Wix

Yes, Wix has a genuinely free plan — but with limits. Your site uses a wix.com subdomain, shows Wix ads, and you can't connect a custom domain or sell properly. It's fine for testing or a hobby page; for a professional site you'll need a paid plan (from US$17/mo) to remove the ads and use your own domain.

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Wix is far more capable for most websites — thousands of templates, e-commerce, marketing tools and real design freedom. Google Sites is a free, bare-bones tool best for simple internal or informational pages inside Google Workspace. For a genuine business or personal-brand site, Wix wins comfortably; for a quick internal page, Google Sites is enough.

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Once you pick a template you can't switch to a different one without rebuilding, the cheapest plans have storage and feature limits, and a feature-packed Wix site can load a little slower than a lean hand-built one. You also can't migrate a Wix site to another platform. For most users the convenience and flexibility outweigh these trade-offs.

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Wix offers more flexibility, more templates and an easier learning curve, with true drag-and-drop placement. Squarespace gives more consistently polished, designer-quality results and is a favorite for portfolios and content-led sites. Choose Wix for flexibility and features, Squarespace for refined design straight out of the box.

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Wix paid plans start at US$17/mo for the entry Light tier and rise through the mainstream Core plan (around US$29/mo) to higher Business and Business Elite tiers, all billed annually; monthly billing costs a little more. There's also a free plan with Wix branding. Most small businesses are well served by the Core plan.

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No. Wix is an Israeli company, founded in Tel Aviv in 2006 and publicly traded on the Nasdaq. It has no connection to Russia.

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Wix is the stronger design tool, with far more templates, true drag-and-drop control and richer built-in features. GoDaddy's builder is faster and simpler to set up but noticeably more limited on design. For creative control choose Wix; if you just want the quickest possible simple site, GoDaddy can do the job.

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