Comparison · Webflow
Webflow gives you the canvas. Wixy gives you the code, and gives your client a way to change it without breaking it.
Webflow is the best visual tool for a designer, and that’s not up for debate. Wixy plays a different game: the website is code a team writes, your client changes it by typing within limits they can’t cross, and the price for an agency doesn’t jump from $25 to $2,500. Row by row, no tricks.
Row by row
Wixy and Webflow, on what matters when you choose
Where Webflow wins, we say so. Where we win, the cell is marked. Everything else is a difference, not a victory.
| Criterion | Wixy | Webflow |
|---|---|---|
| Who writes the design | Your team, in code, from their editor and with the platform’s command line. And your client, asking the AI for changes from their panel, within the allowed paths. | You or your designer, in the Designer, with full visual control: classes, interactions, animations. It’s their strong suit, and Webflow wins here. |
| What you end up with | .astro files written by people or by the AI: the code is the source. It opens in an editor, compares file by file and rolls back. | HTML, CSS and JS generated by the Designer. Clean, but the code is the output, not the source: you don’t edit it by hand, you go back to the canvas. |
| Changing the design with AI | Your client types “move the form to the top and the map to the bottom”, picks the scope and sees the preview on a separate domain. They publish, or your agency approves it, depending on their plan’s workflow. | AI helpers inside the Designer, built for the designer. The client edits content in the Editor; the design is changed by whoever has the Designer. |
| Going back | Every change is a version with an author, a date, a note and, if it was the AI, the prompt and the cost. Rolling back moves a pointer: seconds. The published version and the one before it are never deleted. | Automatic and manual site backups, restorable from the Designer. |
| What the AI can’t touch | The checkout, the SEO <head>, form submissions and the content. It’s forbidden in the platform’s code and checked twice. It isn’t a box you can uncheck: neither your client nor you can open it. | We couldn’t find a list on their site of what their AI can’t touch. It works with the permissions of whoever is using it. |
| SEO, and what a redesign does to it | The <head> is set by the system, not the theme: an AI redesign can’t break your client’s SEO. Sitemaps, robots.txt, llms.txt, automatic redirects when a URL changes and a thirty-check analysis, all without spending credits. | Fine control of metadata, canonicals, sitemaps and 301 redirects from the panel. Very good. The <head> accepts custom code, so a redesign can touch it and you have to check. |
| Online store and transaction fees | Store plan, $39/mo, with Culqi, Mercado Pago or Stripe as the payment gateway. 0% transaction fees, on every plan. No coupons or multi-currency in this first version. | Separate ecommerce plans, with Stripe and PayPal as gateways; check each plan’s transaction fee. In much of Latin America that leaves the local gateways out. |
| Taking your site with you if you leave | Your theme code, from the command line and from any version; your content through the API as JSON and your submissions as CSV. Astro files any developer can reuse. Managed, not held hostage. | You export the HTML, CSS and JS of the pages on paid plans. Whatever depends on their CMS, their forms or their store doesn’t come out working. |
| Starting price, and the next step up | Free forever at yourname.wixy.app. With a domain, $19/mo. For an agency, $99/mo: unlimited clients, 5 published sites included and $15 for each extra site, with an approval workflow. | Starter is free on their subdomain; with a domain, $15 or $25 per site depending on the plan. For a single site it comes out a bit cheaper than us. The next step up for teams is $2,500/mo, and there’s nothing in between. |
| Languages | Support in English and Spanish; the admin panel is in Spanish today. Your site in several languages, not yet: the schema already allows for it, but it isn’t switched on in this first version. | Localization as a paid add-on, and it works well. Their own site has no Spanish version: webflow.com/es doesn’t exist. |
If you’re a designer and you want control over every pixel, Webflow is an excellent tool and we won’t tell you otherwise. Wixy is for agencies and businesses that hand websites to clients who then want to change them on their own: the client asks, sees the preview, and publishes or rolls back, and can’t touch what breaks a site. With a price that grows per site, not by a jump.
In Webflow the code is what comes out of the canvas. Here there is no canvas: the code is what goes in, and a client’s change reaches your team as a diff.
