Wix Core runs about $36 a month, and you build and run the site. For $95 a month, I design, write and run it for you, and it’s yours to keep.
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Core plan $36/mo, month to month
Reported rate. Wix’s plans page lists yearly prices only. The cheapest Wix plan with online bookings and payments.
Wix $95/month
$0 to build. No contract. Cancel anytime.
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Wix’s Core plan, its cheapest with bookings and payments, next to my one plan.
| What you’re comparing |  Do it yourself | Done for you |
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 Price What the monthly bill says | About $36 a month, billed month to month. Wix’s plans page only lists prices for yearly plans paid up front. | $95 USD a month, billed monthly. One plan. |
 Building the site Pages, layout, photos | You describe your business and AI drafts the site. You refine it by hand or with Aria, Wix’s AI agent, then publish. YYou | I research your business and build it. No questionnaire. You review before launch.
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 Writing the words Headlines, pages, calls to action | The AI drafts tailored copy. Checking and rewriting every word is yours. YYou | Included. I write the pages, you approve them.
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 Changes after launch New photo, new price, new page | You make them in the editor, or ask Aria, whenever you like. YYou | Included. Routine edits have a 72-hour target. You can edit blog posts and FAQs yourself.
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 Who you talk to When you need something | 24/7 chat, and a Customer Care Expert by chat, phone or email when you need one. Wix | Patrick, directly, by phone, text or email. No call center.
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 SEO Getting found on Google | Strong tools: custom meta tags, structured data, bulk 301 redirects and automatic sitemaps. What goes in them is up to you. YYou | On-page SEO is included and done for you. Ongoing local SEO is a separate $995/month service.
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 Hosting Keeping the site online | Included, on Wix’s own servers. Wix | Included in the monthly price. |
 Online bookings Clients booking your time | From Core up. You add Wix Bookings and set up your services. YYou | Online calendar bookings are in the plan, set up for you. |
 Online store Selling products on the site | Payments and basic eCommerce from Core up. | Yes, I build online stores. They’re quoted separately, not part of the $95 plan. |
 If you leave What you walk away with | No export. A Wix site has to run on Wix’s servers, and blog posts don’t export. Form entries and contacts export to spreadsheets. | Every file of the website, and help moving it. It’s custom-coded, so later changes need a developer. |
Wix is a capable builder. The real question is who does the building, and who keeps it running after launch.
Wix Core runs about $36 a month. My plan is $95 a month. If you only count cash, Wix wins, and it isn’t close.
What the Wix price doesn’t include is anyone doing the work. You pick the layout, check every word, fill in the SEO settings and keep it all current. Some owners enjoy that. If you’d rather spend those hours on your business, that’s what my price pays for.
About $36 a month, and you do the work.
$95 a month, and I do the work.
Wix’s AI website builder turns a description of your business into a draft site, with tailored copy and business tools already wired in. Aria, its built-in AI agent, helps you edit it. It’s free to try, and it’s a real head start.
What it doesn’t change is who’s in charge. After the draft, you fine-tune every detail, launch the site and use Wix’s marketing tools to get found. After launch, every new photo, price and page is yours to make.
On my plan, I research your business and write the pages, you approve them, and later changes are a text or email away.
An AI draft in minutes, then you run it.
I build and write it, you approve it.
Wix’s SEO tools are good. You get an editable robots.txt, structured data, custom meta and canonical tags, bulk 301 redirects, up to 500 at once, and sitemaps that update on their own. Titles and descriptions are generated automatically, and you can rewrite them.
The tools don’t decide what each page should target, write titles people want to click, or build a page for every town you serve. On Wix that part is yours. On my plan, on-page SEO is done for you at launch and on every new page after that. Ongoing local SEO is a separate $995/month service.
Good SEO tools, and you decide what goes in them.
On-page SEO done for you, on every page.
Your Wix site has to be hosted on Wix’s servers, because it runs on Wix’s own technology. The content you build belongs to you, but that isn’t the same as a site you can pick up and move.
Blog posts can’t be exported. Form entries and contacts export to spreadsheets, and your domain can move away from Wix. The pages themselves get rebuilt, wherever you go next.
