# The best Milliboard alternatives in 2026 (pay-to-rank and king-of-the-hill)

> 10 Milliboard alternatives compared — pay-to-rank boards, single-slot thrones and evict-for-double walls — prices, mechanics and status as of August 2026.

Source: https://square.pov.town/alternatives/milliboard

Milliboard (milliboard.com) is a 2026 pay-to-rank board: you pay any amount, the highest single payment holds #1, anyone can outbid you by 1¢, and the whole board freezes forever once it reaches $1,337,690. People look for alternatives because they want a spot they *own* rather than a rank they rent, a lower floor than "more than the last person", or a game that does not end on purpose. The one-line answer: **Square Town (square.pov.town)** if you want a $1 spot on a wall with a Throne and evictions; **The Pixel Orbit** if you want to hold the centre; **frontpage.sh**, **TabRush**, **Space** and **overwrite.place** if you want one of a handful of contested slots.

> **TL;DR (as of August 2026):** Milliboard = rank by payment, no location. Square Town = location by choice, evict for double, one Throne at $100 doubling. The Pixel Orbit = centre by cumulative spend. overwrite.place / Space / TabRush / frontpage.sh = one or a few slots under permanent auction. earth.tattoo and Tocka = evict-by-paying-more on a globe or a pixel canvas.

## What Milliboard does well, and what it doesn't

Milliboard is the closest thing to Square Town in spirit: competitive, 2026, indie audience, a "Daily Throne" and a top-3 hall of fame. It is also the purest version of pay-to-rank — a leaderboard where money is the only axis. What it doesn't have: a grid, a spot you can point at, favicons, decay, or an ending you'd want (it stops at $1,337,690 by design). If you want the leaderboard fight, stay; if you want to *be somewhere*, read on. Full head-to-head: [Square Town vs Milliboard](/vs/milliboard) and [pay-to-rank vs spatial ownership](/blog/pay-to-rank-vs-spatial-ownership).

## The alternatives at a glance

| # | Site | Price | What you place | Mechanics | Status (Aug 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Square Town](/) | $1 per square; Throne intro $100 | Favicon (from URL) + link, on a grid | Evict for 2×, Throne doubles per eviction, 90-day kiss decay, live, 3D | Live |
| 2 | [The Pixel Orbit](https://thepixelorbit.com) | Pay per rectangle (5×5 = $2.50); bid for centre | Drawn/written/uploaded rectangles | Highest total payer holds the exact centre; canvas re-sorts; can be outbid | Active |
| 3 | [overwrite.place](https://overwrite.place) | Agents pay/submit | One artwork square | Current occupant is the biggest square; dethroned entries shrink to a permanent square sized by tenure | Active |
| 4 | [Space (spacefilled.com)](https://www.spacefilled.com/) | $1 more than the last buyer | One image + caption | Single slot, +$1 per turn, archive of past owners | Active (slow) |
| 5 | [FlexList](https://flexlist.app) | Bid via Stripe, non-refundable | Name + social links | Highest bidder ranks #1 per city; outbid = bumped down | Active |
| 6 | [frontpage.sh](https://frontpage.sh) | Perpetual auction, USDC on-chain | Image/logo + headline + link | 8 squares (1 large, 2 medium, 5 small); outbid to take one, previous owner refunded + share; agent API | Active (297 tx, $1,235 raised) |
| 7 | [TabRush](https://tabrush.app) | Tab ads from $1, +40 % per sale tier; rails $500/mo | Site link/logo as a browser tab | ~8 slots, "until someone steals it" | Active |
| 8 | [earth.tattoo](https://earth.tattoo) | First tile free hourly; extra $1; outbid $1/$2/$4/$8; crypto | 16×16 pixel art on ~1 km² globe tiles | Doubling outbid, evicted owner emailed, art archived | Active (HN Jul 2026) |
| 9 | [Tocka](https://tocka.rocks) | Credits; +1¢ per takeover; $1 free to start | Painted pixels on 1000×1000 | Take over any pixel by paying more, live, leaderboard | Active |
| 10 | [Milliboard](https://www.milliboard.com) | Any amount; highest single payment is #1 | Rank + name/logo/link | Outbid by 1¢, Daily Throne, freezes at $1,337,690 | Active |

## The 10 best Milliboard alternatives

1. **[Square Town](/)** — a favicon wall where each 1×1 square is $1 one-time (Stripe, no account, no upload — paste a URL and the favicon is fetched). The Milliboard-shaped part is the **Throne**: a 4×4 gold tile in the dead centre, intro price $100, one owner, and evicting them costs double the last price ($100 → $200 → $400 → …). The rest of the wall runs the same rule at small scale — any square can be evicted for double what its owner paid, and the eviction is announced in the live feed. Add 90-day kiss decay, click-height 3D towers and rings that unlock at 70 % fill. **Best for:** anyone who wants a *place* on the board and a cheap way in; the Throne is the fight, the $1 squares are the crowd. **Drawbacks:** no image upload, no big blocks, and you can be evicted — that is the point, but it is also the catch. See [/pricing](/pricing) and [the Throne explained](/blog/the-throne-explained).

2. **[The Pixel Orbit](https://thepixelorbit.com)** — a canvas where you pay per rectangle (a 5×5 is $2.50) and the *highest total payer* holds the exact centre, with everything else re-sorting around them by spend; you can be outbid, and there is a leaderboard. This is Milliboard's rank turned into position. **Best for:** anyone who wants the middle and is willing to defend it. **Drawback:** your position is never yours — it moves whenever anyone above you spends more. See [/vs/the-pixel-orbit](/vs/the-pixel-orbit).

