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Found it frustrating that a client's whole Squarespace site could not be reassigned to a new subscription, forcing a manual rebuild, and now leans toward Framer for clients.

Moved a marketing site off a roughly $12k a year Webflow Enterprise plan to Astro on Cloudflare for about $5 a month.

Agency paid Webflow about $9k a year and replaced it with a self-hosted stack costing about $25 a month.

Rebuilt a Webflow-ready sports team site on Astro, Sanity and Cloudflare to avoid about £34 a month.

Non-developer designer loves Webflow and builds from Figma links via Claude in minutes.

Moving away from Webflow as it is too limiting for ecommerce and nobody in house wants to use it.

Agency developer no longer recommends Webflow and is moving budget clients away due to high small-site hosting costs.

Mid-build developer says the Box element change forced a workflow switch and will make this their last Webflow site.

Wix refused to cancel on request and billed a year they would never use after five years as a customer.

Used to find Wix easy and intuitive but now spends hours fixing things that fall apart after a change.

Two-person kitchenware store with 90 SKUs has a 6.1 second mobile load and 71% bounce, blamed on script-injecting Shopify apps and a $4,800 agency fix quote.

Archived their portfolio site and cancelled Webflow because it was too expensive.

Says you will never speak to a human at Wix and will face exorbitant cancellation charges.

Squarespace stopped their domain after a business structure change, halting emails and billing during peak season with one useless reply a day.

Manufacturing business says managing inventory calculations and bundled units on Shopify is insane for made-to-order products.

Agency owner thinks $29 a month is fair for a powerful CMS, hosting and a platform to manage a whole site.

Finds Wix infuriating to contact, with only an AI chat bot for help.

Agency keeps its SMB clients on Webflow and both sides are happy with it.

Former enterprise client paid $90k a year for Webflow, with the contract running to 2028 despite exploring Sanity.

Building entirely with AI inside Webflow, finds it the best it has been for go-to-market teams.

Has an ecommerce site on Webflow and wants to migrate to Shopify because Webflow Ecommerce was never improved.

UK merchant hit with an $18,565 Mastercard BRAM fine passed through by Shopify with no clear explanation of the rule broken.

Six-year Webflow developer is increasingly frustrated with the product's direction after the Box element change.

Front-end developer of 20+ years thinks the Box element cleans up the Add panel and is a big improvement.

Says Wix holds payments for months behind constant verification requests and has been a nightmare over two years.

A Shopify and WooCommerce developer had a client paying about $600 a month on Shopify for a plan upgrade plus add-ons.

A gift shop moved from WooCommerce to a static site with a small Shopify shop and no longer deals with broken Elementor updates.

A WordPress developer has a client paying $90 a month for Shopify add-ons that are free in WordPress, on top of transaction fees.

Paid $92 in 2016 and was quoted $228, so cancelled and moved to WordPress for about $50 a year.

For a services and classes business Wix was the cheapest option, versus almost $200 a month piecing together other apps.

Had $600 stuck at Squarespace for over six months despite constant arguing.

Says Wix initial fees triple without notification.

Found the site expensive and limited, then abandoned it when the renewal cost came through.

Has used Wix for years after finding WordPress too difficult, and says it is easy for simple needs.

Wix Studio was so frustrating that they had to hire a programmer for monthly updates and find Wix expensive for simple needs.

Squarespace Payments put a $12k balance under review for 12 days with no replies to 8-10 emails and no phone number.

Finds the Wix editor slow and clunky for a small business site with a few pages and lead forms.

Prefers Squarespace over Wix for more transparent pricing and easy customization.

Says Wix keeps billing after cancellation and will not let you remove the payment method.

Finds Wix horrible and clunky for first-time users and says its business practices trap you into paying.

Calls Webflow outrageously expensive in hosting and workspace plans and has migrated most sites to Lovable.

Wix announced a 150% plan increase so they moved to Porkbun and Cloudflare for much less.

Running three enterprise sites on Webflow, is migrating the big ones off due to rigid pricing and ever-increasing costs.

Many years on Squarespace and happy, with lots of functionality and easy page creation.

Long-time supporter now considering self-hosting because of extra charges for languages and a 10GB bandwidth limit.

A client regularly exceeds Webflow bandwidth because of bot traffic with no business uptick.

