8 Best Website Builders for Churches in 2026: Ranked by Use Case

WordPress is the best website builder for churches because sermon plugins handle audio, video, series and scripture references, and donation plugins cover tithes and offerings. The software is free, so the budget goes to hosting and a domain, and volunteers can publish a sermon from a simple editor. WordPress.com Personal costs $4 a month billed annually, and since April 2026 it allows plugin installs.

The catch is the extra cost and upkeep around the free core. Self-hosted WordPress costs nothing for the software, but you pay for hosting, a domain and any premium themes or plugins, and you handle updates and security yourself. WordPress.com Personal costs $9 a month, or $4 a month billed annually, and since April 2026 it allows plugin installs, which used to need the Business plan.

Wix suits small churches that need a site this week. Its editor builds sermon pages with audio and video, event pages with signup forms and giving forms without code, and the free plan gets a first site online before the church commits to a paid tier. Light at $17 a month billed annually adds a custom domain and removes Wix ads.

The catch is lock-in and the tier ladder. The free plan works for a first site, but it carries Wix branding and a Wix subdomain, and moving a finished site elsewhere is painful. Light costs $17 a month billed annually, or $24 month to month, and you need Core at $29 a month billed annually before you can take payments.

Squarespace is the church pick for a polished site with nothing to maintain. Its templates make service times, sermon series and staff pages look professional, and scheduling covers counseling and meetings while email tools handle the weekly newsletter. Basic costs $19 a month billed annually, with a 14-day trial and no free plan.

The catch is the price and the missing free plan. Squarespace raised its prices in 2026, so Basic now costs $19 a month billed annually, or $25 month to month, and there is no free tier to fall back on, only a 14-day trial. Basic also takes a 2% fee on store sales, which only disappears on Core at $29 a month billed annually.

Webflow fits larger churches with a designer on staff. The visual canvas gives full control over the homepage, sermon archive and event layouts, and the CMS handles sermon series, speakers and events as collections. Basic at $15 a month billed annually covers static sites, but a sermon archive needs Premium at $25 a month billed annually.

The catch is the learning curve and the split billing. Webflow consolidated its CMS and Business site plans into Premium at $25 a month billed annually in May 2026, so Basic at $15 a month covers static sites only, with no blog or dynamic content. The free Starter plan is limited to two pages on a webflow.io domain, and localization and analytics are paid add-ons.

Square Online suits churches that already take payments with Square at events or in a bookstore. The free plan publishes a giving and events page on a Square subdomain with no monthly fee, and orders sync with the Square POS. A custom domain needs Plus at $49 a month per location, and online card payments cost 3.3% plus 30 cents on the free plan.

The catch is the domain and the card rate. Square Free costs $0 a month and publishes on a Square subdomain, but connecting your own domain needs Square Plus at $49 a month per location, and free-plan online card payments cost 3.3% plus 30 cents. Plus and Premium lower the online rate to 2.9% plus 30 cents, and there is no annual discount published.

Hostinger Website Builder is the budget pick for a small church. Premium starts at $2.99 a month on a 48-month term paid upfront, with a free domain for the first year and an AI builder that drafts the first version of the site. There is no free plan, only a 14-day trial, and it renews at $10.99 a month. It has no sermon tools, so media is embedded from another service.

The catch is the renewal. Premium costs $2.99 a month only on a 48-month term paid upfront, and it renews at $10.99 a month, so the cheap first term is not the long-term price. Premium also leaves out ecommerce, and the plan caps at a small number of pages, so a growing site pays more sooner than the headline suggests.

Framer is the pick for a church that wants a striking welcome page: service times, a welcome video, next steps. Its animations make a simple page feel alive, and the free plan publishes on a Framer domain. Basic at $10 a month billed annually adds a custom domain, but there is no sermon archive or giving tool, so the church links out to media and donations.

The catch is the per-site price and the missing store. Framer charges per site, so three sites on Basic cost $30 a month billed annually, and extra editors add $20 a month each. Basic at $10 a month billed annually, or $15 month to month, covers 30 pages and 2 CMS collections, and there is no native ecommerce, so selling needs a third-party checkout.

Durable fits a small church that wants a site, a contact list and bookings in one subscription. Its AI builds the site from a few answers, and Launch adds unlimited CRM contacts, bookings with calendar sync and 1,000 AI credits a month. The free plan is only a private preview, so going live needs Launch at $25 a month, or $22 a month billed annually.

The catch is what the free plan cannot do. Durable Free gives 300 AI credits in total and a private preview on a durable.site subdomain, but publishing a live site, connecting a domain and taking bookings all need Launch at $25 a month, or $22 a month billed annually. Grow at $49 a month adds team members, translation and 5,000 credits.