# Square Town vs 3MPixel: $1 favicon squares or 10¢ pixels?

> Square Town vs 3MPixel, as of August 2026: a $1 favicon wall with evictions and live 3D versus a 2000×1500 pixel canvas from $0.10/pixel with a resale marketplace.

Source: https://square.pov.town/vs/3mpixel

3MPixel (3mpixel.com) is a 2000×1500 pixel canvas — three million pixels — sold from $0.10 per pixel with a minimum 10×10 block ($10), an uploaded image plus link on each block, and a marketplace to resell blocks. Square Town (square.pov.town) is a favicon wall where every square is 1×1, costs $1, and can be evicted for double. The difference: 3MPixel is a big, cheap-per-pixel Million Dollar Homepage with a resale market; Square Town is a small-unit, live, 3D wall with a game loop.

## Square Town vs 3MPixel at a glance

| | 3MPixel | Square Town |
|---|---|---|
| Price | From $0.10 per pixel; minimum 10×10 block = $10 (as of August 2026) | $1 per square, one-time; Throne starts at $100 |
| What you place | An uploaded image with a link, on a 2000×1500 canvas | Your website's favicon, fetched from the URL you paste |
| How you pick a spot | Choose or reserve a block on the canvas | Click any empty cell in the unlocked area, or evict an occupied one |
| Ownership model | Buy a block; resell it on the marketplace | Hold the square until someone pays double what you paid |
| Can you lose your spot? | No — you can sell it, nobody can take it | Yes — evicted for double; the evictor's price doubles again |
| Game mechanics | Resale marketplace, reservations, leaderboard | Evictions, the Throne, 90-day kiss decay, ring unlocks at 70 % fill, Hall of Clowns |
| Live? | Not noted in our August 2026 check | Yes — WebSockets push every buy, eviction, kiss and unlock |
| 3D? | No | Yes — tilt into a three.js scene where tower height = clicks |
| Analytics | Leaderboard | Views, clicks and kisses per deed; $5 unlocks per-day charts |
| Accounts | Implied by the marketplace and reservations (details not noted in our check) | None — a secret deed URL is the only proof |
| Payment | Not noted in our August 2026 check | Stripe (card) |
| Audience | Advertisers and speculators who want a bigger image and a resale option | Indie developers, small sites, anyone with a URL and $1 |
| Launched | 2025 | August 2026 |
| Status as of Aug 2026 | Active; our check showed 0 blocks sold | Active, central 16×16 live at launch, grows to 1024×1024 |

## What 3MPixel does well

**Cheaper per pixel and much more of it.** Ten cents a pixel against a 2000×1500 canvas is three million pixels — three times the original Million Dollar Homepage, at a tenth of its per-pixel price. A 10×10 block is $10 and shows a real image. Square Town's whole live area at launch is 16×16 cells, and a "block" is a single 16 px favicon for $1.

**You upload your own image.** Logo, banner, QR code, whatever fits your block. Square Town gives you no upload: it fetches the favicon your site serves and shows that.

**A resale marketplace.** Buy a block, list it, sell it. That makes a 3MPixel block an asset you can exit, at least in principle. Square Town has no marketplace: a square is $1 to buy, can be taken from you for double, and there is no way to sell it — the money goes to the wall, not to you.

**Reservations.** You can hold a block before committing, which is friendlier than Square Town's click-and-pay.

**Nobody can take your block.** No evictions, no decay. If you want permanence with no fighting, that is the correct choice, and 3MPixel gives it to you.

## What Square Town does differently

**The unit is a website.** Every square on [square.pov.town](/) is a favicon fetched from a URL, and every click on it goes to that site and is counted. There is nothing to design, upload or resize; the [16 px favicon](/blog/favicon-design-tips-16px) your site already has is the ad.

**Location is the game.** Only the central 16×16 is live at launch, and it grows by 8 cells each way every time it is 70 % full, up to 1024×1024. Squares near the centre are scarce; the Throne (the 4×4 middle) starts at $100 and doubles on every eviction. 3MPixel opens all three million pixels at once, so no spot is scarce until they sell.

**Evictions instead of resale.** On Square Town, anyone can take your square for double what you paid, and the next taker pays double that. There's no market because the wall *is* the market: the price of a contested square is its own history. See [the economics of eviction](/blog/economics-of-eviction).

**Decay unless kissed.** An icon nobody has kissed in 90 days fades to grayscale. Anyone can kiss any icon, free, by clicking it. That is how a wall built on one-time payments avoids the [dead-links problem](/blog/dead-links-problem-of-pixel-ads) that static grids collect.

**Live and 3D.** Every buy, eviction, kiss and unlock is pushed to all open browsers over WebSockets. Tilt the wall and every favicon becomes a tower as tall as its click count. 3MPixel is a static canvas.

**Analytics per square.** Every deed shows views, clicks and kisses; $5 unlocks per-day charts. 3MPixel's leaderboard is a leaderboard.

**No accounts.** Paste a URL, click a cell, pay by card. Your proof of ownership is a secret deed URL. That is faster than a marketplace account, and riskier — lose the URL and it's gone.

## Who should pick 3MPixel

- You want to show an actual image, larger than a favicon.
- You want a block nobody can take, and the option to resell it.
- You want a lot of pixels cheaply and don't need a game around them.
- You want to reserve first and pay later.

## Who should pick Square Town

- You have a URL and want it on a live wall in under a minute, with zero design work.
- You want to know who clicked. Views, clicks and kisses per square; $5 for per-day charts. See [pricing](/pricing).
- You want scarcity and a centre worth holding, not three million identical pixels.
- You want the wall to stay alive: evictions, kisses, rings unlocking, towers growing with clicks. [How it works](/how-it-works) is the whole rulebook.
- You'd rather spend $1 than $10 to find out whether a pixel wall sends anyone your way.

## Can you use both?

Yes. They don't step on each other: 3MPixel is where a bigger image with a resale option lives; Square Town is where your favicon sits on a live map for $1. Neither is a backlink product — Square Town's clicks are counted redirects, not link equity — so treat both as visibility, not SEO. For the wider set, [pixel advertising alternatives](/alternatives/pixel-advertising) ranks the field, and [Square Town vs the Million Dollar Homepage](/vs/million-dollar-homepage) covers the site both are descended from.

## FAQ

### How much does 3MPixel cost?

As of August 2026, from $0.10 per pixel with a minimum 10×10 block, so $10 to start. Blocks can be resold on its marketplace.

### How much does Square Town cost?

$1 per square, one-time, by card. The Throne in the centre starts at $100. Per-day analytics on a deed is a one-time $5. Evicting someone costs double what they paid.

### Can I sell my Square Town square?

No. There is no marketplace and no resale. Squares change hands only by eviction — someone pays double what you paid — and that payment goes to the wall, not to you.

### Can someone take my 3MPixel block?

Not according to what the site showed in August 2026: blocks are bought, held and resold, with no eviction mechanic. On Square Town, any square can be taken for double.

### Which is bigger?

3MPixel: 2000×1500 = 3,000,000 pixels, all available from the start. Square Town's grid tops out at 1024×1024 = 1,048,576 squares, but only the central 16×16 is live at launch and it unlocks in rings as it fills.

### Does either give a backlink?

Don't buy either for SEO. Square Town's clicks are counted 302 redirects through `/go/:id`, not link equity. Buy for visibility to the people who look at the wall.

### Has 3MPixel sold many blocks?

When we checked in August 2026 the site showed 0 blocks sold. That may have changed; check the canvas.