Uses a Shopify site only for enquiries and quotes; it has paid for itself, but at over EUR 300 a year they want a cheaper option for new sites.

A small-business owner dropped Squarespace because it cost about $300 a year and rebuilt the site themselves.

A Wix user finds it super easy and reliable, and easy to go back and update their site.

A business owner moved from WordPress to Squarespace because it is much easier to update and hand off to someone else.

A business owner built their own site on Wix, finds it very easy and gets lots of compliments on it.

Exports sites from the start and now logs into Webflow about once a month only for older projects.

They love Webflow and like its robustness, calling it pretty rock solid.

Wix has held over $11,000 of their funds for four weeks with account locked and no way to reach a live person.

Moved to Astro with Directus but finds client self-management less collaborative than Webflow.

Wix took a whole year payment they would not refund after a forgotten cancellation.

Liked Webflow for three years but exported to Astro on Netlify and finds updates much faster.

Moved from Wix to Squarespace to save money, found Wix intuitive with built-in tools and great customer service, and wants to go back.

Says Webflow absorbs hosting, deploys and dependency upkeep and is honestly cheap for small local lead-gen sites.

Wix charged for a site they had agreed to discontinue and PayPal sided with them, leaving a debt sent to collections.

Locked out of domains at Squarespace for weeks and asked to agree to Plaid terms to recover access.

Used Webflow five years and still keeps one product on it only because of SEO impact.

Wix staff are helpful but there is no phone or email, and fixing a domain issue led straight to an upsell.

Says Webflow CMS collections punish anything beyond basic use.

Within the 14-day guarantee there was no cancel option, the support rep was rude and hung up, and the refund was refused.

Two Squarespace logins after the Google Domains buyout, an auto-upgraded Workspace costing $500 and nobody willing to help.

Found Webflow too costly after a year and now self-hosts for less and faster.

Built their site via Claude into Webflow with the MCP and sees no reason to leave given how easy landing pages are.

Non-technical founder finds Webflow glitchy but says managing it via Codex is super easy.

Agency owner increasingly recommends Webflow to clients over their own preferred Astro and Sanity because of simpler handoff.

Agency says Webflow is by far its most requested service and it had to hire more Webflow developers.

Migrated almost all projects off Webflow because the pricing left no margin on some clients.

After eight years exported their Webflow sites to Cloudflare R2 to drop subscription, hosting and language add-on costs.

Was still billed after closing their Webflow account and had to ask for a refund.

Agency says non-technical clients still love Webflow and their pipeline on it keeps growing.

Moved from WordPress to Webflow this year and builds sites within a week using their own templates and Claude via the workspace.

Squarespace chat shows connecting but nothing happens and over 30 reps have still not changed their email.

A client’s couple thousand dollars of donations is stuck pending approval in Squarespace and support takes a day per reply.

Long-time Webflow user thinks the platform is done as clients leave.

Webflow is the most expensive platform for their remaining sites and they have been moving sites off for six months.

Webflow earned them good money over 8 years but they now find the direction disappointing.

Webflow user since 2016 moved three small client sites to Astro for zero hosting cost, going from 16 Webflow clients to 13.

Wix auto-renewed them into a different, pricier plan, and after a formal complaint offered a one-time prorated refund of $857.

Uses Squarespace as a simple landing page; easy to use and reasonably priced with zero qualms.

A coach finds Wix customer service slowest and worst, and the site routinely breaks, including silent booking failures.

Runs brochure and e-commerce sites on both Wix and Squarespace and prefers Squarespace.

Marketing head left Webflow after four years: the Designer hung repeatedly on a 370-page site, support was slow and fees confusing.

Cancelled a couple of weeks before the year ended but was charged for the next year with no refund.

Does not like the pricing plans but finds Wix one of the easiest and most adaptable builders.

A three-year Wix subscription that cost $306 renewed at $907 despite their attempts to move the site, and they are still owed $587.

A Wix site with a decent-sized store, members area and blog is unbearably slow.

Wix raised their plan price every year, so they cancelled; renewal is charged about 20 days early.

Wix auto-renewed almost $500 with no notice over 30 days before, overdrawing their card, after transferring the site to a client.

Wix refused them a refund and they are considering court.

They tried Hostinger AI builder and found it terrible, needing lots of credits for fine tuning.

