The GitHub Pages alternative that works for your whole company
GitHub Pages private repos require Enterprise Cloud at $21/user/month – and every viewer needs a GitHub account. display.dev gives your entire company access to internal HTML content for $49/month flat. No GitHub account required.
display.dev vs. GitHub Pages
| display.dev | GitHub Pages (private access) | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost for 100 internal viewers | ✓ $49 flat; no viewer seats | Up to $2,100/mo if viewers need Enterprise licenses† |
| Viewer access | ✓ Company SSO or verified work email; no GitHub account | GitHub account with read access to the publishing repo |
| Publishing model | ✓ Publish an artifact: dsp publish ./file.html | Publish a repo-backed site: create repo, commit, wait for Pages deploy |
| Non-developer publishing | ✓ Drag-and-drop, MCP, or CLI | Possible via GitHub UI, but still requires repo permissions and commits |
| Viewer audit trail | ✓ Built-in: viewer, time, artifact, version | No per-viewer artifact trail (repo admin audit logs are separate) |
| Best fit | AI-generated artifacts for non-engineer viewers | Websites hosted directly from a GitHub repo – project pages, blogs, docs |
<small>† GitHub Enterprise Cloud: $21/user/mo list price. GitHub bills Enterprise Cloud for org members and outside collaborators on private/internal repos. If viewers already have Enterprise access, incremental cost may be lower.</small>
The GitHub Pages pricing wall
Public GitHub Pages: free. Anyone can view. Fine for open source – wrong for internal content.
Private GitHub Pages: GitHub Enterprise Cloud only. $21/user/month per viewer. 100 viewers = $2,100/month. And every single viewer needs a GitHub account.
Your PM doesn't have a GitHub account. Your VP doesn't need one. Your legal team shouldn't be onboarded to your GitHub org to read an architecture proposal.
When GitHub Pages still makes sense
Your entire audience has GitHub accounts, your content is public, or you're already on Enterprise Cloud with the cost absorbed. Open source documentation is the canonical use case.
When to use display.dev
Any viewer without GitHub access. Any content that shouldn't be public. Any team that doesn't want to pay $2,100/month for 100 viewers.
Pricing
Try it. No credit card.
- Included: 10 gated artifacts
- Included: Unlimited public artifacts*
- Included: 50MB storage
- Not included: Version history
- Not included: Google + Microsoft SSO
- Not included: Private artifacts
- Not included: Audit logs
display.dev branded
Individuals. Unlimited gated sharing.
- Included: Unlimited gated artifacts
- Included: Unlimited public artifacts
- Included: 1GB storage
- Included: 10 versions
- Not included: Google + Microsoft SSO
- Not included: Private artifacts
- Not included: Audit logs
For teams that need company auth.
- Included: Unlimited gated artifacts
- Included: Unlimited public artifacts
- Included: 25GB storage
- Included: 50 versions
- Included: Google + Microsoft SSO
- Included: Private artifacts
- Included: 90 days audit logs
For compliance-driven organizations.
From $499/mo
- Included: Unlimited gated artifacts
- Included: Unlimited public artifacts
- Included: Custom storage
- Included: Unlimited versions
- Included: Google + Microsoft SSO
- Included: Private artifacts
- Included: 365 days audit logs
Try display.dev free
- $49/month – not $2,100/month for 100 viewers
- No GitHub account required for anyone who views your content
- First artifact in 15 seconds · No credit card
Features
Viewers click a link and sign in with their Google or Microsoft account, or a one-time password. No app to install. No account to create. No IT ticket.
Inline comments on every artifact. Your agent reads them via MCP, fetches the current version, republishes with short_id and base_version, and resolves the thread. The artifact stays a living document, not a one-shot screenshot.
dsp publish ./file.html from your terminal, or one sentence in Claude Desktop. No git repo, no deploy pipeline, no project to configure.
Every artifact gets a URL that keeps working. Share in Slack, link in Notion, paste in email. It still works six months later.
No per-seat pricing at any tier. Share with your PM, exec, legal team, or designer for the same flat price.
Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor all work, along with anything else that creates HTML or Markdown output.
Common questions.
Can I use GitHub Pages public for internal content with a long, hard-to-guess URL?
No. A publicly accessible URL forwarded once reaches anyone the viewer sends it to. "Security through obscurity" doesn't satisfy access control requirements.
Does GitHub offer a cheaper option for private Pages?
No. GitHub Team ($4/user) does not include private repo Pages. Enterprise Cloud ($21/user) is required.
What if I already push to GitHub Pages for public docs and just need auth for some content?
Use GitHub Pages for public docs and display.dev for internal artifacts. They're complementary – different jobs.
Publish your first artifact in 15 seconds.
Free tier. No credit card. One-time password auth on free, Google + Microsoft SSO on Teams ($49/month flat).