Is Wix worth paying for in 2026?

Wix Free also has a 500 MB bandwidth limit. Your site carries Wix ads, uses a wixsite.com address, and can't use a custom domain or accept online payments.

That's the trade-off. You can try Wix without paying, but the free plan isn't a substitute for a paid site if your requirements include your own domain or taking payments on the site.

What you get for paying

Light gives you 2 GB of storage, but it still doesn't accept online payments. If payments are part of the plan, skip it and look at Core, the cheapest Wix plan that supports them.

Storage then rises to 50 GB on Core and 100 GB on Business, while Business Elite has unlimited storage. Between those plans, storage is a concrete difference you can compare against what you'll put on your site, rather than choosing by the plan name.

Watch the domain offer. Most yearly Wix Premium plans include a voucher for a free domain for 1 year, but it applies only to a new domain bought through Wix. It isn't an ongoing free domain.

New Wix Premium plans also have a 14-day money-back guarantee on both monthly and yearly billing. Domains aren't refundable (separate from the plan refund).

What can get in your way

The Wix Editor has 800+ templates, according to Wix's help center. There's plenty to choose from, but you can't switch to another template after creating the site in that editor, so make that choice before you settle into building.

And you can't export a Wix site or host it somewhere else. Wix doesn't offer a code export.

Those are the restrictions I'd look at before paying. Can you live with the template choice and keeping the site on Wix? If either answer is no, a higher plan doesn't remove those restrictions.

Be careful with older Wix guides, too. The Wix Art Store hasn't been available to add to sites since October 2022. Wix ADI sites have been unsupported since November 10, 2024, and Wix Harmony, a newer editor, launched in January 2026. Advice about ADI or adding the Art Store doesn't describe the current options.

What Wix gives you for SEO

Wix lets you edit title tags, meta descriptions and URL slugs. It also creates an automatic sitemap at /sitemap.xml, and you can edit robots.txt.

The tools go beyond those basics: Wix supports custom structured data markup, canonical tags and server-side rendering, and its 301 redirect manager can import a CSV containing up to 500 redirects.

That's a reason to consider Wix if those controls are on your list. You don't have to judge its SEO tools by the page title field alone, but having the controls isn't the same thing as deciding how to use them.

When a simpler site is enough

Heya, which publishes this guide, is a no-code website builder at heya.page. You sign in with Google to publish.

Heya Free costs $0, with no credit card and no time limit. It includes 3 sites, up to 5 pages per site, all 68 templates, a yourname.heya.bio address with HTTPS and a small Made with Heya badge.

Want the badge gone? Heya Pro Lite is $3 a month and keeps the 3-site allowance, raises the limit to 20 pages per site, and removes the nofollow marking from links.

Heya 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 a registrar. Custom domains start on Pro Standard.

Heya Pro Plus is $15 a month, with 25 sites, up to 10 custom domains and the option to download your site as a ZIP of HTML files.

There are limits here, too. Heya allows 40 sections per page, 60 blocks per section and 10 block types, with images up to 20 MB. Its 6 embed types are YouTube, Vimeo, Spotify, SoundCloud, Calendly and Google Maps.

For SEO settings, you get a title of up to 120 characters, a description of up to 300 characters, a favicon and a share image.

But 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. If you want to accept payments within Wix instead, that's where Core enters the decision.

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