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Compared.

Poplin beside four other tools. Each cell comes from the tool's own pages.

Question	Poplinthis tool	handbill	anvilnine/artifacts	Pagecast	Birta
Where it runs	your Cloudflare account	your Cloudflare account, or hosted	a server you run	an app on your computer, publishing to Cloudflare Pages	hosted
Private pages behind a login	yes, the default	no	no; a password per page	no; a password per page	yes, for invited people
A link that is hard to guess	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes, per version
Public pages	yes	yes, self-hosted only	yes	yes	yes
Same address when access changes	yes	no	yes; a private link carries a token	a password is set or removed in place; a short public link is a new address, and the old one redirects	yes
Whole folders	yes	no; one HTML file	yes	yes	yes
A page listing your sites	yes, private	not stated; the CLI lists them	yes	yes, on your computer	yes
MCP for agents	yes, on your machine	not stated; ships an agent skill	yes, in the server	yes, on your machine	yes
Versions and rollback	yes, the last 3 by default	no	a history with git storage; rollback not stated	a deploy history; rollback not stated	yes, the last 10
Needs a domain	no	self-hosted yes; hosted no	you set the address; the default is localhost	no	no
Needs a server kept running	no	no	yes	no	no
Source code	public	public, MIT	public, MIT	public, MIT	not stated

"Not stated" means the tool's own pages do not say. Poplin's source is under the Individual and Small Organization License.

Other kinds of tool.

Hosted static hostsSurge, GitHub Pages: the host stores the files; poplin stores them in your own account
TunnelsTailscale Funnel, Cloudflare Quick Tunnels, ngrok: a tunnel exposes a program on your machine; poplin serves stored files
Self-hosted toolsSmallweb: it serves from a machine you operate; poplin runs on Cloudflare Workers