A lot of "free" instant-publish tools have a catch that only shows up after you have shared the link: the free tier keeps the site up for a few days rather than indefinitely.
Birta's free tier does not work that way. A published site stays at its address as long as you want it there, with no countdown, and it gets there the way anything gets onto Birta: you ask an agent to publish it.
Older shared-hosting providers often advertise "no expiration" as a selling point. The pattern shows up in a newer category instead, the instant no-signup publish tools you would reach for to share a quick static site or a prototype, where several products expire the free tier on purpose.
How a site gets onto the free tier in the first place
There is no separate upload step. You describe the site in Birta's chat and its agent builds and publishes it, or you ask the agent you already use, a coding tool like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex, or a plain chat like ChatGPT, and Birta is where it lands.
Changes work the same way: tell the agent what to change, it edits the site and publishes again, with no dashboard step in between. If you are piecing a page together by hand, the file-level mechanics are the same ones any static host needs.
One case to check before moving anything: a site built in Lovable already has free hosting where it is, so the question is whether the project can leave at all, which the Lovable hosting guide answers first. Same for anything written in Notion, whose free plan already publishes unlimited indexable sites, so the honest comparison there starts by telling most readers to stay put.
What actually happens when you stop paying (or never do)
Birta's free plan includes your own domain, lead forms, comments and versions. It has limits on projects and space, and the "made in Birta" mark stays on; removing it and working with a team in one project are part of Team. If the site is a coming-soon page collecting a waitlist, check the panel, because signups pile up while nobody is looking.
Some free tools match Birta on the domain: a free Google Sites page connects a domain you already own at no cost too, and the comparison says so before it claims anything. Others have no free tier at all: InstaPods starts at $3 a month, though an assistant deploying for someone with no card still gets a real pod for 90 minutes.
What Birta does not limit is time. A site published on the free tier stays published, and if a Team plan lapses, whatever you already published keeps working at its standard address. The plan change blocks new publishing beyond the free tier's limits; it does not take down the live site.
Some competitors expire the free-tier link on purpose
Three tools in the instant-publish category say this outright on their own pricing pages. We checked each one directly, confirmed the wording twice, and checked again live as of 2026-09-03:
| Tool | Free tier | Paid tier |
|---|---|---|
| dplooy | "3-day link expiration" | Plus/Pro: "Links never expire" |
| OneClickLive | "7-day project retention" | Pro: "Projects never expire" |
| static.run | Site stays online only if you log in at least once every 90 days | No stated retention limit |
dplooy and OneClickLive run the same model: a fixed countdown on the free tier, removed by paying. static.run works differently, with no fixed expiry date but a free site that depends on the owner logging back in periodically, which is a quieter version of the same condition. Check each vendor's pricing page before deciding, because these terms change.
A countdown is not the only way a free link comes with a condition. Netlify Drop expires nothing on a published schedule, but a drop made without signing in arrives password-protected until you claim it, so the free link is gated rather than timed.
The worry is not specific to those tools either. It is the general case for any quick-share link, whatever built the page. For a fuller side-by-side against a tool in the same category, see Tiiny Host, HTML Pub or Static.app.
Comments and guest review work on the free tier too
Birta's free tier is not just "the site stays up." Two collaboration features that are often a paid add-on elsewhere are included at every tier:
- Comments attach to a specific spot on the page, on a specific version. "Move this button" points at the actual button instead of a paragraph your agent has to decode.
- Reviewers need no account. You choose, per project, whether a link is restricted to people you granted access to or open to anyone holding it. A guest opening a link-mode version gets the site and a comment thread immediately, with an auto-assigned nickname. They can open threads, reply, and edit or delete their own messages. They cannot resolve a thread, and they cannot see the panel, other versions, leads or stats.
The agent reads what a guest leaves, edits the page, replies in the thread and closes it with a note on what changed.
None of this is gated by plan, and none of it counts against any plan's limits.
Publish something for free and see the address stay live
Describe it in Birta's chat and its agent builds and publishes it, or connect the agent you already use. There's no countdown attached to the link.