Prices checked 9 November 2026.
Side by side.
| InkySites | Emergent | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $29 a month, paid month to month. Hosting and your changes are in it. | Standard is $20 a month, month to month, for 100 credits a month. Pro is $200 a month for 750 credits. A lower list price than InkySites, with your hosting and most of your changes paid in credits. |
| Keeping your site online | In the same monthly price. | Paid in credits every month. Emergent says a live site uses 50 credits a month on Standard, and from 50 to 1,100 depending on its hosting tier. A published site stays up while credits cover that fee. |
| Free look before you pay | Yes. A redesign of your site, free, no card. | A free plan with 10 credits, for trying it out. Its help centre says the free plan cannot publish to production or use your own domain, and its terms limit it to personal, non-commercial use. |
| Starts from your existing site | Yes. Paste your URL. If you like your site as it is, we just copy it over. | It starts from what you describe in the chat. None of the Emergent pages we read describes starting from your existing website's address. |
| How fast you see something | 48 hours. A person on our team looks over your new site before it is sent to you. | Emergent says a first version is ready within minutes of your prompt, and that most people then spend an hour or two refining it and connecting a domain before they publish. |
| Who makes your changes | We do. Write what you want in your dashboard in your own words, tap the thing you mean on your own site, or ask for changes on WhatsApp. Your evening stays yours, because you never open an editor or learn a tool you'd use twice a year. Most changes are live within the hour. All within 48 hours. | You do, by describing the change to its AI agents in the chat. Most changes spend credits: from a handful for a small change to how your site looks to hundreds for a new feature, in Emergent's words, and its terms say credits are used up whatever the outcome. Emergent's pages offer no one to make the changes for you. |
| Your domain | Yours. It never leaves your hands. | On Standard and Pro. You connect it at your registrar or with Emergent's Auto-link button, or buy one inside Emergent. |
| Your code when you leave | Yours, complete, whenever you ask. Plain static files, no CMS, no proprietary format. | Yours too. Emergent's terms say you keep ownership of it, and Standard and above push the full code to your own GitHub; on any plan it can be copied out of the code view. There is no download button, and the export leaves out database contents and secrets. |
| Built to be found | Search and AI-search groundwork on your site as standard, checked before it goes live. | Emergent's help centre says most Emergent apps send a nearly empty page that JavaScript fills in, so a crawler that reads only the HTML sees almost nothing until you switch on its Enable SEO setting. With it on, it says some less common crawlers, including some AI assistants', still get the empty page. |
Emergent's prices, plans and answers were read from emergent.sh/pricing, its AI website builder page, its terms and its help centre's pages on credits, plans, going live, hosting tiers, cancelling, domains, code export and search on 9 November 2026, and are described in their own words. The $20 is their month-to-month price; paid yearly, their page shows $17 a month. Their pricing page states no tax. InkySites's "most within the hour, all within 48 hours" is our normal turnaround, not a contractual SLA, and the changes we make are within reason: small-to-medium tweaks rather than a monthly rebuild.
Who each one is right for.
Choose Emergent if
You want more than a website, such as logins, payments or a custom app for your business, and you enjoy building it yourself by chat. On a paid plan the code goes to your own GitHub, so you can leave with it. If building suits you, Emergent builds web and mobile apps, not just websites.
Choose InkySites if
You want a website for your business, not a project to keep prompting. You ask in plain English, on WhatsApp or in your dashboard, as often as you like, within reason, and we make the change. Hosting is in the same price, so there are no credits to watch. That's $29 a month, and the redesign is free before you decide.
Questions people ask.
Is Emergent cheaper than InkySites?
At list price, yes. Emergent Standard is $20 a month, month to month, for 100 credits a month. Those credits pay for both your changes and keeping your site online: Emergent says a live site uses 50 credits a month on Standard, and most changes you ask its agents for spend credits too, so what a given owner pays can rise. InkySites is a flat $29 a month, with hosting and your changes in it. The first InkySites redesign is free, with no card. Checked 9 November 2026.
Do I own my website's code with Emergent?
Yes. Emergent's terms say you keep ownership of the code you create, and on its paid plans you can push the full code to your own GitHub repository. There is no download button, and an export leaves out database contents and secrets. InkySites matches that: your site is plain static files, and the complete code comes back whenever you ask. On a paid plan, code is no reason to pick one over the other.
What is the difference between Emergent and InkySites?
Who makes the changes. On Emergent you do, mostly by describing changes to its AI agents in a chat, and most changes spend credits. On InkySites you ask in plain English, on WhatsApp or in your dashboard, and we make the change. Most changes are live within the hour. All within 48 hours. Emergent has the lower list price, builds more than websites, and says a first version is ready within minutes. InkySites takes 48 hours to email your redesign.
See your site redesigned. Then decide.
Paste your URL and we'll email you a fresh redesign in 48 hours. Free, no card. If you like it, it's $29 a month from there.
It is free, needs no card, and there is nothing to cancel.
Other comparisons.
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