How we compare AI website builders
We list 13 AI website builders sold to US businesses, and a published rate card exists for 13 providers. Every figure here is what the vendor publishes to a US buyer in US dollars, so nothing has been converted and nothing moves with an exchange rate.
The calculator is driven by how many websites you need, how many people will edit them, whether you are bringing your own domain and whether you intend to sell. Those are the axes this market genuinely prices on. Ranking is arithmetic on the published rate at the inputs you enter. Commission never moves a provider up or down, and we do not sell placement.
One row deserves a look first, the billing basis, because a monthly figure attached to a commitment is not the same purchase as a month you can walk away from. Wix lists its basis as Annual only with a contract of Annual, paid in full up front, where most of this table lists None.
A page or a program: what an AI website builder actually builds you
The category name hides a split that matters more than any price on this page, because it decides what you are still running a year from now.
Part of the table generates a website. Pages, a content system, a contact form, perhaps a store. Squarespace reads No, CMS and member areas (no app backend), Framer reads No, CMS collections (no app backend), Hostinger reads No app backend (front-end site) and Durable reads No app backend (site plus basic CRM and invoicing). The rest generates software: Lovable reads Full-stack: Supabase (Postgres) + auth, Base44 reads Yes, full-stack (database + auth + payments), Bolt.new reads Yes, full-stack (database + auth), Emergent reads Yes, full-stack (hosting + auth) and v0 reads Yes, full-stack via Vercel. Those are applications with stored records and server code, not documents.
Three entries sit across the line and are easy to misread. Wix reads Yes, via Velo (database, auth, backend code), so a drag-and-drop builder can become a program if you push it there. WordPress.com reads Yes, WordPress database + auth (Business plan), making the capability a plan decision. 10Web reads Yes, full WordPress (MySQL), because the thing underneath is a real WordPress install.
The consequence is ongoing. A brochure site can sit untouched for a year and still be correct. An application holds state: people log in, records accumulate, files get uploaded, dependencies age underneath it. Someone has to care about who has access, what happens when a login breaks on a Saturday, and where the records go if you stop paying. So the question that sorts you into the right half is whether the thing you described in your prompt needs to remember anything about the person using it. If it does not, buy a site builder and skip the half of this table that ships a database.
ADA claims and the markup an AI website builder writes for you
American businesses receive demand letters and civil complaints alleging that their websites cannot be used by disabled visitors, and small businesses are very much on the receiving end of them. The pattern is well documented, and the complaints cluster on a short list of defects: images with no alternative text, text without enough contrast against what is behind it, form fields with no real label, controls that a mouse can operate and a keyboard cannot, and video with no captions.
The standard people build to in practice is WCAG. Far less settled is exactly what a private business website is obliged to do, because for private businesses 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 with a version number in it. The answer is contested and turns on the facts of a specific business, and it is not something a comparison table can settle for you.
What a comparison table can tell you is why generated markup is a live risk factor rather than a general worry. The generator writes the markup and you never see it. It will cheerfully emit a decorative image with no alternative text, use placeholder text where a label belongs, choose a color pair that reads fine on your screen and badly on someone else's, and build a control that keyboard focus never reaches. You did not ask for accessibility in the prompt, so the output did not include it, and nothing in the interface will mention that anything is missing. A site that looks finished can carry every one of those defects.
Two things follow.
An accessibility overlay is not a fix. These are widgets that promise to make a site compliant once you paste in a script. That claim is widely disputed, and overlays have themselves become a frequent subject of complaints rather than a shield against them. The defects above live in the markup, and something layered on top at page load is not where they get repaired.
Whether you can reach the markup is therefore a buying question. We hold no accessibility field for any provider here, so treat vendor claims on the subject as something you verify rather than something we can confirm. What our data does hold is how much of the build you can get at. Webflow lists Yes, code export, WordPress.com lists Yes, it is WordPress, Lovable lists Yes, GitHub sync, Bolt.new lists Yes, GitHub and Base44 lists Yes, two-way GitHub sync. At the other end, Squarespace lists No, Wix lists No, Hostinger lists No and Durable lists No.
A closed platform is not automatically worse, though. Where output comes from a curated library, the templates have been through human hands: Squarespace lists 150+, design-led and Framer lists Large marketplace, design-led. Where output is generated from nothing each time, nobody has reviewed the thing you are about to publish: Lovable lists None, output is generated, v0 lists None, output is generated and Durable lists AI-generated, limited manual control.
Whichever half you land in, spend twenty minutes on the site before you announce it:
Put the mouse away and tab through the whole thing. Every link, button, menu and form field should be reachable and operable from the keyboard, and you should always be able to see which element you are on.
Check every image for alternative text that says what the image is doing there. Generated markup often leaves this empty, and an empty one on a meaningful image is the most common finding of all.
Run your color pairs through a contrast checker. Brand colors chosen for a logo frequently fail as body text on a tinted background.
Look at whether form fields have real labels, rather than placeholder text that vanishes the moment someone types.
Caption any video. If the AI produced a hero video, it produced no captions with it.
