Every Head-to-Head, Scored
Six builders. Five bouts. One scorecard that never changes. Every matchup is judged on the same five rounds, so a 7.7 means the same thing on every page.
Every website builder comparison on this site is scored as a bout: two platforms, five rounds, one card. The axes never change, the evidence never changes, and the arithmetic never changes. So a 7.7 on one page means exactly what a 7.7 means on the next. That is the whole value of the thing. Read down the card and you can see which builders keep taking rounds and which keep getting carried by a single strength.
The bout cards are above. What follows is the analysis behind them: how a decision gets made, what each matchup actually turned on, and the patterns that only surface once six fighters have been put through the same five rounds.
How a bout is judged
Five rounds, every time. Ease, Design, Value, Power, Support. Each is scored from 0 to 10 against documented capability and published pricing, never against a hunch. The overall is the arithmetic mean of the five, carried to one decimal. No round is weighted above another, because the round that matters most to you is not the round that matters most to the next reader.
- Ease — how quickly a competent non-developer gets from signup to a published page they are not embarrassed by.
- Design — the floor and the ceiling of what the platform outputs, including template craft and how much art direction you get for free.
- Value — what the plan you will actually need costs at the price you will actually pay, renewals and transaction fees included.
- Power — CMS depth, ecommerce, technical SEO control, integrations, and multi-site or team tooling.
- Support — channels, hours, and whether a human is reachable on the day the site breaks.
The overall does not decide the bout on its own. We run the rounds. Whoever takes more rounds takes the decision; a tied round goes in the book as drawn and counts for neither corner. When the rounds split evenly and the two overalls sit within 0.2 of each other, the bout is a draw — and a draw is a real result here, not a dodge. Two builders can be equally good at genuinely different jobs. The full method, including how evidence is gathered and when a score gets revised, is set out in how matchups are scored.
| Matchup | Winner | Margin | Decided on | Read |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Squarespace vs Webflow | Squarespace, split decision | 7.7–7.5 | The design head start against the learning curve | /blog/squarespace-vs-webflow/ |
| Webflow vs Framer | Draw | 7.5–7.5 | CMS ceiling against design speed | /blog/webflow-vs-framer/ |
| Weebly vs Wix | Wix, shutout | 8.3–4.8 | The 26 December 2026 deletion date | /blog/weebly-vs-wix/ |
| Hostinger vs Squarespace | Draw | 7.7–7.7 | Total cost of ownership against design credibility | /blog/hostinger-vs-squarespace/ |
| Webflow vs Wix | Wix, on points | 8.3–7.5 | Learning curve and support hours | /blog/webflow-vs-wix/ |
Squarespace vs Webflow: the design champion against the technical heavyweight
Squarespace 7.7, Webflow 7.5. Split decision to Squarespace, and the margin flatters neither corner. This is not a price fight. It is a fight about whether you want the design decisions already made.
Squarespace hands you an art-directed site on day one and takes the controls away. Webflow hands you a graphical interface onto the CSS box model and takes the head start away. Squarespace takes the Ease round 8.5 to 4.5, the widest gap in any round anywhere on this card. Webflow takes Power 9.5 to 7.0 on 20,000 CMS items across 40 Collections, CMS-driven dynamic meta, and localization Squarespace has no answer to. Design is drawn at 9.5, which surprises people and should not: both are excellent at opposite ends of the same job.
Value goes to Webflow 7.0 to 6.5, narrowly, and only if you read the small print in both directions. Squarespace's $29-a-month Core is the real number you pay. Webflow's $25-a-month Premium is not, once a paid Workspace and seats stack on top of it. Take Squarespace for a portfolio, a restaurant or a studio — the 14-day trial needs no card and Blueprint AI is included on it. Take Webflow for a content engine, an agency deliverable, or any site you may one day need to export. The round-by-round is in the full Squarespace vs Webflow bout report.
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Webflow vs Framer: the closest bout on the card
Webflow 7.5, Framer 7.5. Draw. Two rounds apiece and Design tied at 9.5 — the only bout here where the scorecards agree that neither fighter won.
Framer takes Ease 6.5 to 4.5 and Value 8.0 to 7.0. Webflow takes Power 9.5 to 7.0 and Support 7.0 to 6.5. None of that is a fudge; they simply ask you to think in different languages. Framer asks for design thinking — frames, stacks, layers — and a designer arriving from Figma is productive in hours. Webflow asks for CSS thinking — divs, classes, the box model — and pays you back with no ceiling. Speed against ceiling, and both answers are defensible.
Two facts settle it in practice rather than on points. Framer has no code export at all, and Webflow's export needs a paid Workspace and leaves the CMS behind. There is also no clean migration path between the two in either direction: collection content moves as CSV, structure and design do not. Framer's $20 editor seat against Webflow's $39 full seat is the other lever, and it bites hard on a three-editor team. Choose carefully, because this decision is close to permanent. Full analysis in the Webflow vs Framer bout report.
