Three ways to have a website, with their real costs, what you can do with each and how to move if you're already on Wix.
Short answer
Wix makes sense to get started quickly with a template, if you have time to build it and you're fine with a monthly fee in dollars. WordPress gives you more freedom, but it needs hosting and maintenance. A custom website is paid once, it's yours and it performs better on speed, SEO and custom features. Always compare the total cost over two years.
All three give you a website, but they work differently. Wix is a site builder: you pick a template, edit it by dragging blocks and pay for a plan to use your own domain and remove the ads. WordPress is a system you install on a hosting account and build with themes and plugins. A custom website is designed and coded by someone based on your brand and on what your business needs it to do.
| Wix | WordPress | Custom website | |
|---|---|---|---|
| How you pay | Monthly or yearly plan, in dollars (Wix plans). | Hosting and domain, plus paid themes and plugins if you use them. | You pay for design and development. After that, domain and hosting. |
| Who builds it | You, with templates. | You or a developer. | A designer or an agency. |
| Design | The template's, adapted. | The theme's, adapted or custom. | Your own, made for your business. |
| Speed | Acceptable; depends on what you add. | Depends on the hosting and the plugins. | High if it's well built: only the code it needs. |
| Technical maintenance | Wix handles it. | Yours: updating plugins and themes. | Minimal on a static site. |
| If you stop paying | The website goes offline. The design can't be moved to another provider. | If you stop paying for hosting, it goes offline; the files are yours. | If you stop paying for hosting, it goes offline; the code and the design are yours. |
Wix prices: we don't list them because they change by country, currency and promotions; check them on their official page. Checked on Oct 14, 2026.
Comparing Wix's first-month price with the one-time payment for a custom website doesn't tell you much: they're different models. The fair way is to add up everything you pay over two years, including your time.
| Item (2 years) | Wix | WordPress | Custom with MyLeads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getting started | Free to try; to publish on your own domain, a paid plan. | A theme (free or paid) and, if you hire someone, their work. | One-time payment: Landing ARS 100,000 - ARS 300,000, Starter ARS 450,000 - ARS 600,000, Full ARS 750,000 - ARS 950,000. |
| Subscription | 24 months of the chosen plan. | 24 months of hosting. | No mandatory subscription. |
| Domain | Included the first year on some plans; renewal after that. | 2 renewals. | 2 renewals (in your name). |
| Extras | Apps from the Wix App Market, some of them paid. | Premium plugins, often billed yearly and in dollars. | Custom features, quoted in the proposal. |
| Your time | High: you build it and maintain it. | Medium or high. | Low: we hand you the finished website. |
MyLeads prices published on /planes as of Oct 14, 2026 (one-time payment in pesos, 50% deposit and 50% at launch).
As a rule: if you're going to keep the website for several years and don't want to depend on a fee in dollars, a one-time payment usually works out better. If you need something for tomorrow and to test an idea, Wix is a good way in. To see every cost of keeping a website online, read how much it costs to maintain a website.
WordPress's weak spot is maintenance: outdated plugins, conflicts between plugins and slow sites are the problems we see most when people ask us to rebuild a website.
Real examples: DG Trailers Náuticos has a configurator that puts together the trailer order and sends it over WhatsApp; MultiBOMBAS has a calculator that helps each customer figure out which pump they need. Those are features a template doesn't come with. More projects in our projects.
No. Wix lets you edit the title, description and URL of each page, and there are Wix sites that rank well. What matters is the usual: useful content, speed on mobile, good structure and consistent data. The difference is control: on a custom website you decide every detail of the code, the structured data and the speed; on a site builder, only what the platform lets you touch. If you want to work on it seriously, see our SEO for small businesses.
It can be done, carefully. Wix doesn't let you export the design to another provider, so the website gets rebuilt. What you need to keep is what Google already knows:
That's what we do in our website redesign without losing your rankings. Before you pay, we show you a free visual proposal of how it would look.
Whether it's Wix, WordPress or custom, these questions prevent most of the problems we see later:
| Question | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Whose name are the domain and accounts in? | If they're not in your name, switching providers or platforms becomes a long process. |
| How much do I pay in the second year? | Many plans and domains have a promotional first-year price and a higher renewal. |
| Who makes the changes and how much do they cost? | A website only someone else can edit means delays and a cost for every tweak. |
| What happens if I stop paying? | On a site builder, the website goes offline and the design can't be moved. On your own website, the files are yours. |
| How fast does it load on a phone? | Most visits come from phones, and a slow website loses inquiries and rankings. |
| Does it include titles, descriptions and data for Google? | Without that, the website exists but nobody finds it. |
At MyLeads we answer all of them in writing in the proposal: price in pesos, timeline, rounds of changes and what stays in your name. See the details of each plan in custom website prices, or, if you're just starting out and only have Instagram today, read why your business needs its own website.
Fill in the form and we'll send you a visual proposal made for your business. If you like it, we get started. If not, you don't pay a thing.
