Comparison · Wix
With Wix you drag and drop. With Wixy you describe the change and see it before you publish.
Wix is a good visual editor with hundreds of templates, and for plenty of businesses that’s enough. Wixy plays a different game: your website is real code, written by a team, and you change it by typing what you want. Here’s the comparison row by row, including what each one does better.
Row by row
Wixy and Wix, on what matters when you buy
Where Wix wins, we say so. Where we win, the cell is marked. Everything else is a difference, not a victory.
| Criterion | Wixy | Wix |
|---|---|---|
| Who writes the design | Your team, or ours, in code: Astro, React and Tailwind. And you, asking the AI for the change from your panel. Both work on the same files and the same version history. | You, in their drag-and-drop editor, starting from hundreds of ready-made templates by industry. It’s their strong suit: you start with something that looks good in minutes. |
| What you end up with | .astro files you can open, read, compare and roll back. Hire another developer next year and you hand over a folder, not a username and a password. Your content lives separately, in the panel. | A site that lives inside the Wix editor. There’s no code to open, and none to hand to another developer. |
| Changing the design with AI | You type “dark background on the hero and the button in yellow”, pick the scope (this section, this page or the whole site) and the AI rewrites the theme code. You see it in a preview, on a separate domain, before you publish. | Their AI generates a starting site and helps with copy and sections. After that, you make the changes yourself in the editor. |
| Going back | Every change is a version with an author, a date and a note, whether your team or the AI made it. Rolling back moves a pointer: seconds, because the previous version is already built. The published version and the one before it are never deleted, whatever happens to your plan. | It has site history: you can restore a saved version from the editor. |
| What the AI can’t touch | Your checkout, the SEO <head>, your form submissions and your content. It’s forbidden in the platform’s code and checked twice, on save and before compiling. It isn’t a box you can uncheck. | We couldn’t find a list on their site of what their AI leaves alone. The AI generates; the rest you review in the editor. |
| SEO, and what a redesign does to it | Title, canonical URL, Open Graph and structured data are set by the system, not the theme: an AI redesign can’t break your SEO. Sitemaps, robots.txt, llms.txt, automatic redirects when a URL changes and a thirty-check analysis, all without spending credits. | Built-in SEO tools: per-page metadata, sitemap, redirects and an assistant that walks you through it. Solid, and you control them from the editor. |
| Online store and transaction fees | Store plan, $39/mo: products with sizes and colors, stock, cart, orders and a payment gateway (Culqi, Mercado Pago or Stripe). 0% transaction fees, on every plan. No coupons or multi-currency in this first version. | A store on their commerce plans, with their own gateway and features we don’t have today: coupons, shipping rules, selling on social networks. |
| Taking your site with you if you leave | You take it: 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 knows how to reuse. Managed, not held hostage. | The site doesn’t export to another host: it gets rebuilt. You take the domain and whatever content you can download. |
| Starting price | Free forever: one site at yourname.wixy.app, blocks, forms, SEO and 50 AI credits a month. No credit card. With your own domain, $19/mo. | A free plan with Wix ads on your site. With your own domain, from $17/mo, paid a year up front. |
| Your site in several languages | Not yet. The schema already allows for it, but multilingual sites aren’t switched on in this first version. The admin panel is in Spanish today; support is in English and Spanish. | Yes: multilingual sites from the editor. If you need that today, Wix wins here. |
If you want to drag and drop onto a template and publish today, Wix is a good choice and we won’t tell you otherwise. Wixy is for people who want their website to be real code: a team writes it, you change it by typing, you see every change before you publish it, and if one day you leave, you take it with you.
Wix gives you a website that looks good on day one. Wixy gives you one your next developer can open next year.
In numbers
What sits behind those rows
- scopes for asking for a change: this section, this page or the whole site
- 3 scopes for asking for a change: this section, this page or the whole site roughly 1, 3 and 5 credits · always estimated before you spend
- versions that are never archived: the published one and the one before it
- 2 versions that are never archived: the published one and the one before it being able to go back isn’t a paid extra
- transaction fees on every sale in your online store
- 0% transaction fees on every sale in your online store on every plan, the free one included
- AI credits a month on the Free plan
- 50 AI credits a month on the Free plan forever, no credit card and no ads on your site
The proof
This is what an AI change looks like: a diff, not a canvas
You ask for “title on the left and a dark background”. The AI rewrites the component and you see which lines changed. Look at {pagina.titulo}: it’s still there. The AI changes how your title is drawn, never what it says.