The site publishes under your business name, so this is your work item and not the vendor's, whichever product generated it.
Which model is behind an AI website builder, and whether you can change it
The generator is doing the actual work, so what it is matters. Some vendors name the model, some describe it only as their own, and one does not say.
Bolt.new lists Anthropic Claude and Lovable lists Anthropic Claude. Wix lists OpenAI (ChatGPT) + DALL-E, 10Web lists GPT-4o, Gemini and Claude (multi-model) and v0 lists v0 models (Mini/Pro/Max) plus all major models on paid plans. Framer lists Proprietary (Framer AI), Webflow lists Proprietary (Webflow AI) and Hostinger lists Not disclosed. On whether you get a say, Base44 lists Yes, model selector (Builder+), v0 lists Yes, all models (Plus and above), Lovable lists Yes, Claude tiers (Sonnet/Opus) and Emergent lists Yes, LLM integration, while Squarespace lists No, fixed AI and Wix lists No, fixed AI.
That row earns its place at exactly one moment, and most people building anything non-trivial will hit it. The generator gets stuck, keeps producing the same broken version of the one feature you needed, and no amount of rephrasing moves it. Where you can escalate to a stronger model you have a lever to pull; where the model is fixed, your options are to work around it by hand or start over somewhere else. If a builder does let you switch, check what a stronger model does to whatever usage budget your plan includes, because the two rows are connected. Do not over-read a proprietary label either way: it tells you the vendor has wrapped something in its own product, not whether the output is good.
The meters running 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. 10Web lists its model as Flat plan price and Squarespace lists Flat plan price. Base44 lists Base plan plus AI credit consumption, v0 lists Per-user plus AI credit consumption, Framer lists Flat plan price plus per-editor charge and Webflow lists Flat plan price per site.
Where a meter exists, the unit is not standardised, so allowances are not comparable across vendors even when the numbers look similar. Base44 counts 25 message credits/mo (Free) to 1,200 (Elite), Bolt.new counts 1M tokens/mo (Free), from 10M/mo (Pro), Durable counts 10 AI chats/mo (Free), 1,000 (Launch), unlimited (Grow) and Emergent counts 10/mo (Free), 100 (Standard), 750 (Pro). Others publish no number at all: Wix lists Not published as a numeric limit, Webflow lists Not published as a number and WordPress.com lists Not published as a number. An unstated ceiling is its own answer: you cannot budget against a limit nobody has told you.
The thing to internalise is that your consumption is front-loaded and the allowance is not. Building is where the generator gets hammered, with round after round of regeneration in the first few days as you argue it towards something you like. Running that same site in its eleventh month costs almost nothing. Judge a plan against the allowance you need in build week, not the one that covers a quiet month afterwards, and consider a heavier plan while the site gets made and a lighter one once it is done.
Editors are the second meter, and they are capped rather than metered. Wix lists 2 (Light) to 100 (Business Elite), hard caps, Framer lists Owner free, then $30 per editor, hard ceiling of 10, Squarespace lists 2 (Basic), unlimited from Core and WordPress.com lists 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 third meter is spent by your visitors rather than by you: Framer lists 50GB bandwidth (Basic), Webflow lists 1GB bandwidth (Starter), 10GB (Basic), 50GB and up (Premium) and Hostinger lists 20GB (Premium), 50GB (Business). A video-heavy homepage and a good week of traffic spend that faster than the plan chart suggests.
Taking money through an AI website builder
If the site has to accept payment, that narrows this table before any price does, and it narrows it in three directions.
Built in, but gated by plan. Squarespace lists All plans, commission-free from Core, Wix lists Core and above, WordPress.com lists Commerce plan, bundles WooCommerce, Hostinger lists Business plan, up to 1,000 products and Webflow lists Via Ecommerce site plans. Read those as prices rather than as ticks, because selling decides which rung of the ladder you are on.
Bolted on. Framer lists Via integrations and 10Web lists Via WooCommerce. The capability is real and its cost sits outside the plan price, in a second product with its own bill and its own updates.
Buildable. Lovable lists Buildable, including payments, Bolt.new lists Buildable, including payments, Base44 lists Buildable, payments included and v0 lists Buildable in code, payments via integration. The most flexible answer and by far the largest job, because a checkout is not a page: it is order state, receipts, refunds, failed and duplicate payments, and someone to look at it when a customer says they were charged twice. Stripe is the common thread underneath, with Lovable listing integrations as Stripe, Supabase, GitHub, custom APIs.
Durable is the useful counter-example, listing e-commerce as No while listing integrations as Built-in CRM and invoicing, limited third-party. A service business that invoices clients after the work is done does not need a store, and buying a store plan to get an invoice is a common and expensive mistake.
One American question to put to any vendor here before you build rather than after. Sales tax is set at state and local level, thresholds for when an out-of-state seller has to collect vary by state, and the correct rate depends on where the buyer is, so it is not something a checkout can guess. Ask whether the platform calculates destination-based sales tax at the checkout, or whether it expects you to connect a separate tax service. We hold no field on tax handling for any provider here, so that answer has to come from the vendor.