WEBSITE BUILDER COST
Website builder cost in 2026: website builder prices across nine platforms, and how much a website builder really costs
Nine platforms, every US price read from the vendor own page inside the last nine days. The sticker is the easy part. What decides your bill is the unit each one is priced in.
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A website builder costs between $0 and $159 a month in the United States in 2026, and most sit between $10 and $40. Every price in the table below was read from the vendor own US-served page between August 31 and September 8, 2026. The number that matters is not the monthly sticker, because the sticker is a different unit on almost every platform: Wix, Wix Studio and Weebly quote a yearly subscription paid in full up front, Hostinger quotes a rate that requires 48 months prepaid in one charge, Framer quotes per site with editors billed separately, 10Web meters monthly visitors, and Square Online meters card processing. AgentSite is $15 a month billed yearly or $19 monthly, flat, with hosting, SSL and a custom domain included and nothing metered.
Last updated September 2026
OVERVIEW
Every website builder comparison you can find scores the same column, which is the advertised monthly price, and that column is close to meaningless because the platforms are not quoting the same thing. Put nine of them side by side, read each price off the vendor own page rather than off a review site, and the pattern is immediate: the number after the dollar sign is attached to a different unit on nearly every platform. Some quote a monthly rate you can actually pay monthly. Some quote a yearly rate and print it as a monthly figure. One quotes a rate that only exists if you pay for four years in a single transaction. One is per editor. One is per visitor. One is a percentage of your sales.
So the useful question is not what does a website builder cost. It is what is the first amount that leaves my bank account, and what makes that amount go up later. Those two questions produce a completely different ranking from the sticker price, and they are the two questions the affiliate roundups never ask, because the affiliate is paid on the signup and not on the renewal.
Here is the clearest example, and it is not a small vendor. Wix prints $17, $29, $39 and $159 a month on its plans page. Read the footnote directly underneath and it says, in Wix own words, that displayed prices are for yearly subscriptions paid in full at the time of purchase. The monthly rates are not on the page at all. So the entry Wix plan is not $17. It is $204, charged once, today. That is not a criticism of Wix, whose annual discount is real and whose product is good. It is a warning about what happens when you compare that $17 against a competitor $16 that is genuinely billed monthly, because you are comparing a year against a month and getting the answer backwards.
Hostinger takes the same idea further and is the most extreme case in the table. The advertised $2.99 a month is a real price, but it exists only if you commit 48 months and pay $143.52 up front in one charge, and the published renewal is $10.99. That is a 3.7 times step, and it arrives four years later when nobody is looking at the invoice any more. Again, not a scandal, and Hostinger publishes all of it. But a buyer who reads $2.99 and budgets $36 a year has misread the deal by a factor of four.
The meters are the second thing nobody compares, and they matter more over time than the sticker does. 10Web prices by monthly visitors, with 10,000 on the entry plan. Think about what that means: the bill goes up precisely when the website starts working. Framer prices per site and then charges $20 a month for every additional editor, $10 for a content editor and $20 per locale, so a three person team on the $10 plan is really on a $50 plan. Wix Studio, which is the agency product, allows three collaborators on its $19 tier, and an agency with a producer, a designer, a developer and the client is already at four people before anyone has done any work. Square Online gives the storefront away and takes 3.3 percent plus 30 cents on every online card payment instead of 2.9 percent on the paid tiers, which means the cheapest plan is the most expensive one the moment you sell anything at volume.
None of that makes any of these platforms a bad purchase. Wix and Squarespace are genuinely excellent products, Framer is the best pure design tool in the category, and Square Online is the obviously correct answer for a shop already running Square in the till. What it means is that a price comparison built on stickers will pick the wrong one for you. The comparison worth doing has three columns: what is the first charge, what is the unit, and what makes it grow.
One cost sits outside every table on this page and is usually larger than all of them, which is the words. A website builder subscription buys you an empty site. Somebody still has to decide which pages exist and write the sentences on them, and on published US agency rates that is $100 to $300 per page. This is the single most common reason a cheap builder subscription turns into an expensive project: the tool was $16 a month and the site sat half finished for seven months because nobody wrote the services page. Our AI copywriting for websites page covers how the agent handles that part, and the full arithmetic for hiring it out is in the small business website cost breakdown.
What AgentSite costs is $15 a month billed yearly or $19 billed monthly, flat, with hosting, SSL and a custom domain included. There is no per site fee, no visitor meter, no editor seat charge and no promotional rate that expires, and the agent writes the pages as part of the build rather than handing you an empty template. That is the whole pitch, and the tables below are here so you can check it against everyone else rather than take our word for it.