With me, you get every file of the website if you leave. One honest trade-off: it’s custom-coded, so later changes need a web developer.
Your content is yours. The site can’t leave Wix.
Every file is yours, from day one.
Core includes scheduling, online payments and basic eCommerce. Light doesn’t, and clients can’t book until your site is on a plan that supports Wix Bookings. That’s why Core is the fair comparison here.
My plan includes online calendar bookings and custom lead forms, set up for you. If you sell products, Wix makes it cheap to start. I build online stores too, custom to your products, but they’re quoted separately, not part of the $95 plan.
Bookings and payments from Core up, set up by you.
Leads and bookings built in. Stores quoted separately.
Wix is cheaper in cash, so here are the real numbers, with your time counted separately.
| Cost | | |
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| Plan Every month | Core, about $36 a month, month to month | $95 a month |
| Design, writing and edits The work itself | Your time, with AI to help, or whatever you pay someone | Included |
 Domain yourname.com | Free for year one only on yearly plans, so on monthly billing you pay for it. | You keep the domain you have, at whatever you pay for it now |
 Business email you@yourname.com | Google email is sold separately from the Wix plan. | Not in the plan. Your current email stays where it is. |
About $36 Plus your time. Who does each job, week to week.
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| Building the site | An AI draft, then you fine-tune it YYou | I build it, you review it
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| Writing the pages | Check and rewrite what the AI drafts YYou | I write them, you approve them
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| Changes after launch | In the editor, or with Aria YYou | Text or email me. Blog posts and FAQs you can edit yourself.
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| SEO settings and redirects | Page by page, or in bulk YYou | Done for you
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 Renewals and add-ons | The plan renews itself, up to 3 weeks early. Domain and email renew separately. YYou | One monthly bill. Cancel by email, any time.
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Every platform gets complaints, and plenty of owners are happy on Wix. These four themes come up again and again in public reviews, each linked to where it comes from, with Wix’s side where it has one.
Several reviewers say they were charged before they expected and couldn’t get the money back: one renewal was taken 19 days early, a small nonprofit lost almost $1,000 to auto-renewal, and another owner was billed $376 and refused a refund. Wix’s side: yearly plans charge up to 3 weeks before they expire, with reminder emails from 30 days out, though monthly plans get no reminder. Its 14-day refund doesn’t cover renewals, but Wix says it will review a request if you think you deserve one.
“Took payment, 19days early with no renewal email, and refunding process is extremely frustrating!”
Before you sign up: Put the renewal date in your calendar a month early, and if you might leave, turn off auto-renew the day you sign up.
Reviewers describe renewals that doubled the price or came with a 100% increase, and a user on Wix’s own forum said a two-year plan renewed at double. Wix’s billing page explains one reason: anything bought at a discount renews at the standard rate.
“Just autorenewed and my plan has double on a 2 year plan, time to move away”
Before you sign up: Ask what the plan costs at renewal, not only today, and budget for the standard price from the second term on.
TechRadar’s test found Wix’s chat starts with an AI bot, and reaching a human can take some effort. Reviewers describe support emails going unanswered for days and no way to get in touch with anyone. Wix’s side: chat is open 24/7, and you can ask for a Customer Care Expert by chat, phone or email, and TechRadar found replies were fast once an agent joined.
“You might need to type “speak to a person” several times to actually get there.”
Before you sign up: Before you rely on it, open a chat while logged in and see how long it takes to reach a person. For anything urgent, ask for a Customer Care Expert early.
Canceling a site plan doesn’t cancel everything else. One reviewer was charged for a domain a year after canceling the plan, another renewed Email Marketing thinking it was the site plan, and a third was refused a refund on business email canceled minutes after buying it. Wix’s policy is public: domains and email have to be turned off separately, and domain subscriptions are non-refundable.
“canceling the Premium Plan does not cancel the corresponding Domain subscription and I missed the single auto-renewal notification they sent.”
Before you sign up: Keep a list of every paid extra on your account (domain, email, apps) and turn off auto-renew on each one you don’t want to keep.
Working with Patrick @ RapidWebLaunch was great from the first consultation call all the way to web launch. He talked me (someone who knows nothing about web design) through the whole process.