The agency math
What five clients cost, with no asterisks
- a month per account, with unlimited clients
- $99 a month per account, with unlimited clients Agency plan · the price is per account, not per client
- published sites included
- 5 published sites included $15 a month for each published site beyond that
- AI credits a month to share across your clients
- 2,000 AI credits a month to share across your clients ~1 this section · ~3 this page · ~5 the whole site (estimate)
- transaction fees on their stores’ sales
- 0% transaction fees on their stores’ sales on every plan, the free one included
The proof
What your client changes, your team can read
Every AI request ends in a diff on .astro files. Your team reviews it file by file, the way they’d review a colleague’s change. If they change the footer on Monday and the client changes the hero on Tuesday, both versions sit in the history, one after the other.
- If both touch the same file, the platform warns before anyone loses work: nothing is ever merged automatically inside a file
- With the approval workflow, the client requests to publish and your agency approves or rejects with a note
- Each client with their own domain, theme, history and library, isolated all the way down to the database and never seeing a thing of anyone else’s
change «the button in yellow»
change «a dark background»
change «the title on the left»
change «a bigger title»
change «a rounded button»
The delivery flow
How your team hands over a website, and how the client keeps changing it
The serious work happens in your editor and on the command line. What the client does afterwards comes in through the same door.
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You open the client on your machine
One command materializes the base theme and that client’s customizations in your folder. You edit it in your usual editor, with no FTP and no touching production.
mc abrir clinica-san-jose
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You save a version
Every save records your name, your note and the list of files that changed. If someone saved before you, nothing is overwritten: you get a warning and a look at what changed.
mc guardar -m "Header with hours"
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You hand over the preview, not the site
The client sees it on a separate domain, noindexed and behind a signed link, before it exists on theirs. They approve, ask for changes, or ask the AI themselves.
clinica-v22.previa.wixy.app
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Whoever you decide publishes
With the approval workflow, the client requests and your agency approves with a note. With direct publishing, they publish and you can roll back whenever you want.
mc publicar clinica-san-jose
Everything the command line does, the panel does too, and the other way round: whatever the panel can do is in the API. The tools you build tomorrow won’t ask you to redo any of this.
The missing step
Between $25 a site and $2,500 a month there’s nothing. Here there is.
Unlimited clients from day one, five published sites included and $15 a month for each one after that. The math is shown done, with no asterisks and no expandable tables: if three clients come in next month, you already know what it costs you.
Questions
What people coming from Webflow ask
Can I bring a Webflow project to Wixy?
Yes, with our team. The design is rebuilt in code on top of the base theme (a Webflow export serves as a reference; it isn’t imported as is) and the content is loaded into the panel. Your old URLs are saved as redirects. Send us a link to your site and we’ll tell you what it costs.
Can my client break the site by changing it with AI?
Not what matters. The checkout, the SEO <head>, form submissions and the content are out of the AI’s reach in the platform’s code, and a change that doesn’t compile or fails validation isn’t applied and isn’t charged. What they can do is make a change they don’t like: that’s what the preview and the rollback are for.
How is an agency with many clients billed?
Agency plan, $99/mo: unlimited clients, 5 published sites included and $15 a month for each additional published site. The approval workflow is included, plus 2,000 AI credits a month. The math is shown done, with no asterisks: a client you haven’t published yet costs nothing.
Can I keep using my code editor?
Yes, that’s the idea. Your team opens any client’s code on their own machine with the platform’s command line, edits it in their editor and saves a version with the origin “team”. The client’s AI changes and yours go into the same history, and if both touch the same file the platform warns before anyone loses work.
What if I don’t want my client touching the design at all?
You take the permission away, and that’s it: there are three levels — none, propose and publish — and by default an editor doesn’t even see the design section. You can also lock a specific file, or freeze the whole design while your team works on a big redesign. All of that is set and cleared by the agency, not by the client.
What happens to my client’s website if they leave, or if I do?
They take it with them: their theme code with its version history, opened from the command line at any version, and their content through the API as JSON. If they want it all in one package, we put it together. Managed, not held hostage. And since every client is isolated in three layers, all the way down to the database, what they take is theirs and nothing else.
Hand over your next website with a history, not a canvas
Start free with a site at yourname.wixy.app. And if you have a portfolio of clients to move, tell us how many and we’ll do the math.