Choosing a builder
How to choose a church website builder
The best church website builder is the one your team will keep up to date. Most church websites do not fail on design. They fail when the service times and campus details go stale, because someone has to remember to change them in more than one place.
Six questions to ask any builder
What does it cost each month, all in?
$99 a month for Web Builder. Each campus after your first adds $49 a month. Try it for 30 days, counted from when you finish setup or publish your first page, whichever comes first.
Do we start from a blank page?
No. Every new site starts from seven pages laid out like a real church's: Home, Locations, Events, About, Team, Give and I'm New, ready for your own words and photos. Or put in your current web address and Steeple reads your site's menu and suggests the same list of pages for you to choose from, or paste an outline someone on your team already wrote.
What happens to our old links when we switch?
Paste in your old page addresses, one at a time or as a whole list, and each one sends people to its new page once your site is on your own web address. Links in old emails and search results still land.
Where do our service times live?
In one place. You enter your service times and campus addresses once, and every page that shows them stays right.
Who can change a page?
Anyone on your staff you give access to. No code, no developer, no agency retainer.
Do we need Planning Center?
No. Web Builder never needs it. You enter your service times and campus addresses once, by hand, and every page that shows them stays right.
Five builders, side by side
Where Nucleus is better
On its $99 and $199 plans, Nucleus's own team builds your website for you. Steeple does not build it for you.
With Steeple
Your site starts from seven church pages for your team to fill in. Service times and campus addresses are entered once and shown on every page that needs them.
Subsplash
Not published for Subsplash One, the plan with its website. Subsplash says its pricing is based on church size and usage.
subsplash.com/pricing · Checked 12 Oct 2026
Where Subsplash is better
One plan covers a website plus a custom app, live streaming, giving, check-in and service planning. Steeple's Web Builder is a website, not all of those.
With Steeple
A published price: $99 a month. Anyone on your staff you give access to can change a page.
Tithely Sites
$19 a month, or $119 a month for all five Tithely products
get.tithe.ly/pricing · Checked 12 Oct 2026
Where Tithely Sites is better
It costs less.
With Steeple
Service times and campus addresses are entered once and shown on every page that needs them. Your old page addresses can send people to the new pages.
Squarespace
from $19 a month paid yearly, or $25 paid monthly
squarespace.com/pricing · Checked 12 Oct 2026
Where Squarespace is better
It costs less.
With Steeple
Built for a church's week. Service times and campus addresses are entered once and shown on every page that needs them.
Where Wix is better
It costs less, and you can start on it for free.
With Steeple
Built for a church's week. Service times and campus addresses are entered once and shown on every page that needs them.
Who should choose something else
If you want someone to build the whole site for you, Nucleus does that on its $99 and $199 plans. If you want one plan that also runs your app, giving and check-in, Subsplash covers all of that. If the lowest monthly price decides it, Tithely Sites, Squarespace and Wix cost less. Steeple is for the church that wants its website to stay right without anyone remembering to update it.
Common questions
What is the best church website builder?
The one your team will keep up to date. Most church websites do not fail on design. They fail when service times and campus details go stale, because someone has to remember to change them in more than one place. Ask any builder the six questions on this page, and choose the one whose answers fit your church.
How much does a church website builder cost?
Steeple: $99 a month for Web Builder. Each campus after your first adds $49 a month. The others, from their own pricing pages:
- Nucleus: $65, $99 or $199 a month (nucleus.church/pricing · Checked 12 Oct 2026)
- Subsplash: Not published for Subsplash One, the plan with its website. Subsplash says its pricing is based on church size and usage. (subsplash.com/pricing · Checked 12 Oct 2026)
- Tithely Sites: $19 a month, or $119 a month for all five Tithely products (get.tithe.ly/pricing · Checked 12 Oct 2026)
- Squarespace: from $19 a month paid yearly, or $25 paid monthly (squarespace.com/pricing · Checked 12 Oct 2026)
- Wix: from $17 a month, paid yearly (wix.com/plans · Checked 12 Oct 2026)
Will we lose our old links if we switch?
Not if you list them. Paste your old page addresses into Steeple, one at a time or as a whole list, and each one sends people to its new page once your site is on your own web address.
Do we have to build every page from scratch?
No. Every new Steeple site starts from seven pages laid out like a real church's, ready for your own words and photos. Or Steeple can read your current site's menu and suggest the same list of pages for you to fill in.
Do we need Planning Center to use Steeple's Web Builder?
No. Web Builder never needs Planning Center. You enter your service times and campus addresses once, and every page that shows them stays right.
Can we keep our own web address?
Yes. You build the whole site at a Steeple address while your current one carries on as it is, then use your own web address for it when you are ready.
Read more about Steeple's church website builder, or see pricing.