Websites and hosting

Wix alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

webstudio-is/webstudio8,809AGPL-3.0Open-source visual website builder with a browser-based drag-and-drop editor and headless CMS integrations.Open on GitHub halo-dev/halo39,485GPL-3.0All-in-one open-source site builder and CMS for blogs, documentation, and corporate websites with templates and hosting options.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Wix AI Agents (Aria, Kleo, Omni, Juno) and integrated AI workflows
Multi-cloud managed hosting with enterprise SLA
Built-in payments, bookings and deep business-tool integrations
Thousands of built-in templates and media curated by Wix
24/7 Customer Care and enterprise-grade security monitoring

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Wix, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.