How we compare AI website builders
We list 14 AI website builders sold to US businesses. Every figure is what the vendor publishes to a US buyer in US dollars, taken from its own pricing page.
The calculator asks how many websites you need, how many people will edit them, whether you bring your own domain and whether you sell online. It picks each provider's plan that covers those answers and sorts by the monthly cost. Read the Billing basis and Contract rows too. Commission does not change the order.
A page or a program: what an AI website builder actually builds
The category name hides a split that decides what you are still running a year from now.
| Provider | Backend & database |
|---|---|
| 10Web | Yes, full WordPress (MySQL) |
| Base44 | Yes, full-stack (database + auth + payments) |
| Bolt.new | Yes, full-stack (database + auth) |
| Durable | No app backend (site plus basic CRM and invoicing) |
| Emergent | Yes, full-stack (hosting + auth) |
| Framer | No, CMS collections (no app backend) |
| Hostinger | No app backend (front-end site) |
| Lovable | Full-stack: Supabase (Postgres) + auth |
| Squarespace | No, CMS and member areas (no app backend) |
| v0 | Yes, full-stack via Vercel |
| Webflow | No, CMS and memberships (Webflow Cloud hosts custom apps separately) |
| Wegic | No app backend (form and lead storage only) |
| Wix | Yes, via Velo (database, auth, backend code) |
| WordPress.com | Yes, WordPress database + auth (Business plan) |
A row that reads no app backend generates a website: pages, a content system, a contact form, perhaps a store. A row that reads full-stack generates software, with stored records and server code. A few sit across the line, so read the Wix, WordPress.com and 10Web rows twice.
A brochure site can sit untouched for a year and still be correct. An application holds state: people log in, records accumulate, and someone has to care about who has access and where the records go if you stop paying. If the thing you described in your prompt does not need to remember anything about the person using it, buy a site builder and skip the rows that ship a database.
ADA claims and the markup an AI website builder writes for you
American businesses receive demand letters and complaints alleging their websites cannot be used by disabled visitors, and small businesses are on the receiving end of them. The complaints cluster on a short list of defects: images with no alternative text, text without enough contrast, form fields with no real label, controls a keyboard cannot operate, and video with no captions. The standard people build to is WCAG. What a private business website is legally obliged to do is less settled, because the position has been shaped by how courts have read Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act rather than by one clear federal rule.
Generated markup is a live risk because the generator writes it and you never see it, and you did not ask for accessibility in the prompt. An accessibility overlay is not a fix: the defects live in the markup. So whether you can reach the markup is a buying question. We hold no accessibility field, so verify vendor claims yourself. What we hold is how much of the build you can get at, and whether the output comes from a reviewed template or is generated from nothing each time.
| Provider | Export your site | Templates |
|---|---|---|
| 10Web | Yes, it is WordPress | WordPress themes |
| Base44 | Yes, two-way GitHub sync (Builder+) | Community app templates gallery |
| Bolt.new | Yes, GitHub | None, output is generated |
| Durable | No | AI-generated, limited manual control |
| Emergent | Yes, GitHub | None, output is generated |
| Framer | No, but supports custom code | Large marketplace, design-led |
| Hostinger | No | 150+ |
| Lovable | Yes, GitHub sync | None, output is generated |
| Squarespace | No | 150+, design-led |
| v0 | Yes | None, output is generated |
| Webflow | Yes, code export | Large marketplace, design-led |
| Wegic | Yes, code download (Starter and above, uses credits) | Multilingual templates to remix |
| Wix | No | 900+ |
| WordPress.com | Yes, it is WordPress | Thousands of WordPress themes |
A closed platform is not automatically worse: a curated template has been through human hands. Whichever half you land in, spend twenty minutes on the site before you announce it. Tab through everything with the mouse put away, check every image for alternative text, run your color pairs through a contrast checker, look for real form labels, and caption any video. The site publishes under your name, so this is your work item.
Credits, editors and storage: the meters behind an AI website builder plan
Some of this table is a flat plan price and some is a plan price with a consumption meter attached. Where a meter exists, the unit is not standardized, so allowances are not comparable across vendors.
