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# Best Free Website Builders (2026)
The services that will publish a working website at no cost, and what each of them holds back.
Ranked by confirmed relationships with entities that hold a verified website, then by how long the entity has held a verified website. An entity that others confirm comes first.
A free website is rarely free of everything: what is not paid in money is usually paid in an address someone else owns, in advertising nobody chose, or in doing the building yourself. The services below all publish a working site at no cost, and they differ in what they keep for the paid tier, in how much design they hand over, and in who they were built for, from a one-page profile to the site of a registered nonprofit.

This list ranks them on facts Markleex can attest, never on what anyone tells us. An entity that publishes its own space here, has its relationships confirmed by other entities, and has proven the website it operates, moves up. Rank is earned, and it is the same for everyone.

The write-ups are ours. We read each site and describe what we found there, in one voice for every entry, so the list reads end to end rather than as a run of pitches.
1. Simafri (@simafri)
   - address: https://markleex.com/@simafri
   - confirmed_relationships: 5
   - site: https://www.simafri.com/
   - site_verified: true

   Simafri gives a registered nonprofit its whole website for nothing: a responsive showcase site, hosting, an SSL certificate, mailboxes on the organisation's own domain, the content updates it asks for through the year, and the structured data that lets search engines and assistants read it. The site and the domain belong to the association, so it keeps both if it ever moves elsewhere. The offer is open to legally declared nonprofits working on inclusion, health, education, disability, social action, culture or the environment, and it asks for one contact person and a domain name of their own. Businesses and independent professionals are not eligible: for them the company sells Serenity, a yearly subscription where the same team does the same work.
2. Carrd
   - sector_name: true
   - site: https://carrd.com/

   Carrd builds one-page sites, and its free tier is meant to be used rather than escaped. A free account publishes up to three sites, with every core building block, dozens of templates and a layout that adapts to any screen. What it holds back is the equipment around the page: no custom domain, no contact or signup forms, no third-party embeds, no analytics, and a small Made with Carrd line in the footer. That fits a personal page, a profile or a launch announcement, and stops short of a business site. The Pro tier lifts all of it for nineteen dollars a year.
3. GitHub Pages
   - sector_name: true
   - site: https://pages.github.com/

   GitHub Pages publishes a static site straight from a repository: push a change and it is live. It costs nothing, gives one site per account or organisation plus unlimited project sites, and accepts a custom domain without asking for a plan. Jekyll is built in, so a blog can be written in Markdown, and a site's default address is username.github.io. There is no editor and no dashboard, so what visitors get is the HTML that was written or generated. It suits someone at ease with files and version control, and it asks more of everyone else than the builders around it.
4. Google Sites
   - sector_name: true
   - site: https://workspace.google.com/products/sites/

   Google Sites is the site builder that comes with a Google account, and anyone who has one can publish with it. Pages are assembled by dragging blocks, the layout adapts to phones on its own, and anything already living in Docs, Sheets, Slides or Calendar can be embedded and stays in step with the original. Several people edit the same site at once, with version history and permissions, and a finished site goes either to the open web or to named viewers only. It was built for a team, a project or an event rather than for a shopfront, and it offers deliberately few design choices.
5. Wix
   - sector_name: true
   - site: https://www.wix.com/

   Wix lets anyone build and publish a site at no cost, hosted on its own infrastructure with SSL, DDoS protection and monitoring included. The free plan covers the drag-and-drop editor, the template library and the AI tools, and the site lives at a wixsite.com address. Two things wait behind the paywall: a custom domain, offered free for a year with an annual Premium plan, and the removal of the ads Wix shows on free sites. Selling online needs a plan as well. For someone who wants a full site without touching code, it asks the least.