Best for
Best for individuals and small businesses who want a simple site or shop running quickly without designing it.
- Freelancers
- Small and mid-sized
Website Builders Comparison
SITE123 vs. Webnode
At a glance
At a glance
Best for
Best for small businesses that want an inexpensive, multilingual site without designing it themselves.
- Freelancers
- Small and mid-sized
Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.
Full Comparison
| Criterion | SITE123 | Webnode |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free The free plan has 250 MB storage and bandwidth on a subdomain. A custom domain needs a premium package, sold for 3, 12, 24 or 36 months with larger discounts on longer terms; the pricing page shows no amount for it. | Free; paid plans from $4.50 / month Limited plan, billed yearly, at the discounted rate shown on the pricing page on 10 October 2026 (regular $6). No free domain on Limited. Prices in USD. |
| Free trial | Free plan with no credit card required; 14-day money-back guarantee on premium plans | Free plan with hosting and unlimited pages; 15-day refund on the first premium order |
| Output | Hosted websites, blogs, landing pages and online stores | Hosted websites, blogs and online stores |
| Hosting | Cloud hosting by SITE123 on every plan, with SSL | Not stated |
| What it makes | Business websites, blogs, landing pages, portfolios, digital business cards and online stores, with booking, restaurant reservations, events, forums and online courses as page types | Websites, blogs and online stores for small businesses and individuals, started from a template or generated by AI from a description |
| Styling and layout control | Ready-made styles and layouts that can be swapped at any time, 120 curated colour palettes, a colour generator from an uploaded image, hundreds of fonts with line, letter and word spacing, and shape dividers between sections. The vendor describes its editor as not drag and drop | Templates customised in a visual editor where content is added and moved around; video backgrounds from Mini, and Webnode branding removed from Standard upwards |
| CMS and dynamic content | One-page or multi-page sites with dropdown menus, a blog with scheduled posts and Facebook or Disqus comments, custom forms, a services list with custom attributes, and multilingual websites | Pages and blog posts, members-only areas with up to 100 members on Standard and unlimited from Profi, multiple language versions (two on Standard, unlimited from Profi) and site search from Profi |
| Hosting and domains | Hosted by SITE123 with SSL on every plan. The free plan runs on a SITE123 subdomain with 250 MB storage and bandwidth; Premium connects your own domain, includes a free domain for the first year on annual plans and 3 GB of storage and bandwidth, and the domain panel edits DNS records and redirects extra domains | Hosted by Webnode on every plan, from 500 MB storage on Limited to 100 GB on Business. Every paid plan connects your own domain, and yearly Mini, Standard, Profi and Business packages include a free domain for the first year |
| SEO controls | SEO title and description per page, which AI can generate page by page, plus Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools and Google Tag Manager from the App Market | Per-page title, meta description, editable URL slug, image alt text, 301 redirects and Open Graph tags, with automatic canonical tags and XML sitemap; custom HTML such as schema markup from Standard |
| E-commerce | An online store on every plan, with coupons, inventory tracking, shipping and tax rates by country, 80+ currencies and wire-transfer payments. PayPal needs the Advanced plan or higher, credit-card gateways such as Stripe and Braintree need Professional or higher, and digital products need Professional or Gold. SITE123 states it takes no transaction fee on store sales | Online store from Standard. Profi adds product variants, discounts, international shipping, a product feed and conversion tracking; Business adds multiple currencies, automatic invoicing, manual orders and store email customization |
| Publishing and code export | No. SITE123 states a site cannot be downloaded, because it is a proprietary web service; sites publish to SITE123 hosting only | Publishes to Webnode hosting only. Webnode states it gives no access to the site's files or code and that a site cannot be moved to another hosting provider; e-shop products can be exported, and manual backups for restoring inside Webnode are limited to five on Standard and unlimited on Profi |
| AI features | An AI App Builder that drafts a site from a chat description, AI-generated content using business details stored in AI Settings, per-page SEO meta tags, a legal pages generator and AI-generated testimonial content | AI generates a first draft of the site from a description. The AI Assistant on Standard, Profi and Business generates pages, sections and blog posts, rewrites text for tone and length, finds matching images and checks spelling and grammar |