| Provider | Pricing model | AI usage limits |
|---|---|---|
| 10Web | Flat plan price | 100/mo (Starter), 200 (Premium), 300 (Ultimate) |
| Base44 | Base plan plus AI credit consumption | 25 message credits/mo (Free) to 1,200 (Elite) |
| Bolt.new | Base plan plus AI token credit consumption | 1M tokens/mo (Free), from 10M/mo (Pro) |
| Durable | Flat plan price | 10 AI chats/mo (Free), 1,000 (Launch), unlimited (Grow) |
| Emergent | Base plan plus AI credit consumption | 10/mo (Free), 100 (Standard), 750 (Pro) |
| Framer | Flat plan price plus per-editor charge | 500/mo (Free), 1,000 (Basic), 3,000 (Pro) |
| Hostinger | Flat plan price | Not published as a numeric limit |
| Lovable | Base plan plus AI credit consumption | 100/mo on Pro and on Business |
| Squarespace | Flat plan price | 10 one-time (Basic), 20/mo (Core), 120/mo (Advanced) |
| v0 | Per-user plus AI credit consumption | Free: 7 messages/day; paid plans include a monthly credit budget per user |
| Webflow | Flat plan price per site | Not published as a number |
| Wegic | Base plan plus AI credit consumption | 600/mo (Starter), 2,000/mo (Premium) |
| Wix | Flat plan price | Not published as a numeric limit |
| WordPress.com | Flat plan price | Not published as a number |
An unstated ceiling is its own answer: you cannot budget against a limit nobody has told you. And consumption is front-loaded while the allowance is not. Building is where the generator gets hammered; running the same site later costs almost nothing. Consider a heavier plan while the site gets made and a lighter one once it is done.
Editors are the second meter: some plans cap them, some charge for each one, and some allow unlimited.
| Provider | Team members |
|---|---|
| 10Web | Not published |
| Base44 | Multi-user editing on every plan |
| Bolt.new | Teams plan adds team management, priced per member |
| Durable | Owner only on Free, unlimited on Grow |
| Emergent | Not stated |
| Framer | Owner free, then $20 per editor, hard ceiling of 10 |
| Hostinger | Not published |
| Lovable | Unlimited on every plan |
| Squarespace | 2 (Basic), unlimited from Core |
| v0 | Priced per user; team sharing on paid plans |
| Webflow | Via Workspace plans |
| Wegic | Not stated |
| Wix | 2 (Light) to 100 (Business Elite), hard caps |
| WordPress.com | Unlimited on every plan, including free |
If a bookkeeper, a contractor and an agency all need their own login, that row moves the answer. The Storage row is a third meter, and where a vendor publishes it as bandwidth, your visitors spend it rather than you.
Which model runs an AI website builder, and whether you can change it
The generator does the actual work, so what it is matters. Some vendors name the model, some describe it only as their own, and some do not say.
| Provider | AI model | Choose your AI |
|---|---|---|
| 10Web | GPT-4o, Gemini and Claude (multi-model) | No, fixed AI |
| Base44 | Selectable (model select on Builder+) | Yes, model selector (Builder+) |
| Bolt.new | Anthropic Claude | No, fixed AI |
| Durable | Proprietary | No, fixed AI |
| Emergent | Access to advanced models | Yes, LLM integration |
| Framer | Proprietary (Framer AI) | No, fixed AI |
| Hostinger | Not disclosed | No, fixed AI |
| Lovable | Anthropic Claude | Yes, Claude tiers (Sonnet/Opus) |
| Squarespace | Proprietary (uses OpenAI for copy) | No, fixed AI |
| v0 | v0 models (Mini/Pro/Max) plus all major models on paid plans | Yes, all models (Plus and above) |
| Webflow | Proprietary (Webflow AI) | No, fixed AI |
| Wegic | Not disclosed | No, fixed AI |
| Wix | OpenAI (ChatGPT) + DALL-E | No, fixed AI |
| WordPress.com | Proprietary | No, fixed AI |
That row earns its place at one moment: the generator gets stuck on the one feature you needed and no rephrasing moves it. Where you can escalate to a stronger model you have a lever to pull; where the model is fixed, you work around it by hand or start over elsewhere. If a builder lets you switch, check what a stronger model does to your usage budget.
Taking money through an AI website builder
If the site has to accept payment, that narrows this table before any price does.
| Provider | Online store |
|---|---|
| 10Web | Via WooCommerce |
| Base44 | Buildable, payments included |
| Bolt.new | Buildable, including payments |
| Durable | No |
| Emergent | Buildable |
| Framer | Via integrations |
| Hostinger | Unlimited plan and above |
| Lovable | Buildable, including payments |
| Squarespace | All plans, commission-free from Core |
| v0 | Buildable in code, payments via integration |
| Webflow | Via Ecommerce site plans |
| Wegic | Basic store from Starter |
| Wix | Core and above |
| WordPress.com | Commerce plan, bundles WooCommerce |
Read the values as three answers. Built in but gated by plan: selling decides which rung you are on, so read those as prices rather than ticks. Via an integration: the cost sits outside the plan price. Buildable: the most flexible answer and by far the largest job, because a checkout is order state, refunds, failed and duplicate payments, and someone to look at it when a customer says they were charged twice.
A service business that invoices after the work does not need a store. Durable is built for that case: its store row reads No while its integrations row reads Built-in CRM and invoicing, limited third-party.
One American question before you build. Sales tax is set at state and local level and the correct rate depends on where the buyer is, so ask whether the platform calculates destination-based sales tax at checkout or expects a separate tax service. We hold no field on tax handling, so that answer has to come from the vendor.