Our Pick Of The 10 Best Website Builders For Australian Businesses Of 2025

Hostinger is our top pick for an affordable website builder. With a long-term contract, you can lock in plans at their lowest prices—as low as $US2.49 ($4 AUD) per month when enrolling in a 48-month plan, which is among the least expensive of the plans we analysed.

Hostinger’s website builder doesn’t lack benefits and features, even at its low price point. For both website builder plans, you’ll get a free domain when you purchase a plan of at least 12 months. The free domain is only valid for the first year of your contract, so if you want to retain your website with Hostinger in your second year and beyond, you’ll have to pay $US7.99 ($12.85 AUD) per year. Considering you can also run up to 100 websites, have 150 templates to choose from, and some AI and e-commerce tools on the more expensive plan, we like the value you can extract from this website-building and hosting all-in-one option.

If you’re looking to take your e-commerce business—and more specifically, your dropshipping business—to the next level, Shopify’s website-building features allow you to create a customisable website that works. You can prepopulate your site with a Shopify template that comes with your plan. Then, customise its features with apps and widgets that will take the look, feel and functionality of your site forward.

Shopify’s plans are pricier than some of the others on our list. And, you don’t get some of the same features included in your plan, such as a free domain, as you do with some other picks. So, what exactly are you paying more for? In general, you get the luxury of building and hosting your website with e-commerce functionality within the same platform.

Perhaps one of the best-known website builders, WordPress has been around for a long time, giving business owners many options to tailor their site. And that’s what you’ll get, too: a blank slate from which you can customise your website through integrations.

We appreciate that WordPress offers a free plan, but it’s quite bare in nature and features. When you get into the paid plans, you can customise your site through themes, colours and fonts to build your brand. Plus, we like that WordPress allows you to upgrade your plan anytime, which is ideal for Australian businesses looking to scale. Prices vary widely. From free to thousands per year, there’s an option for most businesses.

If you want to take your business online and offer e-commerce sales without forking over a huge amount every month, look no further than Weebly. It offers e-commerce features that come as standard on its free plan that some other website builders don’t offer—even on their paid plans. Ultimately, you can get up and running quickly with Weebly’s free plan and upgrade later if need be.

We like the e-commerce options included in Weebly’s free plan. We also appreciate the website builder’s transparent pricing and range of features you can add when your e-commerce website starts gaining momentum. Its highest Performance plan costs $30 AUD per month (when billed annually) and comes with unlimited storage, a free domain, the ability to accept payments through PayPal, item reviews, advanced e-commerce insights and priority customer service support.

Strikingly’s easy-to-understand interface and free option mean it’s a great starting point for website-building beginners. And, because your website is also hosted by Strikingly on its fully managed cloud hosting servers, you don’t have to worry about building and hosting your website on different platforms.

But if you’re looking to grow your website into a full-scale operation, Strikingly may not be the best option. While it’s decent for scalability, as you can upgrade or downgrade your plan at any time, it may be better suited to smaller operations. Its lower-tiered plans—like the free plan, Limited and Pro—don’t offer much customisation or the additional features you can get with other providers. Even its highest-tiered VIP plan doesn’t come with commonly available features like unlimited storage. The free plan is where Strikingly shines, and it’s great for beginners who don’t need to go all-in on a website from the get-go.

For artists, finding a website design that fits your aesthetic and work style is key. Squarespace is the perfect solution, as many templates are designed to prominently display high-quality imagery, fonts and colours. You’ll also have access to built-in features like SEO and AI tools.

We like Squarespace for its templates and designs, but it also has some attractive features that can expand your business’s reach in an innovative way. In addition to selling products and services, you could also consider selling your content and memberships, including blogs and online courses, to diversify your revenue streams.

Wix offers a slew of features that are great for small business owners who don’t have the technical expertise—or don’t want to use it—to build their websites using HTML. Instead, Wix offers a great selection of AI tools and more than 900 free templates for getting your website off the ground quickly without an ounce of coding.

Wix can be a great option for small businesses in various industries, from e-commerce brands to service providers. There are also dedicated platforms and functionality for specialised businesses such as restaurant management, fitness companies, hotel management, and art monetisation. Between the tools available and the templates, it’s little wonder Wix is such a popular choice with Australians.

The GoDaddy Australia website building plans are ideal for service providers, with custom templates catering to small businesses that offer services. We like the templates and designs that make getting your website off the ground a cinch, and we also like the built-in tools that ensure eyeballs see your service offering quickly.

From the starter-level Basic plan, you’ll get access to built-in SEO, a marketing dashboard and up to 100 email marketing sends per month. If you want to add more powerful tools and features, you can do so for an added cost. However, if you’re looking to sell your services or products through an online store, you’ll need to upgrade to the Commerce plan, which allows you to sell unlimited products on leading marketplaces.

AI can make building your small business website easy without the intricate coding and technical knowledge that may have been necessary just a few years ago. We like Web.com for several reasons, including its powerful AI tools for building websites from scratch.

Using Web.com’s built-in AI tools means your website can go from idea to live online in a matter of minutes. It will build a professional-looking website and use its knowledge to generate a name for your domain, a logo for your business and copy for your website, marketing and more.

On top of that, Web.com offers a free domain for one year if you opt for an annual plan, which renews in your second year for full price. And, if you’re not so worried about harnessing AI tools for all of your website’s creation, Web.com allows you to build it yourself using its expansive library of pre-built templates.

If you’re looking for a one-stop shop for your website host and builder, Bluehost is a solid option. It offers an industry-leading 100% network uptime, so you can rest assured that you won’t miss out on potential revenue. Plus, it’s designed for use with WordPress, which could benefit small business owners who have used WordPress before.

Bluehost Website Builder uses AI tools to help you design your website from scratch by answering a few questions. With four plans available—all at middle-of-the-road price points—there’s an option for businesses of all sizes. But if you expect your website to get more than 400,000 visits per month—for example, if your traffic spikes at certain times of the year, like the holiday season—you may want to look elsewhere.