| API | Not stated | No. Webnode states it offers no FTP access, API integration or access to the code behind a site |
| Deployment | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based |
| Support | Chat, 24/7, Email helpdesk | Not stated |
| Onboarding | Documentation and knowledge base | Documentation and knowledge base |
| Company size | Freelancers, Small and mid-sized | Freelancers, Small and mid-sized |
| Integrations | more entries Google Analytics 4, Google Search Console, Google Tag Manager, Google AdSense, Bing Webmaster Tools, Facebook Pixel, Hotjar, Matomo, Tidio Chat, Intercom, Zendesk Chat, Tawk.to, JotForm, 123FormBuilder, Simplybook.me, Ecwid, Stripe, PayPal, Square, Braintree, Authorize.Net, Amazon Pay | Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google AdSense, Google Search Console, Meta Pixel |
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The short version
Key Differences
- Starting price SITE123 Free Webnode Free; paid plans from $4.50 / month
- Free trial SITE123 Free plan with no credit card required; 14-day money-back guarantee on premium plans Webnode Free plan with hosting and unlimited pages; 15-day refund on the first premium order
- Output SITE123 Hosted websites, blogs, landing pages and online stores Webnode Hosted websites, blogs and online stores
- What it makes SITE123 Business websites, blogs, landing pages, portfolios, digital business cards and online stores, with booking, restaurant reservations, events, forums and online courses as page types Webnode Websites, blogs and online stores for small businesses and individuals, started from a template or generated by AI from a description
- Styling and layout control SITE123 Ready-made styles and layouts that can be swapped at any time, 120 curated colour palettes, a colour generator from an uploaded image, hundreds of fonts with line, letter and word spacing, and shape dividers between sections. The vendor describes its editor as not drag and drop Webnode Templates customised in a visual editor where content is added and moved around; video backgrounds from Mini, and Webnode branding removed from Standard upwards
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The trade-offs
Strengths and Limitations
SITE123
Strengths
- Free plan with hosting and the full editor, no credit card needed
- Online store available on every plan, including the free one
- 24/7 live chat, a support center and email support
- 14-day money-back guarantee on premium plans
Limitations
- No way to download a site or move it to other hosting
- PayPal and card payments in the store need higher premium plans
- Free plan is limited to 250 MB storage and bandwidth on a subdomain
- Layouts are picked from presets rather than placed freely
Webnode
Strengths
- Free plan includes hosting and unlimited pages
- Unlimited language versions from the Profi plan
- Free domain for the first year on yearly Mini packages and above
- 15-day money-back guarantee on the first premium order
Limitations
- The online store and AI Assistant start at Standard
- Mini and Limited keep the Webnode branding
- Store variants, discounts and international shipping need Profi or Business
- Standard caps bandwidth at 10 GB and members at 100
Plans
Pricing
SITE123
- Free $0 250 MB storage, 250 MB bandwidth, SITE123 subdomain, hosting and the full editor.
- Premium Not stated Basic, Advanced, Professional and Gold packages for 3, 12, 24 or 36 months. Connect your own domain, free domain for one year on annual plans, 3 GB storage and bandwidth, store, SITE123 floating tag removed; email accounts from Advanced.
Webnode
- Free $0 Hosting and unlimited pages on a Webnode address.
- Limited $4.50 Per month, billed yearly; discounted rate, regular $6. 500 MB storage, 1 GB bandwidth, own domain connected via DNS, no free domain.
- Mini $8.50 Per month, billed yearly; discounted rate, regular $10.90. 3 GB storage, free domain for one year, email accounts.
- Standard $12.90 Per month, billed yearly; discounted rate, regular $18.50. 10 GB storage, online store, AI Assistant, two languages, no Webnode branding.
- Profi $22.90 Per month, billed yearly; discounted rate, regular $28.90. 50 GB storage, unlimited bandwidth and languages, store variants and discounts.
- Business $31.90 Per month, billed yearly; discounted rate, regular $37.90. 100 GB storage, multiple currencies, automatic invoicing, manual orders.
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SITE123
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Webnode
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- Value for money
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- Features
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Where this comes from
Where this comes from
SITE123 https://www.site123.com · checked against the official source on 2026-10-29
Webnode https://www.webnode.com · checked against the official source on 2026-10-10
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