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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.

Cheapest way inWeebly

Entry at £6/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 ↗

Real free plansWeebly, Framer

A plan priced at zero on the vendor’s own page — trials not counted. What each one caps differs; the profiles say.

Bills local currencyWeebly, Framer, WordPress.com, Squarespace

Showed us different money in different countries on the same day — measured, not assumed. The profiles carry the figures.

Tool by tool

Weeblysite ↗pricing ↗

Paid plans start at £6/mo (Personal); a free plan exists. The ladder we hold runs 3 paid tiers, topping out at £24/mo (Performance). It bills by country — entry $13/mo to a US reader and €11/mo in the eurozone, from our same-day reads.

Framersite ↗pricing ↗

Paid plans start at £8/mo (Creative personal sites); a free plan exists. The ladder we hold runs 4 paid tiers, topping out at £154/mo (Advanced hosting). It bills by country — entry $10/mo to a US reader and €10/mo in the eurozone, from our same-day reads.

WordPress.comsite ↗pricing ↗

Paid plans start at £9/mo (Personal); no free plan is published. The ladder we hold runs 3 paid tiers, topping out at £40/mo (Business). It bills by country — entry $9/mo to a US reader and €9/mo in the eurozone, from our same-day reads.

Squarespacesite ↗pricing ↗

Paid plans start at £12/mo (Basic); no free plan is published. The ladder we hold runs 4 paid tiers, topping out at £79/mo (Advanced). It bills by country — entry $19/mo to a US reader and €12/mo in the eurozone, from our same-day reads.

Side by side

Tool	Paid from	Free plan	Currency	Read	Source
Weebly	£6/mo	Yes	GBP	2026-08-29	page
Framer	£8/mo	Yes	GBP	2026-08-28	page
WordPress.com	£9/mo	—	GBP	2026-08-29	page
Squarespace	£12/mo	—	GBP	2026-08-29	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.

How this page is ordered: by lowest published paid plan shown to a United Kingdom reader on the dates given, so every row is comparable. No vendor paid for placement and no ordering here is influenced by commission. We also track Duda, Tilda here but hold no named plan ladder for them in GBP yet, so they are absent rather than converted or guessed. The method →