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# 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.

Feature Matrix

## 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         |

Cost of Ownership

## What you'd actually pay.

A typical 40-page brochure site for a small business. Illustrative estimates, so 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.

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 pages

Annual total

$0

The Exit Hatch

## 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.

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. Use the server tier and you also get one standard JS worker, which runs on Cloudflare, Node, or Bun.

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.

## Ready to switch?

Start your first project in under a minute. The entire framework is free, forever.

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