Pay monthly websites, without the lock-in.

No. A builder plan rents you the tools and you do the building. A pay monthly website is built for you and kept up to date by someone else — the monthly fee pays for the work, not the software.

Because the provider paid for the build upfront and needs the term to recover it. We build before you pay and recover nothing upfront, so there is no term to lock you into.

Google doesn't know or care how the site was paid for. It ranks what is on the page and how well the site is kept up — which is the part a monthly arrangement is built to do.

The build, hosting, the domain, security updates and content changes. If any of those are listed as an add-on, the monthly figure you are comparing is not the real one.

Put four things side by side: the monthly price, the setup fee, the minimum term and what happens to the domain if you leave. The cheapest monthly figure often loses once the other three are counted.