A small business uses Hostinger's builder for e-commerce and bookings at about £160 a year for two sites, but each appointment needs its own checkout.

Long-time Squarespace user who finds it the most user friendly versus Weebly and Wix, and is over WordPress.

A seasonal decorating business found Framer super easy and got a better-looking site than Squarespace templates with a few prompts.

A site builder has struggled to get Squarespace's mobile and desktop designs to do what they want unless sticking to its predesigned blocks.

They worked with WordPress and Webflow professionally and say Webflow became extremely expensive, so they moved to AI-assisted coding.

Wix auto-renewed their subscription early and the refund can take 45 days, so they rebuilt on WordPress with Porkbun.

Got upsold so hard on Wix that they quit before building anything.

Has run a site that generates almost $1M on Wix for 5 years with essentially no issues and finds it cost effective.

Works well overall for an online store, but untranslated checkout strings, product variants showing out of stock in initial HTML crawls, and missing Vipps Stripe support hurt Norwegian e-commerce.

A root-domain site hosted on AWS Route53 stopped working after the builder apparently dropped A-record support, leaving only CNAME records as an option.

They found the ecommerce JS snippet uses 800mb of their 100gb Webflow bandwidth even though they do not use ecommerce and cannot turn it off.

Migrating off Squarespace because mobile speed scores were 16-20 versus 99-100 on WordPress.

They were introduced to Webflow when starting their business and loved learning it. It took a while but taught them web design basics, and they recommend it.

Calls Squarespace a trivial expense with 100% uptime that has never broken, with seamless Acuity and Stripe integration.

Moved their store from Squarespace to Shopify because the Squarespace store was one dimensional for growing.

Agency with 200+ Webflow builds says no client site has ever gone down because of the platform.

Two weeks on Wix Harmony brought freezes, missing features, a vanished site after pasting text and promised callbacks that never came.

Long-time Webflow developer's agency is moving to Astro with Claude Code after finding it faster, cheaper and quicker to load.

Cancelled their Webflow subscription and moved most client sites to VitePress on Cloudflare.

A long-time Squarespace designer finds the forced Fluid Engine a disaster: everything is harder and the layout will not stay put.

They describe themselves as a very long-time Webflow user and say sentiment has dropped. They blame price increases, bandwidth limits, enterprise focus and neglect of designers and developers.

After a decade building client sites on Wix, Harmony's bugs and AI hallucinations push them off the platform.

Squarespace Payments held $2,500 of a $12,000 payment, then later reserved a full $12,000 and closed their account without explanation.

Three years running a site and store on Squarespace with one issue that was fixed and no problems since.

Squarespace cancelled a $15k transfer, locked their funds and added a 15% 90-day reserve, so they migrated to Shopify.

A takeaway business's Wix menu page is slow and Wix has issues two or three times a month blocking orders.

The Wix outage left their business and paid Meta ads useless, with no explanation of the cause.

Moving a domain off Wix took a 7-day wait and only one email with the transfer code.

Ten-year customer; a glitch stopped Acuity follow-up emails and Squarespace said it could do nothing, so they will switch.

Misleading Wix renewal emails led to a double renewal and managers refused help, saying they are a DIY platform.

Frustrated by Squarespace limits for selling video access, now uses it mainly for unlimited video storage on a legacy plan.

During a Wix outage, a store on Wix since 2021 could not take orders on a normally busy Saturday.

In 8 years with Wix this was the first outage, and it hit during their birthday sale with orders pending.

The Wix Events module stayed down after the main fix, and RSVPs failed right after a newsletter went out.

After rebuilding a site on a custom stack, realises how much behind-the-scenes work Webflow handled for a front-end designer.

They find Webflow more intuitive and more mature with fewer bugs than Framer, which they found to have laggy animations. They say changes take less time and money than on WordPress.

A blind user finds the Wix back end almost unusable with a screen reader, with unlabeled buttons everywhere.

Squarespace cancelled their payment processing with no warning or explanation, so they are moving to Shopify.

Moved their agency site from Webflow to Cloudflare Pages, saying it is cheaper and scores 90+ on speed.

Marketer values Webflow because non-technical teams can run the site without hosting work or a developer.

Had to buy their own paid workspace plan just to collaborate on a client's existing project.

Migrating off Webflow let them fix markup, structured data and rendering that Webflow restricted.

