Free website builder: what is actually free, and what is not
Short answer: building and publishing a site can genuinely be free, but three things usually are not — your own domain name, removing the builder's badge, and anything involving payments. Free plans normally publish to a subdomain like yourname.provider.com. On İyziWeb, building, hosting and SSL are free; you pay only to put your own domain on it.
Most people typing "free website builder" are not looking for something for nothing. They want to see whether the thing works before they pay for it — which is a completely reasonable way to buy. So here is the line-by-line version of what free plans include and where the bill eventually arrives.
Yan yana
| Item | On a free plan | When it starts costing |
|---|---|---|
| The site itself | Usually included | When you pass a page, storage or bandwidth limit |
| Web address | A subdomain: yourname.provider.com | The moment you want yourbusiness.com |
| SSL, the padlock in the address bar | Usually included | Rarely billed separately any more |
| The builder's own badge or ads | Sits on your pages | Removing it needs a paid plan |
| Email at your own domain | Usually not offered | Bought separately, per mailbox |
| Taking payments online | Usually not offered | A separate commerce plan, sometimes plus transaction fees |
| The words and the images | Left entirely to you | A copywriter or a stock license, charged per page |
| Support | Help articles and a community forum | Human or priority support on paid tiers |
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Hangisi sana uyar?
Start on the free address if…
You are testing an idea, the business is new, or you first want the answer to "does this bring me any customers at all". The content stays exactly the same when you attach a domain later; only the address changes.
Buy the domain on day one if…
You are printing business cards, painting it on a van or quoting corporate clients. Changing the address afterwards means throwing away everything you already printed.
Go straight to a paid service if…
You need to take payments, manage stock or connect to something you already run. Free plans stop precisely at that line, and pretending otherwise wastes a month.
Being straight about it: no free plan carries a growing business forever, and quoting a serious client from a provider subdomain is a harder sell than it should be. The point of starting free is not to save money indefinitely — it is to find out the thing works before you spend any.
Frequently asked
Can I use my own domain on the free plan?
Connecting your own domain is what the Pro plan is for; on the free plan your site is published at an address under iyziweb.app. The content, the design and the speed are identical on both — the only difference is what is written in the address bar.
Will a free site show up on Google?
It will. A site on a subdomain is crawled and indexed like any other, and yours ships with SEO tags, a sitemap and a mobile layout. Your own domain is stronger for the brand over years, but "free sites do not get indexed" is a myth.
If I upgrade later, does anything break?
No. The content stays where it is and only the address changes, which is why publishing free first and buying the domain once it is earning is the lowest-risk order to do this in.
Do you ask for a credit card?
No. Signing up takes no card details, and the free plan is not a countdown to a charge — it is a permanent plan with 40 credits a day that refresh every morning. Pro is $15 a month when you want your own domain, the badge gone and 300 credits a month.
What does a credit actually buy?
Building a site costs a large share of a day's credits; small edits cost very little. Practically, 40 a day is enough to build a site and keep tweaking it, and whatever you do not use does not carry over — there is no hoarding to do.
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