An honest comparison

DIY website builders, or a business system?

Here is the honest part first: DIY builders are good now, and we should know - our own free builder is one. The difference is not the editor. It is everything standing behind the page.

	DIY builders	Cloud Mountain
Getting started	Cheap or free, start tonight	Also free - describe your business and a draft builds itself
Who does the work	You do, every page of it	The AI drafts it; you edit, or we finish it by hand for $750
Enquiries	A form that emails you, if you wire one up	Every enquiry stored in your portal and emailed to you, reply-to the customer
Email on your domain	Separate service, separate bill, you configure it	Set up with you when we connect your domain
Editing later	You learn the editor	Edit the live site by asking in plain words
Print, signs, wraps	Different vendor, different files, colors drift	Same studio, same brand files, one look everywhere
A human who answers	Help center and chat widgets	A local studio you can call - or hand the whole thing to

A DIY builder is the right call when the website is the whole job, you enjoy building it, and nothing downstream depends on it. Plenty of businesses live happily there.

Straight answers

Is your builder really free to use?

Yes - describe your business, watch a draft build itself, edit as long as you like, save it to a free account. You pay only when you publish: $49/mo, or $39/mo billed yearly, with no setup fee because you built it.

What if I already built a site on a DIY builder?

Bring what works. We rebuild it in an afternoon with the backend attached - or build alongside it and you switch when you are ready.

What does the paid plan add over any cheap builder?

The business behind the page: enquiries stored and sent to you, email on your domain, plain-words editing, and a studio that also does your cards, signs and wraps so everything matches.

Try the builder - free See the $49/mo plan