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Weebly vs Wix: the only stoppage on the card
Wix 8.3, Weebly 4.8. Wix takes all five rounds — the only shutout on this card — and the scoreline is the least interesting thing about the bout.
On 20 June 2026, Square announced it is winding Weebly down in 67 countries. Publishing froze in those markets on 29 June 2026. Sites there stop serving visitors on 27 September 2026. Accounts and everything in them are permanently deleted on 26 December 2026. That is not a global shutdown, and getting the distinction wrong is the fastest way to give bad advice: the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Iceland, Andorra and nearly all of Western Europe are not on the list, and sites in those markets stay live.
They stay live in maintenance mode, though. No new features, the mobile app pulled from the app stores, and Square steering new commerce customers toward Square Online. Weebly's block editor is still marginally simpler than Wix's free-form canvas, and it wins nothing, because ease of use has to include the part where the platform is still there next year. If you are in one of the 67 countries, the order of operations matters: move the domain first, because transfers require an active account, then export your content, then rebuild. The Weebly vs Wix bout report carries the full timeline.
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Hostinger vs Squarespace: a genuine draw at 7.7
Squarespace 7.7, Hostinger 7.7. Ease is drawn at 8.5. Squarespace takes Design 9.5 to 7.0 and Power 7.0 to 6.0. Hostinger takes Value 9.0 to 6.5 and Support 8.0 to 7.0. Two rounds each and one drawn — an honest draw, arrived at from opposite directions.
The question underneath is blunt. Do you want the site to look expensive, or do you want it to be cheap? Hostinger is a hosting company that bundles a builder, and its headline $2.99 to $3.99 a month requires a multi-year prepay before renewing at roughly three to four times that. Squarespace is a design company that bundles hosting, and its $19 Basic and $29 Core are the steady-state prices you keep paying — although the July 2026 rise of up to 26 percent landed on existing subscribers at renewal with no announcement, which is exactly the kind of thing the Value round is for.
Fees swing it for some sellers. Hostinger charges no transaction fee of its own. Squarespace Basic takes 2 percent on physical products, and 7 percent on digital products and memberships, dropping to 5 percent on Core and 0 percent only at Advanced. Support is the other quiet difference: 24/7 live chat against no phone line at all and weekday-only chat hours. Read it round by round in the Hostinger vs Squarespace bout report.
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Webflow vs Wix: the professional tool against the consumer product
Wix 8.3, Webflow 7.5. Wix on points, three rounds to two. Wix takes Ease 9.0 to 4.5, Value 7.5 to 7.0 and Support 8.5 to 7.0. Webflow takes Design 9.5 to 8.0 and Power 9.5 to 8.5.
The interesting part is what did not save Webflow. Webflow can export static HTML, CSS and JavaScript on a paid Workspace. Wix exports essentially nothing, and additionally locks you to your chosen template once you publish. Portability is a genuine advantage, and it still does not win a card, because the learning cost is paid on day one and most owners never leave. Round scores reward the site you get, not the exit you might take.
So the decision is about who you are, not which tool is objectively better. Building your own site for your own business, with bookings or a modest store? Wix. Building sites for other people, or growing on content and technical SEO? Webflow. The evidence is laid out in the Webflow vs Wix bout report.
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What the card tells you overall
Five bouts, twenty-five rounds, six fighters. A few patterns hold across all of it, and they are more useful than any single verdict.
- Nobody is unbeatable. The highest overall on the card is 8.3, and it belongs to a builder that only ever appears in the opposing corner.
- Ease has the widest spread of any round — 4.5 to 9.0 — and it swings more bouts than Design does. Design is where the top compresses: three platforms sit on 9.5 and all three earn it.
- Support is the round buyers ignore and then regret. Create.net scores 8.5 there, level with Wix and above every other builder profiled here, on a plan that starts at £9.99 a month.
- Margins are thin. Three of the five bouts are drawn or decided by 0.2, which is precisely why the round-by-round matters more than the overall.
- Portability is never priced by the vendor and always matters later. Framer has no export at all, Squarespace 7.1 exports almost nothing usable, and Wix exports nothing of consequence.
- Squarespace is the only builder profiled here to leave the card unbeaten: one decision won, one draw, no losses.
Requesting a matchup
The card grows by request. If two builders covered here have not been put in the ring together and you want the scorecard, ask. Bouts between fighters already profiled on this site are quickest to run, because the tale of the tape exists already and only the round-by-round has to be written and checked.
Two things we will not do. We will not score a bout we cannot evidence: where published pricing is ambiguous, or a vendor's own documentation contradicts itself, the matchup waits until the sources agree rather than shipping a confident-looking guess. And we will not turn an opposing corner into a standalone profile. Builders like Wix and Hostinger are scored on the same five rounds so the tale of the tape is comparable inside the bout, and that is where they stay.
Requests, corrections and pricing changes go to the contact address in the footer. Pricing on this list moves fast — Squarespace raised prices in July 2026, Webflow rebuilt its entire plan ladder in May 2026 — and a card that is not maintained is not a card.