3. **[overwrite.place](https://overwrite.place)** — one artwork occupies the homepage; when it is dethroned it shrinks to a small permanent square sized by how long it held. Built for AI agents to pay and submit. **Best for:** agent builders and people who like a single-slot throne with a memory. **Drawback:** no grid purchase, no favicons, and if you're not an agent it's a spectator sport.

4. **[Space (spacefilled.com)](https://www.spacefilled.com/)** — one frame, one image and caption; to take it you pay $1 more than the last buyer, and past owners go into an archive. Deterministic escalation, no auction drama. **Best for:** cheap thrills — the entry price only rises $1 per turn. **Drawback:** activity is slow as of August 2026 and there is exactly one slot.

5. **[FlexList](https://flexlist.app)** — Milliboard sliced by city: bid via Stripe, highest bidder ranks #1 in their city, get outbid and you're bumped down; bids are non-refundable. Name plus social links. **Best for:** local ego contests. **Drawback:** it is a text leaderboard, not a spatial grid, and losing your rank does not refund you.

6. **[frontpage.sh](https://frontpage.sh)** — eight ad squares (one large, two medium, five small) forever under perpetual auction: outbid to take one, the previous owner is refunded plus a share, 80 % of profits go to a community pool, and there is an agent API. Payment is USDC on-chain; a side canvas sells pixels from $0.005, doubling per sale. **Best for:** crypto-native buyers who like getting refunded when they lose. **Drawback:** any higher bid wins (not a fixed 2×), only eight slots, wallet required.

7. **[TabRush](https://tabrush.app)** — your site as a fake browser tab in a rail of about eight; tab ads start at $1 and rise 40 % per sale tier, rail sponsorships are $500 a month, and the pitch is "keep the billboard glowing until someone steals it". **Best for:** a novelty placement with a steal mechanic. **Drawback:** roughly eight slots, so the price climbs fast; no grid, no favicons.

8. **[earth.tattoo](https://earth.tattoo)** — a live 3D globe of ~1 km² tiles; the first tile is free each hour, extra tiles are $1, and taking someone's tile costs $1 → $2 → $4 → $8 (the evicted owner gets an email, their art is archived). Crypto only. This is the closest match to Square Town's evict-at-double, just on Earth with pixel art. **Best for:** people who want to own their street. **Drawback:** no links or favicons, wallet required. See [/vs/earth-tattoo](/vs/earth-tattoo).

9. **[Tocka](https://tocka.rocks)** — a 1000×1000 canvas where each takeover raises that pixel's price by 1¢, you start with $1 free, and updates are live with a leaderboard. **Best for:** the pay-more-to-evict loop at penny stakes. **Drawback:** pixels and art, not URLs; no throne, decay or 3D. See [/vs/tocka](/vs/tocka).

10. **[Milliboard](https://www.milliboard.com)** — for completeness: pay any amount, highest single payment holds #1, outbid by 1¢, Daily Throne, top-3 hall of fame, freezes forever at $1,337,690. **Best for:** anyone who only cares about the number next to their name. **Drawback:** no location, no favicons, no decay, and it ends on purpose.

## How to choose

- **You want rank:** Milliboard, or FlexList for a per-city version.
- **You want the centre:** The Pixel Orbit (by total spend) or Square Town's Throne (one owner, doubles per eviction).
- **You want to be one of a few:** frontpage.sh (8 squares, refunds), TabRush (~8 tabs, +40 %), Space (1 slot, +$1), overwrite.place (1 slot, for agents).
- **You want a spot to defend for $1:** Square Town. Pick a cell, get evicted for double, evict them back for double again — see [the economics of eviction](/blog/economics-of-eviction).
- **You want to evict on a map or canvas rather than a wall of links:** earth.tattoo or Tocka.

Whichever you pick, budget for losing. Every site here is designed so that someone can pay more than you did; the difference is whether you keep anything afterwards (Square Town: a deed and a spot until evicted; frontpage.sh: a refund; overwrite.place: a small permanent square; Milliboard: a lower rank).

## FAQ

### What is Milliboard?
A 2026 pay-to-rank board where you pay any amount and the highest single payment holds #1. Anyone can outbid you by 1¢, there is a Daily Throne and top-3 hall of fame, and the board freezes forever once it reaches $1,337,690.

### What is the difference between pay-to-rank and a pixel wall?
Pay-to-rank sorts entries by money — you hold a rank until someone pays more. A wall gives you a fixed spot you chose; on Square Town that spot is yours until someone pays double what you paid to evict you. Rank is a number; a spot is a place.

### Which Milliboard alternative has a throne?
Square Town has one Throne (a 4×4 centre tile, $100 intro, doubling per eviction). The Pixel Orbit gives the centre to the highest cumulative payer. overwrite.place and Space have a single slot that behaves like a throne. King of the Ether Throne (2016) was the ancestor of all of them and is dead.

### Which is cheapest to get in?
Square Town at $1 per square, Tocka with $1 of free credit, earth.tattoo with a free tile each hour, or SaaSBoard-style free tiles if you don't need a game. Milliboard has no floor but you only rank above people who paid less.

### Can I lose my spot on these sites?
Yes, on all of them — that is the genre. On Square Town you are evicted only if someone pays double your price; on Milliboard, FlexList and The Pixel Orbit you slide down whenever anyone spends more; on frontpage.sh you are refunded when outbid.

### Does Square Town end like Milliboard does?
No. Square Town has no freeze price; the wall grows in rings each time the live area is 70 % full, up to 1024×1024 (1,048,576 squares). Milliboard stops forever at $1,337,690 by design.