- If a text from your site shows up written inside the code, the version is rejected: content is never embedded in the design
- If the change doesn’t compile, fails validation or the model declines, nothing is applied and you get every credit back
- Your team opens that same file in their code editor and picks up where the AI left off, with no FTP and no editing in production
change «the button in yellow»
change «a dark background»
change «the title on the left»
change «a bigger title»
change «a rounded button»
The move
How a Wix site becomes a Wixy site
There’s no button that imports a Wix site, and we’re not going to pretend there is: Wix doesn’t export it. What there is, is this.
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You send us the address
We look at which pages you have, which ones get traffic from Google and which forms you use. You get the price and the timeline before you pay anything.
yourbusiness.wixsite.com
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We write the theme in code
The design is rebuilt on top of the base theme, with your colors and your sections. Nothing is imported from Wix: it’s written, and that’s why it can be changed piece by piece afterwards.
bloques/Hero.astro
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The content moves in, and so do the old URLs
Pages, posts, images and products go into the panel. Every old address becomes a redirect so you don’t lose what already ranks.
301 · /services-2 → /services
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You point the domain and publish
You see the whole thing in a preview, on a separate domain, before it exists on yours. Publishing moves a pointer; if it doesn’t convince you, rolling back takes just as long.
mc publicar
Your Wix site stays up through the whole move: the new one lives in the preview until you say yes.
The difference, in one line
Don’t like it? It goes back to how it was. In seconds.
Publishing and rolling back are the same operation: moving a pointer to a version that’s already built. Nothing is rebuilt, nothing is lost, and the list keeps a written record of who changed what, when, and — if it was the AI — what was asked for and what it cost.
Every version can be previewed, compared and restored.
- v21 You · AI You added testimonials published2 hours ago
- v20 Team Mobile responsiveyesterday
- v19 You · AI You changed the hero3 days ago
- v18 Team Initial design2 weeks ago
Questions
What people coming from Wix ask
Can I move my website from Wix to Wixy?
Yes, by hand and with our team. Wix doesn’t export the site, so the design is rebuilt in code on top of the base theme and your content is loaded into the panel. Your old URLs are saved as redirects so you don’t lose what already ranks. Send us a link to your site and we’ll tell you what it costs and how long it takes.
Does Wixy have a visual editor like Wix?
No, and that’s on purpose. You compose each page with blocks from your panel (hero, gallery, FAQ, form, product grid) and fill them in. How each block looks is theme code, and that code is written by your team or by the AI when you ask. With no canvas, there’s nothing to knock out of place when you move a box, and no desktop layout that breaks while you fix the phone one.
Do I need to know how to code to change the design?
No. You type what you want in your own words, pick whether it’s this section, this page or the whole site, and see the preview. The code is there for anyone who wants to read it: your team, a developer you hire, or us. You can go your whole life without opening it.
What if the AI does something I didn’t ask for?
You discard it from the preview and it never reaches your site. If the change fails validation, if the model declines or if it cuts off halfway, nothing is applied and every credit is refunded. A failure on our side is never on your bill.
What if I ask the AI to change a price or a headline?
It tells you that’s changed in Pages and hands you the link, without spending a credit. Text, prices and images are content and they live in the panel; the design AI only touches how they look. It’s the same line that stops a redesign from taking away what your site says.
What happens to my website if I leave?
You take it with you. Your site is a folder of Astro files, not data on a canvas: your team opens the code with the platform’s command line, from any version; your content comes out through the API as JSON and your form submissions as CSV. If you want it all in one package, we put it together for you. Managed, not held hostage.
Decide with the code in front of you, not a template
A free site at yourname.wixy.app, 50 credits a month and a preview of every change. No credit card, and no ads on top of your site.