Hostinger Website Builder Alternatives

Squarespace Overview (2:41)

Squarespace is the best overall Hostinger alternative. In fact, it is the best overall website builder.

The Squarespace vs Hostinger comparison is almost like a finished product vs a work in progress: Squarespace is polished and feature-complete, while Hostinger is affordable but still in its early stages of development. If you want a more sophisticated platform than Hostinger, Squarespace is the most natural upgrade.

Here’s where Squarespace is better than Hostinger:

• Superior templates: Squarespace has nearly 200 beautifully crafted templates that are modern, spacious, and bold. They’re widely considered the best among DIY website builders. Hostinger’s templates are decent but visually plain by comparison.
• Far richer features: Blogging with comments and multiple authors, podcast publishing, robust ecommerce, calendar scheduling, restaurant ordering, donation forms, and membership areas. Many of these either don’t exist or are very limited in Hostinger. Hostinger even lacks blocks beyond the basic ones.
• Built-in marketing tools: Email marketing, SEO features, analytics, a simple CRM, and social media integration, all under one roof. With Hostinger, you’d need third-party tools for most of these (if it’s even possible, as Hostinger doesn’t have an app/plugin store; Squarespace does).
• Beginner-friendly despite its depth: We describe Squarespace as the “Apple” of website builders. It’s just well put together. There’s a short learning period, but it’s far from overwhelming.

The main trade-off is cost. Squarespace doesn’t have a free plan (only a 14-day trial), and plans start higher than Hostinger’s. But Hostinger’s headline $2.99 pricing comes with conditions, and Squarespace’s quality often justifies the price.

Pricing

Squarespace plans start at $16 per month on annual plans. There is no free plan, but they have a free trial—no credit card is required.

The base plan is perfect for non-business/non-ecommerce websites like personal sites, resume websites, portfolio websites, wedding websites, etc. However, you need to choose a Commerce plan otherwise, which starts at $27/month if you pay annually.

All annual plans include a free custom domain name for one year. 👍

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Wix Overview (3:27)

Wix is the best Hostinger alternative if you want maximum features and design freedom.

If you like Hostinger’s flexible editor, you’ll love Wix. Hostinger’s drag-and-drop interface feels like a lighter version of Wix’s editor. Wix pioneered the unstructured drag-and-drop approach, and you can move any element to any position on your page without rigid grid constraints. If that design freedom is what you’re after, why not go straight to the platform that perfected it?

Here’s where Wix is better than Hostinger:

• Unmatched design freedom: Wix’s editor lets you drag elements anywhere on the page, down to the pixel. Hostinger offers this to a degree, but Wix does it better and with more polish than any DIY website builder.
• Tons of features and apps: More features out-of-the-box than any other builder: forums, event calendars, booking systems, multilingual support, and more. Plus, the Wix App Market offers 500+ plugins. Hostinger has no app store at all.
• Huge template collection: 900+ templates across every category. Quality ranges from excellent to mediocre, but it’s overall better than Hostinger.
• Built-in business tools: CRM, email marketing, social media post creator, SEO guides, and AI-driven tools. Hostinger has a few AI features, but Wix’s toolkit is more extensive.
• Free plan available: Wix is one of the few major builders with a free plan. You can use it indefinitely for building and testing. Hostinger has no free tier at all.

The downside: Wix can be overwhelming. Its unstructured editor can lead to accidental misalignments, there’s a learning curve with so many options, and it’s pricier. Hostinger’s simplicity may actually be an advantage for users who want a quick, straightforward build.

Pricing

Wix plans start at $17/month and go up to $159/month (billed annually). The free plan includes Wix ads, no custom domain, and bandwidth limits. It’s mostly useful for experimenting before upgrading.

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An overview of Carrd. (2:06)

We consider Carrd and Hostinger the two best budget website builders. So, when talking about a budget-friendly alternative to Hostinger, Carrd is a top choice.

Carrd is focused on the niche of one-page websites. This makes it a great option for landing pages and personal websites that don’t need multiple pages.

