A DocSend alternative for the HTML your AI makes
DocSend is the standard for tracking PDFs and pitch decks, with page-by-page reading time, data rooms and NDAs. What it can’t do is host the interactive thing — the site, dashboard or proposal your AI built — so it has to be flattened to a PDF or hosted somewhere else. QuickHost hosts it and tracks it, at one price for the team.
Checked 17 September 2026 against DocSend’s own pricing and documentation — sources.
At a glance
How does QuickHost compare to DocSend?
DocSend tracks documents, priced mostly per person. QuickHost hosts and tracks the interactive HTML your AI makes, as well as PDFs, at one price for the workspace.
| What you need | DocSend | QuickHost |
|---|---|---|
| Publish without a repo or a build step | YesUpload a document | YesDrag and drop, the qh CLI, or your agent |
| Multi-file sites — CSS, JS, images, sub-pages | NoCan only track a link to a site hosted elsewhere | YesA zip or a folder, served as uploaded |
| PDFs, spreadsheets, markdown and video, each in a viewer | PartlyPDFs, Office and Google files; spreadsheets download only | YesPDF, markdown, CSV, JSON, images and video |
| A password on the link | YesEvery plan | YesOn every plan, including the $8 one |
| A separate link per recipient, revocable on its own | YesSeparate links, each switchable off | YesNamed links, each revoked on its own |
| Who opened it, per recipient | YesWho, when, and time on each page | YesOpens, first and last seen, per person |
| An expiry date on the link | YesEvery plan | YesAny project, every plan |
| Comments from your client, no account needed | PartlyA feedback form; you reply by email | YesPinned to a sentence, a PDF page or a video moment |
| Your AI agent can publish it and read the feedback | NoIt can’t host what your agent makes | YesMCP server with 17 tools, CLI and REST API |
| Nothing of the host's on your client's page | PartlyYour branding from Standard up | YesOnly the password and expiry screens name QuickHost |
| Your own domain | PartlyA branded docsend.com address | NoNot yet — links are <name>.quickhost.ing |
| A free plan | NoA 14-day trial | NoA 7-day trial, then from $8 a month |
Fair is fair
When is DocSend the better choice?
If what you send is PDFs, Word files and pitch decks, DocSend goes deeper than QuickHost on the reading itself — time spent on each page — and further on the paperwork around it: NDAs, watermarks, eSignatures and full data rooms for a fundraise or a deal.
Choose DocSend if
- Your deliverables are PDFs, Word files or slide decks
- Page-by-page reading time is the number you care about
- You need NDAs, watermarking or a data room
- Your team already works in Dropbox
Choose QuickHost if
- What you send is interactive — a site, a dashboard, a calculator
- You’d rather pay once for the team than per person
- Clients should comment on the page itself, and your agent should read it
- You publish from a terminal or an AI agent, not by uploading by hand
The difference
Where does DocSend fall short for client work?
DocSend was built around documents, and the work AI makes increasingly isn’t one. Four places that shows.
It can’t host what your AI made
DocSend tracks PDFs, Office files, Google Docs and Keynote. For a website it can only track a link to a page hosted somewhere else, with fewer link settings. An interactive proposal has to be flattened into a PDF — losing the interaction — or hosted twice.
Priced per person below the team tiers
Personal and Standard are $15 and $65 per user a month. Five people on Standard is $325 a month, or $225 billed yearly. QuickHost’s Studio plan covers five people for $39.
Feedback arrives as email
DocSend’s in-document feedback is a form beside the document, and you answer it by email. It isn’t pinned to the sentence it’s about, and nothing hands it to your AI to act on.
Built for uploading, not for agents
There’s no MCP server for Claude, Cursor or Codex to publish through, so every revision your agent makes is a manual export and re-upload.
Pricing
How does DocSend’s pricing compare?
DocSend has no free plan — a 14-day trial instead. Personal is $15 per user a month and Standard $65, or $10 and $45 billed yearly; Advanced is $250 a month for three people. QuickHost is priced per workspace: $8 a month for one person, $39 for five.
DocSend
- Personal$15/user/mo
- $10 billed yearly · password, expiry, document analytics
- Standard$65/user/mo
- $45 billed yearly · branding, video analytics
- Advanced$250/mo
- $150 billed yearly · 3 users, data rooms, NDAs, watermarks
- Advanced Data Rooms$300/mo
- $180 billed yearly · 3 users, group permissions, audit log
QuickHost
- Starter$8/mo
- 1 member · 10 active projects
- Studio$39/mo
- 5 members, flat — then $5 each ($50 a year) · 100 active projects
- Agency$79/mo
- 15 members, flat — then $5 each ($50 a year) · 500 active projects
QuickHost prices are per workspace, not per person, and the same on every page of this site. Access is invite-only while billing is being finished; these are the plans it opens with.
Switching
How do I move from DocSend to QuickHost?
Most teams don’t switch everything at once: the PDFs can stay where they are, and the interactive work — the thing DocSend couldn’t host — starts going out on QuickHost.
- 1Take the HTML or the folder your AI produced — the thing you were exporting to PDF.
- 2Drag it onto the QuickHost dashboard, run qh publish, or have your agent publish it over MCP.
- 3Create a named link for each recipient, the way you would in DocSend, and add a password or an expiry date if you use them.
- 4Send the links. Opens, and any comments, show up per person in the dashboard.
Questions
What else do people ask about DocSend and QuickHost?
The questions that come up when someone is deciding between the two, answered plainly.
Is QuickHost a DocSend alternative?
For interactive work, yes: it hosts HTML sites and apps as well as PDFs, with a password, a named link per recipient, expiry dates and a record of who opened each link. For PDF-heavy sales teams, DocSend’s page-by-page analytics, NDAs and data rooms go further.
Can DocSend host an HTML file?
No. DocSend tracks PDFs, Office files, Google Docs and Keynote, and can track a link to a website hosted somewhere else, with fewer link settings. It doesn’t host HTML itself.
Does QuickHost show page-by-page reading time like DocSend?
No. QuickHost records who opened each link, when they first and last opened it, and how many times. It doesn’t measure time spent on each page.
Can I send PDFs with QuickHost too?
Yes. A PDF opens in a built-in reader with the same password, named links, open tracking and comments as anything else — and a comment can be pinned to a specific page.
Sources
Where do these facts come from?
DocSend’s own pages, read on 17 September 2026. Prices and plans change — if anything here has gone out of date, email [email protected] and it will be corrected.