Wix is a website builder providing a permanently free tier (with branding and ads) alongside four different premium plans starting at $17/month and going all the way up to $159/month in annual billing on top of the Wix Studio line of tools specifically targeting designers and agencies. All plans come with a hosting service, AI-powered website builder and integrations with apps marketplace.
Wix's prices of $17 Light, $29 Core, $39 Business and $159 Business Elite reflect annual billing paid upfront. Choosing to have your billing done on a month-to-month basis will cost you significantly more, up to 41% in excess over the course of a year for the same plan. If you expect to use your plan for several months or longer, choosing annual billing upfront will help avoid those excess costs.
All premium plans come with a free custom domain for the first year of subscription, but renewal will cost you according to Wix's domain pricing policy, usually somewhere around $14.95 per year. Purchasing your own domain through a third-party registrar like Namecheap or GoDaddy, then connecting it to your Wix site is an entirely legal way to save on renewing Wix domains once the first year is over.
While Wix provides a 14-day money back guarantee applicable to your first payment on a premium plan or on Wix Studio, it does not apply to any of the future renewal charges. If you are in the middle of your second year and not satisfied with your subscription, the initial 14-day window when you could request a money back applies to the original purchase only.
Even though Wix allows you to have a full access to a paid plan features for 14 days and even build a website, payment processing capabilities are not available during that time. If you intend to build an online store, you will not be able to accept payments until you convert the free trial into a paid plan.
Wix's app market provides you with wide array of options including booking and accounting services, starting at $2.50 per month to nearly $500 per month. While most third-party app subscriptions will usually cost you less than $10 per month, neglecting additional costs coming from apps market and assuming that the cost of your subscription equals to the base price is a common mistake.
Unlike the most expensive plan in the regular lineup, Wix Studio is a completely separate product, designed for agencies and designers, and is not included in the regular pricing table, costing between $19/month and $159/month with unique set of features such as multi-site billing and other management utilities.
Of all the Wix premium plans, only Business Elite comes with unlimited media storage, CMS items limit up to 10,000,000 items, database storage capacity of 100GB, dedicated data infrastructure and up to 100 external website collaborators. Price increase from the previous level is considerable and it is specifically designed for larger businesses and content heavy projects.
While all Wix plans feature auto-renewal by default, disabling it in settings will not cause you to lose access to your site and account immediately. It will just prevent your plan from charging you in the future until you manually renew it or it reverts to the free plan.
Not if you choose to pay on month-to-month basis. While it reflects the annual price, paying month-to-month can cost you up to 41% extra over the course of the year for the same plan.
No. Wix's free custom domain is provided only for one year. Then renewal will cost you as much as according to Wix's domain pricing.
No. Wix only provides 14-day money back guarantee applicable to the initial payment, not to the subsequent ones.
No. Free trial of Wix's website builder lets you build and publish a live website with all its features, but the payment processing remains unavailable until you upgrade to a paid plan.
Wix Studio is a completely separate product line designed specifically for agency and designers featuring multi-site management and other utilities not included in regular consumer-focused plans.
Yes. Business Elite is the only Wix plan providing you with truly unlimited media storage, as well as other additional storage allowances.
Turning off auto-renewal will not affect your access to your website or account in any way. It will simply prevent your subscription from being automatically renewed in the future and will make you manually renew your plan or convert it to the free tier.