Wix alternatives for small business: 4 picks for 2026

The 4 Wix alternatives, one by one

1. AdCrewly: a marketing crew that writes your website for you

AdCrewly is our product. Its Web Builder writes a multi-page website (home, about, services, contact and more) from what you tell it, and you change any page by asking in plain words or editing a line. Every website and landing page has a lead form and visit counts, and can run on a domain you own.

Shop, menu and bookings gives your business one page with your products or menu, order requests for pickup or delivery, and booking requests at the times you're open, with email reminders. Customers can pay by card on that page, straight into your own Stripe account. Then the same crew of eight AI marketers writes your posts, makes video ads and fixes your SEO, and you approve everything before it goes out.

• Good for: owners who want a website written for them and the marketing that brings people to it.
• Price: Free plan with no card: 1 connected account and 5 posts published for you each month. Paid plans run $39 to $1,999 a month per business, with a 14-day free trial on your first subscription and no seat fees. See AdCrewly pricing. Paid plans include 1 to 50 websites, depending on the plan.
• Also does: posts and video ads written in your brand voice, an SEO auditor with ready-to-paste fixes, and Instant replies for Instagram and Facebook messages. See websites and landing pages and AdCrewly vs Wix.

2. Squarespace: design-led templates

Squarespace builds websites from designer templates, with an online store, newsletter blocks and AI credits for its site tools. Scheduling and email campaigns are separate Squarespace products.

• Good for: owners who want to design a polished site themselves from a template.
• Price: Basic is $19 a month and Core $29 a month billed yearly ($25 and $39 billed monthly), up to Advanced at $99. Every site starts with a 14-day free trial, and yearly plans include a free domain for the first year.
• Know before you pick: Basic charges a 2% fee on online store sales, and you write and design the pages yourself.

3. Shopify: built for online stores

Shopify is an ecommerce platform for selling online and in person, with checkout, payments, shipping and a large app store.

• Good for: businesses whose website is mainly a store with many products.
• Price: Basic is $29 a month billed yearly or $39 billed monthly, Grow $79 or $105, and Advanced $299 or $399. It starts with a 3-day free trial, then $1 a month for 3 months on most plans.
• Know before you pick: it is a store first, so bookings for a service business come from an app you add.

4. WordPress.com: blogs and sites that grow

WordPress.com hosts websites and blogs built on open-source WordPress, with themes and, on paid plans, more than 60,000 plugins.

• Good for: owners who write a lot or want room to grow with plugins.
• Price: free plan with a WordPress.com address and ads. Personal is $4 a month, Premium $8, Business $25 and Commerce $45, billed yearly ($9, $18, $40 and $70 billed monthly). Yearly plans include a free domain for the first year.
• Know before you pick: you build and write the site yourself, and plugins start on the paid Personal plan.

How to choose

Start with the job you most want off your plate.

• You want the website written for you, plus the marketing: AdCrewly.
• You want to design a polished site from a template: Squarespace.
• You sell many products online: Shopify.
• You blog a lot or want plugins: WordPress.com.