GitFoundry vs Wix

What you actually pay

This is where the comparison starts and ends for most people.

Wix charges between £13 and £35 per month depending on your plan. That is between £156 and £420 per year, every year, for as long as your site exists. Wix prices have increased several times since the platform launched and there is no reason to expect they will not increase again.

GitFoundry charges once. A Landing Page costs £349. A Professional site costs £749. A Bespoke build is £1,299. After that, hosting is free on GitHub Pages (run by Microsoft), and there are no platform fees, no renewal charges, and no subscriptions of any kind.

A GitFoundry Professional site at £749 costs what a Wix subscriber pays over three and a half years on a mid-tier plan. After five years, a Wix subscriber has spent the equivalent of a Bespoke build — and they still own nothing they could take away.

What happens if you leave

With Wix, your site lives inside the Wix platform. You cannot export it as clean, portable code. If you want to leave Wix, whether because the price increased, because the platform changed, or because you want a developer to take over, you take nothing with you. The site stays. You start again.

With GitFoundry, on delivery, the full source code is transferred to your own GitHub account. It is plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, readable and editable by any developer in the world. You can move it to any host, hand it to any developer, or modify it yourself. GitFoundry's involvement ends at handover. The site is yours in the same way a printed document is yours.

How the sites actually perform

Wix generates bloated HTML and relies on shared hosting infrastructure. Wix sites commonly score between 40 and 70 on Google Lighthouse's performance metric — Google's measure of how fast and well-built a site is. A low score affects search rankings and user experience.

GitFoundry builds from scratch in plain HTML, CSS, and a small amount of JavaScript. There are no unnecessary libraries, no platform overhead, and no generated code. Every GitFoundry site targets a Lighthouse score of 90 or above. GitHub Pages serves the files from Microsoft's infrastructure, with no shared resource constraints.

When Wix is the right choice

Wix is a reasonable choice if you need to build a site entirely yourself, today, with no technical knowledge and no budget. For a hobby project, a temporary event page, or someone who wants to experiment before committing, a free or low-cost Wix plan is a sensible starting point.

It is less suitable for a business that intends to stay online long-term, that values performance and search visibility, or that wants to own what they have paid for. If that describes you, submit a brief and GitFoundry will respond within 48 hours with a fixed quote.