The best Website tools
About Website
Your website is where people land when they are curious about what you do. In the thirty seconds they are there, they decide whether to move forward or leave. This means your website has a specific job: make it obvious who this is for, what problem you solve, and why you solve it better than the alternative. Then make it simple to take the next step. Most websites fail because founders try to say too much, show too much, or make it too hard to find the answer to the one question a visitor came to answer. This section covers how to structure your website around your visitor's question, how to design it so people actually read it, and how to measure whether it is doing the job. Start here if you are building a website for the first time or if your current one is not generating leads.
Top picks
Webflow
Builds responsive websites visually with a built-in CMS and ecommerce, producing HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Best for: Marketing teams, designers and agencies who want to build and run brand and content websites visually, with real design control and a CMS, and without waiting on developers.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Price
- From $15/mo
- MCP server
- Yes
- API
- Yes
Wix
Builds business websites and online stores without coding, with hosting, payments and blogging built in.
Best for: Small businesses, freelancers and solo founders without a developer who need a working website or online shop, with payments and bookings, live quickly and on one bill.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Price
- From $17.77/mo
- MCP server
- Yes
- API
- Yes
Squarespace
Build a polished marketing site or online store without managing hosting or writing code.
Best for: Founders, consultancies, creators and small businesses that want a polished marketing site or simple online store live quickly, without hiring a developer or managing hosting.
- Free plan
- No
- Price
- From €12/mo
- MCP server
- Yes
- API
- Yes
Shopify
Hosted online store platform that handles products, checkout, payments and orders for businesses selling online.
Best for: Brands and small businesses that sell physical or digital products online and want the store, checkout and payments handled for them instead of building their own.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Price
- From €21/mo
- MCP server
- Yes
- API
- Yes
Framer
Build and host responsive marketing sites with a visual canvas, built-in CMS and AI.
Best for: Designers and marketing teams who want to build, publish and change their company website themselves, with a CMS and hosting included, and without waiting for a developer.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Price
- From $10/mo
- MCP server
- API
- Yes
The top 4 side by side
| 8 points compared | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starts at | $15/mo | $17.77/mo | €12/mo | €21/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Built-in CMS / blog | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Native ecommerce | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosting | Yes | No | No | |
| Visual no-code editor | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
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All Website tools
- Builds responsive websites visually with a built-in CMS and ecommerce, producing HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Builds business websites and online stores without coding, with hosting, payments and blogging built in.
- Build a polished marketing site or online store without managing hosting or writing code.
- Hosted online store platform that handles products, checkout, payments and orders for businesses selling online.
- Builds simple responsive one-page websites without any code, using templates and drag-and-drop design.
- Hosted e-commerce platform for online stores, with B2B features, open APIs and plans tied to your sales volume.
- Sells digital products, subscriptions and physical goods from a simple online storefront with checkout built in.
- Free open-source e-commerce plugin for WordPress that turns a site into an online store you fully control.
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How we rank
Every tool in a category is ranked by the same rule, worked out from the data we hold, not by who pays us. In order:
- How many of the category's shared features it has.
- Whether there is a free plan to start on.
- How open it is to AI: an API and an MCP server.
- Whether its pricing is public.
- Name, A to Z, when all else is equal.
When we add a tool or learn more about one, the ranking updates by itself.