A Tilda alternative when the page cap and the per-site price start to bite

The honest one first. Zero Block is not a fancier section editor, it is a free-form canvas: layers, absolute positioning, a grid, Auto Layout, opacity and shape tools, a built-in vector editor, and per-breakpoint control. Step-by-Step Animation adds a timeline with Bezier easing, parallax, pin-on-scroll and fixed-on-scroll, all set visually. Designers get parity with a Figma wireframe without writing CSS. Grigora's block editor is faster to learn and nowhere near as expressive.

Takeaway: If the page has to be art-directed and animated, Tilda wins this category and it is not close.

Tilda’s paid website page limit and Feeds post allowance are different units. Its FAQ lists a 1,000-page site cap, while Feeds supports a separate blog workflow. Grigora Starter has 20 pages and 50 GB bandwidth, Pro has 50 pages and 200 GB, and Business has unlimited pages with 500 GB bandwidth. Storage and subscriber limits also vary by plan.

Takeaway: Count website pages and blog posts separately. Grigora Starter and Pro have lower page allowances than Tilda’s paid site cap.

Tilda charges by how many websites you keep, and for a freelancer that is genuinely cheap: five sites for $20 a month with annual payment is a low per-site cost that Grigora does not match. The friction starts below and above that. Personal is strictly one website, so a second project means moving up a plan. Above Business there are 10, 15, 20 and 30 site upgrades documented in the help centre whose prices appear only once you are logged in.

Takeaway: Tilda is the cheaper way to park five sites; Grigora is the cheaper way to run one that trades.

Tilda ships a real newsletter designer, and the live pricing-compare page is candid about what happens next: you send through your own Mailchimp or SendGrid account, or take the HTML to another service. There is no native sending engine, no subscriber list management and no drip automation. The only native email is a one-to-one reply to a lead inside Tilda CRM. Grigora keeps the list, the campaign and the automation in the same subscription as the site.

Takeaway: Tilda hands you the artwork. Something else still has to press send.

Feeds is a proper blog CMS and deserves credit: a dedicated post editor, unlimited posts, categories and tags, scheduled publishing, search and sorting, several feeds on one site, and sitemap and robots handling. The shape is the limit. Beyond Feeds and the product Catalog there are no custom content types, so a directory of members, venues or case studies has no home. Grigora adds structured collections and moderated comments as standard.

Takeaway: Anything that is not a post or a product has to be faked as a page, and pages are the thing Tilda counts.

Tilda's store is real: cart, product options, promo codes, dynamic discounts, customer accounts, an order dashboard, store statistics, CSV and YML import and export, and a catalogue up to 5,000 products on Personal or 50,000 on Business. Two gaps matter. Tilda's FAQ states plainly that you cannot upload files to Tilda, so PDFs and downloads go on Google Drive or Dropbox, which rules out selling a digital product cleanly. Delivery is manually configured flat options rather than live carrier rates, and no Tilda page documents automatic tax calculation at checkout.

Takeaway: You can sell a jumper on Tilda. Selling a PDF means hosting it somewhere Tilda does not control.

The second honest concession. Tilda's Business plan exports the whole site as a static HTML, CSS and JS zip you can host on your own server, and opens an API. That is a genuine exit route and a genuine client hand-off format, and most hosted builders do not offer it. Grigora has no code export, no headless API and no self-hosting. Content moves; the build does not.

Takeaway: If leaving with the files matters, Tilda Business is the only plan on this page that lets you.

Clause 7.10 of Tilda's Terms of Service, version dated 3 September 2026, says the Collaborators licence fee is not included in the price of the plan and is paid separately. The amount is shown only inside Site Settings, so a team cannot price Tilda before signing up. One collaborator can be trialled free for 30 days. Grigora publishes team allowances by plan. Optional mailboxes, domains and payment-provider costs should be budgeted separately.

Takeaway: The advertised $10 or $20 a month is a single-operator price, and you find out the team price after you join.

On a paid plan Tilda's SEO coverage is solid and conventional: an SEO Assistant, title and description editing, H1 to H6 control, ALT text, friendly URLs, automatic robots.txt and sitemap.xml, canonical tags, 301 redirects, a custom 404, Open Graph, Search Console verification, no-index switches, AMP and Turbo pages and a broken link checker. On the free plan you get meta tags, headings and ALT text, and nothing else. Grigora matches the on-page controls, adds IndexNow and a large free toolkit, and does not gate redirects behind a tier.

Takeaway: Compare the published SEO controls with your actual content and workflow. Test representative pages for crawlability, metadata and performance; platform features do not guarantee rankings or AI citations.