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17 blogging platforms compared

What each platform’s own pages say about blogging, what it costs to start, and what you get without paying. No scores and no ranking: the same facts, side by side, each with the page it was read on and the day it was read.

Cliux is one of them and it is ours, which is the one thing you should weigh when you read our row. Everything else on this page is somebody else’s words.

The table

The blog each one includes, and what it costs to start

Sorted by name. The blog column is quoted from the platform's own pages; the free column is what its plan page calls free.

PlatformBlogFree planLowest paid
Cliux (ours)Blog with categories, tags, authors, comments and schedulingBuild and preview free; publishing is a planSee pricing
DorikBuilt-in blog on all plans; 200 posts per site on PersonalNot settled on official pages: the pricing page shows no free plan card and a 7-day trial, while the home page speaks of launching on a free Dorik subdomainPersonal: $20.75/month, billed $249 annually, $29/month billed monthly
DudaNative blog on all plans with scheduling, tags and feedsNo free plan on the pricing pageBasic: $19/mo billed annually, $25/mo billed monthly
FormatIncluded on all plans with tags, comments and per-post SEONo free plan; a 14-day trial site is online on a free .format.com addressBasic: $10 a month billed annually, $14 a month billed monthly
FramerBuilt on the CMS with collections and dynamic detail pagesYes: publishes on a free Framer subdomainBasic: $10 per month (yearly billing toggle)
LeadpagesBuilt-in blog: 3 on Grow, 5 on Optimize, 10 on Scale; 1 on HTML Pub ProNo free publishing plan; the free HTML Pub tier builds and previews 5 pages but publishes nothingHTML Pub Starter: $10 per month (US list price; the page is geo-priced) billed monthly (US list)
MixoA content section of one of four types (blog, past projects, guides, portfolio)Yes: a permanent free plan that publishes a live site on a Mixo subdomain with hosting, SSL and a contact formnot found on official pages
PixpaOn every plan with unlimited posts; one blog on BasicNo free plan is listed; the entry is a 15-day trial during which the site is not publicBasic: USD 5.40 a month billed yearly (a first-year rate; the page footnotes a 25% introductory discount), USD 9 a month billed monthly
SimvolyBuilt-in blog widget with tags and categoriesNo free plan; a 14-day trial per project, and publishing needs a planStarter: $12 a month billed yearly, $18 billed monthly
SquarespaceBuilt-in blog on all plansNo free plan; every site starts as a 14-day trial and is private until a plan is boughtBasic: USD 19 (annual total 228 USD, read from the pricing page's own schema.org offers), USD 25 billed monthly (US)
TildaTilda Feeds for news and blog postsYes: a lifetime free account with 1 website, 50 pages, publishing on a Tilda subdomainPersonal: $10/month with annual payment, $15/month billed monthly
TypedreamAs a CMS collection: 1 on Launch, unlimited on GrowYes: publishes one page on a Typedream.app domain with a badgeLaunch: $15/mo on the annual plan, $20/mo billed monthly
UmsoA simple blog on every plan, including FreeYes: a homepage only, with Umso branding on a free subdomainBasic: $7 a site a month on yearly billing, $14 a site a month billed monthly
Unicorn PlatformYes: 10 posts on Lurker and Maker, unlimited from StartupA free plan exists but publishes no website: build onlyMaker: $9 a month on yearly billing, $14 a month billed monthly
WebflowBuilt as CMS collections; the free Starter site has a limited CMSYes: a free Starter site plan publishes on a webflow.io subdomain with no time limit; a paid site plan publishes on a custom domainBasic (site plan): $15 /mo billed yearly, $25 /mo billed monthly
WixBlog included (Wix Blog)Yes: a free plan to build and publish on a Wix addressLight: $17/mo (US price as stated on Wix's own comparison page, dated May 8, 2024) billed yearly (US)
WordPressYes: WordPress began as blogging software; posts, categories, comments and RSS on every planYes: a WordPress.com subdomain with 1 GB of storage, unlimited pages and posts, and WordPress.com ads shown to visitorsPersonal: $4 a month billed annually, $9 a month billed monthly (US list; the page is geo-priced and showed lira to a Turkish request)

Where each line came from

Every platform, and the page its blog line was read on

One entry per row of the table above, so a figure can be checked rather than believed.

Not on the list

10 builders in the same set that do not blog

They are here because leaving them out silently would be the easiest way to make the table above look longer than it is.

Questions

What this page does and does not tell you

This page does not answer that, and a page that did would be guessing on your behalf. What it gives you is the same four facts for every platform, taken from their own pages and dated, so the comparison is between the products rather than between the reviews.

Because they do not blog. Ten of the builders in the set have no blog engine on their own pages, and they are listed underneath with what each one says instead, rather than padded into a comparison they do not belong in.

Each row carries the day it was read, and the newest reading on this page is 2026-09-18. Prices and plan limits move; the date is there so you can tell how much weight to give a number rather than trusting it because it is printed.

From the code, not from a marketing page. The blog line is what the blog app in this product actually does, and the comparison pages behind this one carry the file each claim is derived from.

Editor’s note: the figures on this page were read from each platform’s own pages, most recently on 2026-09-18. If one of them is out of date, or you think a line misreads what your pages say, write to us and it will be corrected.

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Categories, tags, authors, scheduling, comments and an RSS feed, inside the same editor as the rest of the site.

  • Why Cliux?
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