What Is the Best Free Website Maker for Small Businesses?

Beste scored 4.2 for free plan quality, behind only Google Sites, which has no paid tier at all, and 3.9 overall. Its free tier connects a domain you own, so yourbusiness.com works from launch, and there is no page cap, so a plumber can give boiler repair and bathroom fitting a page each. Hosting runs on Vercel's edge network with SSL included, and built-in support for 50+ languages helps any business that serves customers in more than one.

You build from prebuilt sections rather than dragging elements around a blank page, which is why it scored 4.4 for ease of use: layouts stay tidy on phones without a separate mobile edit. Two drawbacks matter for a business. Form submissions on the free plan wait in your dashboard instead of arriving by email, and email notifications come with Pro at $15 a month billed annually. Beste is also new, with no Trustpilot record yet and no way to export your site, so you are trusting a young company with your web presence.

Google Sites scored a perfect 5.0 for free plan, and it earns it: there is no paid tier to push you toward. Published sites carry no advertising and no Google badge, and you can connect your own domain, though setup means verifying it in Google Search Console and adding a CNAME record at your registrar. For a business that already runs on Gmail and Google Calendar, embedding a map, a calendar, and a Google Form takes minutes.

The rest is thin. Design scored 2.0 and SEO scored 2.0, with no schema tools, redirects, or sitemap controls, so the site looks basic and gives you little to work with in search. There is no native contact form either, so you embed a Google Form. It suits a tradesperson who needs a clean page with a phone number more than a business that competes on looks.

Webador is the free plan for businesses that sell with pictures: a florist, or a renovation company with a portfolio of finished kitchens. Storage and bandwidth are unlimited under a fair use policy, where Wix stops at 500MB and SITE123 at 250MB, and it scored 3.6 for free plan with 4.0 for ease of use. When we built a five-page business site on it for our review, the AI builder produced a usable first draft quickly. It also has the strongest independent reputation on this list, at 4.3 on Trustpilot.

What holds it back as a business site is that Webador branding and ads stay on the free plan, along with a yoursite.webador.com address. Lite at $6 a month connects a domain but keeps the branding, so the realistic upgrade is Pro at $10.50, which also adds a store for up to 10 products. Design scored 3.2, and the templates show it: clean, and easy to forget.

Wix has the highest overall score here at 4.0, and a perfect 5.0 for features. Booking, restaurant menus, event tickets, and customer reviews are all an app away, and contact forms can send enquiries straight to your inbox. If you already know the business will grow into those tools, building on Wix from the start avoids a migration later.

As a free website for a business, though, it does not hold up. Free sites show a Wix ad banner and live on a wixsite.com subdomain, and you cannot take payments without the Core plan at $29 a month billed annually, because Light at $17 does not accept them. In practice the free plan is a place to build and test. Budget for the upgrade before you print the address on a van.

SITE123 is the practical choice for a business that serves customers in two languages, such as a guesthouse or a shop in a tourist town. Multilingual pages with a switcher come with the free plan, and so does live chat support, which most builders keep for paying customers. It scored 4.1 for ease of use, and the editor is structured instead of drag-and-drop: you fill in sections, you do not place elements. Owners who dislike design work tend to prefer that.

The free plan is otherwise ordinary: 250MB of storage and 250MB of monthly bandwidth, a yoursite.site123.me address, and SITE123 branding in the footer. Premium starts at $10.80 a month billed annually and removes the tag, adds a store, and includes a domain for the first year. Design scored 3.0, so expect a tidy site that will not stand out.

Jimdo has been around since 2007, and today it aims squarely at sole traders and local businesses. You can see that in the setup wizard, which asks a handful of questions about your business and drafts the pages for you. It scored 4.3 for ease of use, its free plan includes 5GB of storage, and its pricing data lists shareable payment links on the free tier, handy for a deposit or a one-off invoice.

The limit is blunt: five pages. Home, services, about, gallery, and contact fit exactly, but a blog, a page per service, or an events list will not fit. There is no custom domain or visitor statistics on the free plan either, and Jimdo branding sits in the footer until you move to Start at $11 a month billed annually.