Compare
Kaleta vs Wix.
Wix puts website, hosting, bookings and a shop into one account and one subscription. Kaleta is free and open source and runs on your own hosting, with Claude as your builder. Here is how they compare.
Choose Kaleta if.
you build business websites: services, references, team, news and enquiries
you want Claude to build and edit the site, with drafts and previews
you want one tested system instead of add-ons and subscriptions
you want the site on your own hosting, free and open source
Stay with Wix if.
- you want everything – hosting, bookings, shop, email – in one account
- you prefer free positioning of elements on the page
- you do not want to deal with hosting at all
- you need bookings, events or a shop today
Side by side
Feature by feature.
Kaleta
Wix
Licence and cost
Kaleta
GPL-2.0-or-later, free. No paid tiers or paid add-ons.
Wix
Proprietary, hosted. A free plan with Wix branding; premium plans are paid.
Visual builder
Kaleta
Built in: 36 elements, 39 ready-made sections, styles per screen size and hover.
Wix
Drag-and-drop editor with free positioning; Wix Studio for agencies.
Building with AI
Kaleta
Claude connects over MCP with the permissions of your account: drafts, signed previews, publish when you say so.
Wix
AI site generator and AI tools built in.
Design system
Kaleta
Colours, fonts and spacing as tokens, shared classes and components, W3C Design Tokens export.
Wix
Theme colours and text styles; more design-system features in Wix Studio.
Forms, SEO, redirects, statistics
Kaleta
Built in: forms with an enquiry inbox, sitemap, structured data, llms.txt, 301 redirects, cookie-free statistics.
Wix
Forms, SEO tools, analytics and redirects built in, more through Wix apps.
Languages
Kaleta
Language versions built in: around forty site languages, visitor texts translated into eight.
Wix
Wix Multilingual built in, with machine translation.
Backups and updates
Kaleta
Automatic database backups (also off-server), signed updates, security releases install on their own, automatic rollback.
Wix
Hosted – updates and backups (site history) are handled by Wix.
Page weight
Kaleta
Clean HTML, CSS only for the elements on the page, no JavaScript libraries – a starter page is about 40 kB.
Wix
Pages carry the platform scripts; little control over the output.
Extending it
Kaleta
Nine built-in extensions and a read-only JSON API. No third-party plugins by design.
Wix
Wix App Market and Velo for custom code.
E-commerce, memberships, courses
Kaleta
Not included.
Wix
Stores, bookings, events and member areas built in.
Hosting
Kaleta
Any hosting with PHP 8.4+ and MySQL 8 / MariaDB 10.6+; install over FTP in about ten minutes.
Wix
Only on Wix; a site cannot be exported to other hosting.
Community
Kaleta
New (2026) and small; open development on GitHub.
Wix
Very large user base; a smaller developer community.
Checked in September 2026 against Kaleta 1.2. Other systems change quickly – check the current state of the tools you use.
Where Wix is stronger
Everything in one account.
Wix is quick to start and bundles hosting, bookings, a shop, events and marketing tools, so a small business can run a lot without other services.
Where Kaleta is stronger
Own your site.
A Kaleta site is yours: open source, on your hosting, exportable at any time, with clean fast pages. Claude builds and edits it for you, as drafts you approve.
Moving over
Moving from Wix.
Wix sites cannot be exported. For a business website the practical route is a rebuild: connect Claude, give it the addresses of your old pages and it builds each one as a draft from Kaleta sections, in your design system. You check the preview, publish, and add 301 redirects from the old addresses so links and rankings carry over.
FAQ
Questions from Wix users.
Can I move my Wix domain?
Yes. The domain is yours; point it to your new hosting when the Kaleta site is ready.
Does Kaleta have bookings or a shop?
No. Kaleta has enquiry forms with an inbox, but no bookings or shop. If you need those, stay with Wix or connect a specialised service.
Is Kaleta harder to start with?
You need hosting with PHP and MySQL and about ten minutes for the installer. After that, the starter sites and Claude get you to a first version quickly.
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Try Kaleta next to your Wix site.
Install it on a test subdomain and compare – it takes about ten minutes.