9 Best Website Builders for Churches of 2026

Tithely Sites is a website builder made only for churches, and its $19 a month price covers the features most congregations need. Tithely lists a sermon media player that publishes a podcast feed, an events calendar, integrated online giving, a photo gallery, contact forms, multilingual support and site-wide search, plus unlimited user accounts and unlimited storage. The Plan Your Visit tool is built into every site and alerts staff when a guest schedules a first visit. Live streams from Facebook, YouTube or Vimeo embed directly. Giving runs through Tithely's free plan, which has no monthly fee but charges 2.9% + $0.30 per card gift and 1% + $0.30 per bank transfer. There is no contract and a 30-day free trial. Churches that also want church management, a custom app and messaging can move to All-Access at $119 a month, which includes Sites at no extra cost. The trade-off is design control: sites start from Tithely templates, and the Sites page lists no custom design service.

Nucleus is built around the idea that a church website should push visitors toward a next step. Every plan includes the Web builder with unlimited pages, hosting and SSL, page-level permissions for staff, and The Launcher, a menu that keeps plan a visit, join a group, register for an event, request prayer and give within reach on every page. Flows handle sign-ups and registrations. Standard at $99 a month adds the Sermon Hub, which sorts video and hosted audio messages by series, speaker, topic and playlist, adds notes, Scripture references and transcripts, and generates a podcast feed. Complete at $199 a month adds Nucleus Giving, which does not mark up processing: bank gifts cost $0.25 and card gifts show a 2.3% processing cost that givers can see. The catch is cost, since a church that wants sermons and giving on one platform pays $199 a month, and giving is limited to US churches.

Subsplash treats the church website as one channel of a larger platform. The builder offers drag-and-drop editing, responsive templates, announcement banners, save-and-publish mode with version restore, and up to 5TB of storage with unlimited pages. Every media item gets its own page in a searchable library, which turns a sermon archive into something search engines can index, and live streams can run on the site. The same dashboard manages the church app, media, events and giving, so a sermon posted once can appear on the website and in the app. Subsplash Giving costs $0 a month with card gifts at 2.3% + 30 cents and ACH at 1%, dropping as giving grows. The drawback is pricing: the websites and pricing pages route churches to a sales proposal rather than listing a website price, so we could not verify a monthly figure.

Ekklesia 360 is a church content management system run by Monk Development, now part of Ministry Brands. Its pricing table lists sermons, podcasting, blogs, calendar and events, custom forms, privacy controls and scheduled publishing on every plan, with an Event and RSVP module and multisite logic for churches with more than one campus. Basic costs $70 a month with 10GB of disk space and 1,500 newsletters a month, Plus is $95 and Advanced is $190 with 1TB and 5,000 newsletters. Churches start from an e360 theme with a $500 onboarding, training and setup fee, or hire the team for a custom design. Online giving and church management software are both listed as additional costs, so the monthly figure is not the full price for a church that wants giving on the site. There are no contracts, and paying a year ahead saves 10%.

Church Plant Media sells four church products, a website, giving, a mobile app and streaming, and lists every price on one page. The website plan costs $59 a month with a $499 setup fee and includes unlimited podcasts, pages, blogs and events, unlimited admins, multiple homepage layouts, dozens of subpage layouts, custom colors and fonts, content migration and password-protected pages. Giving is a separate product at $29 a month plus 2.9% and 50 cents per transaction, with one-time and recurring gifts, unlimited funds such as tithe, missions and youth, SMS giving, Apple Pay and Google Pay, and a Planning Center integration. Buying everything as a package saves 10%. The pricing is clear, but a church that wants a website with giving pays $88 a month before fees plus the setup fee, which is more than Tithely Sites for a similar feature set.

REACHRIGHT is not a do-it-yourself builder but a church marketing agency that designs and runs the site. Its Church Web Design service costs $97 a month and includes a custom responsive, mobile-first design, online giving integration, an event calendar with registration, sermon archives, SSL and hosting, and unlimited updates, while the church can still edit the site itself. The $2,000 setup fee is waived with a 12-month commitment. The same pricing page lists Local SEO at $297 a month and Google Ad Grant management at $397 a month, with bundles such as website plus Local SEO at $397. A fully custom website outside the standard service is quoted per project and starts with a $2,500 deposit. The trade-off is commitment: to avoid the setup fee the church signs up for a year, and giving runs through an integration rather than a giving product of REACHRIGHT's own.

Squarespace is a general website builder, but its donations feature covers church giving well. A donation block can go on any page, with suggested amounts that carry labels, and supporters can give once or on a recurring schedule with cards, ACH direct debit and mobile wallets such as Apple Pay. Donor management shows contact details and donation history, and Squarespace Email Campaigns sends updates from the same account, with pop-ups and banners to promote a campaign. The gap for churches is sermons: Squarespace documents no sermon library, series organization or podcast tool on its donations page, so sermon archives would be built from blog posts or video embeds. Every site starts with a 14-day free trial and there is no free plan. The pricing page showed us prices in another currency, so the USD price is pending.

Wix lets a church build and test its whole site on the free plan before paying. For giving, the Wix Donations app adds a donations page, a form and a thank-you page, and supports separate campaigns with their own names, so a church can run a missions appeal next to general tithes. Wix's help center notes that taking donations requires a plan that supports payments and a connected payment provider, and recurring gifts need a payment method that supports them. The Light plan at $17 a month billed yearly includes a free domain for a year and 2 GB of storage, but it is not the plan for collecting gifts. Wix documents no sermon library or podcast module on these pages, so sermons would sit in a blog or video gallery. It is a capable general builder that needs extra setup to work like a church site.

WordPress.com is the low-cost route for churches comfortable with WordPress. The Personal plan starts at $4 a month billed yearly, and the free plan is enough to test. Giving uses the Donations Form block, which offers one-time, monthly and yearly gifts, custom amounts and automatic receipts, but WordPress.com's support page says it is only available on Premium, Business and Commerce. WordPress.com also takes a share of each payment: 4% on Premium, 2% on Business and 0% on Commerce, on top of Stripe's 2.9% + US$0.30. There is no built-in sermon library or church calendar, so churches publish sermons as blog posts or add plugins, which takes more setup than a church platform. For churches that already think in posts and categories, it is the cheapest way to get a site that can take recurring gifts.