Test reports
Every builder gets the same brief. These are the write-ups — reviews, retests and field notes, newest first.
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Lovable Alternatives for Websites (Not Apps): Five Builders With a Flat Price
Built a website in Lovable and tired of paying credits per edit? Five flat-price site builders and what each costs on day one.
Bolt vs Lovable: Which One Should You Use If You Only Need a Website?
Same $25 entry price, different meters. Bolt and Lovable compared on what a website owner pays for, from the vendors' own docs.
Lovable Cloud Pricing (2026): Plans, Credits and the Cost of Hosting After the Build
Lovable meters building, hosting and in-app AI from one credit balance. What a credit costs, what Cloud uses, and what keeping a site live costs.
Wix AI Website Builder (2026): Aria, Harmony and What Replaced ADI
The chat that drafts a site, the Aria agent and the Harmony editor, explained from Wix's own docs, plus the plan you need to publish.
WordPress AI Website Builders: The Two Products Behind One Search
One search term, two different products — and only one of them hands you a WordPress install you can walk away with.
AI Website Builder Prompts: How to Brief the Machine Properly
The biggest quality lever in AI site generation is the brief you type. The anatomy of a good one, plus seven copy-paste prompt patterns.
Can AI Build an Ecommerce Site? An Honest Answer, Tier by Tier
Yes for simple stores, no for most of what a store actually runs on. Where each AI builder lands, and a short decision path.
10Web Review (2026): An AI Builder With WordPress Underneath
10Web wraps AI generation and Google Cloud hosting around a real WordPress install. We weigh what WordPress-underneath buys you against the complexity it smuggles back in.
Durable Review (2026): The 30-Second Website, Weighed Honestly
Durable will publish a site faster than any tool we test, and for local service businesses that is most of the job. We weigh the speed against a low design ceiling and quietly repriced plans.
Wix ADI Review (2026): It's Gone — Here's What Replaced It
Wix ADI is gone — deprecated and absorbed into the Wix AI Website Builder. We review what actually exists in 2026: the Aria flow, the app-market moat, template lock-in, and the real price ladder.
Hostinger AI Website Builder Review (2026): The $2.99 Bundle, Audited
Hostinger bundles builder, hosting, domain, and email for a headline $2.99 a month. We audit what that price actually requires — and what it becomes at renewal.
Free AI Website Builders That Actually Work (We Read the Fine Print)
Six free tiers, one standard brief. What's genuinely usable at $0, what publishes to a live URL, and exactly where each one starts squeezing.
Lovable Review (2026): The Builder That Writes Real Code
Lovable turned our coffee-roaster brief into an actual React codebase you can export and own. That is either exactly what you need or cheerful overkill — we sort out which, and decode the credit pricing.
AI Website Builder vs Traditional Builder: Which One Do You Actually Need?
AI generation replaces the blank canvas — not the content, the judgment, or the upkeep. A plain decision framework from the bench.
Framer AI Review (2026): A Real Design Tool With a Robot in It
We ran our standard coffee-roaster brief through Framer AI and got the best-looking output on the bench. Here is what that design ceiling costs in learning curve, plan caps, and ecommerce compromises.