Shad Baldwin Founder of The Running Investor · Google review The goal: nobody who finds you today hits a dead end tomorrow. Here’s the order I do it in.
Before touching anything, I look at which pages bring in your visitors and leads. With your Search Console and Google Analytics access, I protect those first.
Export your form submissions and contacts to spreadsheets. Blog posts don’t export, so I copy them over by hand, along with your pages and photos.
A domain registered somewhere else just gets pointed at the new site. If you bought it from Wix, you can transfer it away, though not within 60 days of buying it.
Business email depends on DNS records. After a domain transfer, the MX records have to be added again, so I copy every record before anything changes and mail keeps arriving.
Each old address, including blog posts under /post/, gets a permanent (301) redirect to its new page, and your business name, address and phone stay exactly the same.
Contact forms are rebuilt and tested end to end, and bookings move to the plan’s built-in calendar booking. A store gets its own quote.
You review the new site before it goes live. Once the forms, email and redirects check out, you cancel. The Wix site then drops to a free wixsite.com address with Wix ads, and the domain and email need their own auto-renew turned off once they’ve moved.
No build fee, no contract, no upsells. Here’s every feature the monthly price covers.
One plan, because you should not have to study a comparison table to buy a website. Every feature below is included from day one.
$95/month
$0 to build. No contract. Cancel anytime.
Your website is yours from day one.
Imagine what you could accomplish with more than just a Home, About and Contact page.
Hand-coded and served from data centers around the world, not a page builder dragging its own weight around. Fast on any phone, on any connection.
No junky stock photos or cookie cutter icons here.
Great copywriting is the difference between a website that sells and one that doesn't.
Essentially this means making it as easy as possible for Google and AI to find you.
Forms that actually convert visitors into leads.
Plain, simple, straightforward, valuable analytics anyone can read.
Local SEO requires hyper-local intent targeting. Almost every service-based business needs this!
Blogs are awesome if they are used authentically. The age of purely info-based content is over.
We can integrate your social media content directly into your website. Strategically, of course. We don't want visitors getting distracted!
Automatically add new reviews from review platforms (Google, Yelp, etc) directly into your website.
Let visitors book meetings, sessions and appointments directly through your site.
Email newsletters help turn your visitors into subscribers.
Your Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions are generated by a specialist legal-policy service and update automatically as privacy laws change. Included, with nothing for you to maintain.
We connect your forms to the CRM you already use: HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho and most other software that connects with outside apps. A custom system gets its own scope.
Automations that send each new lead to the right person, log it in your spreadsheets and handle the follow-up.
Not all hosting is created equal. If you want the Taco Bell of web hosting, Bluehost is waiting for you.
Changes to hours, photos, text and services are included. Routine edits have a 72-hour target; larger requests get an agreed scope and completion date.
No call centers, no offshoring, just your friendly neighborhood Patrick. Based in North America, native English speaker, and fluent in Spanish if that is easier for you.
No. A Wix site has to be hosted on Wix’s servers, because it runs on Wix’s own technology. Your content is yours, so I reuse your text and photos, rebuild the site and redirect every old page.
No. Wix has real SEO tools: custom meta tags, structured data, bulk redirects and automatic sitemaps. What decides your rankings is what goes into those tools and pages, and on Wix that’s your job.
You can, and for some owners that’s the right call. Wix’s AI builder drafts a site from a description, and Aria helps you edit it. You’re still the one who checks every word, publishes it and keeps it current.
Nobody can promise rankings won’t move at all. What protects them: every old page gets a permanent (301) redirect, your business name, address and phone stay identical, and I submit the new sitemap and watch Search Console after launch.
The plan stays active until the end of the period you paid for. After that, the site goes back to a free wixsite.com address with Wix ads. A domain or email bought through Wix renews separately, so move those first.
The simple things, yes. You can edit blog posts and FAQs yourself. New pages, layout and design changes, you send to me by text or email, and they’re included.
In cash, yes. Wix Core runs about $36 a month. The difference pays for someone else doing the design, writing, SEO and changes. If you enjoy doing those yourself, Wix is the better deal.
