The flat-price Cloudflare Access alternative
Everything you share with Cloudflare Access,
without the per-seat bill.
Cloudflare Access charges $7/user/month above a free 50 users. For 100 viewers, that's 50 billable seats – about $350/month – and it takes 2–4 hours to set up. display.dev is €49/month for unlimited viewers. CLI, MCP, Google and Microsoft SSO included. No infrastructure to build or maintain.
The demo shows an agent publishing a doc to display.dev – from a chat or a terminal – then the team opening its URL, commenting, the agent publishing v2 at the same URL, and the doc being shared with someone outside the company.
Cursor, Codex, Claude Code – any agent that writes a file. Switch agents anytime – your URLs, versions and comments stay put.
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display.dev vs. Cloudflare Pages + Access
| display.dev | Cloudflare Pages + Access | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price (100 viewers) | €49 flat | ~$350 |
| Monthly price (200 viewers) | €49 flat | ~$1,050 |
| Per-seat pricing | ❌ | ✅ ($7/user) |
| Google SSO | ✅ Included | ✅ (separate setup) |
| Microsoft SSO | ✅ Included | ✅ (separate setup) |
| Publish CLI | ✅ | ❌ |
| MCP for Claude Desktop | ✅ | ❌ |
| Infrastructure to maintain | ❌ | ✅ |
| Setup time | 15 minutes | 2–4 hours |
| Free tier | ✅ | ✅ (50 users) |
The per-seat problem
Cloudflare Access is free for up to 50 users. After that, it's $7/user/month – regardless of how many artifacts you're hosting.
| Viewers | Cloudflare Access | display.dev |
|---|---|---|
| 50 | $0 | €49 |
| 75 | $175 | €49 |
| 100 | $350 | €49 |
| 200 | $1,050 | €49 |
| 500 | $3,150 | €49 |
Per-seat pricing creates the wrong incentive for internal sharing: every new viewer is a cost increase. Teams end up curating who gets in instead of sharing freely. That's the opposite of what internal publishing is for.
The setup problem
Cloudflare Access is an identity-aware proxy. Using it for static files means running two products together – Pages for hosting, Access for authentication – and owning the result.
display.dev takes 15 minutes to set up, and nothing to maintain after that.
- ✗A git repository firstPages projects deploy from a repo, so there's no path for a single file.
- ✗A second dashboardThe Access application, its policies and its subdomain rules live in Zero Trust, not in Pages.
- ✗Two identity providers, configured separatelyGoogle Workspace and Microsoft 365 are independent connections.
- ✗Ongoing maintenanceCert renewals, IdP credential rotation, Wrangler CLI updates. Your team owns all of it.
- ✗No publishing commandEven after 2–4 hours of setup, publishing means a git commit. Non-technical users have no path at all.
Publishing an HTML file
short_id and base_version and the same link shows the new version.When to use which
- Cloudflare Access
- You're inside the free 50-user tier with the setup already done, or you need Zero Trust features beyond static hosting – device posture checks, application-layer policies, WARP client enforcement. You're protecting a running application, not sharing files.
- display.dev
- You want HTML or Markdown behind company auth without building or maintaining infrastructure. You're sharing with more than 50 people. You want flat pricing whatever the team size, a one-command CLI or an MCP tool for non-technical users, and Google plus Microsoft SSO without separate IdP configuration.
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: 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: 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: 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: 365 days audit logs
Try display.dev free
- €49/month flat – not ~$350/month for 100 viewers, not ~$1,050 for 200
- Google + Microsoft SSO included – no separate IdP configuration
- No infrastructure to build or maintain · 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 the current version at the same URL, 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.
Cursor, Codex, and Claude Code all work, along with any agent that creates HTML or Markdown output.
Common questions.
Can I replicate display.dev's pricing with Cloudflare?
Cloudflare's free tier (50 users) is the closest equivalent – but it requires 2–4 hours of setup and ongoing maintenance. Above 50 users, Cloudflare Access is $7/user/month regardless of artifact count. display.dev is €49/month regardless of user count or artifact count.
Does display.dev use Cloudflare infrastructure?
display.dev runs on managed infrastructure. You don't need to know or configure any of it – that's the point.
What about Cloudflare's free tier – isn't that enough for small teams?
If you have fewer than 50 viewers and an engineer with 2–4 hours to set it up, Cloudflare's free tier is viable. Most teams find that the setup burden and lack of publishing CLI makes display.dev worth €49/month even within the 50-user limit.
Is display.dev SOC 2 certified?
display.dev is working toward SOC 2 Type II certification. Enterprise plan includes audit logs, SAML, and custom data residency.
Can I see who published each version, human or agent?
Yes. display.dev attributes every version and comment to the agent and the human it acted for, in the comment thread and the audit log. See how identity works.
Publish your first artifact in 15 seconds.
Free tier. No credit card. One-time password auth on free, Google + Microsoft SSO on Pro (€49/month flat).