Is Wix free? Free plan limits, custom domain, and forms

Wix's own blog answers the question in one line: “Wix offers a completely free website builder that lets you create and publish a website with free website hosting”. Nothing on Wix's pages puts an end date on the Free plan. What it limits is where the site lives, the ads Wix shows on it, and what switches on only when you pay: your domain, payments, and Google Analytics.

The facts below come from Wix's help center and blog, and each row links to the page it came from.

Wix's Free plan at a glance

What you get	Wix Free	Source
Price	$0	Wix blog: Is Wix really free?
Address	`yourname.wixsite.com/yoursite`	Wix Help: Keeping the free Wix URL
Your own domain	No; from Light, $17 a month, billed yearly	Wix Help: Building a website for free, Wix Help: Premium plan pricing
Form	Yes, up to 4 forms, with entries listed in your site's dashboard	Wix Help: Upgrading Wix Forms, Wix Help: Viewing a submissions table
Visitor stats	Google Analytics can't connect to a free site	Wix Help: Google Analytics FAQs
Badge on your site	A Wix ad banner on every page	Wix Help: Upgrading your Wix site
Commercial use	No rule against it found; taking payments needs a paid plan	Wix blog: Is Wix really free?
An HTML file you already have	No HTML upload; an Embed HTML element shows a snippet in an iframe	Wix Help: Embedding a site or a widget

Checked on October 12, 2026 against Wix's own pages, linked in each row. Prices in US dollars.

Can you use your own domain on Wix's free plan?

No. Wix's guide to building a site for free answers “No, connecting a custom domain requires upgrading to a plan.” A free site keeps an address in the form yourname.wixsite.com/yoursite.

The cheapest plan that connects one is Light. Wix lists it at $17 a month, billed yearly, or $24 a month if you pay month to month, and Light also removes Wix's ads. A paid plan, in Wix's words, “allows you to connect your own domain (either purchased from Wix or from another domain host), remove the Wix ads, and much more”.

If you stop paying later, Wix's help center says “Your website will remain live but will display Wix ads”.

Do Wix forms work on the free plan?

Yes. Wix's help center says “Without upgrading, you can create 4 forms for free.” Every entry lands in your site's dashboard; Wix's words are that you can “go to Forms & Submissions in your site's dashboard to see every submission, from every form, without opening each form individually”.

The limit Wix describes is the number of forms, not a monthly count of entries. The paid Light plan names the same number: “The Light plan includes 4 lead-capture forms.”

Can a free Wix site be used for a business?

Wix's pages set no rule against running a business on a free site. The line is selling: “No eCommerce functionality or way to take payments, so if you're planning to sell online, you'll need a paid plan.” That leaves a free site fine for a waitlist, a portfolio, or a contact page, and short of a shop.

The Free plan's other limits

Storage and bandwidth: Wix's help center says “You'll enjoy 500MB storage and 1GB bandwidth.”
Visitor stats: “It is not possible to use Google Analytics with a free Wix site.” Wix ties Google Analytics to a connected domain, so it starts with a paid plan.
Your own code: there's no way to upload an HTML page. The Embed HTML element places a snippet, and Wix notes “Note: The HTML and URL elements in our editor are iFrames.”

Wix's help center lists it plainly: “Wix ads appear on every page & favicon in URL”. A check of 2 free Wix sites on October 12, 2026, loaded without an account, shows it in the markup. Both carry an element with the id WIX_ADS that reads “This website was built on Wix. Create yours today.” next to a Get Started link to wix.com. The page's CSS sets --wix-ads-top-height:50px, so the banner is a 50-pixel bar across the top of every page, above your own header.

One of the 2 sites has a contact form with name, email, and message fields. Its <form> tag has no action attribute: Wix's own JavaScript sends each entry, and it arrives in the site's dashboard.

A year on your own domain: Wix or Convika

Say you want a waitlist page at www.yourbrand.com for the next 12 months:

Wix Light: $204 for the year at the yearly price, plus the domain.
Convika Free: $0, plus the domain. The page connects as a subdomain such as www, and the form stores up to 50 entries a month.

A landing page on your own domain, free: Convika

If the Wix site is one landing or waitlist page, Convika's Free plan can host it on your domain instead. Convika hosts landing pages, one HTML page each, with the form and the visitor stats built in. The Free plan includes:

Your own subdomain, such as www.yourbrand.com or waitlist.yourbrand.com, with the SSL certificate issued for you. The Free plan connects 1.
Commercial use on every plan, Free included, under section 7 of the terms. That covers a client's page you build, host, and bill for.
A form that keeps the signups. Click Add a form to my page, and Convika adds a form that stores each entry, emails it to you, and exports to CSV, up to 50 entries a month on Free.
90 days of visitor stats: visits, referrers, UTM campaigns, devices, countries, and button clicks.
AI clients that publish for you. Claude, Claude Code, and Codex connect to Convika's MCP server and sign in to your account with OAuth, so you never paste a deploy token or API key into the chat. They can read the page's visits and form entries back to you, too.

