Builder · Veloċi vs Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy, Weebly, Canva — Australia

They rent you a website. We build you one in minutes and sell it to you once.

Pick your trade and Veloċi drafts the whole site — headline, copy, services or menu, a curated photo library, hours, reviews — before you've typed a paragraph. You pay $159 once. The five charge every month, forever, and keep the site if you stop.

Published 21 August 20266 min readAustralian dollars

Time: minutes against hours

Every one of the five starts you at a template or a blank canvas and leaves you to write the copy, find the photos and decide the structure. That's an afternoon if you're quick and a lost weekend if you're not. Veloċi already knows what a plumber's, a café's or a physio's site needs to say and show; the first draft is finished in minutes and you spend your time adjusting, not inventing.

Price: once against forever

Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy and Weebly start at $12–$16 a month and never stop; Canva is free until you want your own domain, then it's Canva Pro at $18 a month. None of them let you download your site — the monthly fee isn't for hosting, it's for continued access to your own work.

Veloċi is a one-off build: $159 (Starter), $399 (Business) or $799 (Growth), files yours to download. Hosting is optional at a flat $99 a year — and if you'd rather host the files yourself, that's allowed too.

What we don't do — on purpose

No blank canvas: we build the page for you rather than hand you a drawing board, so Wix, Squarespace and Canva get the tick there and we don't. No online store and no blog yet — if you need to sell products from the site or publish weekly, Wix, Squarespace or Weebly are the honest pick today. No multi-language sites. We'd rather you know that now than after paying.

A worked example

Five years of a Newtown café's website — the real bill

The café wants a site with its menu, hours, a bookings link and Google reviews, a .com.au, and an info@ mailbox. Two receipts, five years, renewal prices.

Veloċi Starter, hosted by uspaid once + flat yearly
Site build — Starterpaid once; files yours to download$159
Hosting — Basic, 5 × $99same price every year$495
.com.au — 5 × $19flat; year one included$95
5GB mailbox — 5 × $72info@ at your own domain$360
Five-year total$1,109
Saves ≈ $639 against Wix over five years
Host the files yourself instead and the bill is $614.
Wix Light, the same setupmonthly, forever
Wix Light — 60 × $16the site switches off the month you stop$960
.com.au — free year one, then 4 × ≈ $32renewal shown after you've bought$128
Google Workspace — 5 × $132resold by Wix$660
Five-year total≈ $1,748
Squarespace Personal + Workspace lands around ≈ $1,500–$1,800; GoDaddy Basic + Microsoft email about $1,775; Weebly Personal + Workspace about $1,680.
What this means

Same café, same menu page, same mailbox. One bill ends after a single payment and four flat renewals; the other keeps going for as long as the café exists.

The fine print, in plain English

Renewal pricesRival figures use each provider's published renewal rates, not the first-year discount.
CanvaCanva Pro with a third-party mailbox comes to about $1,321 over five years, but can't give you a menu-driven business site, a store, a blog or an export.
SourcesPublished Australia rates, checked 21 August 2026.

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