The right tool for 2010 is the wrong tool for 2026.
WordPress, Webflow, and Wix solved real problems — but they come with hidden costs, vendor lock-in, and architectural debt. Here's how Jx compares.
Capabilities at a glance.
| Visual Builder | Maintenance | Performance | Lock-in | Open Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WordPress | ✓ | Heavy | Patchy | High | ✓ |
| Webflow | ✓ | Light | Strong | Total | ✗ |
| Wix / Squarespace | ✓ | Light | Slow | Total | ✗ |
| Headless + Next.js | ✗ | Heavy | Strong | Medium | ✓ |
| Astro / Hugo | ✗ | Light | Strong | Open | ✓ |
| Jx Suite | ✓ Studio | Zero | 100/100 | None | MIT |
What you'd actually pay.
A typical 40-page brochure site for a small business. Real numbers.
WordPress Stack
Managed hosting
$80/mo
Premium plugins
$200/yr
Maintenance & updates
$4,000/yr
Security monitoring
$300/yr
Annual total
~$5,460
Jx Suite
Static hosting (Cloudflare Pages)
$0/mo
Plugins
$0
Maintenance & updates
$0
Security monitoring
N/A — static HTML
Annual total
$0
If Jx disappeared tomorrow, you'd still have your sites.
Your content is Markdown. Your components are JSON. Your output is HTML. Every layer is a standard format that other tools can read. There is no proprietary intermediate representation.
License
MIT open source. Use it, fork it, sell sites built with it. Forever.
Output
Plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Deployable on any web server in the world.
Source
JSON + Markdown in git. Human-readable, machine-parseable, version-controlled.
Trust
No proprietary IR. No black box. No vendor that can raise prices or shut down.