3 ways to get your page onto Convika

Rebuild it from its link. Paste the address of the page you have now into the free rebuild tool and click Rebuild my page. You don't need an account. Convika reads the page, keeps its colors and fonts, writes a new version from its text, and lists what it changed and why. Click Keep this page to sign up free and move it into your account.
Describe it in the dashboard. Sign up free, click Create with AI, and describe the page, or paste a link to a page it should start from. A new page costs 1 AI credit on the default model, and Free accounts start with 10.
Upload the HTML your AI made. If ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini wrote the page as one HTML file, click Upload an HTML file in the dashboard and add the .html or .htm file, up to 2 MB, or paste its code. Uploading uses no AI credits. The free HTML publishing tool shows you a preview before you sign up.

The Free plan includes 10 pages, with a small “Powered by Convika” badge. Publish your first page and Pro is free for 14 days, no card needed. After that, Pro costs $12 a month and removes the badge and the monthly cap on form entries, or you go back to Free.

Where Wix fits better: a site with many pages, an online store, or bookings, built in a visual editor.

Wix and Convika side by side

Plan	Price	Address	Your own domain	Form	Badge	Visitor stats
Wix Free	$0	`yourname.wixsite.com/yoursite`	No; from Light, $17 a month, billed yearly	Yes, up to 4 forms, with entries listed in your site's dashboard	A Wix ad banner on every page	Google Analytics can't connect to a free site
Wix Light	$17 a month, billed yearly	The same, or your own domain	Yes	Yes, 4 lead-capture forms	None	Google Analytics, once a domain is connected
Convika Free	$0	`yourpage.convika.com`	1 subdomain, such as `www`	Yes, 50 entries a month, with CSV export and an email for each	“Powered by Convika”	90 days: referrers, UTM campaigns, devices, countries, and button clicks
Convika Pro	$12 a month, or $108 a year. Free for 14 days from your first publish, no card needed	The same, or your own subdomain	Unlimited subdomains	Yes, no monthly cap	None	Up to all time

Which one to pick

A multi-page site, a shop, or bookings, built by dragging blocks: Wix. The Free plan is enough to build it and try it on a wixsite.com address; your own domain and payments mean a paid plan.
A landing or waitlist page on your own domain, with no monthly fee: Convika's Free plan. Rebuild the page from its Wix link, keep the signups in Convika's form, and see which links bring visitors.
A page ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini already wrote as an HTML file: Convika. Upload the file as it is; on Wix it would have to be rebuilt in the editor or shown inside an iframe.

Frequently asked questions

Is Wix free?

Yes. Wix's Free plan lets you build and publish a site with hosting included, at no cost. The site lives on a wixsite.com address and shows a Wix ad banner on every page. Your own domain, ad removal, and online payments need a paid plan, starting with Light at $17 a month, billed yearly.

Is Wix free forever?

Wix's own pages give the Free plan no end date. Its blog calls it “Free forever” in its plan list. A free site keeps its wixsite.com address and Wix's ads for as long as it stays on the Free plan.

Can I publish a Wix site for free?

Yes. Publishing is part of the Free plan, and the site goes live at an address in the form yourname.wixsite.com/yoursite. Anyone with the link can open it, and every page carries Wix's ad banner.

Can I use my own domain with Wix for free?

No. Wix's guide to building a site for free says “No, connecting a custom domain requires upgrading to a plan.” The cheapest plan with a custom domain is Light, at $17 a month, billed yearly. For a single landing page, Convika's Free plan connects 1 subdomain of a domain you own, such as www.yourbrand.com, at no cost.

How much does a custom domain cost on Wix?

The plan that connects it starts with Light: $17 a month, billed yearly, or $24 a month billed monthly. The domain itself is separate. You can buy one from Wix or connect one you already own.

Is there a limit on Wix forms?

On the Free plan, the limit is the number of forms: “Without upgrading, you can create 4 forms for free.” Entries from all of them are listed under Forms & Submissions in your site's dashboard. Wix's help pages don't state a monthly cap on entries.

What are the limits of Wix's free plan?

A wixsite.com address, a Wix ad banner on every page, 500 MB of storage and 1 GB of bandwidth, no Google Analytics, and no online payments. You can still build, publish, and collect form entries on it.

Is there a free way to put a landing page on my own domain?

Yes. Convika's Free plan hosts a landing page on 1 subdomain of your domain, such as www.yourbrand.com, with commercial use allowed, a form that stores 50 entries a month, and 90 days of visitor stats. Paste a Wix link into Convika's free rebuild tool to start from your current page, or upload an HTML file.

Sources

Facts on this page about Wix come from these pages, read on October 12, 2026:

Is Wix free? The Free plan, your domain, and Wix's ads