9 Best Website Builders in the UK of 2026

Wix is the easiest way for most UK businesses to get a site that both looks finished and handles VAT correctly. Its tax tools let you pick the locations where you collect tax, choose England as a location, rename the tax label to VAT and decide whether price tags already include tax, which matters because UK consumers expect VAT-inclusive prices. Merchants who would rather not maintain rates by hand can switch to automatic calculation through Avalara on a plan that supports it. The same tax setup applies to Wix Stores, Wix Bookings, Wix Restaurants Orders and Wix Donations, so a salon or a cafe does not configure VAT twice. The plan most businesses need is Core at $29 per month billed yearly, since Light at $17 cannot accept payments. The catches are that headline prices assume a yearly term paid upfront and that moving a Wix site to another platform later means rebuilding it.

Shopify is the strongest choice when the website is mainly a shop. Its UK pricing page lists every plan in pounds: Basic at £19 per month billed yearly or £25 monthly, Grow at £49 and Advanced at £259, with Shopify Payments card rates starting at 2% + 25p on Basic. That makes the real cost of a UK store easier to work out than on builders that publish dollar prices. For VAT, Shopify lists VAT validation, exemptions and invoicing on every plan, and its help center says stores in the United Kingdom can use Shopify Tax or set rates manually. Shopify is clear that tax remains the merchant's responsibility, so you still register and file with HMRC yourself. Shops with a counter can add POS Pro at £69 per location per month. The tradeoffs are the lack of a free plan, a short 3-day trial and a learning curve that is steeper than Wix for a simple brochure site.

Squarespace suits UK businesses whose website has to look good before it does anything else: photographers, restaurants, interior designers, boutique hotels. Its templates come close to finished, and the editor keeps layouts tidy on phones without much tweaking. For VAT, Squarespace sells automated taxes that calculate rates in real time for over 100 countries, which covers UK sales and sales to many export markets, for 0.15% of each transaction. That fee is small on a single order but worth adding up if you sell in volume, because the alternative of setting rates yourself costs nothing. Plans start at Basic and step up to Core, and paying annually brings the monthly rate down. The pricing page showed another currency from our location, so we have marked the price as pending rather than guess at a USD or GBP figure. There is no free plan, so you will be paying once your trial ends.

WordPress.com is the pick for UK organizations that publish a lot: local news sites, charities with regular updates, consultancies that run a blog. The Personal plan costs $4 per month billed every 12 months, and the pricing page says prices exclude taxes, so a UK buyer should add VAT when comparing it against builders that quote inclusive prices. Payments arrive on Premium at $8 per month, and plugins, which open up most of the WordPress ecosystem, need Business at $25. The big advantage over closed builders is portability: because it is WordPress, you can export your content and move it to another WordPress host later. The drawbacks are a busier editor than Wix or Squarespace and renewal prices that sit above the first-term rate, so read the renewal line before you commit to a long term.

Hostinger is the cheapest way onto the web on this list, as long as you read the term. The Premium plan shows $1.99 per month, but that rate needs a 48-month term paid upfront, which Hostinger lists as $95.52, and it renews at $10.99 per month. Prices are listed without VAT, so a UK buyer pays 20% more at checkout. The AI builder is quick for simple sites such as a tradesperson's page, a CV site or a link-in-bio page, and it is easier to learn than WordPress. On data location, Hostinger lists the United Kingdom among its data centers for web and cloud hosting plans, while its Website Builder sites run on Hostinger's integrated CDN, so check the location shown in the dashboard if UK hosting matters to you. Features are thinner than Wix or Shopify once you need a serious shop or bookings.

IONOS MyWebsite is the most UK-native option here in how it sells. The UK site prices every package in pounds and states that all prices exclude VAT charged at 20%, which makes the real bill easy to work out. Plus, the package IONOS marks as its bestseller, shows £1 per month for 12 months before rising to £16, and Starter shows £6 per month for 6 months before rising to £10. Every package comes with 24/7 premium support and a personal consultant, and IONOS lists UK freephone numbers, which suits owners who want to talk to someone rather than read help articles. The builder uses AI-generated templates optimized for mobile and includes marketing tools, but it is less flexible than Wix or WordPress.com for custom layouts or a large shop. The main thing to plan for is the renewal: the jump from introductory to standard prices is large, so budget on the standard rate.

Jimdo is a straightforward builder made in Germany since 2007, and it handles pricing in a way UK buyers will appreciate: its pricing page says every price includes VAT, so nothing is added at checkout. The Free plan includes a website, bookings and payments, and the paid plans, Start, Grow, Complete and Unlimited, add your own domain, invoices and a shop. Jimdo takes 0% commission on sales, bookings and payment links on every plan, although JimdoPay charges a processing fee per transaction. Terms run monthly, 12 months or 24 months, and plans are priced per business rather than per person. Companion AI is included on every plan and only makes changes after you approve them. The limits are a smaller design range than the leaders and a domain that renews at €26 a year after the first term. Support reply times range from 2 working days on Start to 12 hours on Unlimited.

Webflow is for UK teams that care about every pixel: agencies, startups and brands that want a site that does not look like a template. The designer works like a visual front end tool, which gives far more control than Wix or Squarespace but takes real time to learn. Hosting runs on AWS with Cloudflare's global CDN, and Webflow quotes 99.99% uptime, so a London audience and an overseas audience both get quick page loads. Prices are in USD per site with applicable taxes added at checkout, so UK buyers should expect VAT on top. Basic costs $15 per month billed yearly and covers a custom domain, 300 static pages and 10 GB of bandwidth, but it has no CMS, so a blog or a resources section pushes you to a higher plan. The Localize add-on lets you design localized versions of a site visually, which helps UK firms that also sell into Europe.

Strikingly is a quick way to put a small site online, and it works well for UK freelancers, wedding sites, events and side projects. The Limited plan costs $8 per month billed yearly and covers up to 5 pages per site and a single product, with a 5% transaction fee on sales. Pro at $16 lifts that to 100 pages and 300 products and adds custom forms, memberships, site search and custom code. VIP at $49 adds multi-language with auto-translation and a 0% transaction fee. Domains cost $24.95 per year. The editor is among the easiest here, and the free plan lets you build before paying. The limits are clear too: there is little tax configuration compared with Wix, Shopify or Squarespace, so a UK business that charges VAT on many products will outgrow it quickly.