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, bookings and enquiries
you want Claude to build the site and help run it – as drafts, within limits you set
you want the essentials built in and tested together, not a stack of plugins and subscriptions
you want the site on your own hosting, free and open source
Stay with Wix if.
- you want everything – hosting, 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 a shop, member areas or online payments today
Side by side
Feature by feature.
Kaleta
Wix
Licence and cost
Kaleta
GPL-2.0-or-later, free. No paid tiers or per-site licences.
Wix
Proprietary, hosted. A free plan with Wix branding; premium plans are paid.
Visual builder
Kaleta
Built in: 46 elements, 40 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 your account’s permissions or less: drafts, signed previews, guardrails, undo of a whole session, scheduled runs.
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, booking, SEO, statistics
Kaleta
Built in: multi-step forms and quote calculators, online booking, sitemap, structured data, llms.txt, 301 redirects and self-healing links, cookie-free statistics, Google and CRM connections.
Wix
Forms, SEO tools, analytics and redirects built in, more through Wix apps.
Languages
Kaleta
Language versions built in: around forty site languages, regional versions and Arabic written right to left; visitor texts translated into 12 languages.
Wix
Wix Multilingual built in, with machine translation.
Backups and updates
Kaleta
Automatic database backups, copied off the server once you add an FTPS or S3 target; signed updates on the Latest or Stable channel, security releases install on their own, the old files come back if an update fails.
Wix
Hosted – updates and backups (site history) are handled by Wix.
Page weight
Kaleta
Clean HTML and CSS only for the elements on the page; the only third-party script, Leaflet for maps, is served from your own site and loads after a click.
Wix
Pages carry the platform scripts; little control over the output.
Extending it
Kaleta
Built-in modules you switch on and off, webhooks, the Claude connection (MCP), and add-ons through a versioned extension API – switched on by an administrator who trusts them.
Wix
Wix App Market and Velo for custom code.
E-commerce, memberships, courses
Kaleta
Not included. Online booking of appointments is built in, without payments.
Wix
Stores, bookings, events and member areas built in.
Hosting
Kaleta
Any hosting with PHP 8.3+ 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 October 2026 against Kaleta 3.31. 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 and online booking built in. Claude builds and edits it for you, as drafts you approve.
Moving over
Moving from Wix.
Wix sites cannot be exported, but Kaleta imports one by its address: pages, images and blog posts come in, and every old address gets a 301 redirect. The import takes the content, not the layout – connect Claude and it reworks each page as a draft from Kaleta sections, in your design system. You check the preview and publish. Before you switch the domain, the migration report checks every old address against the new site.
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?
Bookings yes, a shop no. Kaleta 3.0 has online booking of appointments – services, staff hours, free times, confirmation e-mails with a cancel link, and reminders – but takes no payments. There is no shop or checkout. 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.