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Built into every AgentSite build.
One number, and it stays that number
Flat $15 a month billed yearly or $19 monthly, with hosting, SSL and a custom domain included. No promotional rate that steps up in year two, no 48 month commitment to unlock it, and no separate line for the things a website obviously needs.
Nothing is metered
No visitor cap, so a page that suddenly ranks does not produce an invoice. No editor seats, so bringing a colleague in is free. No locale fee. The bill does not grow because the website started working, which is the failure mode of every metered plan in the table above.
The copy is included, not quoted separately
Every subscription in this category buys an empty site. On published US agency rates the words cost $100 to $300 per page on top. The agent writes every page from your description as part of the build, which is the cost line that most often doubles a website project.
You can take payments on the entry plan
Wix Light and Wix Studio Basic both cannot accept a payment of any kind, and Squarespace puts commerce behind its higher tiers. If your website needs to sell something, the real entry price on those platforms is one or two tiers above the one advertised.
No prepay to see the price
Several vendors publish only the yearly-prepaid figure and never show a monthly rate at all, so the advertised number cannot be paid the way it is written. Ours can: $19 a month, monthly, with the yearly option at $15 offered as a discount rather than as the only way to see a price.
Priced per site, honestly
If you run more than one website, most platforms in this table want a separate full subscription for each. Our plans cover multiple sites rather than multiplying, which is set out on the multiple websites page rather than buried in a footnote.
§ EVERY PRICE READ FIRST HAND
What nine website builders charge in the United States, and what the first charge actually is.
Each price below was read from the vendor own US-served pricing page on the date in the last column, not from a review site. The third column is the one that reorders the ranking: the advertised figure is a different unit on almost every platform.
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| Platform | Advertised entry price | What that price is really per | First charge to your card | Read on |
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| Hostinger | $2.99 a month | A 48 month term, prepaid in one charge. Renews at $10.99. | $143.52 | August 31, 2026 |
| Framer | $10 a month, Basic | One site, billed yearly. Editors are $20 a month each on top. | $120 | September 4, 2026 |
| 10Web | $10 a month, AI Starter | One site, billed yearly, metered at 10,000 monthly visitors. Regular rate $20. | $120 | September 4, 2026 |
| Weebly | $13 a month, Personal | One site, billed yearly. Free domain for year one only. | $156 | September 6, 2026 |
| AgentSite | $15 a month | One site, billed yearly. Hosting, SSL and domain included. Nothing metered. | $180, or $19 monthly | September 8, 2026 |
| Wix | $17 a month, Light | A yearly subscription paid in full up front. Light cannot accept a payment. | $204 | September 3, 2026 |
| Wix Studio | $19 a month, Basic | One client site, yearly, 3 collaborators. Basic cannot accept a payment. | $228 | September 8, 2026 |
| Squarespace | $19 a month billed yearly | One site. Monthly billing is $25, so 1.3 times more. | $228, or $25 monthly | September 2, 2026 |
| Square Online | $0, free tier | Per location. The real price is 3.3 percent plus 30 cents per online card payment. | $0, then a slice of every sale | September 6, 2026 |
Prices exclude taxes, which several vendors state are added at the purchase page. Free domain offers are for the first year on every platform above that includes one. Where a vendor publishes only yearly figures and no monthly rate, we have said so rather than estimating.
§ THE METER, NOT THE STICKER
What actually makes each bill go up after you have bought.
This is the column that decides what a website builder costs you over three years, and it is the one no comparison chart includes. Every platform in this category grows its bill on a different axis. Find the one that matches how your site will change and you have your answer.
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| Platform | What it meters | What crossing it costs | Who actually hits it |
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| Hostinger | The promotional term | $2.99 becomes $10.99 a month, a 3.7 times step | Everyone, four years in, usually unnoticed |
| 10Web | Monthly visitors, 10,000 on entry | The next tier up, then the regular rate after the first term | Any site whose marketing starts working |
| Framer | Editors, content editors and locales | $20, $10 and $20 a month each | Any team larger than one person |
| Wix Studio | Collaborators, 3 on the entry tier | The next tier, or the $159 Elite jump | Any agency with a producer, a designer and a client |
| Wix | Sites, and commerce | A full separate subscription per site | Anyone running a second website |
| Squarespace | The billing period | $19 yearly becomes $25 monthly, 1.3 times | Anyone unwilling to prepay twelve months |
| Weebly | The domain and the ad removal | Domain renews at standard rate after year one | Everyone, in year two |
| Square Online | Card processing | 3.3 percent plus 30 cents online on free, 2.9 percent on paid | Anyone selling more than a token amount |
| AgentSite | Nothing | The price is the price | Nobody |
Read this table before the price table. A platform that is $4 a month cheaper today and meters the thing your site is about to do is the more expensive purchase, and that is how most people in this category end up paying more than they planned.