Loves building in Webflow but says pricing changes ended their managed-hosting income model.

Enterprise plan at their previous company cost $75k a year for a product similar to $30 plans.

Their Squarespace site shows a security message and chat will not work, so they are leaving as soon as possible.

Was still charged after cancelling before renewal with proof, was unhappy with support, and disputed the charge.

After five years and two static sites on Squarespace, left after a price jump and Google Workspace limits, saving about $440 a year on GitHub and Cloudflare.

Moved to Cloudflare after finding the Squarespace editor miserable, saving about $300 a year.

Tried a one-page portfolio on Squarespace after leaving a year ago; the editor froze and stuck in a grab cursor, called a known issue.

Great for getting a site up quickly but too expensive; is migrating three Squarespace sites to Cloudflare Pages.

Member since 2013; the corrected price after the claimed pricing error saved only about $18, which was the final straw.

Squarespace renewal went from $136 to a proposed $204, then $165 after the claimed error, still a rise.

Two Squarespace sites rose $40 and $62 with no new services they need, so they moved both to the lowest tier.

Company spending about $15k a year on Webflow built a tailored alternative in months and sees a dire outlook for staying.

Four years on a Wix store, the app duplicated all store pages, taking 15 days and 40+ emails to admit the fault.

A Circle member said support would not waive the price rise and the correction only cut $348 to $331, so they will migrate all client sites.

Solo marketer says Webflow is self-serve for them while engineers focus on the product.

Switched to Core at $276 on Squarespace support advice, then a correction email raised it to $331.

Freelancer says Webflow locked users in, was greedy, and is rebuilding all projects on Astro and Sanity.

Left a ten-year Squarespace account after the price rise, migrating to another host in a day for under $60 a year.

Auto-migrated from a $29 CMS plan with 200GB to $69 for 100GB bandwidth after the 2026 plan changes.

Their legacy Squarespace plan faced a 48% increase with no new features after years of hosting their portfolio there, so they are exploring owning their site.

A small portfolio site went from about $13 to a proposed $19 and then $16 a month.

Just switched from Wix to Squarespace and is having a much better experience.

Mastered and loved Webflow but left 1.5 years ago for faster, cleaner code and would not return for agency work.

Very happy with Squarespace after trying many other systems; came back because it works and looks great.

In Romania, clients shown Webflow almost always choose it, finding about $300 a year trivial for the CMS control.

Lost clients to vibe coding because individuals will not pay Webflow's monthly hosting; wants cheaper single-page pricing.

Three-person Webflow agency says demand has never been higher, with 80 opportunities logged over 18 months.

After technical SEO issues on a custom Astro build, appreciates that Webflow handles SEO requirements out of the box.

Their legacy Squarespace personal plan rose 50% from $138 to $204, so they are moving to a free Google Site.

Built their fourth Squarespace site; the two times they needed support it was helpful and the Circle discount helps.

After ten years on Squarespace, the 7.1 upgrade cost hours of spacing fixes and they gave up, calling the marketing exaggerated.

Wix billed the next subscription 19 days early, so they had the bank cancel the charge and moved their domain.

An illustrator on Squarespace since 2014 faces $204 a year versus $86 originally for the same basic portfolio site.

Wix renewal rose from $100 to $371 a year for one site, so they moved to WordPress on NixiHost with a Namecheap domain.

Customer since 2014 totalled every invoice at $1,687 with a 122% rise for unchanged usage and is leaving over the repeated hikes.

Customer since 2015 tracked bills from $87 to a coming $204 renewal, calls the latest 28% jump unjustifiable and is leaving.

Canadian customer says the plan cost $172 after tax in 2020 and will be about $389 now, more than double in six years.

Moved a five-product store to Shopify, likes its shipping handling but finds it costs far more than Squarespace and may move back.

A $400 charge hit for a deleted website, Wix claimed auto-renewal was on, and 35 days later chat support is unhelpful.

VFX reel site owner saw the renewal jump from $192 to $228 and probably will not renew after repeated increases.

Left Squarespace for Shopify; it costs the most but finally lets them lay out collections and products the way they want.

Started on Squarespace but moved to Wix, where their site looks far better, especially on the phone.

They cancelled after five years because pricing kept creeping up and the pricing tactics were confusing, with cheaper alternatives offering the same or better.

