Free
$0forever
The full design engine, not a crippled preview. Describe a site and watch it get designed - no paywall in front of the result.
- Enough to take one site from blank prompt to finished design
- The same engine Pro runs on - not a watered-down demo
- No paywall before you see a result
- Real HTML and CSS, not a screenshot of a design
Pro
$9/month, billed yearly
Cancel any time, in one click, and every purchase is covered by a 14-day money-back guarantee.
- 100 credits a month - a new site is about 2, an AI edit about 0.5
- Publish online, with hosting and SSL included
- Full HTML export - take the site anywhere
- Edit with AI in chat
- SEO and analytics
- Fast generations
Prices in USD. The free tier covers the whole flow end to end - describe a site, watch it get designed, restyle it - so you see the real output before any card comes out.
Try it before you look at a price
Describe a site in one line. You’ll see what the engine does before you decide whether any of this is worth $9 a month.
Cheap should describe the price, not the result
Most cheap website builders are cheap twice: cheap to buy, and cheap-looking to visit. The price comes down and the design comes down with it - the same three template layouts, the same default typeface, the same stock hero image everyone else picked.
8B separates the two. What a website costs should reflect what the service costs to run, not how much design you are allowed to have. That is the whole argument for being a cheap website builder rather than a cheap-looking one. So designing is free and open to everyone, and the paid plan is $9 a month billed yearly - deliberately our cheapest tier, because we would rather you upgrade than ration yourself.
You can watch the difference from here. Press “More designs” on the floating panel: the palette, the typefaces, the motion and the background are all recomposed around you, on this page, while the words stay exactly where they are. That range is the part no template library sells at any price.
What $9 a month actually buys
The going rate to get started elsewhere is $25 a month at Lovable, $25 at Bolt.new, $30 a seat at v0 and $20 at Base44 - and each of them then meters you in a currency you cannot convert. Tokens, messages, credits that cost something different depending on how long your prompt was: you find out what a generation costs after you have spent it.
8B publishes the exchange rate. Pro includes 100 credits a month. A brand-new site costs about 2 credits. An AI edit costs about half a credit. So a month of Pro is roughly fifty new websites, or a couple of hundred edits to the one you care about - and you know that before you pay, not after.
Below that sits the free tier, and it is not a teaser. It carries enough to run the whole flow - describe a site, watch it get designed, restyle it, look at the actual HTML - before any card comes out. The paid tier starts where publishing starts.
A rate you can read
2 credits for a new site, 0.5 for an AI edit. No token arithmetic, no wondering what a long prompt costs.
One payment a year
A single yearly charge, not a balance you keep topping up. Nothing to re-buy mid-month when a project runs long.
Test it end to end first
The free tier takes a site from blank prompt to finished design, so you judge the real output before paying for anything.
Cheap AI website builder pricing, compared
Calling yourself the cheapest website builder is easy; the number that matters is what it costs to actually finish a site and get it online. Here is how 8B sits against the tools people usually price it against.
| 8B | Lovable | Bolt.new | v0.dev | Base44 | Framer AI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheapest paid plan | $9/mo, billed yearly | $25/mo | $25/mo | $30/user/mo | $20/mo | $15/mo |
| What the free tier allows | A full site, start to finish | 5 build credits a day | 1M tokens a month | 7 messages a day | 25 message credits a month | 500 AI credits, one-off |
| Cost to see a first design | Nothing - no paywall in front of the result | Spends daily credits | Spends the token allowance | Spends a daily message | Spends message credits | Spends one-off AI credits |
| Credits on the paid plan | 100/mo - ~2 per new site | 100/mo on Pro | 10M tokens/mo | $30 of credits/mo | 100 message credits/mo | AI credits sold separately |
| How the look is decided | Composed per site | One default component kit | One default component kit | One component library | Standard app chrome | Template, then edited |
| What a crawler sees | Finished HTML from the server | Needs JavaScript to render | Needs JavaScript to render | Needs JavaScript to render | Needs JavaScript to render | Indexable |
| Lock-in | None - full HTML export | Hosting captivity | Netlify-tied | Vercel-tied | Base44 hosting | Framer hosting only |
Competitor plans change often. The figures above are each vendor’s published entry tier as of September 2026 - check their pricing pages for the current numbers.
What the cheapest plan still puts on the page
Being the cheapest AI website maker counts for nothing if the result is a page you would be embarrassed to send anyone. So here is the whole list of what the engine produces, on the free tier and on Pro alike - not a feature grid with half the rows greyed out.
A composition, not a layout
Type, colour, spacing and motion are decided together for your site specifically. Two people describing the same corner shop end up with pages that look nothing alike.
Type you will not recognise
The typeface pairing is chosen per project out of a deep pool rather than stamped from one house style. It will not be the font you have seen on the last five AI-built sites.
