Hocoos alternatives: where to go now that Hocoos has closed

What happened to Hocoos

Hocoos announced its closure in its own help centre. These are the terms that matter now:

• Export window: 23 March to 23 April 2026. Customers could download a full HTML copy of their site and every uploaded file (images, video, audio, documents). They could also download their data: store products, orders and customers, booking appointments and clients, and mailing lists.
• Forms stopped first: contact, booking, checkout and subscribe forms stopped working during the export window, even though sites stayed visible until the last day.
• Domains and mailboxes: domains bought through Hocoos had to be moved to the owner's own account, and custom mailboxes had to be moved too.
• Money: subscriptions were cancelled automatically, with a partial refund for the unused period.

Before it closed, Hocoos Premium cost $15 a month or $150 a year. You answered a few questions, picked one of three AI designs and edited it with a click-and-edit editor. A store, bookings and email marketing were included. Cheap, questionnaire first, store and bookings built in: that is the benchmark for the alternatives below.

If your Hocoos site has gone offline: a recovery checklist

1. Find your export. Search your inbox for the Hocoos email with the download link. Each link only lasted 7 days after the files were generated, so also check your downloads folder and cloud storage.
2. No export? Gather your content from elsewhere. The Wayback Machine (web.archive.org) may hold copies of your pages. Your photos are probably on your phone, your social profiles or in old emails. Your Google Business Profile has your hours, address and reviews.
3. Check who controls your domain. Run a WHOIS lookup. If the domain is registered in your name, you can point it at any new builder. If it was bought through Hocoos and never transferred, contact the registrar named on your original receipt before the registration lapses.
4. Keep your customer data. Product lists, orders, booking clients and mailing lists from the export are worth more than the design. Most stores and CRMs can import a spreadsheet, even if the columns need tidying first.
5. Plan to rebuild, not import. The HTML copy is a snapshot of your pages. The practical way to use it is as a store of your text and images.
6. Keep old page addresses where you can. If Google had indexed pages like /services or /contact, use the same paths on the new site or set up redirects.
7. Update every place your link appears: Google Business Profile, social bios, email signatures, directory listings and printed material.

How we compared the alternatives

Each of the six builders below starts from a description or a short questionnaire and produces a full draft, as Hocoos did. We looked at five things:

• The draft: what the AI actually produces and how much is left for you to do.
• Editing afterwards: chat, drag and drop or a design canvas. This matters more than the draft, because you will spend far longer editing than the AI spends building.
• Price after the trial or first month: US list prices at the time of writing (October 2026).
• Store and CRM: whether you can sell online and keep track of enquiries without adding another tool.
• Your exit: what you can take with you if you leave or the company closes. After Hocoos, that is a practical question.

The six alternatives at a glance

Prices are per month in US dollars. Durable, Wix, 10Web and Framer are shown on annual billing. B12 and WebNewBiz are shown on monthly billing (yearly billing is cheaper on WebNewBiz).

Durable: the simplest choice for a service business

Durable asks three questions (your industry, business name and goals) and produces a site with industry-specific copy, images and layout. You then edit in a drag-and-drop editor: change layouts, images, headings and fonts, and add or remove sections. Every plan includes unlimited AI-generated pages. AI credits run from 300 in total on the free plan to 1,000 a month on Launch.

For a one-person business, the useful part is what comes with the site: a built-in CRM (10 customers on the free plan, unlimited on paid plans) and online booking synced to your calendar. Launch is $22 a month billed yearly ($25 monthly). Grow, at $41, adds unlimited team members and website translation.

Where it falls short: Durable's own FAQ says it is not designed for ecommerce, so if you sold products on Hocoos, look elsewhere. A custom domain needs a paid plan. Our guide to Durable alternatives goes into more detail.

B12: best for professional services that need intake and contracts

B12 builds a draft from a description of your business, with pages, copy and images aimed at your industry. You refine it in a visual editor with an AI chat. The free plan runs on a b12sites.com address with 5 AI credits a day (30 a month at most).

The Website plan is $24 a month and adds a custom domain (free for the first year), 100 AI credits a month and commerce. Most service firms will want Website + Client Engagement at $78 a month. It adds client intake, a contact manager, contracts with eSignature, invoicing, online payments and email marketing. Both cost $1 for the first 7 days. Higher plans add done-for-you setup by B12's team for a one-off fee.

Where it falls short: the tools that make B12 worth choosing sit on the $78 plan, a big step up from $24. Reviewers also point out that it is not built for large product catalogues. See our B12 alternatives guide for the full picture.

Wix with Harmony: the established choice

Wix introduced its Harmony editor in January 2026. Aria, Wix's AI assistant, asks about your business and fills in a site profile. It then drafts a prompt you can edit before it generates pages, layouts, colours, starter content and images. Afterwards you can ask Aria for changes (a new section, other colours, a different tone of voice) or edit text, images and design yourself. You can even start a Harmony site from inside ChatGPT.

There is a free plan with Wix ads on a Wix address. Paid plans are Light at $17 a month billed yearly, Core at $29 and Business at $39. Stores, bookings, contacts and email marketing are all built into Wix, and it has a large app market built up over many years.

Where it falls short: Wix's help centre says an AI-generated site cannot be converted to a regular template. To change direction, you start a new site and move your plan across. Light cannot take payments, so budget for Core if you sell. Wix also has more menus to learn than a chat-first builder.

10Web: WordPress underneath at a low price

10Web's AI builder creates a WordPress site that you edit in 10Web's own editor, which is based on Elementor. AI Starter costs $10 a month billed yearly for one site, with 100 AI credits a month, 10GB of storage and up to 10,000 visitors a month. Stores run on WooCommerce, and there is a 30-day money-back guarantee.

