Canva vs Wix for websites in 2026

What you get with Canva Websites

If you already design in Canva, you can publish a website there without moving to another builder. The question is what you need beyond publishing it: a free Canva address, your own domain, or a site that accepts online payments?

Start with the address.

Canva Free lets you publish up to 5 live websites on a free Canva domain, and the plan includes 5 GB of storage. To use a custom domain or remove the "Designed with Canva" footer, you'll need a paid plan.

Canva's current plans are Free, Pro for one person, Business priced per person, and Enterprise. Canva Teams is no longer sold to new customers, so don't treat it as an option when you're comparing plans.

For a site you want to publish from Canva, check whether the free address and footer work for you before looking elsewhere. Those are separate decisions from whether you like designing in Canva.

What changes when you choose Wix

Wix's free plan gives you a wixsite.com address, with Wix ads on the site. It includes 500 MB of storage and 500 MB of bandwidth, but it doesn't let you connect a custom domain or accept online payments.

The paid plans below are US prices billed yearly, as of November 2026:

• Light: $17 a month.
• Core: $29 a month. This is the cheapest Wix plan that accepts online payments.
• Business: $39 a month.
• Business Elite: $159 a month.

Don't skip that Core detail. If taking payments on the site is part of your plan, Light isn't the plan to compare against the other options.

There's also an editor choice to pay attention to. Wix's help center lists 800+ templates for the Wix Editor, but once you've created a site in that editor, you can't switch it to a different template.

That's worth deciding before you build.

Wix Harmony, a newer editor, launched in January 2026. And if you're reading an older guide that recommends Wix ADI, that advice is out of date: Wix ADI sites have been unsupported since November 10, 2024.

Where Heya fits

Heya, the builder publishing this guide, is another option if you want to build a site outside Canva. It's a no-code website builder at heya.page, and you sign in with Google to publish.

Its free plan includes all 68 templates. You get a free address with HTTPS and a small "Made with Heya" badge, with no credit card required and no time limit.

The paid plans change different things:

• Pro Lite is $3 a month. It includes 3 sites with up to 20 pages per site, removes the badge, and stops marking links nofollow.
• Pro Standard is $6 a month, with 5 sites and 1 custom domain per account with HTTPS. Heya doesn't sell domains; you bring one from any registrar.
• Pro Plus is $15 a month. It includes 25 sites, up to 10 custom domains, and the option to download your site as a ZIP of HTML files.

What about a store or bookings? Heya doesn't have a built-in store, checkout or form builder. You link a button to your checkout or store page, use a Google Form or Tally form, and use the Calendly embed for bookings.

There are page-building limits, too: 40 sections per page, 60 blocks per section and 10 block types. Images can be up to 20 MB. Its 6 embed types are YouTube, Vimeo, Spotify, SoundCloud, Calendly and Google Maps.

For search and sharing, you can set a title of up to 120 characters, a description of up to 300 characters, a favicon and a share image.

Which one would I choose?

I'd stay with Canva if the site I wanted could live on a Canva domain and keep the footer. You don't have to move just to publish a website.

I'd look at Wix Core if accepting online payments on the site were a requirement, and I'd choose the Wix Editor template carefully before building (you can't swap it later).

Heya would be on my list for a site with a custom domain and links to an outside checkout, store or form. But if I wanted those tools built into the website builder, Heya wouldn't be my pick.

Related guides: Is Canva website free?, Canva website builder, Wix vs Squarespace and Is Wix worth it?.

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