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Swebsy vs Webstudio: pricing, export and self-hosting compared

Webstudio and Swebsy are closer than most pairs here. Both are visual builders, both let you export, and both work with AI agents. The differences are in the details.

Pick Webstudio if you need dynamic pages from a headless CMS, want to run lots of hosted sites on one flat plan, or want to export a server app you run yourself.

Pick Swebsy if your site is static, you want to edit without an account, and you’d rather host it free on GitHub or Cloudflare Pages.

We make Swebsy, so weigh that. Every Webstudio fact below links to Webstudio’s own pricing page or docs. Prices are in USD, checked on 25 September 2026.

At a glance

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Webstudio Swebsy
Best for Designers who want full CSS control and CMS-backed pages Small static sites you edit and host yourself
Account needed Yes No, to build and export
Free plan Unlimited projects and pages on a wstd.io subdomain, 300 form submissions a month Whole editor, unlimited local projects
Custom domain From $15/month (Pro), unlimited sites Free on GitHub or Cloudflare Pages. From $69/year on our host
Static export Yes, from the builder Yes, on every plan
Dynamic export Yes, as a server app you deploy No. Static output only
CMS Connects to outside CMSs like WordPress, Strapi or Airtable No
AI agents MCP, listed on Pro MCP bridge on every plan, plus an AI builder with your own key
Team editing Team plan, 5 seats included Not yet. One editor per project

Pricing, side by side

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Webstudio's cloud plans: Free, Pro at $15 a month with unlimited sites on custom domains and 100,000 page views, Team at $35 a month with 5 seats, billed yearly.
Webstudio's cloud plans at webstudio.is/pricing, billed yearly, captured 25 September 2026.

Webstudio’s Pro plan includes 100,000 page views a month. Past that it’s $20 per extra 100,000.

Swebsy's plan picker: Starter at $69 a year for 3 hosted sites and 500 form submissions a month, Pro at $149 a year for 10 hosted sites and 5,000 submissions, with a 14-day free trial.
Swebsy's paid plans, billed yearly. Monthly billing is $9 and $19. Pro has a 14-day trial with no card.

What a year costs for a few common jobs, billed yearly:

The job Webstudio Swebsy
One site on your own domain, hosted $180 (Pro) $69 (Starter), or $0 self-hosted
Static files to host yourself $0 $0
20 hosted sites on custom domains $180 (Pro, within page-view limits) Over Pro’s 10-site limit
Blog pages pulled from a headless CMS $180 (Pro) Not a fit. There’s no CMS
Five people on one workspace $420 (Team) Not a fit yet

For a single hosted site, Swebsy is cheaper. For many sites or a team, Webstudio’s flat plans win.

The editors

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Webstudio’s builder exposes nearly every CSS property, with a navigator, style sources and a full style panel. It’s built for people who know or want to learn CSS.

Webstudio's builder with the Navigator tree on the left, a directory page on the canvas, and the style panel on the right.
Webstudio's builder, from webstudio.is/visual-editor, captured 25 September 2026.

Swebsy’s Studio covers the same ground with theme tokens, a design panel and ready-made blocks, so you can get far without writing CSS. And it runs entirely in your browser, with no account.

A quick tour of Swebsy Studio. Pages, layers, design controls and the canvas are all on one screen.

“Self-hosting” means three things

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Pin down which one you need before you choose.

A static site is HTML, CSS and assets. Both tools export one. Swebsy’s comes from Deploy → Export code. Webstudio’s comes from the builder’s download button. Webstudio’s docs say its static export leaves out dynamic pages, redirects, forms and image optimization.

A dynamic site runs code on a server. Webstudio can export one as an app that handles CMS pages, webhook forms, image optimization and redirects. You deploy it to something like Vercel, Netlify or a Docker server. Swebsy doesn’t do this.

The builder itself. Webstudio’s docs say self-hosting its builder in production is “more difficult and currently not recommended”. Swebsy’s builder already runs in your browser and keeps your project there, so there’s nothing to host.

The Clarity project in Swebsy Studio.
Swebsy's Clarity template, a four-page static site you can export and host anywhere.

Forms are the thing to test

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On a static export, neither tool processes forms for you.

In Swebsy, Collect with Swebsy works on Swebsy Hosting. Anywhere else, use Post to my own URL with a form service you trust. Webstudio’s cloud plans include form submissions, and its dynamic export supports webhook forms.

Whichever you choose, send a real test from the live site and check it arrives.

Exporting the website ZIP from Swebsy. Keep the editable project backup too.

Where Webstudio is the better choice

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  • You need pages built from a headless CMS.
  • You run many sites and want one flat hosting price.
  • You want full CSS control, or you’re coming from Webflow.
  • You want to deploy a server-side version of the site yourself.

Where Swebsy is the better choice

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  • Your site is static and you’d rather not make an account to build it.
  • You want to host for free on GitHub or Cloudflare Pages.
  • You’d rather use theme tokens and blocks than write CSS.
  • You want an AI agent to edit your site on the free plan.

Moving between them

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Neither has an importer for the other. Rebuild the pages, move your assets and page details, and reconnect forms and the domain.

For a static site, try the multi-page export guide with your real content. For anything dynamic, list the runtime and services it needs before you pick a builder.