The real advantage is WordPress itself. Plugins, themes and developers who know it are easy to find, so you have more options later than a closed builder gives you.

Where it falls short: an Elementor-style editor has many more settings than a chat box, and some owners find it slow to learn. Check the visitor cap if you expect a lot of traffic. There is no CRM built in, so you would add a plugin or a separate service.

Framer: for design-led sites that do not sell online

Framer's AI agent builds editable pages, sections, copy and visuals from a description. You can keep refining in chat or switch to the canvas to adjust layout, typography, spacing, colour and effects. It suits people who care about visual detail and want control over every element.

The free plan is for non-commercial use on a Framer address. Basic is $10 a month per site (custom domain, up to 30 pages) and Pro is $30 (up to 150 pages and more CMS collections).

Where it falls short: there is no built-in checkout and no CRM, so Framer cannot replace the Hocoos store. The canvas works like a design tool, which suits designers more than busy owners.

WebNewBiz: site, store and CRM in one account

WebNewBiz is our product, so weigh this section accordingly. You describe your business in plain language and the AI drafts a complete website (pages, layout and copy) ready to edit in the browser. Or you can pick a template and let the AI fill it. You then make changes by chatting with the AI Copilot: copy, sections, pages, design and images. From Starter there is also a visual editor, Design Studio.

The difference is what sits in the same account. Starter ($29 a month) adds an online store with card, Apple Pay and Google Pay checkout. Growth ($79) adds an AI CRM that reads and scores leads, tracks deals, tasks and bookings, and sends invoices that chase themselves. Website enquiries land in it automatically and store buyers become contacts. Every plan costs $1 for the first month and includes hosting, SSL and a full WordPress CMS.

Where it falls short: there is no free plan, and Lite ($9) has no store or CRM. It is a young platform with a much smaller app ecosystem and community than Wix. If you leave, your content and domain move with you, but the layout has to be rebuilt on the new platform because it cannot be exported as files. After you cancel, you keep access to the end of the paid period. The account then stays read-only so you can export your content.

Every AI draft still needs your own work

None of these builders, ours included, produces a site you should publish untouched. The AI writes plausible copy from very little information, so it fills gaps with guesses. Before you go live, check these:

• Facts: delete any years of experience, team sizes, awards or guarantees the AI made up. Replace them with true ones or nothing.
• Photos: swap stock images for photos of your own work, premises and team. Real photos build more trust than any layout.
• Services and prices: list what you actually offer, with prices or "from" prices where you can.
• Contact details: phone, email, address, hours and service area, matching your Google Business Profile exactly.
• Proof: real reviews and testimonials, used with permission.
• Legal pages: a privacy policy, a cookie notice where your country requires one, and terms if you sell online.
• Phone check: open every page on your phone and test every button and form.

Set aside an afternoon or two for this, whichever builder you pick. How good the finished site is depends far more on this step than on which AI wrote the draft.

Lessons from Hocoos: how not to be stranded again

• Register your domain in your own name at a registrar you control. Then moving builders is a settings change, not a rescue.
• Keep a folder of your own content: page text, photos, logo and price lists. Update it when the site changes.
• Export customers and orders regularly, for example once a month, to a spreadsheet you keep.
• Read the exit terms before you sign up: what you can export, and for how long after you cancel.
• Be realistic about young platforms. Newer AI builders, WebNewBiz among them, move quickly but have less history than Wix or WordPress. That trade is fine for many businesses, as long as you keep your own copies.

Which one should you choose?

• You want to start free: Durable, B12, Wix and Framer have free plans. WebNewBiz does not; it costs $1 for the first month.
• A simple service business site with bookings: Durable.
• Professional services with intake forms, contracts and invoices: B12 on its $78 plan.
• The most established platform with a store and bookings: Wix.
• WordPress underneath for the lowest price: 10Web.
• A design-led site with no shop: Framer.
• A site, store and CRM in one account, edited by chat: WebNewBiz.

For more options beyond Hocoos replacements, see our comparison of the best AI website builders.

Quick answers

Is Hocoos still working?

No. Hocoos closed on 23 April 2026. Its hosted sites went offline and accounts were deleted after that date, so you cannot log in or restore a site from Hocoos.

Can I recover my Hocoos website?

Only from a copy you saved. Between 23 March and 23 April 2026, customers could download an HTML copy of their site, their uploaded files and their store, booking and mailing list data. If you have no copy, rebuild from the Wayback Machine, your own photos and your Google Business Profile.

What is the closest alternative to Hocoos?

For a site built from a questionnaire, with a store and bookings, Wix is the closest match, though selling online needs the Core plan at $29 a month. For a service business that does not sell products, Durable is simpler and cheaper.

Which Hocoos alternative is cheapest?

Durable, B12, Wix and Framer have free plans with limits. The cheapest paid plans with a custom domain are Framer Basic and 10Web AI Starter, both $10 a month billed yearly. WebNewBiz costs $1 for the first month, then from $9.

Will my domain still work now that Hocoos has closed?

If the domain is registered in your name, yes: point it at your new builder. If you bought it through Hocoos and did not transfer it, contact the registrar named on your receipt quickly, before it expires.

See a draft before you decide

To see what an AI draft looks like for your business before you sign up anywhere, try the free AI Website Preview. Describe your business in one sentence and it designs a homepage. If you like the result, our AI website builder drafts the full site, and you can start for $1 and cancel any time.