10 Best Website Builders in Australia of 2026

Wix gives an Australian business the most ways to get paid. Its help center lists PayPal, Stripe, Braintree, Square, eWay, Fat Zebra, Afterpay and Laybuy for Australia, so a Brisbane cafe can keep its existing Square account and a Perth retailer can stay with a local gateway such as eWay. Afterpay arrives through Square for Australian sellers rather than as a standalone connection. The one gap is Wix Payments: Wix's own processor covers the US, Canada, the UK and parts of Europe, not Australia. Plan choice matters too. Light at $17 per month billed yearly gives you a custom domain, a free domain for a year and 2 GB of storage but cannot accept payments, so most businesses that sell need Core at $29. Wix shows US dollar prices for reference and says prices and currency vary by location, so check the figure at checkout. For a service business or small shop that wants bookings, a store and email marketing under one login, it is the most complete package here.

Square Online is the most Australian-shaped option on this list. Square's Australian plans page lists a Free plan with no monthly fee and 2.2% per transaction, and that plan already includes Afterpay, pickup, local delivery and shipping, customer accounts and sync with Square POS. It also lets you add a service charge automatically on weekends and public holidays, which suits hospitality businesses that apply a public holiday surcharge. Plus, listed at $36 per month billed annually on the Australian page, connects a custom domain, includes a free domain for one year, removes Square branding and adds QR code ordering. Premium drops the online rate to 1.9%. The tradeoffs are that every payment goes through Square and the design tools are simpler than those of a general builder. If your counter already runs on Square, this is the shortest path to a working online store, and the Free plan makes it the best no-cost starting point in Australia.

Shopify is the strongest pure store builder for Australia and the clearest on GST. Its Australian pricing page lists every plan in AUD, with Basic at $42 AUD per month billed yearly or $56 AUD monthly, and Shopify Payments takes online cards from 1.7% plus 30 cents AUD. Australian stores use Shopify's Basic Tax service, which calculates tax once you add a tax registration number. On the billing side, Shopify's help center says Australian stores pay 10% GST on their subscription and shipping labels unless they register for GST and add their ABN, which removes it from future invoices. The same plan sells in person through a phone or card reader at 1.85%. The costs are higher than a general builder for a site that only needs a few pages, there is no free plan, and using another payment provider adds a 2% fee on Basic. For an Australian product brand that wants one system for the website, checkout and counter, it is the safest choice.

WordPress.com is the value pick for Australian sites built around content. Its pricing page lists Personal at US$4 per month billed every 12 months and Premium, which adds payments, at US$8, both excluding taxes, and there is a permanent free plan. Because it runs WordPress, higher plans can add plugins and custom themes. On local hosting it is clear about its limits: WordPress.com support says you can pick a primary data center in US West, US Central, US East or EU West, with a real-time copy kept in a second region, and there is no Australian option. The choice is made once, when hosting features are first activated. Prices are in US dollars, so your bank's exchange rate applies, and taxes are added on top of the listed price. Pick it for a blog, a news site or a resource library rather than for a store that needs local payment tools.

Hostinger is the cheapest way to get a business site online in Australia, as long as you read the term. Its US page lists Premium at $1.99 per month, paid as $95.52 for 48 months and renewing at $10.99, and its Australian page lists the same plan at A$2.99 per month, A$143.52 upfront, renewing at A$15.89. Premium covers up to 3 websites, 2 mailboxes per website free for a year and a free domain with yearly plans, and the builder offers 450+ templates and an AI starting design. On local hosting, Hostinger's support page lists web hosting data centers in Europe, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the US and Brazil, with no Australian data center, but says its CDN operates in Sydney, which serves cached pages from inside Australia. Ecommerce and marketing are lighter than Wix or Shopify. For a tradie, a consultant or a club that needs a simple site and email at the lowest cost, it fits.

Squarespace is the polished option for Australian businesses that care most about how the site looks. Unlike Wix, it offers its own processor here: Squarespace's help center lists Australia among the countries where Squarespace Payments is available, with Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Apple Pay and Google Pay. Afterpay works through a connected Stripe account, with an Australian spending limit of $1 to $2,000 AUD per order, but only for physical products and not at point of sale. Stores can charge in AUD. Squarespace also registers .au and .com.au domains, as long as you have an Australian address and the ABN or ACN details the registry needs. The catches are a 2% online store transaction fee on Basic and no permanent free plan, only a 14-day trial. Its pricing page showed a non-USD currency when we checked, so confirm the AUD price at sign-up. For a photographer, a wedding venue or a design studio, it is a strong choice.

GoDaddy now sells its website builder as Airo, an AI builder that turns a prompt into pages, sections, starter copy and images, and can also build simple web apps such as reservation systems. GoDaddy's Australian site says you can start for free with 50 AI credits a month without a credit card, and that paid plans include a set of credits for building and app operations. Credits expire at the end of each billing cycle and do not roll over, so heavy editing can mean buying more. Publishing is one click onto GoDaddy hosting with SSL, forms and analytics, and GoDaddy says you can export your code at any time, which is unusual for a hosted builder. A free domain comes with annual plans, and the Australian site lists a (02) phone number for help. Plan prices did not load for our USD check, so the price is marked pending. It suits owners who want to describe the business and get a working site fast.

Webflow is the builder for Australian designers and agencies who want pixel-level control. Its pricing page lists a free Starter plan on a webflow.io domain with 2 static pages, Basic at $15 per month billed yearly with a custom domain, 300 static pages, 10 GB of bandwidth and unlimited form submissions, and a CMS plan at $25 per month billed yearly. Webflow hosting includes a CDN that routes each visitor to the nearest server, so visitors in Sydney or Melbourne are not waiting on a single overseas data center. The price of that control is time: the editor works like a design tool, with boxes, classes and breakpoints, and owners who want to drag in a template and publish will find Wix or Squarespace faster. Bandwidth limits also matter, since two consecutive months over the limit trigger an automatic plan upgrade. Prices are in US dollars. For a marketing site built by a designer, it is the most capable option here.

Duda is built for the people who make websites for Australian small businesses rather than for the owners themselves. Its pricing page lists Basic at $19 per month billed annually or $25 monthly, with 1 core project, 150 monthly AI credits and email support, rising to Team at $29 and Agency at $52 billed annually. Every plan includes a collaborative client workspace with unlimited clients, and higher tiers add white-label branding and priority support. Duda says its sites run on AWS infrastructure and that the platform complies with GDPR, ISO 27001 and SOC2. Prices are in USD, apply per account and are charged upfront on annual plans, and Duda notes that ecommerce and bookings subscriptions may require additional purchases. A single business owner will find Wix or Squarespace simpler and cheaper for one site, but a Melbourne or Brisbane agency maintaining dozens of client sites gets tools that general builders lack.

Strikingly fits small, simple jobs: a one-page site for an event, a landing page for a side business or a short portfolio. Its pricing page lists the Limited plan at $8 per month billed yearly, which connects a custom domain with free SSL, includes a free domain for a year, and allows up to 5 pages per site with 1 GB of storage and 50 GB of bandwidth. Pro, at $16 per month billed yearly, raises that to 3 Pro sites with 20 GB of storage each and unlimited bandwidth. The free plan lets you build unlimited sites on a Strikingly subdomain. The limits show up quickly for a business: Limited can sell only a single product and adds a 5% transaction fee, and prices are in USD, so your bank's exchange rate applies. It has none of the Australian payment or GST features of Square Online or Shopify. For a short, low-cost site that you want live in an afternoon, it does the job.