For this niche use case, Carrd is superior to Hostinger:

• Simplicity: Carrd is designed for simple pages, so it doesn’t have the unnecessary-for-you options of Hostinger.
• Templates: Again, Carrd is designed for simple, one-page websites, and so are its templates. If you are Carrd’s target audience, you’ll find its templates more intentional.
• Low Price: Carrd’s free plan is awesome; the paid plan is just $19/year (YEAR!). This makes it a lot cheaper than Hostinger.

Carrd Pricing

Carrd has a great free plan, which would work for most use cases if you don’t mind Carrd branding. Then there’s a Pro Lite plan costing $9/year, but it doesn’t offer that much.

I like the $19/year Pro Standard plan the best — it allows up to 10 websites, custom domain URLs, widgets, and more.

Their most expensive plan gives access to advanced settings and costs $49/year.

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Webflow Overview (2:47)

Try Webflow if you find Hostinger and even Wix too constricting.

Webflow is the most customizable website builder on this list. If you can imagine it, you can probably make it with Webflow.

Just be aware: Webflow has a learning curve. So either you need to learn it (which can take days, weeks, or months depending on your technical experience) or hire a professional Webflow developer to make your website.

A popular analogy is that DIY website builders such as Hostinger are like Canva, and Webflow is like Photoshop: Anyone can use Canva and create graphics that work for many use cases. But for fully custom graphics/images, advanced photo editing features and manipulation capabilities of Photoshop do a superior job—the caveat is you need to know graphic design and learn Photoshop (it’s not intuitive).

Some of the Webflow features that are superior to Hostinger:

• Advanced Customization: Webflow offers greater design flexibility than Hostinger, making it ideal for those familiar with HTML & CSS.
• Full-Fledged CMS: Offers better CMS features than Hostinger, including custom collections and user submissions.
• Template Variety: Boasts over 2000 templates, surpassing Hostinger in quantity and design quality.
• Ecommerce Features: Offers more advanced ecommerce capabilities than Hostinger.

Pricing

Webflow has two types of plans:

1. General: There’s one free plan that’s sufficient for understanding the ins and outs of Webflow. Then there are the paid plans, starting at $14/month (pre-paid for the whole year). However, you’ll need to spend at least $23/month if you want CMS for blogging or anything else.
2. Ecommerce: Ecommerce plans start at $29/month (annually), but the beginner plan has a 2% transaction fee. For a 0% transaction fee, you’ll need to spend at least $74/month (billed annually).

They also have separate plans for freelancers and agencies offering Webflow services.

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Try Framer if you’re a design enthusiast who finds Hostinger’s templates too plain.

Framer started as a prototyping tool for designers, but it has evolved into a no-code website builder for creating highly custom, modern websites. It sits somewhere between a traditional DIY builder (like Squarespace) and a designer’s tool (like Webflow). It’s easier to learn than Webflow, but more powerful than most simple builders.

Here’s where Framer is better than Hostinger:

• Greater design flexibility: Framer gives you a blank canvas with powerful design tools. Custom layouts, overlapping elements, and interactive components that would be impossible in Hostinger’s builder.
• Top-notch animation: Animate elements on scroll, create parallax effects, add hover interactions, all through a visual interface with no coding needed. Far beyond Hostinger’s simple fade-in effects.
• Figma integration: A Figma-to-HTML plugin lets you import designs directly. If you already use Figma or Sketch, this is a huge productivity boost.
• No-code but code-ready: You don’t have to write code, but you can extend Framer with custom code blocks. Hostinger’s builder is completely closed with no option to add custom code.

The downside: Framer has a learning curve. If you have no background in web design, it won’t be plug-and-play. Its CMS and ecommerce features are limited, so it’s best for portfolios, landing pages, and marketing sites rather than large content-heavy sites or complex stores.

Pricing

Framer has a free plan for building and experimenting. To connect a custom domain, you’ll need a paid plan. Pricing is comparable to Squarespace and Wix mid-tier plans, but certainly more than Hostinger’s ultra-cheap intro price.

The Basic plan starts at $10/month, and the Pro plan at $30/month.

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