Portfolio site owner saw the renewal go from $120 in 2022 to $192 in 2025 and now $228, and found Squarespace's chatbot support unhelpful.

They say the jump from $18 to $25 a month was too far, missed the price increase email and paid the new price, and are now exporting and migrating to WordPress.

Remembers paying about $12 a month and now pays about $19, which they say is not worth it.

Per-site pricing pushed an agency to move most small client sites from Webflow to Framer.

User since 2012 went from about $90 a year to a price that no longer makes sense and plans to leave, keeping only the domain.

Cut their annual Squarespace cost by almost half by downgrading after the plan realignment and misses no useful features.

Customer paying $138 a year was told renewal rises to $204 for the same thing and is not accepting it.

Finds Squarespace hard to use for beginners: limited image and text placement and a poor phone layout for $25 a month.

Paid for a year of Squarespace and bailed after three weeks, citing abysmal customer service.

Paid two years but Fluid Engine broke their layout and Squarespace refused a refund for an unpublished site.

Left Webflow and got support to prorate a refund on the year they had just paid.

Five years on Wix, the renewal charge came earlier than before and a 3-month goodwill credit expired unexpectedly, leaving them stuck.

Won a refund after pushing support to answer directly about a renewal for a period that had not started.

After 10 years paying Wix, the mobile layout shifts are a mess and it is no longer user-friendly.

Wix Studio is a memory hog that slows down work within minutes of loading a site.

Wix just charged them $1k at renewal and will not refund it.

Wix AI features barely work and take 15-20 minutes to generate something simple.

Has run a self-built Squarespace site for about a decade for roughly $200 a year plus $40 for the domain on Namecheap.

Works great out of the box for standard blogs and newsletters, though deep theme and homepage layout customizations are restrictive compared to self-hosting.

Wix has been unloadable for a week of hit-and-miss access while they try to finish their site.

Offloads CDN caching, server maintenance, and updates so even technical writers can focus entirely on writing and marketing.

Their bank denied the chargeback and Wix will not reinstate the site, so a $400 renewal bought nothing.

Delivers fast page loads with built-in caching and CDN performance.

After fixing many weaker builders, says Webflow is the best for non-developers and needs very little coding.

SaaS team wants off Webflow because they depend on a Webflow developer for every small update.

Paying £28 a month for Squarespace while layout spacing keeps breaking; plans to switch providers.

A five-minute Squarespace edit turned into two hours of readjusting pages, and the page would not even save.

Refuses to upgrade from Squarespace 7.0 because their site works perfectly there and 7.1 caused layout mayhem for others.

Says Webflow support lacks empathy from first-hand experience and that they are better off elsewhere.

Moving any element in Wix Harmony resizes and shifts other sections unpredictably, forcing endless fixes.

Has built with both AI tools and Webflow and still prefers Webflow for quality and detail.

Built a portfolio on Webflow and liked it, but found it too much and too costly for a single personal site.

Pays $18 a month for Webflow and customised a paid template so well it does not look templated.

Crashed their Webflow site while using the MCP and it is stuck in a crash loop.

Webflow expert who tried a coded stack still thinks Webflow is best for their clients and prefers its build UX.

Built their company site in Webflow after a $50k rebuild quote and has since built several more, finding it steep to learn.

Seven-year Webflow fan feels pushed out as it targets enterprises and now recommends Squarespace to new clients.

Long-time Webflow evangelist now has a bad taste from recent changes and uses Sanity with Astro.

Riding out a three-year Wix subscription after they changed what was bought upfront, which they say the fine print allows.

Built their company site in Webflow via the MCP connector with Claude from start to finish in 45 days.

Tried replacing Webflow with Claude on a $200 plan but found the effort and token cost outweighed it for a large CMS site.

Loved Webflow's clean interface and real code in 2020-2023 but thinks it lost its way and needs to fix pricing.

Reports client sites being down for an entire day with no explanation.

Tested Wix online payments and confirmed a 2.9% plus $0.30 charge, cheaper than QuickBooks but not the cheapest.

Multi-locale work lags and crashes in the Webflow Designer.

Setting up a free site for a client, Wix stopped them at every step to upsell and the free-plan path was hard to find.

Built a Wix site with memberships and database relationships that only costs the club the Wix hosting.

Says Wix is the most complicated and hardest to use system they have tried, good only for small contact sites.

