Best website builders
Every figure below was read from the vendor's own pricing page on the date beside it. The ordering is cheapest entry price first — a basis you can check rather than a ranking you have to trust.
What “best” means on this page
“Best” is not a mood — it is whichever axis you actually care about, measured. Our record can say which tool is cheapest to start, whose free plan is real, who bills local currency and whose prices just moved; it cannot say which tool fits your work, which is what the full comparisons are for. Cheapest never means best — it means cheapest. Each verdict below names its axis, and every tool links to its own site so you can check us against the source. No vendor paid for any position.
Entry at $3.25/mo — the lowest published paid plan in this set. Cheap is a fact, not a verdict; the profile below says what you get for it.
site ↗pricing ↗A plan priced at zero on the vendor’s own page — trials not counted. What each one caps differs; the profiles say.
Showed us different money in different countries on the same day — measured, not assumed. The profiles carry the figures.
A change only counts once a second clean read agrees. The change log →
Tool by tool
WordPress.comsite ↗pricing ↗
The hosted version of WordPress: the same publishing software as the self-hosted original, run for you, with plans that unlock plugins and themes at higher tiers. Paid plans start at $3.25/mo (Personal); a free plan exists. The ladder we hold runs 4 paid tiers, topping out at $36/mo (Commerce). It bills by country — entry $9/mo to a UK reader and $9/mo in the eurozone, from our same-day reads. Its published prices moved on 2026-10-13 — the change log holds the rows.
Framersite ↗pricing ↗
A site builder that grew out of a design tool — pages are laid out like a design file and published as a real website. Paid plans start at $10/mo (Creative personal sites); a free plan exists. The ladder we hold runs 4 paid tiers, topping out at $200/mo (Advanced hosting). It bills by country — entry £8/mo to a UK reader and €10/mo in the eurozone, from our same-day reads.
Weeblysite ↗pricing ↗
A straightforward website builder, now part of Square, aimed at small business sites and simple shops. Paid plans start at $13/mo (Personal); a free plan exists. The ladder we hold runs 3 paid tiers, topping out at $32/mo (Performance). It bills by country — entry £6/mo to a UK reader and €11/mo in the eurozone, from our same-day reads.
Wixsite ↗pricing ↗
A website builder with drag-and-drop editing and a large app market, aimed at people building their own site without code. Paid plans start at $14/mo (Core); a free plan exists. The ladder we hold runs 3 paid tiers, topping out at $79/mo (Business Elite). It bills by country — entry £12/mo to a UK reader and €16.66/mo in the eurozone, from our same-day reads. Its published prices moved on 2026-10-08 — the change log holds the rows.
Tildasite ↗pricing ↗
A website builder based on a large library of pre-made blocks, popular for long-form pages and editorial-looking sites. Paid plans start at $15/mo (Personal 1 website); no free plan is published. The ladder we hold runs 2 paid tiers, topping out at $25/mo (Business 5 websites). We read the same $15/mo in every market we check, so this vendor does not price by country.
Dudasite ↗pricing ↗
A website builder aimed at agencies and resellers building many client sites, with team and white-label workflows. Paid plans start at $25/mo (Basic); no free plan is published. The ladder we hold runs 4 paid tiers, topping out at $199/mo (White Label). We read the same $25/mo in every market we check, so this vendor does not price by country. Its published prices moved on 2026-09-03 — the change log holds the rows.
Squarespacesite ↗pricing ↗
A website builder known for design-led templates, used for portfolios, small business sites and shops. Paid plans start at $25/mo (Basic); no free plan is published. The ladder we hold runs 4 paid tiers, topping out at $139/mo (Advanced). It bills by country — entry £16/mo to a UK reader and €17/mo in the eurozone, from our same-day reads. Its published prices moved on 2026-09-23 — the change log holds the rows.
Webflowsite ↗pricing ↗
A visual website builder that produces production-grade markup, used by designers who want control without hand-writing code. Paid plans start at $25/mo (Basic); a free plan exists. The ladder we hold runs 3 paid tiers, topping out at $2500/mo (Team).
Side by side
| Tool | Paid from | Free plan | Currency | Read | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WordPress.com | $3.25/mo | Yes | USD | 2026-10-13 | page |
| Framer | $10/mo | Yes | USD | 2026-08-28 | page |
| Weebly | $13/mo | Yes | USD | 2026-10-13 | page |
| Wix | $14/mo | Yes | USD | 2026-09-27 | page |
| Tilda | $15/mo | — | USD | 2026-10-13 | page |
| Duda | $25/mo | — | USD | 2026-09-01 | page |
| Squarespace | $25/mo | — | USD | 2026-09-21 | page |
| Webflow | $25/mo | Yes | USD | 2026-09-07 | page |
How to choose in this category
- First-term discounts are common here — the renewal figure is the one you will live with.
- Free plans usually carry the vendor’s branding and domain.
- A site is hard to move; weigh the exit cost before the entry price.
Questions the record can answer
How much do site builders cost?
Between $3.25/mo and $25/mo. The lowest entry price we hold for any of the 8 site builders we track is WordPress.com, at $3.25/mo; the highest is Webflow, at $25/mo. Both are the vendor's own published list price, read on 2026-10-13. Cheapest is not best; it is cheapest, and it is the one axis a price record can settle on its own.
Which site builders publish a plan priced at zero?
5 of the 8 we track: WordPress.com (Free), Framer, Weebly (Free), Wix (Free) and Webflow (Starter) — the entry each zero price sits on is named beside it. A free trial is not counted here: a trial is a deadline, not a price.
Do site builders charge in my own currency?
Some do. We read every pricing page from the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany on the same day, and 5 of the 8 site builders we track showed us a different currency in at least two of those three markets: WordPress.com, Framer, Weebly, Wix and Squarespace. The rest billed the same money to all three.
Have any site builders changed their prices recently?
Yes — 4 confirmed changes in this category, most recently WordPress.com on 2026-10-13. A change is confirmed only when the vendor's own page showed us one set of figures and then another; the old reading stays in the record rather than being overwritten.
How many site builders does Wicketry track?
9 in this category, last read on 2026-10-13. 8 of them publish a plan ladder we can put in the table; we also track Carrd, but hold no named ladder for it in US dollars yet, so it is absent rather than converted or guessed.