By Super Basic Limited · checked 8 Nov 2026

Best website builder for a UK small business: our picks

It depends on how big your site is. Super Basic Limited publishes this guide and makes OneSite, one of the builders below, marked (ours).

The short answer

One page on your own domain: Carrd, at $19 a year.

A few pages with bookings, events or a few products: OneSite (ours), at £20 a year.

A full website with a blog or a bigger shop: Squarespace from £144 a year, or Wix from $204 a year before tax.

Our picks

Our pick for a full website: SquarespaceFrom £144 a year

For a site with a blog or a bigger shop. Basic is £12 a month billed yearly (£144 a year, including VAT), with a 2% fee on store sales. Core, at £17 a month billed yearly, drops that fee. Yearly plans include a free domain for the first year.

Our pick for one page: Carrd$19 a year

Free for up to 3 one-page sites. Pro Standard is $19 a year for up to 10 one-page sites on your own domain, the cheapest way we found to put one page on your own address.

Our pick for a small multi-page site: OneSite (ours)£20 a year

Basic is £20 a year for up to 3 sites of 10 pages each on your own domain, with products, bookings and events built in, and nothing taken on sales through your own Stripe. It has no blog or members area.

More

A free plan with a full editor: WixFree, or $204 a year

Free to start, with Wix branding on your site. Your own domain needs Light at $17 a month billed yearly ($204 a year before tax), and taking payments starts on Core at $29 a month.

The cheapest plan with your own web address, for a year

OneSite Basic (ours)£20

Up to 10 pages a site, 3 sites. Nothing taken on your own Stripe.

Carrd Pro Standard$19

One page a site, up to 10 sites. Priced in US dollars.

Squarespace Basic£144

A full website. 2% fee on store sales. UK price including VAT.

Wix Light$204 before tax

A full website. Wix shows US-dollar prices for reference and the UK price at checkout.

LinktreeNot listed

A page of links, not a website. Its pricing page doesn't list using your own domain.

Questions

Which website builder is cheapest?

For one page on your own domain, Carrd at $19 a year. For more than one page, OneSite Basic at £20 a year (ours). Wix and Squarespace cost more but are full website builders.

Which should I use for an online shop?

For a bigger shop, Squarespace Core or a builder made for shops. For a few products, OneSite or Squarespace Basic will do. Squarespace Basic takes 2% of store sales; OneSite takes nothing on your own Stripe.

Why is OneSite on this list if you make it?

For a small site of a few pages it's the cheapest way we found to use your own domain. It isn't the right pick for a big site, a blog or a single page, and we say so.