TeleportHQ compared with Wix
Wix is an all-in-one visual website builder for small businesses, with templates, its own apps and hosting. In TeleportHQ, AI builds the site from a description of your business, you edit it visually or by chatting with the AI Assistant, and a store, bookings, user accounts, an admin panel and a help center are switched on in the same project. This guide compares the two fairly, so you can decide which fits your project.
Who this guide is for
- You're choosing between TeleportHQ and Wix for a new site.
- You have a Wix site and want to know what moving to TeleportHQ changes, and what you can bring along.
The short answer
If you want to pick a template, fill it in and add the builder's own apps for a shop or bookings, Wix is made for that way of working. If you want AI to build a site around your business first, and want a store, bookings, sign-in, a help center and an admin panel that run in one project, TeleportHQ fits better: it also hosts and runs those live features and gives you the tools to measure and grow the site from the same project. On a paid plan a website's code is yours to download; a web app's (a project with a store, bookings, sign-in, a blog or a help center) is not. Both host the site for you and connect your own domain.
TeleportHQ and Wix side by side
The Wix column describes how an all-in-one website builder usually works, not a feature list. Check Wix's own site for what it includes today.
| What you decide on | TeleportHQ | Wix, an all-in-one website builder |
|---|---|---|
| How the site is built | AI builds it from your business description (AI Website Builder), or you start from a template or a blank page. | You pick a template and fill it in, in a visual editor. |
| Editing | A visual editor with ready-made sections and a Design Language, or the AI Assistant. | A visual editor made for non-designers; templates and the builder's apps set the structure. |
| Hosting | By TeleportHQ, with a staging address and your own domain. | By the builder, on its address or your own domain. |
| Storage and data | Included with the plan: the project's files (pictures, videos, documents), the built-in database with up to 200,000 records per table on a paid plan, the data each web app keeps, and monthly bandwidth; nothing to buy or connect separately (the limits per plan). | Wix hosts the site; storage and bandwidth depend on the Premium plan tier you pick. |
| Store, bookings, accounts | Built in: online store, Bookings, sign-up and login and an admin panel on your live site. | Added as the builder's own apps or as third-party widgets. |
| Languages | Built in, with automatic translation. | The builder's own multilingual feature, or a third-party service. |
| SEO | Titles, descriptions, sitemap and redirects (how SEO works). | Page titles, descriptions and sitemaps are standard in visual builders. |
| After it's live | Analytics, a site health audit, keyword ideas and a competitor benchmark, campaigns and newsletters, and sales or booking reports, all under Growth in the editor. | The builder's own visitor statistics, and its own apps or add-ons for marketing. |
| What you can take with you | On a paid plan, a website's code as HTML, React, Next.js, Vue, Nuxt or Angular, or an export to GitHub (code download). Websites only: switching on sign-in, a store, bookings, a blog or a help center makes the project a web app; the editor warns first ("Code download will no longer be available"), there is no switch back, and a web app's code can't be downloaded, so it runs on TeleportHQ hosting from then on. | Varies by builder: check what you can download (texts, pictures, products, posts) before you move. |
| Who does the technical work | You build; TeleportHQ hosts the site and runs its live features (websites vs web apps), with support a chat away. | You; the builder hosts the site and its apps. |
What carries over if you switch from Wix
- Your live site, page by page. Generate from URL, on the first step of the AI Website Builder, is the way to move a site that's online: it reads your sitemap, copies the text of up to 12 pages and rebuilds them with the same wording in a new design. Images aren't copied.
- Your pictures: upload them in the Assets Manager, or pick free stock photos.
- Your products and blog posts, if you can export them as a CSV or JSON file: import products and import posts.
- Your HTML and CSS, if you have them: paste a page into the HTML Import window.
- Your design, if it's in Figma: the TeleportHQ Figma plugin opens it as a new project.
What's different day to day
- You start from a built site, not a template to fill in, with real texts about your business that you change by hand or by asking the AI Assistant in plain words.
- Features are switches in one project, in the Plugins tab, with their pages, data and emails wired when you switch them on.
- Orders, bookings and customers live in an admin panel on your own site, at
/admin/dashboard. - Your numbers are in the same place as your site: Growth in the left sidebar shows who visits, next to the audits, the reports and the Marketing Studio.
- AI features use AI tokens; editing by hand uses none.
Try TeleportHQ
Every new TeleportHQ account starts with a free 7-day trial, with no credit card, on 1 project. See How does the TeleportHQ free trial work?. Then follow How to create your first website in TeleportHQ.