Has run a non-profit Wix site they call terrible, with the offered functionality being basic marketplace add-ons.

Six-year designer found Webflow hosting cost $40 a month for a static site and now designs in Webflow but hosts on AWS for under $2.

Used Webflow mainly because its CMS and visual editor let clients make micro changes and maintain sites themselves.

Designer of ten years calls Webflow the worst builder they have used, citing clunky custom code, locked components and difficult animations.

Inherited a Webflow site and found it faster to rebuild in Astro than click through the interface.

Webflow was great pre-AI for fast front-end work with built-in CMS and easy edits, but the team has since ditched it.

Went from WordPress to Webflow and back, finding it fine for yourself but poor for client needs and seat costs.

Current user finds Webflow increasingly unstable and pricier because of features they do not use.

Marketing team praises Webflow's stability and predictability and says it costs less than their old WordPress site.

Long-time Webflow user since 2019 now wants out, citing ignored user-reported issues and flashy features.

Freelancer used Webflow 18 months, quit over frequent Designer glitches and went back to WordPress.

Agency owner still loves the Designer for client sites but feels the product has moved away from small businesses.

Says Webflow quoted $75k for an enterprise plan on a 20-page site.

Moved their agency site off Webflow to Astro after the recent price increase made the $25 monthly fee unattractive.

Adding a three-word header took 15 minutes because the Wix editor loaded at dial-up speed.

Finds some things easier in Webflow but not worth its price, and moved all their sites to self-hosting.

Team with 3 Webflow sites spending about $5k a year after six years calls this year's price increase the final straw.

Likes Webflow's freedom to build anything but agrees with complaints about pricing and bugs.

A client site was blocked for 6 days after a false copyright claim, and neither Wix support nor its offline policy team could help.

A lapsed Squarespace domain left a Google Workspace plan impossible to manage or cancel, with chatbots on both sides.

Ecommerce agency says Webflow hit CMS limits within a month and falls apart for real product catalogues.

With about 70 Webflow sites, they see Webflow raising prices as customers leave and are moving away.

Developer finds Webflow clunky and slow and its class inheritance confusing.

A Wix rep solved their business email problem in about 30 minutes on a phone call.

Agency will absorb the price rise across multiple client sites and says it made their outstanding proposals outdated.

Moved from WordPress to Webflow years ago but now cites repeated outages, antiquated tech and the price increase as the final straw.

Is moving all their Webflow sites to Astro and Cloudflare after the price changes.

Freelancer with Webflow since 2018 must tell small-nonprofit clients their site cost is rising 34% and has cancelled personal hosting.

Says Webflow once needed no maintenance, but price changes, DNS changes and outages now cost more effort than WordPress upkeep.

Loves Webflow but says the bandwidth limits and new plans hurt their clients.

Builder of dozens of Webflow sites since 2018 is frustrated that Webflow is turning away from small agencies and raising prices.

Hosts some client sites on Netlify and was surprised by another Webflow price increase.

Wix Harmony could not embed a YouTube video and is painstakingly slow and clunky for a school site.

After eight years, agency is moving all client sites off Webflow over poor support and repeated pricing changes.

Marketing head says the new plans raise their hosting bill by about $800 a year for a static site.

Agency user spent unbilled hours on a manual workaround after a Webflow form app broke from changing endpoints.

Freelancer reports a 37% Webflow price rise over a few years and has moved clients off the platform.

Moved from Squarespace to Wix: Harmony was awful but Wix Studio is fine with more freedom than Squarespace.

Wix Harmony is slow with no CMS or dynamic pages and its Aria assistant creates more work.

Found too late that Wix Harmony lacked every feature they needed.

Finds getting website email set up correctly on Wix the hardest part and is considering moving away.

Their Wix three-year plan renewal jumped from under $400 to over $1100; offers kept switching until a callback got $17 a month.

Wix promised a $300 renewal, changed it to $600, then charged $915 without notice and reneged on a refund.

Cancelling the Wix renewal triggered a 30% retention offer, bringing the Business plan to $348 a year.

Wix has been great but they are hitting its limits and moving to Shopify.

Moved a 65-page Wix site to custom code on Cloudflare Workers; Wix maxed at about 80 on mobile speed vs 97 after.

Four years on Wix for a small business with zero issues, no price increases and a professional-looking site.

