Best Website builders in 2026
A website builder bundles the editor, hosting and security into one subscription, so you can launch a site without renting or managing a server. The popular builders for US small businesses overlap heavily on the basics: templates, a visual editor, SEO settings and a way to sell. Where they differ is in how they charge and where each plan draws its limits.
This category compares builders on the points that change your bill and your workload: whether there is a free plan, which plan first lets you accept payments, the transaction fees on store and membership sales, how much custom code you can add, and how much control the editor gives you over layout. Plan prices come from each vendor's own pricing page, in US dollars, and are shown for both monthly and yearly billing where the vendor publishes them. Prices can change, so confirm the final amount at checkout, especially for monthly billing and renewals.
Our ranking
Visual website builder with element-level layout control, a full CMS on Premium and a free webflow.io plan.
Compare: vs WordPress.com
Template-led website builder with hosting, selling and memberships on every plan; 14-day free trial, no free plan.
Drag-and-drop website builder with a free plan, 2,000+ templates, a built-in CMS and store tools from the Core plan.
Compare: vs WordPress.com
Website builder with a freeform design canvas, an AI design agent, a CMS and hosting on every plan, including Free.
Hosted WordPress from Automattic with a free plan, plugins on every paid plan and WooCommerce for online stores.
Compare: vs Webflow · vs Wix
Hosted e-commerce platform: themes, checkout and unlimited products on every plan; 3-day free trial, no free store plan.
Hosted ecommerce platform with a drag-and-drop Page Builder and editable theme code; 15-day free trial, no free plan.
Chat-based AI website builder with code access and GoDaddy hosting; free plan for previews, publishing from Starter.
One-page website builder, free for up to 3 sites; Pro plans from $9 a year, with custom domains and forms from $19.
Free Google website builder with drag-and-drop editing, templates and Docs embeds; also part of Google Workspace plans.
Top 5 compared
| Feature | Webflow | Squarespace | Wix | Framer | WordPress.com |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E-commerce | Yes · Ecommerce Site plans from $29/month billed yearly; 2% transaction fee on Standard, 0% on Plus and Advanced | Yes · All plans; 2% store fee on Basic, 0% from Core | Yes · Core plan and up; catalog up to 50,000 products | No · No built-in store or checkout; Framer says commerce is handled with integrations and custom work. One such integration is Framer Commerce, a Shopify plugin made by Butter Supply Inc. | Yes · WooCommerce on Business and Commerce |
| CMS | Yes · Premium: 20,000 items in 40 Collections; Starter 50 items; none on Basic | Yes · Blog, events, portfolio, store, course and video collections | Yes · Collections and dynamic pages | Yes · Collections with references and filters; 2 collections on Basic, 10 on Pro (up to 40 with add-ons) | Yes · WordPress posts, pages and revisions |
| Custom code | Yes · Site and page code on paid Site plans; code components on Premium | Yes · CSS on all plans; JavaScript and code injection from Core | Yes · Head/body snippets with a connected domain; Velo | Yes · React code components, code overrides, head/body code per site or page | Yes · CSS and plugins on paid plans; SFTP/SSH from Business |
| Hosting included | Yes · Managed hosting with SSL and a global CDN; Starter publishes to webflow.io | Yes · Managed cloud hosting, unlimited bandwidth, SSL | Yes · All plans, including Free | Yes · All plans, incl. Free, with SSL; CDN with 20 locations on Basic, 300+ on Pro | Yes · All plans, incl. Free; global CDN and SSL |
| Design freedom | Yes · Blank canvas with HTML elements, flexbox and grid layouts, GSAP interactions | Yes · Fluid Engine drag-and-drop editor (7.1 sites) | Yes · Drag-and-drop editor | Yes · Freeform canvas with breakpoints, components and animations | Yes · Themes, patterns and drag-and-drop layouts |
| Templates | Yes · 7,000+ free and premium templates; a paid one is a one-time fee ($29 to $129 among those listed) | Yes · Designer templates on all plans | Yes · 2,000+ templates | Yes · Community marketplace with free and paid templates | Yes · Free themes; premium themes on paid plans |
| SEO tools | Yes · Meta tags on all plans; sitemap, robots.txt, schema markup and 301 redirects on paid Site plans | Yes · Built-in SEO tools and search keyword analysis | Yes · Setup checklist, redirect manager, editable robots.txt | Yes · Sitemap, metadata, canonical URLs, JSON-LD; redirects from Pro | Yes · Premium plan and up |
| Memberships | No · Native User Accounts retired January 29, 2026; Webflow recommends Outseta or Memberstack | Yes · Fee 7% on Basic down to 0% on Advanced | Yes · Pricing Plans from Core; fee 4% Core, 2% Business, 0% Business Elite | No · No built-in member accounts; third-party plugins such as FrameAuth add logins and gated content | Yes · Paid subscribers; fee 10% (Free) to 0% (Commerce) |
| Free plan | Yes · Starter: webflow.io address, 2 static pages, 1 GB bandwidth, Webflow badge | No · 14-day free trial instead | Yes · Wix branding and wixsite.com address | Yes · Framer domain, "Made in Framer" badge, 1 GB bandwidth; aimed at non-commercial use | Yes · 1 GB, wordpress.com subdomain, shows ads |