9 Best Website Builders for Templates of 2026

Squarespace is the pick when the template itself is the reason you are buying. Its gallery is smaller than Wix's, but each design is built by Squarespace's own team and filtered by what you need the site to do: sell products, show a portfolio, take bookings, run a blog, host courses or collect donations. Squarespace says every template is fully customizable and adapts to every screen, and the Fluid Engine editor lets you move, resize and restyle any element without code. If no design fits, Blueprint AI suggests layouts, styling and copy as a different starting point. Hosting, SSL, SEO and AI visibility tools, analytics, a CMS, ecommerce and email campaigns are built in, so a template does not lean on plugins to work. The tradeoffs are money and range. There is no permanent free plan, only a 14-day trial, and someone who wants thousands of niche designs will find more on Wix or Webflow. We could not confirm the USD prices from here, so check the pricing page for the current rate.

Wix wins on range. Its gallery lists more than 2,000 templates, filtered by type (one page, ecommerce, portfolio and CV, blog) and by industry, from restaurants and travel to fitness, music and photography. Each template opens in a drag-and-drop editor where you can move any element, and an AI builder can generate a site from a prompt if you would rather not browse. The free plan includes the editor and templates, so you can build a complete site and only pay when you want a custom domain and no Wix branding; Light starts at $17 per month on a yearly plan. Choose carefully, though. Wix's help center says it is not possible to switch to a different template for a site you already created; you start a new site and copy pages and media across. Payments need Core at $29 per month or higher. For most people who want lots of choice and a free start, those limits are acceptable.

Framer is where many of the most current-looking templates live. Its marketplace is built by community creators and covers portfolios, SaaS and AI apps, agencies, ecommerce, real estate, hospitality and events, with a price filter that separates free templates from paid ones. In the listing we checked, paid designs ranged from a couple of dollars to $149, and plenty were free. A newer set of agent templates ships with built-in design systems and skills, so Framer's AI agents can make changes when you describe them. Hosting starts on a free plan with a Framer domain, and Basic at $10 per month on yearly billing adds a custom domain, CMS collections and built-in SEO. The catch is the editor: Framer works like a design canvas, which designers enjoy and beginners can find fiddly. Because templates come from many creators, check the template's own support and update notes before you buy.

WordPress.com is the template pick for anyone whose site is mostly words. The theme directory offers thousands of free and premium themes, with categories for blogs, magazines, newsletters, authors and writers, podcasts, restaurants and online stores, plus a shelf of favorites chosen by the WordPress.com design team. If none fit, you can generate a theme by chatting with AI. Themes use the WordPress block editor and patterns, which give fine control over layouts but take longer to learn than the drag-and-drop editors at Wix or Squarespace. The free plan works for trying themes, though it shows WordPress.com ads to visitors; Personal at $4 per month on a yearly term removes them and adds a free domain for a year. The pricing page lists premium themes from the marketplace and over 60,000 plugins among plan features, so check which plan includes what you need before you commit, and compare the monthly rate of $9, which is more than double.

Hostinger is the low-cost way to get a template site online. Its builder offers more than 450 drag-and-drop templates, plus an AI builder that drafts a site from a short description, and the Premium plan bundles hosting, a free domain and mailboxes for each site. The headline rate of $1.99 per month is real but conditional: Hostinger shows you pay $95.52 today for 48 months, and the plan renews at $10.99 per month for the same term. Premium covers up to three websites, which helps if you run a portfolio and a side project. The templates are clean and practical rather than distinctive, and the range is a fraction of what Wix lists, so this is the choice for people who want a tidy site at a low cost more than a standout design. A 30-day money-back guarantee lowers the risk of the long prepayment.

Carrd does one thing: one-page sites. It starts you from one of dozens of templates or a blank page, and every layout is responsive across phones, tablets and desktops. The free plan lets you build up to three sites with Carrd's core features, which is enough for a personal profile, a link page or a launch page. Pro adds premium templates exclusive to paid plans, custom domains with SSL, forms connected to tools such as Mailchimp and Kit, embeds for Stripe, PayPal or Gumroad, analytics and removal of the Carrd branding. Pro Lite costs $9 per year, and Pro Standard at $19 per year adds custom domains, so check which tier includes what you need. The limits are clear: there are no multipage sites, and the template range is small next to Wix or Webflow. For a single page, though, it is hard to beat on price or speed.

Webflow has the biggest template catalog here, with more than 7,000 free and premium HTML templates made by its creator community, sorted into categories such as portfolio and agency, technology, blog and editorial, professional services, real estate and retail. Many come with CMS collections, ecommerce and multiple layout variations already built, so the template is a working site structure rather than a static look. You can test any template in a free Starter workspace and only pay for a site plan when you connect a custom domain; Basic is $15 per month billed yearly and the CMS plan is $25. Premium templates are a separate purchase, and featured ones we saw ran from $39 to $169. The bigger cost is time: the Designer exposes classes, layout and interactions, which gives agencies great control but makes Webflow the hardest editor on this list for beginners.

Shopify is the template answer for anyone whose site is a store. Its Theme Store sorts designs by industry, such as clothing, beauty, jewelry and home, and by catalog size, so a shop with ten products and one with hundreds can each find a fitting layout. Shopify says every theme gets its checkout, plus product recommendations, reviews and discounts, and paid themes come with developer support and free updates. There is a free themes category for new stores, while the top paid themes we saw cost between $280 and $400 as one-time purchases. The limits are scope and cost. Shopify themes only make sense for ecommerce, and a premium theme plus a monthly plan adds up fast. We could not confirm USD plan prices from here, so check the pricing page before you start the 3-day trial.

Duda is the template builder for people who build sites for others. Its gallery covers online stores, business, events, bookings, restaurants, portfolios, services and one pagers, and Duda says every template is fully customizable, from colors, fonts and layouts to your own custom code. The feature that sets it apart is reuse: you can finish a site, save it as a custom template in your dashboard and start future client projects from it, which matters more to an agency than the size of a public gallery. All templates are responsive across desktop, tablet and mobile. Basic costs $19 per month billed annually or $25 monthly, Team is $29 and Agency $52 on annual billing, with white label at a higher tier. There is a 14-day free trial with no credit card. For someone building one personal site, Duda is more tool than needed, and its templates are less striking than Squarespace's or Framer's.