Website builders compared
Wix is a popular website builder, and its free plan gets a lot of people started. For a business site on your own domain, a paid plan with one email address comes to about £205 a year on Wix Light and £306 on Core at the standard price. With Gravity Host it is £75 a year, with as many email addresses as you like.
Wix's prices and terms below were read from its own website on 11 November 2026. Check its site for changes since.
The short answer
Wix is a website builder with monthly and yearly plans. Gravity Host is web hosting with a free website builder, email at your domain and a person to ask, for one yearly price.
Side by side
Quotation marks show Wix's own wording. Each Wix row links to the page it came from. Our prices are the total you pay.
| What you need | Wix | Gravity Host |
|---|---|---|
| Price for a business website | Light £9 a month, Core £16, Business £25, paid yearly. Before tax: “Prices do not include applicable taxes”, so with 20% added Light is £129.60 a year and Core £230.40. Core and Business are half price in the first year during the current sale, which renews “at the standard rate”. Plans, billing | £45 for the first year, then £75 a year for 15 GB hosting. That is the total you pay. The website builder, email and SSL are included. |
| The free plan | Free, on an address like username.wixsite.com/sitename, and “your free site includes a Wix banner ad at the top”. Your own domain needs a paid plan. Banner ad | No free plan. Every site is on your own domain, with nothing of ours on it you cannot switch off. 30-day money-back guarantee. |
| Refunds and renewing | A 14-day refund on first purchases; “the refund policy does not apply to renewals”. Yearly plans are charged up to three weeks before they end. Cancelling | Your money back on hosting if you cancel in the first 30 days. |
| Your domain name | A voucher for one free year on a yearly plan, for a new domain bought from Wix. Plans | .co.uk and .uk £10 a year, .com £15 a year, the same price every year, and yours to move whenever you like. Domain prices |
| Email at your domain | Not included on any plan. Google Workspace is bought separately, “starting at $7” a month for each mailbox (about £5.25) before tax. Business email | As many addresses as you want, included. Or keep Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace if you already use them. |
| Building the site | A drag-and-drop editor where anything can go anywhere, with a large template library. | Our free website builder: nine hand-designed templates, click any word or photo to change it. Or tell us what your business is and we make a first draft with your name on it. WordPress and over 200 other apps install in one click. |
| Selling online | Light cannot take payments. From Core you can, and card fees through Wix Payments are 2.1% + £0.20. Memberships you sell carry a further 4% on Core and 2% on Business. Payment fees | Install OpenCart, or WordPress with WooCommerce, in one click. We take nothing from your sales; card fees are your payment provider's. |
| Storage | Light 2 GB, Core 50 GB, Business 100 GB. Plans | 15 GB of fast UK storage and a 1 TB monthly bandwidth allowance. Move up a size at any time. |
| Leaving one day | No export. “Your site must run on Wix's servers.” Exporting your site | Every file, page and database is yours. Download the lot from your account whenever you like, and take it to any host. |
| Help from a person | A free callback in English at any hour; chat on weekdays. Phone support comes sooner on higher plans. Plans | Message us and a person in the UK reads it and replies. Asking a question is always free. |
The yearly bill
A small business website with one email address at its own domain, from the second year on. Neither bar includes the domain name.
Wix: the plan at its standard yearly price, plus one Google Workspace mailbox at $7 a month, both with 20% tax added. Gravity Host: 15 GB hosting at its renewal price, with as many mailboxes as you like.
Wix Light cannot take payments; Core can. During the current sale Core is half price for its first year. Gravity Host is £45 in the first year. Wix's mailbox price is in dollars at $1 = £0.748, the rate on 11 November 2026.
The domain name, on both sides. Ours is £10 a year for a .co.uk. Wix gives a voucher for the first year on a yearly plan.
Wix's price buys an editor where anything can go anywhere, and help at any hour. If those matter most, they are worth paying for. If you mainly need a good website, email that works and a bill that stays small, the difference is £130 to £230 a year.
Where the money goes
With a website builder the yearly bill is several bills: the plan, a mailbox for each person, and the domain once its free year ends.
With Gravity Host there are two: hosting at £75 a year, and your domain at £10 or £15. Everything else is inside the hosting:
See what's included for the full list.
Moving across
Wix sites run on Wix's servers, so the site is rebuilt here rather than copied. That is less work than it sounds:
Not sure how much there is to move? Send us the address and we will tell you plainly before you order.
Common questions
For a small business website with email, yes. Once the sale price ends, Wix Light with one Google Workspace mailbox is about £205 a year with tax, and Core about £306. Gravity Host is £75 a year with as many email addresses as you like. Both add a domain name on top.
A Wix address and a Wix banner ad at the top of every page. To use your own domain and remove the banner you need a paid plan, and email at your domain is extra on every plan.
Not by copying it. Wix sites run on Wix's servers, so the site is rebuilt here rather than copied, with our website builder. Then you point your domain at us.
Yes. Point it at us and leave it there, or move it to us so the domain and hosting are on one account. A .co.uk with us is £10 a year, a .com £15.
Not one where anything can go anywhere. Our builder is simpler: pick one of nine hand-designed templates and click any word or photo to change it. If you want more control, WordPress installs in one click.
Ready when you are
15 GB hosting is £45 for your first year, then £75 a year, with the website builder included. Tell us what your business is and we will make a first draft for you to change.
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