upload only the files that changed, and an app's files can be pulled back down to keep working from another chat.
There's no anonymous publishing: every link has an owner from the first deploy. An MCP server lets Claude list, share, rename, restore and delete apps, while deploying stays with the skill and the CLI.
here.now
here.now's skill installs with npx skills add or a curl script, and its REST API is described by an OpenAPI spec; it's also a provider in Stripe Projects. It doesn't advertise an MCP server or an official CLI.
Its shortest path needs no account at all: an anonymous site lives for 24 hours and comes with a claim link. To keep sites, the agent asks for your email, here.now sends a code, and you paste it back into the chat to get an API key.
Secrets, domains and storage
host0
host0 hosts files and records and stops there for now. There are no custom domains yet (they're coming to Pro), no way for a page to use an API key kept on the server, and no server code. A secrets proxy and server code are on the roadmap.
here.nowBetter
here.now is well ahead here. Proxy routes let a page call a relative path while here.now adds a stored key on the server, with streaming responses — enough for an AI chat page with no backend. Custom domains start on the free plan, and domains can be bought inside the product at the registrar's price.
It also has Drives (private cloud folders for agent files and hand-offs between agents), WebAssembly hosting with cross-origin isolation, and an editor agent in the dashboard paid for with credits.
Price and the free plan
host0
host0 has a free plan with no card: private links, email invites, shared data and analytics totals, with a small "Hosted on host0" badge. Pro is $19 a month or $190 a year and removes the badge, raises the limits to 50 MB per file and 10 GB, and keeps 30 days of version history.
here.now
here.now's free plan is generous: 10 GB of storage, 500 sites, files up to 5 GB, one custom domain, one Drive, analytics and version history. Hobby ($4 a month) and Developer ($20 a month) add storage (500 GB and 2 TB), more domains and Drives, and vanity URLs. Each workspace is free with its own 10 GB and 500 sites.
Questions
Is host0 a here.now alternative?
For apps a team uses together, yes. Both host what your agent makes; host0 starts private and lets invited teammates sign in and edit shared data while other visitors only read. here.now has more features today — anonymous publishing, custom domains, proxy routes for API keys, free workspaces and a bigger free plan.
Can teammates edit the data in a here.now site?
Site Data rules are public, owner or none per action. With public edits turned on, anyone who can open the page can change records; owner means your API key or dashboard. The docs don't describe a rule that lets only invited people edit, which is what host0's members audience does.
Can my agent publish to host0 without an account?
No. Every link on host0 has an owner, so the first publish starts a device login: the agent shows a link and a short code, and you approve it in your browser. here.now allows anonymous sites that last 24 hours unless you claim them.
Are my sites indexed by search engines?
On host0, only if you make an app public on the web; private apps and links anyone can open are always noindex. On here.now, gated sites are noindex and sites open to anyone with the link are served without a noindex header.
Does host0 support custom domains?
Not yet; they're coming to the Pro plan. Today every app lives on its own address on host0.app. here.now includes one custom domain on its free plan.
Can I move a site from here.now to host0?
Yes for the files: ask your agent to deploy the same folder to host0, or drop it on the dashboard. A Site Data manifest has to be rewritten as an h0.json, and existing records don't move over by themselves. The link starts private; share it or open it when you're ready.
Sources
Checked on Oct 28, 2026. Products change — if something here is out of date, tell us at support@host0.ai and we'll fix it.
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