Best Website Builders for Freelancers 2026

Webflow takes the top spot because a client buying design judges your site first. It gives you more control over layout and interactions than anything else here, with no code, which is why it scores 4.8 on features. The Basic plan, $15 a month billed yearly, connects your own domain and gives you 300 static pages and unlimited form submissions. That covers a portfolio and a services page.

The catch is one word: CMS. If you want case studies you can add like entries in a list, you need Premium at $25. One user paid $79 for a template, then found it relied on the CMS the free plan blocks. Read the template's requirements before you buy. The other gap for a solo business: Webflow site plans take neither bookings nor payments. You'll plug in an external scheduler and pay for it separately.

WordPress is the tool for freelancers who sell expertise in writing. A post that answers your next client's exact question keeps working for years. With around 70,000 plugins, it handles booking, forms, email capture and a store through WooCommerce, which earns it a 4.9 on features, the highest score on this page.

You can run it two ways. The free software, installed with any host: you keep everything and can switch hosts without rebuilding. Or WordPress.com, the managed version, from $4 a month billed yearly. Watch out for monthly billing: it doesn't include a free domain. The cost of that freedom shows in the 3.2 support score: on self-hosted WordPress, updates, backups and security are on you. If that worries you, pick the managed version.

Wix is the only mainstream builder here that does everything a time-selling freelancer needs in one place: scheduling, online payments, deposits. You decide per service whether clients pay online or in person, and you can require a deposit, which is always paid online. All of it needs at least Core, $29.77 a month on a yearly plan: the cheaper Light plan includes neither payments nor booking. Ease of use scores 4.6; the drag-and-drop editor is easy.

Two things to check before you sign. Renewals: a lot of negative reviews describe multi-year renewals people didn't want. Turn off auto-renew if you're unsure. And leaving: a Wix site can't be exported to another builder. Freelancers regularly pay someone to rebuild their Wix site on WordPress.

Squarespace has the most polished templates of the easy builders, plus a feature other rankings skip: sending and collecting invoices, free on every plan. For a consultant on retainers, that's one less subscription. Basic is $19 a month billed yearly; the store takes a 2% transaction fee there, dropping to 0% from Core. Card processing is 2.9% plus $0.30 on Basic and Core.

Booking is a separate product: Acuity Scheduling, from $16 a month billed yearly on Starter, with payments and deposits through Stripe, Square or PayPal. Squarespace Basic plus Acuity Starter comes to $35 a month billed yearly. Run that math against Wix Core before choosing. In reviews, two complaints come up: support that answers with canned bot messages, and trouble getting a domain back when leaving. Keep your domain with a separate registrar.

Framer is the natural choice for designers who already work in design tools: the logic feels familiar, and animations take no code. Basic, at $10 a month, connects your domain and includes 30 pages and two CMS collections of 1,000 items, say your case studies and your posts. A domain is included for the first year on yearly billing.

Its limit for a freelancer: no native booking or payments, same as Webflow. The free plan doesn't take a custom domain, so a portfolio you send to clients needs at least Basic. Watch the add-ons: extra bandwidth is $40 per 100 GB. On review sites, the small number of complaints is mostly about canceling the subscription, not the product itself: note when your term ends.

Carrd does one thing: one-page sites. That's the point. Pro Standard costs $19 a year, not a month, and includes a custom domain, forms and embeds, for up to ten sites. A form can even take a payment through Stripe or PayPal. Hence a 4.8 on value for money, the best on this page.

The trap is Pro Lite at $9 a year: no custom domain and no forms. For a professional site, go Standard. One page also means little room for search: you won't build a blog on Carrd. For booking, embed a tool like Calendly on the page.

PageCloud bets on simplicity: you place a block anywhere on the page, like on a slide. It scores 4.3 on ease of use and 4.2 on support, two good marks for someone who doesn't want to learn a tool. Booking runs through a Calendly integration, and an SEO toolkit covers the basics. On yearly billing, the domain is included for the first year.

The weak spot is price: Launch costs $22 a month billed yearly, more than Wix Light or Squarespace Basic, for fewer features, hence a 3.0 on value for money. And selling online isn't part of the starting plan.

Hostinger shows the lowest headline price on this page: $2.49 a month on Premium, if you prepay 48 months, $119.52 in total. The domain is free for the first year and the plan covers up to three sites. The editor is simple, and many reviewers praise the design freedom.

The number that matters isn't $2.49, it's $10.99: the renewal price, charged automatically when the term ends. Some customers report a renewal amount different from the quote they received. Put the date in your calendar. Selling online needs Unlimited ($3.49, then $16.99). Appointment booking is mentioned by Hostinger but doesn't appear in any plan's feature list, so don't count on it for a coaching calendar.