Motion, without a studio invoice
Backgrounds drift, sections arrive on cue, and the whole thing is choreographed rather than bolted on. Agencies bill this separately; here it arrives with the design.
Sentences, not lorem ipsum
Headings, service descriptions and calls to action come out already written around what you sell. Any line you dislike can be rewritten by chatting at it.
Pictures that match the palette
Imagery and short clips are produced in the colours the design settled on, so nothing on the page looks rented from a stock library.
Start from a photo of a napkin
Hand it a screenshot, a mockup or something you sketched by hand. The structure is read off the picture and rebuilt as a working page.
A shop, when you sell things
Say what you sell and the storefront comes with it - product pages, basket and checkout, wearing the same design as everything else.
Enquiries that arrive sorted
Contact and lead forms hand you an organised summary instead of a heap of notifications, so the messages worth answering surface first.
Legible to crawlers on request one
Markup is rendered on the server with genuine headings and structured data attached. Search engines and AI assistants read the content without executing anything first.
Quick with nothing to tune
Above 90 on every Lighthouse metric, and roughly a second to load on a phone. There is no performance checklist waiting for you afterwards.
Online under your own name
Pro handles publishing: certificates, CDN hosting and a domain, either one that comes with the plan or one you already own.
Portable the day you leave
The site downloads as a single HTML file whenever you ask. It is ordinary markup and stylesheets - any developer can open it, and nothing about it needs us to keep hosting it.
Who the $9 plan is actually for
If you are exploring designs and the free tier covers it, stay on the free tier. We would rather say that plainly than sell you a plan you do not need.
Pro is for the moment the site has to exist in public: a live URL, hosting and SSL handled, the HTML in your hands if you want it, and AI edits in chat as the business changes. At $9 a month billed yearly it is priced to be the obvious step rather than a decision you have to justify - the cheapest entry tier in the table above, and roughly a third of what Lovable, Bolt or v0 charge to get started.
Pricing questions
How much does 8B cost?
Designing is $0 and stays $0. Pro is $9 a month, billed yearly, and it is our cheapest paid tier. You can cancel any time in one click, and there is a 14-day money-back guarantee if it is not for you.
What is the cheapest AI website builder?
Of the tools people actually shortlist, 8B is: $9 a month billed yearly, against $15 at Framer, $20 at Base44, $25 at Lovable, $25 at Bolt.new and $30 a seat at v0 - their published entry tiers as of September 2026. We are not going to claim nothing cheaper exists anywhere on the internet. But nothing in that comparison undercuts $9, and every one of those free tiers starts metering you in credits or tokens from the first prompt.
How does 8B compare with Lovable, Bolt.new, v0 and Base44?
On price it is the cheapest of the five. On everything else the gap is about what each tool is for: Lovable and Bolt.new generate full-stack applications, v0 generates React components, Base44 builds app-style products. All of them lean on the same default component kit, which is why their output tends to resemble itself. 8B is aimed at the page - the design is composed per site, and what comes back is server-rendered HTML rather than a bundle a crawler has to execute first. The table further up sets the rows side by side.
Is the free plan really free, or is it a trial?
It is genuinely free, and it runs the same design engine as Pro rather than a cut-down demo of it. There is enough there to take one site from a blank prompt to a finished design, so you can judge the real output rather than a marketing screenshot.
What is the cheapest way to get a website with 8B?
Open the builder, describe your site, and design it on the free tier. Nothing is hidden behind a paywall until you want the site live. When you do, Pro is $9 a month, billed yearly.
How do credits work, and how many do I need?
Pro includes 100 credits a month. A brand-new site costs about 2 credits and an AI edit costs about 0.5, so a month covers roughly fifty new sites or a couple of hundred edits. There is nothing to buy separately - the credits come with the plan.
Is a cheap AI website builder worth it?
It depends entirely on what comes out. The cheapest AI website maker on the market is still a waste of nine dollars if the page it produces looks like the other million. Cheap is only a bargain if the site is designed, indexable and yours to edit. That is the standard 8B holds on the free tier as well as on Pro - the price changes, the output does not.
Can I see what 8B makes before paying?
Yes. There is no paywall in front of the result: describe a site, watch it get designed, restyle it and read the HTML it produced. Payment starts where publishing starts, not where designing does.
Can I get a refund?
Yes. Every Pro purchase is covered by a 14-day money-back guarantee - if the plan is not what you needed, ask within two weeks and you get your money back. Cancelling itself takes one click at any time.
What happens if I cancel Pro?
Cancelling takes one click and you drop back to the free tier, which is the full design engine. You do not lose access to the builder, because the builder was never the thing behind the paywall.
The order that saves you money
Nothing on this page tells you whether the engine can design your site in particular. One sentence does. Describe it, keep the result if it earns the keeping, and treat the price as a question for later.