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Common questions.
Between $0 and $159 a month in the United States in 2026, with most mainstream plans between $10 and $40. Entry tiers read in September 2026: Hostinger $2.99, Framer and 10Web $10, Weebly $13, AgentSite $15, Wix $17, Wix Studio and Squarespace $19. The number to check is the billing unit, because several of those are yearly rates printed as monthly figures.
Take the advertised figure, then confirm three things: whether you can actually pay it monthly, whether it covers one site or several, and what it meters. On Wix, Wix Studio and Weebly the advertised figure is a yearly subscription paid up front. On Hostinger it requires a 48 month commitment. On 10Web it caps monthly visitors. Only after those checks does the monthly number mean anything.
Almost always one of four reasons. The advertised rate was the yearly-prepaid rate and you are billed monthly. A promotional term ended and the plan renewed at the standard rate. You crossed a meter such as visitors, editors or storage. Or the free first-year domain renewed at its normal price. Check the renewal rate and the meter before you compare any two platforms.
Over the first year, Framer and 10Web at $120 and Hostinger at $143.52 are the lowest published outlays, and Square Online is $0 if you sell nothing. Over four years the ranking inverts, because Hostinger renews at 3.7 times its promotional rate and 10Web bills by visitors. Cheapest at signup and cheapest to own are different questions with different answers.
For a small business brochure site there are three honest price bands in 2026. A builder subscription is roughly $120 to $250 a year plus your own time writing it. A freelancer or small studio is usually a low four figure one-off. A full service agency publishes $15,000 to $40,000 for a small business build, with copywriting billed on top at $100 to $300 a page. The gap between those bands is mostly who writes the words.
Most include a free domain for the first year on annual plans, then renew it at the standard registration rate, typically $12 to $25 a year depending on the extension. That renewal is the most common reason a second-year bill surprises someone. Hosting and SSL are usually included on paid tiers across the category, including ours.
Yearly, everywhere in this table, and by a meaningful margin. Squarespace is $19 a month annually against $25 monthly. Ours is $15 against $19. The catch is that several vendors publish only the yearly figure, so what looks like a low monthly price is a twelve month commitment charged in one transaction on the day you sign up.
The recurring ones across this category are the second-year domain renewal, transaction fees on commerce plans, per-editor or per-collaborator seat charges, per-locale fees for translated sites, storage overages, and premium templates or apps. None of these are secret, but they sit on a different page from the price grid, which is why comparisons miss them.
Wix publishes $17, $29, $39 and $159 a month for Light, Core, Business and Business Elite, and states in a footnote on the same page that these are yearly subscriptions paid in full at the time of purchase. The monthly rates are not shown in the served page at all, so the entry commitment is $204 up front rather than $17. Light also cannot accept a payment of any kind.
Squarespace is $25, $39, $65 and $139 a month billed monthly, or $19, $29, $49 and $99 a month billed annually, read on September 2, 2026. It is the most transparent grid in this comparison because both the monthly and the annual figure are published side by side, which is not true of most of its competitors.
You can publish one on a free tier, and Weebly and Square Online both have real ones. What free tiers cost you instead of money is a subdomain rather than your own address, platform branding on your pages, and on Square Online a higher card processing rate of 3.3 percent plus 30 cents. For anything that represents a business to a customer, the free tier is a demo rather than a plan.
On every platform in this table except ours, no. The subscription buys the software and an empty template, and you supply the pages, the structure and every sentence. That is the largest uncosted item in most website projects, and on published US agency rates it is $100 to $300 per page if you hire it out. Our agent writes the pages from your description as part of the build.
On most platforms, the full plan price again, per site. Wix, Squarespace, Framer and Weebly each want a separate subscription for each website, so three sites on a $19 plan is $57 a month rather than $19. This is the single largest cost difference for anyone running more than one site, and it is set out on our multiple websites page.
Of the nine platforms read for this page, Squarespace, Weebly, Framer, Wix and AgentSite publish a rate that does not step up at renewal, though Wix, Weebly and Framer each renew the first-year free domain at its normal price. Hostinger renews at 3.7 times its advertised rate and 10Web moves from a promotional rate to a regular one. Ours is flat at $15 a month billed yearly with nothing metered.
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Most small business website builders advertise a price you only pay once. Describe your business instead, and an AI agent writes every page, designs the site and launches it on your domain at one flat rate that does not jump in year two.
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