Moved from Squarespace to Wix Studio and says it has been hell, finding the Squarespace backend far better.

Says Wix randomly charges or double charges, including a year when they chose monthly.

Finds Wix Studio not intuitive, with odd formatting issues and limitations.

Has used Wix for about ten years for a small B2B business with no real issues and steady monthly cost.

Loves Wix with no issues and easy changes and maintenance.

Gave up building a design portfolio on Wix repeatedly because it was slow and things never lined up, then moved to a Claude Code workflow.

Says clients with large Squarespace sites and memberships have no real path to migrate content or subscribers away.

Chatted with Wix minutes after a $921 charge three weeks before renewal and they still refused all refunds.

Finds Wix Harmony very bad, preferring the OG editor that did not need an AI chatbot to find their pages.

Developer of nearly 20 years advises against Webflow where an alternative exists, citing lock-in and regret.

After a chat denial, a callback agent told them to push back and Wix refunded a $673 renewal the next day.

Their team moved off Webflow to Storyblok and Astro but warns not to underestimate what a CMS provides out of the box.

Has moved major parts of their site off Webflow's Designer citing the enterprise push and constant downtime.

Wix charged an expired card $667 for a site that had been down for two years and refused to refund it.

Solo consultant who runs on Squarespace: booking built in, maintenance essentially zero, clean templates, would pick it again.

Team finds Webflow expensive to manage and limiting for keeping a multilingual site updated.

Experienced developer spent more time figuring out Webflow than building a client site.

Says Webflow lacks decent version control and translation visibility unless you pay for Enterprise.

Their outage lasted two hours but Webflow communicated well, emailing updates every 30 minutes.

Agency says every Webflow outage puts it in an uncomfortable position with clients and that the price should demand better reliability.

A Wix user since 2010 dislikes the AI-heavy Harmony editor and finds Studio leaves clients with messy sites.

Seven-year customer hit a second long downtime this year that frustrated clients with editor access.

Wix raised their rate, moved the renewal earlier, refused a refund and claimed emails that never arrived.

After an outage, CMS collections on some of their sites showed no items and editing time was lost.

Their business site on Wix brings £80-95k a year for about £9 a month; they use Studio with code alongside the builder.

Squarespace transfer-out auth codes never arrived for months until they started an ICANN complaint and posted publicly.

Cancelled Wix Studio after moving from the Editor, calling it the worst decision they made.

Wix auto-renewed them for three years and refused a refund, leaving only selling or letting it sit.

Used Wix for years without problems but its closed system blocked the microphone for an embedded AI agent that worked on Squarespace.

Wix has steadily raised their price, with the latest Core plan invoice at $376.71, about $30 a month, before domain and email.

Has issues with Wix and finds humans hard to reach, but chat support follows through once reached.

While migrating to WordPress, Wix's RSS feed exposed only 12 of 44 blog posts, which they see as lock-in.

Used Webflow 2022 to 2025 for a startup site; powerful but slow turnaround for changes led them to Astro with Claude Code.

Designer who sells Webflow is disappointed by charges for client editor seats that used to be free.

After three years on Wix, finds functionality weaker, pages slower to load, and the AI not worth the cost.

Connected Figma and Webflow with Claude via MCP and got about 80% of the CMS collections and entries built.

Likes Wix but sees growing loading-time problems, server errors and CDN crashes, plus predatory pricing and service fees.

Calls Webflow a great platform but moves clients off it because agentic coding does not work with it.

After heavy investment in Wix, missing basic shop features like checkout edits and sorting products have them moving to Shopify.

The Wix Harmony editor crashes repeatedly and takes down their laptop, and they want the classic editor back.

Marketer moved two sites off Webflow to Codex and finds Webflow slow and complicated even for a simple landing page.

Long-time user builds very complex sites in Webflow and has yet to hit real limitations.

Works with B2B SaaS clients and finds Webflow valuable for several team members to make updates in parallel.

Moved their agency site off Webflow citing billing confusion and cost, and now uses Claude with Sanity.

Wix prices have gone up a lot and AI is pushed into the editor, so they are looking at other options.

Liked Webflow and got proficient, but moved five sites to Cloudflare over cost and slow innovation.

The Wix reservation app counts cancelled guests toward capacity, so the restaurant shows fully booked and loses reservations.