Top 10 Website Builders for Small Business (2026)

Wix comes first with a score of 99. It does 19 of the 20 things a small business site needs on its own, and the last one in part. Bookings, a store, card payments and email campaigns are all built in. A business that sells a service, such as a hair salon, can take bookings and payments without adding another app.

The price needs care. The Wix plans page shows only yearly prices, paid in full at purchase: Light costs $17 a month on that basis. Monthly billing is chosen at checkout, and its price was not shown on any Wix page read. Monthly plans also come without the free domain voucher that yearly plans include.

Light does not take payments. Selling starts on Core, at $29 a month billed yearly, with 50 GB of storage. The free plan shows Wix ads, uses a wixsite.com address and cannot take payments. A business email address is a Google Workspace plan bought on top. Restoring an older version of the site erases every change made after it.

WordPress.com has the lowest monthly price of the ten: $9 for Personal, paid month to month. It is a managed WordPress platform: WordPress.com hosts and runs WordPress, the publishing software, for the site owner. It scores 94 and ties with Strikingly and Shopify; the lower price puts it second.

Personal includes 6 GB of storage and accepts plugins (small add-on programs installed on the site). That matters for selling: WordPress.com says plugins can be installed on every paid plan, and WooCommerce, the store plugin, is one of them. The dedicated Commerce plan costs $70 a month. Card payment buttons with PayPal and Stripe start on Premium, where WordPress.com keeps 4% of each payment.

The yearly price is lower at first: $4 a month in the first year, then $5. Monthly plans include no free domain. Page titles and descriptions for Google need Premium or above. Bookings come through a Calendly block, a separate scheduling service, from Premium up.

Strikingly builds sites from ready-made sections that are edited by clicking on them, without code. It scores 94: it does 18 of the 20 things in full. Elements are not dragged freely on the page, which keeps layouts simple but less flexible.

On monthly billing Pro is $20; paid yearly, it drops to $16 a month. A yearly plan cannot be switched back to monthly later, so start monthly if unsure. Pro sells up to 300 products, but Strikingly keeps 2% of each sale. Only VIP, at $59 per month on the monthly plan, drops that fee to zero and adds several languages and newsletters.

The free plan is real but small: one product for sale, with a 5% fee, and 500 MB of storage. The site stays on a Strikingly address. A mailbox at the business's domain is a paid extra, at $25 a year.

Shopify is a store first and a website second. It scores 94, level with WordPress.com and Strikingly, and comes fourth on price. Every plan sells an unlimited number of products. Its own payment service charges card fees from 2.9% plus 30 cents per online sale on Basic.

Basic is $39 on a month-to-month plan and $29 a month when paid for a year. There is no free plan: a 3-day trial is followed by an introductory price of $1 a month for 3 months, then the standard price. A payment provider other than Shopify Payments adds a 2% fee per order on Basic. No free domain comes with a plan; domains start at $9 a year.

Three gaps matter for a service business. Appointment booking needs an app from the Shopify App Store. A mailbox at the store's domain needs another email host, because Shopify only forwards messages. Basic includes no extra staff accounts; Grow allows 5.

Hostinger is a web host. Each plan builds a site with its AI Builder, by drag and drop, or runs WordPress instead. It scores 93 and ranks fifth, ahead of Duda on price. Premium lists two mailboxes per website, free at first and then $0.59 a month each, so the business email comes from the same company.

Read the price carefully. The pricing page opens on a 48-month offer: Premium at $1.99 a month, paid upfront, renewing at $10.99. Choosing a one-month term shows the real monthly price: $12.99, renewing at the same amount. All plans are paid upfront, whatever the term.

Premium has no store. Selling needs Unlimited: $18.99 per month on the one-month term. On the longer offers read, the store is free for 12 months, then costs $1.99 a month. Hostinger takes no fee on sales. There is no phone app to manage the site, and a multilingual site is capped at 4 languages.

Duda is built for professionals who make sites for clients. Its own pricing page says its plans are designed for agencies, software companies and professionals who build sites for clients. A small business usually meets Duda through its web designer, not by signing up alone.

It scores 93: bookings, email campaigns, several languages and a store are all built in. The Basic account plan, for one site, runs $25 per month on monthly billing or $19 on yearly billing. Selling needs a second subscription on top: the Standard site plan, at $8 a month, for up to 100 products. So a shop on Duda comes to $33 a month when both are paid monthly. Duda takes no fee on sales.

The free domain is bought through IONOS and costs money from the second year. Basic includes no team seats; the Team plan does. No business mailbox and no phone app were found on Duda's site, and its help centre refused to be read.

SITE123 lays content into preset layouts, so the owner fills in sections rather than placing elements. SITE123 itself presents this as an alternative to drag and drop. It scores 92 and ranks seventh, ahead of IONOS on price.

The pricing page shows one paid card, Premium, at $12.80 a month, but the card does not say for which billing term. SITE123 sells no plan shorter than three months. Its pricing questions give a yearly price as low as $10.80 a month, paid upfront, to connect a domain. The prices of each plan are only shown inside the account.

Every plan can run a store, even the free one, and SITE123 takes no fee on sales. Card payments need the Professional plan; PayPal starts on Advanced. The free plan offers 250 MB of storage and a SITE123 address. Mailboxes start with Advanced. No phone app for owners was found.

IONOS is a host and domain seller, and MyWebsite Now is its site builder. It scores 92 and comes eighth. A domain for the first year, an SSL certificate (the padlock that shows the site is secure) and an email address come in every plan.

IONOS shows no monthly billing: every price is for a 1-year term. Starter costs $6 a month in the first year, then $14 a month. Plus costs $1 a month in the first year, less than Starter, then $20. Comparing the second-year price avoids a surprise at renewal.

Starter is capped at 10 pages and has no bookings and no translations; both start on Plus. A store needs the store version of a plan: Online Store Starter renews at $26 a month and holds up to 500 products. IONOS takes no fee on sales. No team roles and no way to restore an older version were found in its help centre.

Squarespace starts every site from a designed template, edited in its Fluid Engine editor. It scores 90, because five features are only partly covered. Email campaigns are a paid add-on, and bookings run on Acuity Scheduling, a separate Squarespace subscription.

Paid month by month, Basic is $25; paid yearly, $19 a month. Every plan can sell an unlimited number of products. On Basic, though, Squarespace keeps 2% of each store sale, on top of card fees. Core removes that fee, for $39 on monthly billing.

The free domain comes only with yearly billing. Basic allows two contributors. Translations go through Weglot, an outside service with its own plans. A deleted page can be restored within 30 days, but Squarespace has no auto-save, so content lost while editing cannot always be recovered.

Webnode calls itself a website builder made for small businesses. It scores 89, level with Webflow, and takes tenth place on its lower price. Its editor moves whole sections, and backups and several languages come from the Standard plan.

MINI, the entry plan with monthly billing, is $14.50 a month, or $8.50 on a yearly plan. MINI has no store and keeps the Webnode branding. A store needs Standard ($24.90 per month, paid monthly), and Webnode takes no fee on sales. The cheapest plan, Limited, is sold on yearly billing only.

Monthly billing removes the free first-year domain. The free plan stays on a Webnode address, and its forms cannot be published. Webnode mailboxes cannot send newsletters; Webnode points to services such as Mailchimp. Bookings come from SimplyBook.me, a partner with its own paid tiers.