The right tool for 2010 is the wrong tool for 2026.
WordPress, Webflow, and Wix each solved one thing and traded away another — your files, your speed, or your budget. Jx Studio is an open-source visual builder that hands you the files. Here's how it compares.
Capabilities at a glance.
| Visual Builder | Accounts & Data | Maintenance | Performance | Lock-in | Open Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WordPress | ✓ | ✓ Built-in | Heavy | Patchy | High | ✓ |
| Webflow | ✓ | Varies by plan | Light | Strong | Total | ✗ |
| Wix / Squarespace | ✓ | Varies by plan | Light | Slow | Total | ✗ |
| Headless + Next.js | ✗ | Bring your own | Heavy | Strong | Medium | ✓ |
| Astro / Hugo | ✗ | Bring your own | Light | Strong | Open | ✓ |
| Jx Suite | ✓ Studio | ✓ First-party extensions | Zero | Strong | None | MIT |
What you'd actually pay.
A typical 40-page brochure site for a small business. Illustrative estimates — your costs will vary. Projects that add accounts or a database ship a worker alongside the same static output — on Cloudflare Pages it goes out inside the same deploy, so there is no second service to provision; other hosts price it their own way.
If Jx disappeared tomorrow, you'd still have your sites.
Your content is Markdown. Your components are JSON. Your output is prerendered HTML — plus a self-contained JavaScript worker when you build for a server-capable target like Cloudflare, Node, or Bun. Every layer is a standard format that other tools can read. There is no proprietary intermediate representation.
Ready to switch?
Start your first project in under a minute. The entire framework is free, forever.
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