Same $12 a month. The CodeDesign alternative with the newsletter and store included

Price and site count both cancel out here. Each $12 plan publishes exactly one website, so neither figure separates them. What is worth reading is where that $12 sits on each ladder. On CodeDesign it is the first of three paid steps, with Growth at $24 and Scale at $83 above it. On Grigora it is also the first of three, with Pro at $20 and Business at $45. So the decision is how far up your own ladder the thing you came for turns out to be. On CodeDesign the code export and the AI Companion editor are one step up. On Grigora the newsletter, the store and the CMS are already on the bottom step.

Takeaway: Same price, same single site. What differs is how far up each ladder your must-have sits.

CodeDesign exports code and Grigora does not, so the only open question is which plan carries it. The detailed comparison table puts HTML and CSS export, downloading the source code, exporting website assets and hosting the exported code elsewhere on Growth and Scale, with a dash against Free and Individual. Higher up the same page, the Individual plan card lists "Export 1 Site (HTML & React)*", and the pricing FAQ answers the export question with "Yes, you can export your code in HTML and React formats". The homepage puts the word in the H1: "AI Website Builder Build, Host & Export Websites". Every one of those statements is CodeDesign's own. Price the plan from the comparison table rather than from the card.

Takeaway: Buy it for the export and the table, not the card, is the row that tells you which plan: Growth, $24 a month billed annually.

Monthly AI credits appear in two tables on that page and the two do not agree. The Plan Overview rows list 100 a month on Individual, Growth and Scale. The AI Tools rows further down list 100, 200 and 400. Individual reads 100 in both, so the $12 plan is settled, but anyone buying Growth or Scale for the allowance is choosing between two figures published on one page. The rate behind them is stated, which helps: CodeDesign's FAQ says one credit covers a small task such as a text change or a style edit, and that a full page generation typically uses around 10. A hundred credits is therefore about ten pages, or a hundred small edits. Grigora Starter carries 15,000 credits for generation and AI writing, and moving a block by hand spends none of them.

Takeaway: Individual's hundred is not in dispute. Above it, check which of the two tables your plan was sold on.

Neither $12 plan comes with an AI you can talk to about a page that already exists. On CodeDesign the AI Companion editor, AI-assisted vibe coding, the agentic chatbot, the AI image generator and the sitemap mapping workflow are dashed on Individual and ticked on Growth, which is $24 a month billed annually. Grigora documents no chat-to-edit companion on any plan either. What both entry plans do carry is metered AI writing and unmetered hands. Individual lists AI website, page and section generation, AI copy generation, rewriting and tone adjustment, each marked "Uses AI credits" against 100 a month, plus the drag-and-drop builder that every CodeDesign plan has. Grigora spends credits on the same kind of work and nothing at all on block editing.

Takeaway: Both meter the AI writing and neither meters the hands. The difference is the size of the balance, not who owns an editor.

There is a second number beside the credit balance. Website generations are capped by the month: 3 in total on the free tier, 20 a month on Individual, 50 on Growth, unlimited on Scale. How that cap relates to the credits is stated two ways on the same page: the plan card prints a monthly generation count, while the comparison table row for AI website generations reads "Uses AI credits" on all three paid plans. Worth resolving before you plan a month around either number. Grigora caps its own things, one to five sites by plan and 2,500 to 25,000 newsletter subscribers, but generations are not counted separately: a fresh site draws on the same balance as the rest of the AI writing.

Takeaway: Two allowances run down at once on Individual: the 100 credits and the 20 generations.

CodeDesign's table is well stocked on the way in. Contact forms, custom form fields, form submission collection, form webhooks, lead-generation forms, booking forms and custom booking questions are all marked from Individual up. On the way out there is a single email row in all 132 of them, and it is a notification to you when somebody submits a form. No subscriber list, campaign, segment or automation appears in the table or on the homepage. Grigora carries the list and the sending on the same $12: 2,500 subscribers on Starter, 7,500 on Pro and 25,000 on Business, with campaigns, segments and automations.

Takeaway: Everything CodeDesign captures lands in a database. The only message it sends is addressed to you, so the list it builds has to be worked in another tool.

These are two shapes of selling and each product has one of them. Every stage of CodeDesign's funnel is on Individual: Stripe integration, online payment collection, checkout pages, upsell pages, downsell pages, thank-you pages and payment-enabled funnels. One offer, one route through it, payment at the end, on the $12 plan, and Grigora has no funnel builder to set against that. What the table never mentions is stock: no products, no variants, no inventory, no collections and no digital downloads appear anywhere in it. That is the Grigora side, settling through Stripe or Razorpay with no platform commission.

Takeaway: CodeDesign sells one offer down a funnel. Grigora sells a catalogue. Match the shape to what you actually sell.

This is CodeDesign's clearest win and it needs no hedging. WordPress publishing, WordPress page sync, updating synced WordPress pages and using WordPress as the website backend are all marked from Individual up, which is the $12 plan. You can design a page in CodeDesign, publish it into a WordPress site you already run, and push changes to it later. Grigora has nothing comparable at any tier. A Grigora site publishes to Grigora hosting on a domain you connect, and that is the whole of it.

Takeaway: If the pages have to land in WordPress, CodeDesign does it at $12 and Grigora does not do it at all.

Start with what is shared, because it is most of it. CodeDesign's on-page SEO set runs on every plan including free: page titles, meta descriptions, slugs, heading controls, alt text, canonical URLs, Open Graph, schema, sitemap.xml and robots.txt, with built-in web analytics, visitor insights, Google Analytics and Tag Manager from Individual. Grigora's pricing page lists integrated SEO tools, real-time analytics, basic website analytics, Google Analytics and Google Search Console as plan features. The narrow thing on CodeDesign's side of the line is the crawler: a full crawl of the site returning a single health score, with errors, warnings and notices ranked by priority and a re-crawl to check whether the fixes worked. Nothing in Grigora is documented in that shape, and that alone is why this category goes to CodeDesign.

Takeaway: The crawler is the whole of the gap. If a ranked list of site errors you can re-run is how you work, CodeDesign has one and Grigora does not.